Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-07-05

arrangements are being eomplstsd for
changing the Paxton plate mill at Harris.
burg snto q steel nil. TINS action will do
away with the puddlera.
The Bessemer converter to Be used in
connection with the furnace now In course
OF construction for the Pratt Coal and Iron
company, has arrived ss Birmingham, Ala.
The company, it's stated, viii make the first
test OF the Bessemer process ever made in
the South.
The Joliet On rolling mills win be ready
TO restart July 5. The improvements are
extensive, and consist principally Of the new
automatic rolling process, costing 100000;
but 1t Is claimed that the time, labor and
metal saved over the old process will make
this vast sum good in n year.
b. b. Stone, Assistant Manager of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad,
has ordered 10000 tons Of rails at the Ed.
gar Thomson works. Pitlsburg, for immedi.
ate execution, and has ordered 20 900 more
for delivery within two months. These
works are turning out 500 tons of rails per
day.
The Bessemer steel works viii be lighted
up Monday, and viii be put in blow Tues
Gay next Orders sufficient to keep the
works running for at least FIVE weeks have
been received, and it is hoped for q longer
time. The Albany Iron Works will also
light up Monday evening. The IL and Is
inch and the Belgian trains viii be put in
motion Tuesday.-Troy, n. Y, Standard.
A syndicst of Mercer county, Pa, CAPT.
tQltafa roaapflu o1--nnI NJ. Ill
Wheeler to visit England and confer with
Mr.. Alfred Dayy, inventor and proprietor
OF the Davy process Of steel manufacturing
the object being to inquire iuto the feasibiii-
ty of erecting large steel works on thatlplsn.
The conference is believed to have resulted
satisfactorily. 1t is probable there will be
steel plants located at Sharon, Sharpsyille
and Middleesex.
The manager of the Vesuyius iron and
nail works says that it viii be started up this
fall, but the same party said the same thing
at this time LAST year. To remain idle is q
loss Of $4,000 a year, and it may be that
that the firm will run for less than 95 per
cent profit Nearly 10000 kegs Of nails
which they would not sell eighteen months
ago for g. 60,sWsiting better priees,sr are now
being sold at current market quotations.
Last Monday Doth pudding forges in the
Star mill Of Lindssy & MeCutcheou were
started up on six heats, making from SO
pudding and 3 scrap furnaces over so tons
of muck bars By next Monday three trains
Of finishing rolls will be on double turn. AT
Painters mill ~ pudding furnaces are also
on six heats, and BY mex week both FORCES
of 81 furnaces will be on six heats, If no
delay is caused by the natural gas AT the
three mills Of Oliver Bros. & l hilips there
are no important changes. The average
run is about halt capacity. The American
Iron Works aud q few others have increased
in their daily flushed output, while several
hat are doing little aud q few that are idle
sltogeter viii be started up after the Fourth
of July. At ~Shoenbsrger L Co.'S mill one
pudding forge OF IL furnaces is on six heats,
and the other forge, including the majority
of the finishing departments and the nail
factory, are sGll idle.-"ttsburg Labor Tri-
bune.