The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-07-22
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.


TuE steubenville Furnace and Iron
Company's property Is advertised TO be
sold.
ACCORDING TO an exchange, the largest
plate glass now imported is eight by four.
teen feet, and costs $3.50, or 81 81 pei
square foot.
THERE are now about one hundred
hands employed on Lock No. Z, which Is
situated about seven miles below Morgan.
town, on the Monongahela river,
A MANDATORY OF paper bricks has
been started in Wisconsin. The bricks
are said to DO exceedingly durable and
moisture proof. They are also larger than
the clay article.
A NEW hay press has been patented in
France and England which delivers the
bales in the form Of a solid uniform cylin.
der two feet one and half inches in
diameter, which may be rolled along by
one man. ... u
THE Western Cutlery Works, Ottawa,
ILL.,, have been purchased by Mr.. T. f
Andrews, who has ample means for car,
rying on the business successfully. He
intends to begin operations at once ON Q
basis Of $l2 900 or SIS, 900 capital.
HussEY, HowE & Co., the well known
steel manufacturers, are taking the scale
of oil steel sheets and plates by means OIL
the sand blast. So far as 1t has come un.
der our observation, this is the first appli.
cation Of the sand blast to this use.
The National Tube Works Company
have leased the Wharton Rolling Mill, sit.
uated on the South Side, Pittsburgh, and
will put 1t in full operation as soon as il
can be putin proper condition. Connec-
ton will be made with the P. 4 L. E. R. R.
The Joliet Iron and Steel Works, at
Joliet, ILL.,, have passed from the receivers
hands into those Of purchasing com.
pany, and are now run in the good old
fashioned way, independent Of courts and
judges. A large amount OF work Is in
hand. ...
THE preparations looking to the devel.
opment Of the proposed new coal shaft at
Wellsburg, W. Va, are being rapidly
pushed. The necessary machinery has
been contracted for, and operations will
begin on or about the goth Of the present
month, it is said.
VIZ stated last week that Quinnemont
and Isabella Furnaces, W. Va, had been
sold to the Pennsylvania and Virginia
Iron and Coal Company. We have since
been informed that the company will
erect two more furnaces, with all the
modern vements.-American Manu-
tactttrer.
MARQUETTE Mining Journal: No. 2 stack
OF the Pioneer Furnace Is now all ready 10
blow In, whenever the local management
receives the necessary orders. The large
quantity Of pig in the furnace yards, how
ever, would seem to encourage the belief
that such orders will not be received un-
til it is found necessary to give No. l sea.
son OF rest.
The National Window Glass Association
held a meeting in Cleveland on the 9th
inst, at which it was agreed to keep the
factories idle three months this year, in.
stead OF two months as last year. Dis.
counts were fixed at 70 per cent. straight
for carload lots, and 10 and 10 in jobbing
way: The meeting was largely attended,
nearly all the factories In the country be.
ing represented.
THRRE is a prospect OF the old Kentucky
Rolling Mill at Louisville going into oper-
alton about the first of August, under the
management Of an entirely new company,
which Is said to have ample capital. The
old Louisville mill will remain idle until
it is either sold or leased. The machinery
OF this mill is said TO be in excellent order,
and the works could be put in running
order at a very short notice.
IT Is estimated from data obtained all
over the world that in labor and material
the civilized countries OF the globe are
gamers to the amount OF 100000, 600 a
year, by using the Bessemer process OF
converting ore into steel, while the saving
in steel rails In Great Britain alone Is
estimated at $3.50 00O, 900 during the life
OF one set OF these improved articles. In
view OF these facts, few persons will be-
grudge the inventor the s., 250 900 which
he has received in royalties.
YOUNGSTOWN Ne1rs, 9th inst: In the
spike factory, near the Valley Mill, two
machines are now in operation, and
third will be put on in the course OF few
old and new mills OF Brown.
Bonnell 4 Co. are running to their fullest
capacity, every roll and every wheel re-
volying.-For almost four weeks the plate
mill has been used for the manufacture OF
pipe and tack iron instead Of nail. plate,
hence the nail factory has been idle almost
that length OF time.-The upper mills-the
Youngstown and Cartwright's-are run.
ming night and day, and were never more
hurried than at present,
''TuBAL Cain" in the Sharon Herald of
last week: At the close OF December, 1878,
we had in the Shenango Valley o total of I
blast furnaces in operation, and 4 rolling
mills; at the close Of June, 1870, we have
II furnaces in and 10 out in the Shenango
Valley; S6i per cent on unit OF 30. But
1t Is not likely, even with the return OF
times, all thirty would again
go into operation. OF the furnaces No. 3
at Whealand would be abandoned, and
the "Pet, !" ut New Castle, might be put in
the same list, because both stacks are too
small to be taken into account these DAYS,
OF rolling mills we have total OF ssix
IN operation, and three out-that Il
10 per cent on unit Of drumming
one hundred and nine boiling and
twenty.nine heating furnaces, working
double turn, as rule. OF eleven fur.
naCes in blast, eight arc fitted with bells
and hoppers, and the whole eleven are
closed tronts,-At New Castle we have
blast furnaces in blast, four, and out OF
blast, three; rolling mills In operation.
TWO, and one idle. The Wampum Fur.
mace y still idle, with no prospect Of an
early start. The mills In operation in New
Sastle are the Etna, Kimberly, Carnes &
Co., and the sheet mill, Bradley, Refs &
%. The mill and the three furnaces that
are out Of blast belong To the Brown 81.
ate, or to Browns heirs, and TO make any
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