The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-02-21
IRON AND STEEL.
'pRgsENr IcoNnrrIoN OF TRADE

niPREsENr CONDITION OF TRApl
pa Pittspnrgh aud Vicinity A Heai.iiI,I I
Tone inthe Marie Reported Nail Bust
n meas Improving Increase In PRO.
t dnetiea Of ths Furnaces. 4
PtFrs1uReIb Pa, Feb. q. Theron and
: steel business has improved o shade.
Manufacturers are more hopeful. This
, despite tile fact that The output oflmers
J chant iron tonnage last week was much
/ tess than It has been known for over
i tifteen years. Some Of the heleading articles
Einthe iron market are Unlimited demand.
Until q reaction sets in the business will
remain stagnant simply because no one
will risk carryinga heavy stool. This Is
\ illustrated in the manufacture of skelpi
iron which for years has led the Pitts
burghi iron market. The stock to.,lay.is
much less than it has been for years. 4.
The Republic Iron Mills on the South
Side, which have been shut down down
Tor the last three weeks, We're started up;
last Monday on double turn in the pud-
4 ding and all the finishing apartments,
making fnlly two:th thirds of;pipe iron.
AT "a. III. Byefs q Co.'s the puld ldleis
and all the finishing rolls and the pipe
works are on double. This is the only
mill in the city in which all, the depart
nentsare active. The product Is about
dtty tons ct different sizes of,pipe each
Jay. "A galyanizing department ID cons
nected with this mil, In which q great
Emany OF the small tubes are galvanized.
1nithe 2Etna Iron W Worlts the puddlersF :
average about four days o weeE, double
turn, butall the finishing rolls and the
other departments are on single turn.
fhe,puddlers in Clinton mill ltpipeironl,
are'on six heats, alter q rim OF nearly d
year on double turn. The product, about
forty five tons q day, is tax On BY the
Pennsylvania Tube Works, the largest
pipe works in the city, dailyproduct about
l25 tons. This concern almost consumes
the product Of Graf, Bennett &. Co.'s mills,
at MillVale, oil ,skelp iron. Thelast mem
toned turns ont about 100 tons per day,
TIE NAIL TRADE.
The nail trade IS gradually gathering
strength. The weekly output may be put
in round numbers at IL, GOO kess, Tho pro.
duction OF four factories, the Anchor, sa-
BILE, Shoenbergcr, speer& Co. and Amer,
lean. The Sable nail factory averages five
days run ina week. The milTdepartment.
|isashade better shoenberger; speerl q
Co. are running the large rolls on heavy
steelplates and two trains an nail plates,
nearly all steel. The American mil fac.
tory js in full operation. The dailyout-
put OF the iron mill averages about one
hundred and fifty tons. The finished out
put Of the Union llsi5aboutt the same us
that of the American. "
There is not mach activity in sheet and
plateiron. The Pennsyl ylvaniaF Forge Is man
utactu1ng about ten tons Of sheet iron per Z
day. The Sligo mills, closed Tor three
weeks, have resumed operations. The
kensingt Iron w orEs d lloyd e Sonsl,
which since upe hiss been running very
light and was closed q month, isnowrtiIl-
ming! single turn. is +
At Painter mill about half OF the pud.
ding furnaces are on double, and a few
trains ofthe finishing rolls are running
single turn, making about forty ttopsof
merchant iron d day. Z,
The Star Iron Mills, Lindsay and Me-
Cutcheon) are at work on orders iorrail-
road iron. working single day turn. The
Pittsburgh Forge and Iron Works, at
Woods Run, was closed for three weeks
but tfsnow again on double turn, making
nearly IS tons Of finished iron a day.
The Introduction Of steel has reduced
the demand fJr muck iron. to d point that
Is noticeable In tho inactiyityof depart
ments relied upon iof this material. and
explains much that otherwise would mis-
lead. g. z \
The outlook at the Edgar Thonpsnn
Steel works Is encouraging. Tic daily
output Is about three hundred and fifty
tons, with aprospect Of increasing this 10
160 tons next week. ~ IN n.
AT least 2i9OQmen are employed at tho
steel works and blast furnaces. -Four. Of /
the five furnaces are in blast 3
The steel mil at Homestead is, also In,
active operation, rolling heavy plates,
structural shapes and rails.
Both the Lucy furnaces are in blast.
Isabella Furnace No. 2 has in the yards
over 9, 900 tons, q larger amount Of stock
than has been on hand for year.
Soho Furnace Moorhead d Col la
putting out about . 25 tons o day4the
yard now has over I, coo in it. Tie Eliza
Furnaces are turning ont on an average!
lI5 tons per day; the Carrie Furnace,
about. l25 tons; the Clinton Furnace, 40.
The Increase IN tue daily output Of our
furnaces may I've summed up inlroundi
figures at GOO tons q day over the produr-4
ton oflast month and December.