The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-12-13
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The outer depot shops IN Allegheny are
building four locomotives for the Fort
Wayne railroad.
Rockland Furnace, in Rocklana township,
Berss county, is soon TO commehce opera
tions.
The rail works at Tonawanda, Bradford
county, have been leased by r. Bostley &
Co., of Milton, and will 10 IN operation by
the first of the new year.
Several Weeks ago the rii6uldefs at the
Crawford Foundry, of Allegheny, struck for
higher wages, They have been successful
and are all at work again.
AT the Palo Alto rolling fiiill neW hands
are being taken on every day.
The Bethlehem Company will employ
100 uieu 10 work their mines at Hibernia,
N. j.
Reynuds 4 Mosgrove's furnace, at the
mouth of Red Bank, Clarion county, will
soon be put in operation.
The building ofthe Kittaning furnace and
repairing of the rolling mill at the same
place are being rapidly prosecuted.
An advance of 81 per ton has taken place
in the wages Of puddlers employed by the
Altoona Iron Association: Their wages are
now $3.50.
The rolling mill at West Hamburg; Berks
county, is, running To its full capacity day
and night, turning out an excellent quality
OF iron.
Twenty-Five pudding furnaces, five heat
| ing furnaces and an eighth-inch guide aud
bar mill are working away IN the Etna
mills ut New Castle.
The Johnstown Tribune learns that the
wages of the hands at the Cambria iron
works have been increased ten per cent,
dating from the lst OF Nov.
Since the rise in the river the Pittsburg
/ Stave Company have shipped off IA 900 bar
rels and 500, ,0U0btaves. They expect to send
off several millions more.
The old oliphant furnace, now known al
the Fairchance Iron Works, at Uniontown
Fayette county, is undergoing repairs pre-
paratory to being put in operation.
The owners of the French Creek Forge in
Warwick township, Chester county, have
been compelled TO refuse orders, having a
many on hand as they can fill.
The Vesuvids Iron Works, at Sharpsburg
have been purchased by Mr.. John Moorhead
4 large iron merchant Of Pittsburg, for $3.50,
900. The mill will be put in operation in
weeks time, when there will not be an idl,
mill in Allegheny county.
The blast furnace Of the Pottstown IroI
Company will be put in operation by tn
25th Instant
Hands are wanted in the slate quarries.
There is such scarcity oflabor in Sharon
that many Of the works are running Ishor
of hands.
The machine shops Of Broomeil, Miles
Co., at West Chester, are 10 be EN- larged, anC
extra hands will be taken ON next week.
Mr.. Joseph Arnold, Of Upper Augusta
Northumberland county, was thrown iron
his wagon on Saturday and almost instant
ly killed.
A correspondent furnishes the following
alt is rumored on good authority that N,
Washington Iron Works, located about ter
miles from Lock Haven. in Clinton county
Pa, are about being leased, aud will 60 int,
operation. These works have always haC
the reputation OF producing the best quality
Of charcoal blooms, suitable for boiler plates
etc. II Is matter OF surprise that the peo
pie of Lock Haven dc moi bestiT themselves
aud erect a rolling m for the purPre o
more fully preparing uah supe ior iron ol
! the market Lock Haven Is accessible By