Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-11-30
GENERAL INDUSTRIAL.

The PhsUiN iron works. Phcrixyille Pa,
,s-rsd Up last week in all departments.
Tie Shenandoah iron works in Page
. aty. Va, is again il operation.
he puddle mill Of the Bethlehem Iron
~raav. .. Bethlehem rs idle since the
-,r.y part Of tie summer. resumes t)-mOr-
"a. rolling mill st Blauion, near Read
90 Ia as suspended, throwing 80 men
. "a. O. vu-E
AK Bros. L Co Pittsburgh, have made
-rir.,iOn o, 80 cents per ton in the wages
., .'re. meters.
roau.lsv!.le coke sells in Buffalo, y. Y.
nSi'5.
The rev Y inch mill of the steel depart
rea, Of the Gau,.er wire mill, JOhlstown,
Pa, : only running one turn.
Articles Of incorporation have been fled
- a, IRON and steel company, to be located
8: ColI5rO0k, New Brunswick.
The frs: Bessemer plant that made
commercial success in America was located
a: Troy. y. Y.
The Granite iron rolling mills, st. Louis,
a:e still running three eight-hour turns
eav. The adjoining galysnizing and drip
.rs pan departments are also running reg
AIRY.
The s.eei rail market continues unusually
sui Mills are asking S2s 20S29 90 for
s.aal lots with usual concessions to large
.lyers.
4 corespon dent Of the Iron Age saws
rayre were 100 600 kegs more nails in stock
On The Is, Of October, lisa, than at the same
@we in l~>3
The Glasgow Iron Company, of Potts,
.w- Pa, have rendered 10 per cent. re-
. zion in wages 70 their employees, to take
''.Ct 'O-Uorrew.
The F-snLstosn mill, Pittsburgh, started
~ ,ast Monday after an idleness Of about
.3.r mouths Their new pipe mill is also
'TPec:,d 20 begin operations in short
@Ee
The new mill nov being erected BY the
Po',stown Iron Co, east of their rolling
nils, At PotlstoTn, Pa, is rapidly nearing
,Uy,e;iUn.
The wire drawers a. the Hartman steel
~orE, Beaver Falls, Pa, have accepted
another ten per cent. reduction Of their
wages and gone 10 work.
The rev patent furnace for the Bloom
- mill Of the Edgar Thompson steel
aoSks. Braddock, Pa, has been tested and
;-'a4 satisfactory.
zones Il Laaghlins patent for making
odd rolled shsfiing having nearly expired,
cher firms will probably enter into compe-
u'on With the psientees.
The mills o; Andrews Bros. x Co, at
haseltOn O., have been on single turn re-
Gently. eycep, the puddle mill, which has
geen idle.
Coal from the ReynOldsyille and Fair
noOnt region sells in Buffalo as follows:
Screened lump, S2.25; lumpand nut mixed,
SO; run Of mines, $3.50; screened nut
s2-ZO; nut and slack mixed, 81. 30; slack,
Sl65.
Summers, Bros. L Co., Of Struthers, o.,
make a specially Of sheet iron and single
and and are running full tilt and have
!0ieats Ofosdsrs.
The North Chicago rolling mills shut
co~2 last SATURDAY. IL Is not known Wnen
lbey vii start up. About 1900 persons are
,hrovnaout Of work By this unexpected
movement
The Southern barb wire factory, ST. LOUIS.
is running. but only moderately busy. while
he Pacific factory is idle altogether. The
Western Union factory is doing little, but
have started up their plate Barb machinery.
Age Of Steel
Browns mill, Pittsburgh, which has been
running single turn for some time past Is
row operating only two departments, that
of the guide and sheet mills The forge
and all other departments are idle, OWING
to scarcity al orders.
The mills Of the Trumbull Iron Co., al
Girsrd, o., closed down last Saturday and
all employees were discharged on account Of
a lack Of orders. Superintendent George
Wick stated that work would not be re
sumea until the state Of trade warranted 6
start
A Swedish rolling mill for merchant bar
general J makes eighty revolutions min