Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-07-19

The Swift rolling mill ct Riverside. resumed
work to-day, giving employment 10 about
200 men.
The Kittaning rolling mill resumed opera
tions last Monday in the pudding depart
nenS to supply muck iron 70 Grad, Bennett
D Co. of Pitsourg.
1t Is stated that the mill ct Mingo, Ohio
viii start up with view to furnishing the
odd sizes of nails which have run down in
siock.
The English stockholders of the San Ter
son steel works Of Sycrscuse, are buying out
the American stockholders at about Fifty
cents on the dollar. and will probably settle
the claims sgsinst the company.
Ameetipg Of the stockholders of the KIM
berly mill, ShSrou, Pa, was held Friday
evening At the Office of the company and it
resulted in resumption OF operations last
Monday morning, an order for $50 toas OF
finished iron, mostly hoop. having been re-
eeiyed. Tne workmen feel highly elatsd.
A July 5th telegram from Birmingham,
Ala. Gays: during the rest which Bir
miDgham rolling mills take until the 18th
inst, arrangements will be made for the
erection Of q new plate mill on large scale.
adding 100000 to the capital stock al
ready Invested in this splendid plant The
new mill gives employment to seventy'6ye
more skilled mechanics.
The Psssaic rolling mill and bridge works
Of Patterson, are building what will be
when finished the longest drswspsn 10 the
world. Ii is to be 430 feet long, will weigh
about 500 tons, and consists of iron and
steel in the proportion oil three to two. The
machinery for lstching, lifting the ends snd
turning the draw is sll to be worked from
the centre Cf the span. and is fitted TO be
operated BY either hand or power.-Age OF
Steel.
1t is not generally known, but neyerthe-
less it is true, that Cincinnati iron manu-
fscturers are preparing to resume business
on the Pirtsburg basis as soon as the sceu-
mutation of orders shall justify them in 80
doing. Mitchell. rrsnter 4 Co, who have
the beet plant in this vicinity, started up and
are now running their Coyipgton mill with
9 iull force, employing about 500 men.
A large order has Just been received by
Carnegie Bros, Pittsburg. which will add to
the business already accommodating IN their
Cf6ee Ii is for 60e tons of iron beams and
will be consigned to Messrs. Keeper L Rid
die, at Milwaukee. 1t will require thirty cars
to carry the order to Milwaukee when finish
ed, and it will be shipped over the Fort
Wayne road. Work vii be commenced on
the order at once All Of the Carnegie mills
running full with good prospects.
The leasing of the Vulcan iron Works,
at St Louis, Mo-, to some Piusburg and
Cleveland capitalists will put new lite into
great industry which has been psrslyzsd for
The last two years The lease includes
full plant for the Bessemer steel msnufsc-
rure. Already the SUBURB Of Csroudelet, in
which the works are located, is beginning to
sqow the infusion of new blood. Although
the town contains population of ten thou,
sand, il has been dead and deserted VII
lazy since the closing of the works.
The rolling mills Of Joliet, H., started up
July 9, after having been shut down 70,
over three months. During the interim i'm
proyements costing over 800 900 have been
made. New automatic rolls have been 10
troduced, which will do away with goo6
many laborers, and are calculated to effect
= saving that will pay for the new improve
menls within the year. The starting oFth-
mills will afford employment to about l 200
men. A res5justment will be had which
reduces the wages OF the men about IL per
cent.