Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-08
Opinions and Statements on the Outlook
for the future-The Prospects
and The. Present Condition
Of Affairs.

having nail machines will be quite
Busy For Three Weeks More.
The trade at the Vesuyius Iron Works al
Sharpsburg is satisfactory. At the Anchor
Nail and Tack Works, of Chess, Cook X
Co., the puddlers are working double turn,
the finishing rolls and in the mai factory
every machine is in operation, the same
report is given from the American and
other mills where nails are made. II the
trade will improve about the holidays
these mills can be continued at work, but
If il is as at present, rather declining, they
Will be doing less than the Others now run
ming, which in some is not hall time. The
prospects for them just now seems that
way. At the Sable Iron Works OF Iug Il
Co., with the nail factory in operation, the
trade is muCn less than
Al the other Nail Mills.
At the Union mills OF Wilson, Walker a
Co., the demand for railway supplies gives
no reason to complain. There is by no
means rush of orders, but the puddIers
are working double turn, using up the
muck bars as fast as they are made, ana
occasional small stock that is made Is re
moved to the other Union mill OF Carnegie
Bros. * Co. There the trade is about the
same now as it has been for the past three
weeks the puddlers are working double
turn and everything that they tnrn ont is
finished immediately. The Solar Iron
works OF Clark X Co. move along in the
same channel that they have for about
year and a half; on single turn in every
department.
Nearly all the Mills
in which the product is chiefly iron hoops,
like the Solar, are doing the least, except.
ing the works OF Jacob Painter & Sons, and
at present there is no rush for orders AT
that mill. The average daily amount is
now ABOUT one hundred tons OF merchHnt
iron. The puddlers are yet working double
turn, but lately considerable muck IRON
hes been stocked up, the capacity IN the
finishing department consisting OF eleven
trar of rolls, these, il on double turn,
would make nearly thee hundred tons a
dey. The Star iron works Of Lindsay *
MCBI.Cheor, in Allegheny, are still less
active. The amount OF finished iron daily
will not I've much over twenty tons. Both
of tie pudding tOrges are lighted ur,
week about
On single Turn, Six Heats.
Those twC nils have made probably the
rarne,, iu,rruyCmarts within the last two
year. of any in the city. Each hcs lii n
new building force of sixteen furnaces TO
rsch un. II beth Oi tH',e ul.S-Or at
least Huintrr's-wuuld te running only
with their former capacity, not the sliEht'
est indication of a duIlncss in the iron
trade would be apparent. But with The
present enormous capacity 1t is ike a
l.. n Y
bogshead, it would scarcely he noticed.
This is not the case in one null only, but IN
the majority. The least demand in the
iron trade is for bar iron. OF this there is
less made than any Other kind. There are
some mills where not pound OF common
bar iron has been rolled for years. The bar
rolls in nearly all the mills are in opera
ton, but
which is not finished iron. From these all
grades of light iron is made which has to
be again heated and rolled. At the office
of the National Tube Works on Water
street, was gentleman of the firm who re-
piled, when questioned about the iron pipe
business: The business is now little
slack" "Is the demand less than last
year" was asked. We'll. no; ! don't
think that it is, but the prices are not A.
satisfactory" Mr.. A. NJ. Byers, OF A
ByeIs d Co., was very reticent when ques
toned about the iron trade. The mil l.
N double turn in the pudding depart
= -. srd the train OF sheet rolls the sane.
.. ,.ncr nnw is nothing but ready
....s Gf uIilerent sizes, and also sheet
:. the Office OF Graf, Bennett & Co &.
-. t.r.f was seen. "WelI. Mr., Gran,
.aidrb he reporter, "is there boom in tn.
ron busiuess2' There il" he said, 'ir
those who have any thing to do 50 lar n
this company's mills are concerned ia. are
about as active as any that are enowrunnlng.
A Little More Than Hnif Capacity.
In their South Milivale mill, psrt of tht
product is heavy plate iron. which is nov
yery Gull. At the city office OF the iron
works Of Painter 4 Sons, Mr. j. Fainter
was present and he was ask.i IL there was
a boom in that mil, or II there was one
soon e1ps ctet. The gentleman smiled aud
said: Why it is Just the reverse; we are
not very busy, simply moving along The
general Office Of Oliver Bros. 4 phi.llps was
next visited, and gentleman IN authority
questioned about the iron business. "The
trade is very dull. is it not%' Trade is
not dull" >" said he. 1t is only little iiat,
something We look for at this time OF the
wear. The fall and winter orders are all
filled and the next years orders will not
come in until after the holidays. We nat
urally
at least once year, and now is as good
time as any" at is true the trade is
dull, but how is the demand for plate iron
with you people when your mills are m
operation?" II don't know anything
about that branch "lf rightly under
stood, DO you mean 10 say that YOU are not
doing any thing in that line We have no'
been doing much for some time. is II
proper to state that you have not done hal
the business this year that you did do last
and former years: VI think that would
be about right. We are often questioned
by newspaper men, and would willingly
give the news, but we are so often misrep
resented in the papers" This firm, in ~
upper South Side mill, has train OF thu
most complete plate rolls west OF the noun
tains (if not the largestl. These have moi
been
In Operation One.fhird or the fine
since last January.
The situation in the steel trade 10 more
bonefrI than the iron. The steel mills ar,
in operation, but none more than single
turn. The general run Of the business II
not expected 70 improve until after The
first of the new year. Until then 1t wa
thought that it would remain in a fair con
ditioD, but within the last few weeks 1t ha
fallen of decidedly. and it is not looked =
remain even as il ia now during the whole
of this month. The Iron Age, it voulc
seem, never forgets 10 make special re
marx about the trade in general, especially
Of such weeks in which there are election
or holidays. 1t claims that during thes
weeks the trade is naturally dull 1t !
true that il il more noticeable during sucl
a week IL there il no rush. bat when Their
10 enough 10 do and . rush Tor orders
there Is,
Nothing Of That Kind
noticed in the weeks set apart by the lro'
Age. On Thanksgiving day Of last yes
the puddlers at the American Iron Work
worked day snd night And during th
week OF ThapksgivipR they worked doubl
turn. Not even heat was lost on either
the turps. which Was something nsye
known since the existence OF the mil
There are other mills in the city that vei
operated during the whole Of that week ]
al their departments. On l,st New Year
Cav one mill ip this city wss in operstio
in reariy every department. The vsei
| this, tie Iron Age refers 20 are not vet
| ,rs1 IN On from which To iudRe ths gener