Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-07-26
MILL NOTES.

Alter 0elng IDLE three years, tus tdCh AoS
tory a, Hanson, Mass, has started again.
Swif's Iron and Steel Co., Riverside, o.,
has resumed with 800 men.
The swift rolling mill. at Newport, ny,
has resumed work, giving employment to
shout three hundred men.
The Etns mill, at New Castle, Pa, has
started up, but we are not as yet informed
upon what terms.
The Union rolling mills Of Carnegie Bros.
& Co. will soon commence work upon an
order from Messrs Keeper Riddle OF Mil
waukee, for 600 tons of iron beams.
The Chicago steel wheel works have de-
cided TO erect works at Plano, Ill. Six hun
bred thousand dollars capital STOCK has been
subscribed.
II is stated that the new lessees of the
Vulcan iron works, in st. Louis, will roll
nail plates and cut nails in their mills, and
that in all probability two or three other
nail mills will be started there.
The Adirondack steel works, of Jersey
City, n. j., in which over one hundred men
were employed, have shut down. The ma
chinery will be sold at public suctieu. Dull
ness of trade is the cause Of the closing OF
the works.
A large iron manufacturing establish
ment OF Wellsville, n. u, is corresponding
with +. r. Trstford, Sanford, Fla with q
view to locating and putting up large iron
works. Their representative went to San
ford.
CAPITALISTS of Columbus, Ohio are organ
izing a stock Company for the purpose o.
establishing a hail factory there. The plan
is 10 purchase the machinery Of factory
Low in Pi,tsOurg and remove 1t to Colum-
bus.
Tie Pottsville Iron and Steel Co., Pa,
will erect a Clspp-Grithths plant OF two con
ver,ers, the work to be completed BY Oc!o'
Der l. The mill hereafter will make strue,
,ural steel OF all kinds, beams, channels
angles aud bridge steel. 1t was built origI
nally 10 make rails.
A dispatch from Massillon, o., July 10
SAWS: a conference sss held this evening
between the proprietors and leading work
men of Joseph Corns 4 Son S rolling mill,
which resulted in an agreement whereby the
mill will start next Monday The prOPrle
tors would not sign the scale, but agreed to
nav Pntsburg prices. More than 100 meu
are employed, and the mil has been Idle
since June |.
The Albany & Rensselaer, Iron and Stee
Co. at Troy, n. \. is TO be reorganIzed
with a capital of 81, SOC, 900. AL the stocs
has been subscribed for. The works are Il
be greatly improved aud the three blast fur
naces are to BE- erected on Breaker Island
opposite the city. The principal ooJet o
| he organization is to enable the company
TO successfully compete with the works
! Scranton, Pa, in the manufacture OF stee
| rails.
Tbirty.four usil factories in the west, REP
resenting 3,lS9 machines, have been ldl
since June |. Five factories with 3VS ma
/ chimes were at work July L.
The nailers at the Cslumst Iron and SIee
/ Companys works at Cummings, Ill, ar
confident that their scale will be signed a
soon az the new steel plant is completed
which will be during the month OF July
They number about forty men and work Is
machines. They withdrew from the ANA
pamsted Association of Iron and Steel Wort
ers some time ago aud have scale Of the1
owns. and II. Reporter.
The following companies east OF Pitt
burg are now making steel nails: PotG
town Iron Co, Pottstown, Pa; Charles l
Bailey & Co., Harrisburg; Ellis \ Lessin
Steel and Iron Co, Pottstown; Albany an
Rensselaer, Iron and Steel Co, Troy; Hs
risburv Nail Works, Harrisburg; William
bort Iron aud Nail Works, Williamson
p; Danville Nail Manufacturing 20
Danville Pa; Weymouth Iron Co., Ia
WEYMOUTH, Mass.-Reporter.
A project to get subscribers to capt.
stock to start steel nail mill in Salem III
made some quiet progress. We understar
that some of the movers are Pennsylvaul
men. Fifty thousand dollars was the siz
Of the subscription wanted OF Salem, tW
thirds of which, we learn, had been take
sometime since. How much there Is to
W. know not. but we would like to see q
prpieet mature. salem should cast ASH
her wonted mOdesty and hang out sign
welcome to all new enterprises that can pc
sibly be attracted to this point. Every
ciHty for manufacturing can be had ne
With far less trouble than at most OH
places, and the town is worthy OF them
Salem O., Vidette.