Daily Republican., 1879-07-10
FROM YEsrKRDAY's LATE En,rros i,
GOOD NEWS FOR WILMINGTON
ne h0se Moor Iron Company Re.
eeaves . Contract worth eA6s. .uA7.

The Edge Moor Iron C0mpanv Re.
eeives !" "Csntrsct worth s4es, l47.
The best news for Wilmington for ,
long time past. Is the fact that tht
:, Edge Moor Iron Company has rs.
ceived contract for supplying The
trustees of the New York and Brook.
lyn bridge with 10, 72s, 900 pounds Of
) Bessemer steel and $4,000 pounds Of
Iron. The bid of the Edge Moor Iron
Company was 4.35 cents a pound for
steel and for iron, making q total of
, $46S,l47.
The Edge Moor Iron Company 10 CON-
: posed OF William Sellers, President;
John Sellers, Jr., Vice President; Geo.
II. Sellers General Superintendent and
III Garrett. The first three ara phila-
dslphians and the latter is a Wilminv.
tonian. The works are Oh the right
bank Of the Delaware river, about a
haF mile from the Edge Moor station,
on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore railroad and three miles
north OF the depot in Wilmington.
There are dozen or more large sub.
stantial buildings of brick and iron, ft-
ted up with the most improved machiu-
cry, and in which is manufactured iron
works for bridges, floors, roofs, etc.,
that Is acknowledged to have no supe-
flor made In this country. The works,
the wharves fronting them, and the rows
OF neat brick dwellings, occupied by
the employees, together with the brick |
yards, where all the bricks used about
the place are manufactured by the Iron
Company. occupy about four hundred |
acres of ground.
Nearly one hundred Of the employ.
ees live in the village, and most of the
remainder in Wilmington, being regu-
larly conveyed to and from that city by
q special train and at msrely nominal
expense. While it is understood that
site outside the limits Of Philadel-
phia was selected for these works in or.
der t. avoid the heavy taxes,
yet 1t is advanced as another reason
for their location at Edgemoor that plen-
ty Of room, and greater facilities Of
wharfage are enjoyed there at compar-
stivsly small expense. The wharfage
is an important point for the company,
as it ships almost as much by water as
by rail, transportation by vessel, being
as rule, the cheaper Of the two. Ii
As Mr.. William Sellers stepped from
the train last evening, at Edge Moor
the following conversation is
said to have taken place between him 4
and reporter ef the Philadslphia
Times :" "By the terms of the con- I
tract he said, 1--WE have to furnish |
only five hundred tons, or less than \
one-tenth of the whole quantity before I
the first of next January. This contract /
will, therefore, make no perceptible stir |
in cur works for some months yet. At
ter while the Midvsle Steel Works, I
'f which / am President, will begin to l.
roll the shaped steel for the beams, y
,irders, trusses, floor work, etc., re- N
luired by this contract. The steel ana =
ron that We are to supply is the entire y y
quantity needed for the suspended su-
9erstructure Of the bridge. N
After being rolled at the Midvale :
Works the steel will be taken down to r
Edgemoor and there fabricated as de-
ired. AS the bridge trustees could not
lse more than the ive hundred tons
'efore the first of next May, We, of
curse, would not like to send a larger
Luantity. After Jan. the trustees will l.
lot be obliged to receive any material
Until May l. In case we shall receive no
Ice from the trustees before the latter |,
ate to furnish the remainder of the |,
Material, then and July l, 1881, we |,
1ay, at our option, determine the con- L
ract as not obligiarty, and after July l, :
osl, the contract may be Cancelled by -
lther of the parties. We desired such n
'rms to insure protection for oursel- 4
es." ~,
The attention of Mr.. Sellers was call 81
to the fact that Of the sixteen trus- is7 is
es present at the meeting when the nc
'ntract was awarded only one, Comp n an'
ol'er steinmetz, of Brooklyn, opposed q az
F., and he asserted among other things, all
lat while the award seemingly gave .au hu
10 contract to the lowest bidder, it in ito ito
ct did no such thing. To this Mr.. pal
'llers replied that all he had to say ~ IN
as that Mr.. Steinmetz did not speak "'
- truth.
A representative of the Edgemoor
'orks remarked last evening that the
'ooklyn bridge is the second ever
nit whose suspended superstructur. =
III be of steel. The first one is the l.
lss bridge, completed about month i,
,'-,, ~ ~. 'A' ''"oo"'i .iser, On the nDI
lhsaS Llty extension OF tho Chicago sen
d Alton Railroad. Gas
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