Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-11-01

giau trsiD. hestipg, nail and rives factories
are al in operation.
The Chicago Nail Driver aud Lathiug
Company, of Chicago Ill, has been incos-
porated TO manufacture nail driving latn-
ing separates, etc, Cspitalstoek, SlOO, 600.
TIE Gau6er wire mills, at Johnstown,
Pa will close down for an indefinite Pc
Rod. Five hundred hands will be idle.
It il stated that Oliver Bros. L Phillips
are making 1900 tons Of skelp iron for
the National Tube Works Company. 1t ia
further stated that the eompanys plate
mill has Eve months work ahead, running
double turn.
The Bellyills. Ill, Nail Mil Companys
lockout continues, and there seems 10 be
no 6xed time for It's resumption of work.
The union feeders and nsilers still hold
out for the scale of the latter, and they
show no signs Of compromise or backing
down.
At Columbia, Pa, the new l0-inch mill
ia running and the bar mill viii be ready
in about ten days. The forge department
has been on double turn for the past month,
with good prospects, There are enough idle
men there now, how, yer, to man half q
dozen mills ike this one. Rollers who for
merly made good wages are laboring inthe
mill al 81 per day.
A large Bessemer steel plant is shortly
to be erected 10 this city by Aessrs. Corne-
gle. Walker & Co. 1t will consist of two
IL ton eonyerters, psiDg the direct process
from the Lucy furnace. There will be .
pair of open hearth furnaces, and in sd-
dition to this there will be hydraulic ma
ehinery capable Of forging the heaviest ar
NOR plates and ordinance the Government
may ever require. There will also be
plate and sheet mill capable Of making the
finest steel castings
According to previous announcements,
the members of Eureka lodge Of the Unit
ed NAilers, Rollers and Heaters Of Amer
lea met the Nail Plsts teedersI Union of
Bellvills in joint session at the hall Of that
lodge on Wednesday afternoon. At this
meeting it was unanimously resolved to
stand by each other and remain FIRM in
their demand for the Il cent card. There
were 24O members in attendance, and the
meeting was remarkably harmonious. The
resolution was signed by the committee,
and wall be telegrsphed to the various lead
ing papers for publication. The meeting
appears to have had thesffect of increasing
the hopes of the strikers that they will at
tain the price demanded for which they
have so long waited. Certain it is that
more determined clsss Of men never en-
gagged in q strike than the members Of the
two organizations which met in joint seq
sion on Wednesday afternoon. -BellVille
(Ill) Democrat.
MILLS AT PITTSBURG.
The pudding department Of the Vesu-
vius iron works, IT Sharpsburg, changed
last Monday from six heats to double turn.
There is only little less sctiquity in the
finishing departments in few mills. At
Graf Bennett & Co.'S. MillVsle, ell are on
single except the p ate rolls, which are on
double turn.
The puddlerS are on double turn in every
mill except in few departments, such as
the one of l6 furnaces in the star rolling
mill and IL furnaces in the Juniats, which
are on six heats.
At the steel works Of Hussey, Howe L
Co. the customary run Of FIVE heats strong
iron is made. Il is seldom that the pud
dlers in that mill are on double turn.
The run at the Edgar Thomson steel
mill is continually on double turH, with
plenty Of orders to continue so until the
close of the year.
A great many bids ara now being receiv-
ed for orders, consisting Of 5000 to 10000
tons Of steel rails to be filed III Sc. but 1t
is almost impossible to get any Of them
placed on account Of the uncertainty OF
the price which the steel manufacturers
think will advance instead of decline,
which latter is the superstition Of the rail
road companies.
The Homestsd steel works is operated
double turn to lis utmost capacity in every
department, making some steel rails, but
largely other railway supplies.
The Glendon railroad spike works is run
riog full lime, turning out daily between
80 and 90 tons Of spikes
Among The steel mills in Pittsburg the
run in nearly every departments on double
turn. The Spspg steel and iron works is
operated the least of sny--tEo trains of
finishing rolls, averaging about full time,
on single turn.