The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-04-02
IRON AND NAILS.
r,,o,tches from Various Manufac-
turing Centres. .
CANA Indications of Better Times.

TIE llAAUlSh lbuNA AhuAS"
r,,,1oy, o., March 3l.-f'arties engagec
=. ,bs iou trade here seem to be more
s,s.taI. u y, and claim there is an actual i'm
w .,arsnen. in price aud q better demand
S,pisiron and merchant iron.
W RslioDt Furnace and Nail Factory are
.",inr 10 their full capacity, and selling
,Iai,prolnct at full current prices.
The Etna Iron Works propose 10 put
,,'i,hpace "Alicc" in blast soon.
N TsIy { Sons will put their furnace,
uGnpt" in blast soon, after remaining
IT The "Slrah" furnace Is running to her
hltspacity, and the product sells read
Ty.
neifplIing mill, and have no difficulty in
slli1g the product.
The charcoal furnaces will make their
,ql.l quantity Of iron this year. Itseems
nbethe general feeling thatthere is some
inuUyemens in the iron business here.
IsosroS, o., March 3l.-The GaseIt cor.
rs,ouIent has interviewed the following
rp,Iemen on the iron trade, present and
on,,ec.iye, with the result given below.
NJ John Campbell, who is heavily in
Drs,ted in the iron trade, owning, prob.
INV more furnace stock than any man
,bout here, slid: "0n general principles
IN business in the country is improving.
Tbe price Of what the laboring men live
an b,s come down in proportion to the
compensation they get. don't see any
rason why we should expect much nd.
vance in iron. Charcoal iron has not yet
rdyanCed any; excepting cold blast iron
k,s declined. think there has been an
Iysnre in stone coal hot blast iron oil
d cents to 81 per ton. think there has
teen decline in cold blast car wheel iron
d from 81 tOS2. From the newspapers l
notice that there is some advance on all
kinds oIirOn in the Fast.
Nj. Cyrus Ellison, President OF the Law
renee Iron Works, manufacturers OF bar
iun, said:
II don't know that iron has advanced
any, There has been very little advance
On manufactured iron, but there is bet
hrdemaud now The advance in pig iron
doesn't amount to anything, but there is
abelter demand for it than for manufac-
turel iron. Payments are now more
satisfactory"
NJ. E. McNIilln, Superintendent Of the
lawrence Iron Works:
There is material improvement in the
irpn trade since three months ago. The
bar iron trade was great deal better in
November and December last than II was
previous to that time for year or two;
butin January it dropped down not quite
sOlOw as before. Now, it is better than II
vas in December. Orders are coming in
Eiikly, usually at an advance, over prices
obtained last fall. Pig iron, should say,
sadolar over what it was in July last
year. Bar iron is two dollars better than
twas this time last season; thatis partial.
ly attributable to our making q better
quality Of irOn than We were them"
We found Mr., Joseph Campbell, OF the
firm Of II. Campbell & Sons, and Mr.. ]. II.
NOultOn, late assignee OF the Etna Iron
Works, at the office OF II. C. & Co., at
Sl1h Furnace, two miles above Ironton.
ln regard to the state Of the iron trade,
the! said: THE iron business is good as
hr as there is demand; that is, for the
best grades Of iron. We only make the
best grades Of iron, and speak only in re.
ld to them. There is virtually an ad.
rance Of about fifty cents per ton over the
lvefagc price prevailing last year. Our
lOn Is all sold up US fast as We can make
Il Wemake the very finest class Of coke
iron iOr foundry purposes, brand Sarah
and Mt Vernon charcoal. There is moth
ing at present in the business to warrant
The hope for any material advance in the
prices tOrirOn. Collections are very good;
PAYMENTS more satisfactory than they
have been. There is not surplus OF
hbOr in this region"
Campbell, McGuigin & Co., Olive Furn-
ace, have on hand about 3, 900 tons OF "hot
blast charcoal iron"-foundry iron. OF
that 3,OO tons are stocked up on the land
Ing aud they are having the balance
transported ~ fast rs possible to some
place by the Iron Railroad.
POErSNOurH, D., March 3l.-We do not
See any marked change in the iron in
teFest in this region within the past sixty
days, yet tho general feeling is that the
outlook sencoWraging, and that daylight is
sSIoTlygeaming,t through the long darkness.
Many rolling mills OF the Hanging Rock
region have gone up through fiery trials,
md much iribulatiOn. Those running
seem TO be full Of orders, though prices are
barely rrnnmemtivG.
The burgess Steel and Iron Works is
iuI oil orders, and running day and night,
making only steel and refined iron.
G. W. WRYER.
PORTSMOUTH, o., March 3l.-0ur works
nave not been in operation this year, but
Judging from the activity and reports OF
non makers otthis section, the iron bust.
ass Is gradually improving.
GAYLORD lloLLISG MILL Co.
TuEnoCEISG VALLEY DISTRICT.
ColrNurs, o., March 3l.-The price OF
non is very low, but think it is not too
loT, compared with the price OF other
Commodities and Of labor. There is evi.
deently la'ge increase in the consumption
ell'On, but the effect does not seem to in,
stease the micc, but the product. Fur
mace companies are putting their idle fur.
IaceS into blast, rolling mills and iorgeE
Mas hayebCen shuI down are starting up
%aa an. others are beginning to run double
urn and in this way prosperity seems to
= coming back to the country without
any marked increase OF prices.