Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-03-06
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.
Notes From the Iron Mill and the
Workshop.

WOfksnOp.
SEyES machines in Pittsburgh. Pa.
produced, last year, over l,OOS,3+5 kegs
OF nails.
STEAM and horse railroads in this
country require 100, 900 men 10 labor on
Sunday.
OSE firm OF LudIngton, Mich, has
purchased l40,OOO0O0 feet OF standing
pine timber.
THKRK are made yearly in Reading
and Berks counties, Pa, over 6,OOO,OOO
wooden hats.
ALL the wooden mills in Eastern Con-
necticut are running, some OF them
night and day.
A PROJECT is on foot for the establish.
ment Of large woolen mill at Fort
Worth, Texas.
Tue West is not able 10 supply coke
fast enough for consumption in Eastern
iron furnaces.
The rolling mills OF Chicago now en-
ploy over 5000 men, and are running
night and day.
ARIZONA has produced a quality Of
cotton equal to the Sea Island cotton
from seed brought from China.
The fifteen car manufacturing estab-
lishments in this country turned out
81 $50 cars in eleven months.
THK lead minesjnear Phenixville, Pa,
that have been idle foT-SIEeRty-two
years, are now being worked.
AgRoS's (Ohiol thirty or forty man
ufactories Of agricultural machinery,
drain pipe, -four, matches, paper, stone
ware, employ 4,339 hands, and turn out
All annual pppduct valued at $40, ,255 900.
ILLINOIS farm products amounted TO
5000, 900 last year, which is double the
product Of all the gold and silver mines
in the United States.
GREAT quantities Of tobacco are rails
ed in Russia, the seed from which 1t is
grown being obtained chiefly from this
country.
A CO-OPsRATIyR stove works will he
started at Salem, Ohio, at once. The
patterns are being made at Cleveland
and AS soon as received work will be-
gln.
SrAS0. Chaliant x Co. are having two
ten-ton Pernot furnaces erected at their
works in Etns borough, Pa, which will
have capacity of about 3O,OOO tons per
year.
lT is expected that the new rolling
mill at kattanning, Ia, will be- ready
for operation by the middle ot May,
and will give work tO 900 men when
in full running order.
Tux second or b furnace at the Edgar
Thompson Steel Works will he in blast
within few days now. Meanwhile A
furnace is makinga record neyrrequaled
by furnace Of its size. During the
week ending with 22d ult, its output was
52l tons oi metal, and ON the 9th lO2
tons were made. Materials Tor the con
struction oi the third furnace are now
being laid down on the ground. -PW'-
bTgh Post
JoHN ROBSON 4 Son are max ing pre-
parations TO erect at their extensive
coke works, at Pittsburgh, coal washer
oi large size, and containing numerous
radical improvements devised hv Au-
gust &. Jordan. 1t will be- placed on
the river bank adjoining the coal tipple,
and railway will connect it with the
ovens in the rear. IL is expected the
new washer will be ready ior work IA
about two months.
THE Pittsburgh Steel Casting Com.
pany are having built an addition to
their works The building will he lj0N
80 feet, one story - ieet) high, and Is
intended for machine shop for dress
ing and finishing the castings made at
the works. The new machine shop will
be fitted up With the latest improved
machinery. superintendent Hams
worth reports that orders have been re-
Ceiyed ia one week for over twenty
thousand cast steel plow shares. These
orders sre principally from California
and other points west.