Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-10-04
MILL NOTES.

The uailers of Pottstown, Pa, have been
notified Of ten per cent advance in wages.
People from Irondal, Ohio say the roll
irg nil there will start up at an carly day.
Four or FIVE hundred tons of muck bars
were sold last week in Philadelphia, for
early delivery, at $3.50.
Il has been proposed to shut down all of
the rolling mills in this vicinity during the
opening service at the Davis Island dam.
The nsilers and feeders of Pittsburg are
as firm in their demand for the 2l-cent card
rate as they were when they went out.
The OHIO Falls iron works at New Al
bany, Indiana, are running full time, with
a prospect OF keeping it up this fall and
winter.
A. NJ. Johnson ard others will put $780,
600 in new rolling mill in Chattanooga,
Tenn.
The nail manufactures of the East are
selling small lots at q so, and have orders
for all the supplies they can turn out.
The Western rolling mills, of East St.
Louis are running steadily on shsfting and
general torglngs,
II is rumored that the pudding furnaces
will be shortly taken down at the Leechburg,
Pa, mill.
The puddlers at rhe Fall River, Mass,
rolling mill struck against arbitrary rules
last Tuesday. The nail mill is still idle.
A new steel mill is now in contemplation
at New Castle, Pa. II will have a capacity
Of zoo tons per day.
The feeders and nal r8 Of Mingo and
Steubenuile, Ohio, say they propose TO fight
it out on the 2l.cent Garj hne if it takes al
winter.
This week - furnaces and one scrap iron
furnace sre in operation Mt Burdens steam
mill South Troy, y. Y. Two horseshoe
trains and two horseshoe machines are also
running.
At South Troy Y. Y. the Is and IS inch
mills and the plate mill and the nine-inch
chant mill The lG inch and jennies run
double turn.
The man who blew the first steel ever
made by the Bessemer process in Troy, n.
Y, or It would seem in America, Ruben
Willis, still holds the position of foreman in
the steel works.
At the Burden water mill, South Troy
y. Y, this week the river factory is on, but
the river train has been discontinued. Three
horseshoe trains and three horseshoe ma
chimes, the scrap furnace and the ball rolls
are also in operation.
The strike that has existed among the
400 hands employed BY the Cumberland
nail aud iron works, at Bridgeton, \. j.,
stree April last has been adjusted, and the
men will resume work next week at the 10
per cent advance which they demanded.
The AGkana iron works, Just above Steu-
benville, Ohio, operated By the Cartwright
Iron Co., have started up, with about City
men, manufacturing muck iron. Later they
will begin to make hoop and band iron their
speciality, whom their force will be increased
to about eighty men.
A dispatch from Dsnyille, Pa, says that
II. S. Pierce, Of Scranton, for $4,000, has
become the possessor of the Glendower iron
works of Dsnville. A few years ago the
works were valued at q quarter Of a million.
Mr.. Pierce will take immediate action to
put the works in better shape.
One thousand tons of steel rails for the
Denver and Rio Grande railroad have been
SHIPPED By Carnegie Bros 4 c.. of Pitts
burg. The rails are to be used to extend
the road from FL Moro, Colorado, down into
the cooking fields, which will be largely de-
veloped during the coming winter.
Teutyseven nail machines were shipped
TO Martins Ferry, Ohio, on Tuesday by the
Pittsburg Manufacturing Company of Twen-
ty-eight street. Nine more will be finished
this week and forwarded TO the same place.
The Pittsburgh Manufacturing Company are
also working on an order tor nail machines
an eastern factory. IL Is almost as large as
that from Martins Ferry aud will be filed
oy October l.-AmerIcsn Manufacturer.
Fewer orders were placed last week for
merchant iron, and prices were highar Me- |
dunn irons that have been selleng at 81 so |
are now held at 81 60; refred iron that hiss |
been selling at $40 is held at $3.50; com.
mon iron, for which orders were sought at |
Sl.4O, is now held at $3.50. The mills |
through Eastern and Middle Pennsylvania |
are now engaged with orders running from |
one week to two months The general stu
alton is decidedly better than it has bseu.
The Philadelphia Records Weekly Sum-
mary.
It was suppose that when the State legis-
allure passed bill against issuing store or
iers that mode of oppression would cease.
Instead Of that the courts have been hig-
Cling over the question ever since. Labor
organizations are now called upon to con-
tribute something to push some Of these
cases to completion.
The Pullman Car Company recently re-
ceived an order for $4,000 cars Other or
iers have been given out within few days
amounting to 5000 cars. The car works
throughout the west are particularly busy.
The railroad companies have deferred plac-
Dg orders, permitting their rolling stock to
.un down low.
Despite the abundance of manufacturing
.apaei'y there las been great deal of new
work started within month. For instance,
he rail masking cspscity is estimated Al
q.