The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-11-29

viii pay its employees in gold.
The Isabella Furnsce is being improved 70
meet increasing patronage.
Additional hands arc being taken on u
the New Brighton Hinge Works.
The KutEtown furnaces is shipping two of
three car loads Of pig iron dsily.
The Malleablo iron works, al Pittburg,
are refusing orders.
Sharon furnace is being cleaned out pre-
parhtory to starting Up.
The Bethlehem Iron Company will soon
employ large number Of extra workmen.
Three iron ore mites at BJyertown, fur
nish-eRRloYtnSut 70 ons hundred and thir-
ty men.
Finy new coke oyens near Mt. Pleasant,
Westmoroland county, were 6red up last
week.
The wages Of tho hands al the Barre
Forges, in Huntingdon county, have been
increased ten per cent,
1t IS now positively stated that the old
Kittaning Mill will 20 into operation on the
lSt Of January for the manufacture of muck
iron.
The reports from pittsburg are that the
amount Of freight is 80 great that il Is i'm
possible to furnish enough cara TO keep it
from accumulating.
Mr.. Joseph Vanormer, Of White township,
Cambria county, has contracted with Will
Transport firm TO fuuish them with 5000 900
feet Of lumber
In eight or ten days the Croton Glass
Works, at Newcastle, will be in operation,
giving employment to seventy or eighty
hands.
1t is reported that the lead mines in Ches-
ter county, near Pbunixville are again 10
be put in operationJ after being idle some
ten or twelve years.
The Glendon Northampton county, Iron
Company have purchased the valuable ore
farm of the late Amanders Woodring, near
their works for $4,000.
The Shawnee furnace, at Columbia, will
be ready to turn out iron in q few days.
The event is looked forward to with pleasure
by the people Of Columbia.
The extensive ore mines at Huminelstown
Dauphin county, SAYS the Patriot, are 10 be
worked again in the near future, after q
lengthy suspension.
A Pottstown correspondent OF the Reading
Times and Dispatch reports that the War.
wick Iron Company Of Pottstown, made
1884 tons Of iron during the week ending on
Saturday.
A correspondent, writing from Tamaqus
Schuylkill county, says Never before ha.
the freight business ofthe Philadelphia and
Reading road been so great at that place
as now.
When repairs, now upder way 10 the rol
| ling mill of the Potts Brothers, at Pottstowr
have been completed, according to a CORES
pondent ufthe Reading Eagle, they will havI
five double pudding furnaces.
The Danville InkHiQcncer reports tha
the small furnace on the Roach property
near this place, was blown in during the
early part of last week, and the preparation
are being made to blow in the large fur.
mace.
The Johnstown Tribune reports that th,
pudding department of the Werner mill, o
Woods Run, Allegheny, being ihadequat
to the demand for muck IRON twelve new
furnaces Will be built, and set of thre
high rolls put in.
A contract has been made with the Edga
Thompson Steel Works by the Genera
Manager Of the Indianapolis roads for sever
al thousand tons Of steel rails, to be deli Vero,
as early as May next, at 500 per ton.
The Titusvlle Herald says at is report
ed that the Eamcs Petroleum Iron Work
have Just received an order for 200 tons q
their blooms from New York. This Is quit
an innovation for New York, 30 long tn
emporium for Norway iron, and shows tha
the superior quality Of the Petroleum iro
is beginning to be appreciated"
A Pittshurg paper says: at is said ths
the malleable iron worksIn this vicinity al
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them, and the orders have to he sent
Cleveland and other cities. There are b,
, three malleable iron works here-two
Allegheny and one in this city, and the
/, are all being worked " their utmost cap,
Y city"
The Beaver Falls Enterprise has this
say about the industries at that place: att
file works still run eleven hours day. I'll
3 founderies have large call for stoves
i winter approaches, larger than was expecte
The steel works have many orders ahea
r among them large one from Evansvill
a Indiana, for the rolling pillow Golfers. II
II Dexter Spring Company, that uses gre
quantities and only the best quality of ste
has been using the beaver Falls Company
y product for three months, and now has co
. trlcted for a supply during the coming ye
e "a fact which speaks for Itself. Emerso
9 Smith h Co., are turning out rare lot
IL large saws on orders received"
Tho Delaware rolling mill, located
q Phillipsburg, n. j., was sold on Saturdi
= last. The mill, one ofthe largest in the Sta
y was bull: in 1859, costing, exclusive of q
y real estate near 5000 900. Il has been stan
ing idle about two years. Large additio
j. in the way Of machinery will shortly
n made, preparing the mill to manufactu
l. railroad as well as merchant iron. T
1t property was purchased by William II. B
president Of the Pennsylvania, PoughkeC
;. sic and New England Railroad Company,
Ie behalf Of a company about being organiz
d to operate it. II Is UNDERSTOOD that the ra
d to be used by the Pennsylvania, Pouehkee
sic and New England Railroad Compa
are TO DO manufactured there.