Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-23
Interview win MIR. Hearne.

To do away with pudding the only method
70 be pursued by the SYNDICATE = to use low grade
This movement has been started by tue nail man
ufacturers of wheeling, and my object in being in
this city is to further their plan. 1 have had
merous blows OF soft steel made at the Bessemer
Steel Works at Braddock's and each blow accu-
rately analysed. This soft steel has been made
into q nail plate and quietly slipped into the
Wheeling mills and cut into nails without the
tween it and common nail-iron Our reasons for
doing this was to see whether steel would make
nails. The results of our experiments have been
entirely satisfactory, and now satisfied that
can make nails out OF soft steel cheaper and of
a better quality for their weight than 1t pos
sible to do with the best puddled iron. We cal
culate In Wheeling that we make about one
seventh of the nails made in the United States
Over 5000 puddlers are employed in pudding the
iron which we cut into nails These will all be
work at some other branch OF labor. am in this
city now placing contracts where they may be
concluded at any time most suitable to the Wheel
ing syndicate. for all of the necessary equip
ments to be found in a frst-class Bessenner works.
This is no small affair. The syndicate
unlimited com mand of money, and viii break
ground in January for the new works II will
of low-carbon steel. This output the syndicate
will divide up into consignments according to
the capacity of the different nailmills represented
in the syndicate, and each will get its allotment of
so many carloads OF steel nail plate per day from
the Bessemer Mill. The principal mills in the
Wheeling district are connected with the new
terprise. Such firms the Wheeling Iron and
Martin S Ferry, Riverside Iron Company, Belmont,
La Belle. Belleaire, Benwood, Stanard and Etna
Iron Works are interested In the new project to
put the negative upon the pc sihility OF puddlers
strikes in the future. The site chosen for the
to the Riverside furnace That point is convenient
to the works of the firms which have just named
to you and is only about two miles from the center
of Wheeling. The shipping facilities at that point
are unexcelled by any location in the vicinity
The Benwood Mills the terminus of the Balti-
more and Ohio; the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St.
kersbuig aud Charleston from Charleston hasthe
right of way to the Riverside furnace Besides all
these facilities, two other rosds-one branch of
az baltimore and Ohio from the center of Ohio
and a newly proposed road from Pittsburg-can
reach the spot These roads all nave branches to
the different mills which will use the Bessemer
product, and loaded with nail plate could be
showed into them daily. During the recent strike
the iron men told the puddlers in convention that
be kings OF the forge, and in fact that they would
live TO see the DIS when pudding would be ira
dition. and puddlers unknown to the lace OF the
earth. The same idea was advanced before the
Tariff Commission, and some asserted upon that
occasion that there was no purpose for which iron
is now used but that in the next five years would
be supplied by low grade of Bessemer or open
hearth steel. Mr.. AinswOrth, OF the P1ttSDurg
Steel Casting Company, showed me Bessemer steel
at his works last week that could be welded in a
common blacksmith's forge SO that the place oil
Joining could not be detected. More than that,
all attempts to temper II failed and cannot
why it is not essentially iron as any product
of the charcOal-blast in existence When we be-
gin turning out steel nails in wheeling. all other
nail-mils in the country must follow suit or lose
figured out by the best nail experts in Wheeling.
The organization of the company think best to
keep from the public for while at least. All wire
for barbed-fences now made at the Cambria Iron
Works is made OF Bessemer steel. Horseshoes will
eventually be made OF it. Rolled shafting, asri-
cultural implements and stamped and hollow
ware must follow. regard the move as the most
important one made for years in the iron business,
and II will revolutionize the trade of the country
feel safe in predicting that If the movement is
success, in five years puddled iron will not be in
the market"