Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-11-30
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PITTSBURGH INDUSTRIES.
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Since our last report from the iron mills
there has been a decided falling of. The
several predictions and expectations given
in these columns from time to time are
proven to be solid facts. We stated that
work at the Keystone was yery uncertain;
last Friday the finishing mills were shut
down, and on Saturday the puddlers stopped
work, after a run since the 18th Of Septem-
her on nothing but pipe iron. Last Sasur-
day the Kensington DIETER known as the
Pipetown mill shut down. There is q
stock Of about 600 tons of much bars and
only four weeks running since the first Of
last June Last Saturday one Of the pull
ding departments in Lindsay & McCutch-
con- mill and the Shoenberger works shut
down.
At Clark's mill underground pipes are
being extended and repairs to the squeezers
made 50 that nothing will be done there this
week. IF the trade continues TO drop the
mill will soon be run single turn" said NJ.
Clsrk, Jr.
As we so to press Chess. Cook & Co. S
will shut down until next Monday, after
which they will be on six heats and about
four DAYS q week, as they have been for
some months.
Last winter the pudileys were working
right along at Hussey Howe & Co.'S mill,
but now they are idle and may do little
this winter.
At Zug's mill the usual run continues
one forge on six weeks and the other double
turn.
At the Wayne Iron aud Steel Works it is
still six heats, but little will be done this
week
Painters mills are runaltogether different
from What the daily papers puts them down.
They make nov nearly 80 tons ofiron more
a day than during the summer months
Some of the puddlers are on double, some on
six heats and some on FIVE heats. Two
trains Of rolls with two heating furnaces are
running double turn on cotton ties. Since
this trade has come back the business is de;
ciGedly better.
The Elba iron works were started up last
Monday on six heats after shut down Of
about seven months.
At the Soho mill of Moorhesd 4 MCLEAN
the puddler are working this week on dou-
be. but rather more than half Of the time
they are on single turn.
The Union mill of Carnegie Bros. 4 Co.,
4. NJ. Byers { Co., the Republic and the
American are among those running on
Thanksgiving day II don't know" said
the business manager st the general Office
of the American this morning, whether
our men will work tomorrow: We are not
pressed for orders. The puddlers are
always on double turn. They can work
or remain idle Just as they decide tonight"
The other three mills viii run right along,
snd what will be on that day in all the
others viii be very little.
At Wilson. Walker & Co.'S mill there is
crest deal Of trouble with the gas, caused
mostly from the high pressure process,
which requires double the amount Of the
low pressure For four days last week the
dav turn had to knock off at the third or
fourth heat and the night turn crew did
nothing. This week is q little better, but
there is still some lost time
In the mills of Graf. Bennett / Co, sni
also in the three of Oliver Bros L Phillips,
the puddlers are on double turn, and the
same at the Etua iron works and the Pitts
burgh forge and iron works.
At the Yesuyius iron works alterations
are being made for the using Of gas, which
Will soon be brought down from Tarentum
bythe Westinghouse Company. This mill
has only been run fifteen days on six heats
in the pudding mill since the first OF last
January.
The Spang steel and iron works is next to
a shut down. The three crews on the finish
ing mills manage 10 get two and three days
a week, but seldom any more.
At the Crescent steel works there i, less
doing now than there has been for year.
The pipe iron business takes the lead.
Sheet iron is good, but the Pittsburgh iron
trade is down to almost nothing.