Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-09-19

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The iron, and especially the nail bunne.
Of Pittsburgh, is about as bad - in Wnee !,
ing. The nail business is st least one'aau
Leo now than nix months ago. Tho hcse,
r;es nov in operation Gro Shoenbsrse =
Co, zug / Co. and chss, Cook 9 Co.
INIT neither of these are anxious to stock
the market n the present figures. Jone. =
Lsuehlin's nail factory has been eiess1 Iof
a month, and the factory OF Aeorhead Dtos.
Co. has been shut down for four monsnsr
NOT knowing when they will start up
The band and hoop iron business nss
fallen off fully one-hak The main wosks
producing nothing but this are OF those
of ]. Painter & Sons.
Rar iron is out Of the question, and in
some of the mills it has been years SINCE .
bsr has been rolled. The leading article 10
skelr and wrought iron tubes. The Penn
sylyanja Tube Works il turning cut over
one hundred tons day. The iron for these
works is nearly all made at the Milysle
Works and the Clinton Mill Of Graf, Ben
nett 4 Co. The works Of A. NJ. Byers, o.
the South Side, are as active as any IN the
city. The puddlers and the finishing rous
are all on double turn on skelp iron only {
turning out about fifty tons Of pipe each
day in the pipe works connected with the
mill. At the Republic Iron Works every
department is on double turn, mainly on
skelp iron, which is all shipped to the Ma
tional Tube Works at McKeesport There
is great deal of skelp iron made at some
of the other mills, of which . considerable
portion is shipped to the Western markets,
and very frequently some to Harrisburg
and other Eastern places
Sheet iron of common polished and plan
ished kinds is in very good demand. Not SO
much in Pittsburg as in mills up and down
the river 1t is the leading article. There it
is largely made at the Soho works Of Moor
head 4 McCleane, the Pennsylvania Forge
and at the American Iron Mills.
Heavy plate iron is in reasonably good
demand, but nearly everybody wants steel.
In this line, outside of the steel mills, some
of the finest and heaviest steel plates made
in Pittsburg are rolled at the Juniata Iron
Works.
The demand for railray supplies at some
places is very good. The leading supply OF
this kind is at the Pittsburg Forge and
Iron Works, where the weekly output is at
least 600 tons. The mill Of Long q Co.,
at Charters is one OF the same kind, but
there the puddlers are on six heats making
about twenty tons of iron each day. The
only noticeable reaction and better out
look is at Oliver Bros. & Phillips. Since
last October up to within about four weeks
the puddlers did not get in half time in two
Souibside mills, but now they are working
on double turn in all three works. The one
in Allegheny is operated more on lea1ing
specialties, fuch as iron for nuts, bolts,
hinges and wire rods, and sometimes on
skelp iron.
Taken from a practical standpoint, the
iron business has never been more uncer.
tain than il is now. For about four weeks
nearlv I'll the finishing departments Of the
Fort Pitt Iron Works were in operation.
LAST week, however, a sudden stop took
place. At The same time arrangements were
made at the Keystone to start up, and yes
tcrday the finishing rolls "ere started on
single and the puddlers on double tu.,
after q shutdown of more than month.
Within the last two months the outlook in
The Solar Iron Works Of William Clark &
Co. is better than it has been for the last
two years. Since the LIST Of last June
scarcely anything has been done at the
Kensington works Of Lloyd 4 Sons. Since
the LIST of September the puddlers at Hus-
sew, Hove h Co.'S are working single turn,
FIVE heats, after being idle three months.
All that is now wanted is better prices, and
if the future is to be Judged from the past,
more favorable resumption will take place
at no distant day.