Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-24

The Ton and Belmont blast furnaces will
he started up on the LIST OF November.
A large crew of vorkmen from Pitts
burg are busily engaged in lining the Top
mill blast furnace. as
The Nerth Wheeling cooper shops re-
nS work again, yesterday morning,
SsSsne been off since Friday night.
Yesterday the mills were all, Win one
exception, running full force anu III; turning
out large quantity OF iron ana mans.
The forge department at the Labei n
mill started up again, YESTERDAY moie'
The squeezers have been fully repaired
At the upper Riverside mill every POSI- sSIs
t;on Was filled, and the rail MIL n9s ayie
to turn out rails fast enough to supply the
demand. =. - s4rg.L
Hobbs .Brockunier & Co.'S glass works
were running along nicely yesterday, All
the bors seemed fresh and eager 70 90
large days work. gsF ai. -. go.
In the decade ended in 1850, Alabama in.
creased her production Of crude iron SOo
nor cent. Tennessee 600 per cent, Nir-
einia 500 per cent, aud Georgia 4oo per
cent. e.. 80
Holidays planning mill men are kept
very busy Just now, as this mill has very
large number Of orders on hand which nave
N he filled as quickly as possible. Thus
Establishment has a very large country
trade, which always comes in the fall.
The In Belle factory engine broke
header of one of the arms, yesterday morn.
ing. which stopped the factory until l
O'Clock. during which time band was
made to hold It together, and when the
factory was visited by a reporter, yesterday
afternoon, was running steadily, anu
looked as if no stop had been made.
A steel making process, invented by
William w. Chapman, New York City,
consists of making steel directly from the
oxide-of.iron ores or from sands or fur-
mace slags containing oxide OF iron, oy
melting them in furnace or crucible hav-
ing its inner surfaces composed wholly or
in part OF plumbago, so that the OXIDE
of from shall be converted or reduced 70
steel.
The remarkable growth of the iron In
dustry Of the young State OF COLORADO ap..
pears to be owing to the fact that many OF
the treasure mines OF that region have gold
and silver associated with sulphuric iron
ore, the separation of which for industrial
purposes has within the past eight years
become quite profitable under the auspices
OF Philadelphia capitalists and lpYenVofS,
NORTH american. ... y
THE contractor who Is laying the crock
sewer on Thirty-ffth street, had his force
at work again yesterday. Last week they
worked one day and q half, and the pros.
poets are very bright for about that much
work this week. In a conversation yester-
day with q reporter he stated that he
would not have commenced the trench
until all the crooks had arrived IL he had
known that the city would not have gotten
them Immediately, as he was at big ex-
pense all the time, and further, that the
furnace he run at the mill was occupied by
another man, and all on account OF his not
having the sewer laid, as it was impossible
for him to hold the furnace and lay the
sewer.
II the success now reached with the
banks furnace at Cincinnati and Pittsburgh
had only been reached ten years ago, and
along with it the development OF puddled
iron processes, including the publication
of impure irons, the handling of large
masses up to 1900 or 3, 200 poundsin weight,
and the finishing of material direct from
these large masses by the use Of machinery
in place OF skilled labor, and with consequent
savings of pilings, crop ends, reheating,
re-rolling, shearing, and the multiplicity
VI OpcIdllOuo hO" hCSCoooiy III al iiOh
works, there might have been greater hope
than there now is in the impending strug-
gle between wrought iron and steel. But
the Improvements in the steel manufac-
ture have been 80 rapid and so vast, and
those in the puddled iron manufacture so
slow and so trifiing, that the outlook for
the latter is at best a gloomy one.-InduS-
trial World.
The foreign crank named Kaltenbeck or
Klotenbeck, who was so completely nom
plussed at Louisville by the questions of
Mr.. Commissioner Kenner, has since ad
mitted that he is in receipt Of regular
salary from British capitalists interested in
securing at Washington tariff legislation
favorable to English interests and against
adequate protection to American industry.
How many more of the advocates of
free trade doctrines would make the
same admission if they told the truth? A
A free trade lawyer at st. Louis had the
impudence to claim that American manu-
facturers were incompetent witnesses be.
fore the Tariff Commission. What would
he say, by his own rule, about importers
who have no community OF interests what
ever with American production, but whose
profits depend upon the amount of our
purchases of foreign products and the pay
ment of the least possible duties upon
them, either by law or through evasion OF
law ?-PrOtectiOniS