Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-03-23
mill Notes.

Dame rumOr says that young Fsrgu.
sou, helper To John Moore aJ the Bel
mont mi . the hardest worker in the
mill.
All tie nail mills are working full
capacity AID none of them expect 10
close down until The wsrm weather sets
IN.
Business amCug the planning mills Is
very good AT present aud the prospects
for fine trade this summer are very
line.
Seventy men are employed in the
nail factory of the Fa.dOn mill, N!le5,O.,
and $50 in the mill proper. There are
"a machines in full operation, which
turn out about 2,3UO kegs of nails week
ly. There are 10 furnaces in the forge
department, turning out 30 tons OF
muck iron daily; one train Of muck aud
one plate Of rolls. The guide mill go
ON soon alsO,-NOungstOwn News-Reg-
isteT.
As usual the Associated Press Is ly-
IDg in regard to the strike at Oakland
CalifOTn ia. a recent telegram announce
ed that 200 of their hands had gone to
work. There are but fifteen nallers,
four heaters, two rollers and nail plate
Toll hands, thirteen ali told, IN that
mill, aud the Others are out standing
:rr Wheeling prices, which were prom
istd them before they went there.
The Laclede rolling mills are run
ming their sheet aud plate mill day and
night turn, and have seven pudding and
three scrap furnaces going. Their bar
and guide mills are working alternate
~. They are now manufacturing large
Quantities of plate aud sheet steel from
sIeel slabs and blooms, and for this de-
scription Of steel report an active de-
mand. They have recently shipped 10
southern California large quantity OF
steel plate, and u the northwest and
west are making shipments regularly
Age of Steel.
Oliver Bros 4 Phillips have been
runninp the plate mill at their Ft-
reputh street mill SOuthside, double
tnrn late on an order for the iron for
the new Junction railroad bridge over
the Allegheny River, Pittsburgh.
At OAKLAND, Cal, the iron dust Great
ed by the Pacific nail works, amounting
to- five tons a day, is now utlllLeu anu
twenty-five per cent, Oft maue INTO
stcel by the same process that OIAch
sand Is manufactured into metal
The nail feeders Of the Parkhsm nail
mills. i'm Massachusetts are still out
against a reduction, and prospects ior
settlement OF the difficulty seem very
remote.
The Linden Steel Co, this city, took
eighteen heats from one OF their open
hearth furnaces last week. ms OeS's
sII previous runs made in this state
The Atlantic States Nail Association
roDOrt stock light and the demands
large. The price was fixed at - oO per
EsS TO conform to that of the western
Association.
One-hslf the strikiHg puddlers OF the
Cumberland Nail and Iron Company,
Rridgeton, y. j., have returnedt 70 HoI IS
vt the old scale of wages, the other nSii
deciding to remain out.
The nail factory at Warehsm, Mass
has started up.
Kelly,s mill, at Ironton, Ohio, Is on
full in both the puddle mill anu nS"
factory.
The nail factory at Niles, o., Is run
ming double turn.
The Pennsylvania steel works pro-
AuN I'll lou lOuS VI SNNNA $780,
The Port Clinton, Pa, rolling mui
has been sold.
The Russia mill at Niles, ONO, was
sold Saturday afternoon last 20 III moh'
II. B. Perkins, of Warren, for %, 'OV.
The Union rolling mill, Cleveland, ~,
will be ready to begin operations carry
IN April.
The Lawrence mill, at Ironton, o., Is
running double turn in all departments
but the bar mill.
The old Virgins nail and iron workS
II LynChburg have commenced ma nL
ing bar iron, nails and hight iron rains.
The plate mill Of the Niles, o. nan nan
mill is on double turn this week. Tue
BE.
The iron and steel mill at lronton,
w. Is running double In their forge Snu
guide departments.
The strike of the naiIers at Plymouth