The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-06-16
THE IRON STRIKE.
General idea that tie EndI Is 1t Hand-Ths
Status QUO. ~ Is

General idea that the End u ut Hand-The
Animpression Is apparent everywhere
that the iron strike Is nearing thelend:
Its believed that the conference to-day
lat pittsburgh between representatives Of
the iron manufacturers and Amalgamated
Association Committee will result in Q
break. This will not directly affect the
Wheeling mills, the Crescent Sheet
Iron Works and the two Rtna-
vile mills excepted, but In
directly It cannot fail 70 have ita full effect.
There are trihing circumstances which are
construed by kingmen to mean thatthe
nail factories here will start up soon, al
though the tone of the manufacturers
talk Is not changed In the least. Anailef
last night predicted confidently that all
the mills would be at work before the end
OF next week.
The Riverside steel works, as heretofore
announced, will start up to-day or to-mer-
row. This does not necessarily have any
bearing on the resumption of work in the
nail factory, however.
TheAmalgamated Association Is willing
to meet the iron manufacturers half way
in settling the present difficulty existing
between them. At the conference at
Pittsburgh to-day they win withdraw the
cracked iron, clause Of the scale and pre-
sent in its place one which they hope will
settle the whole trouble. Intact the man
uiacturers can no longer claim that pre-
MUM Is placed on bad workmanship.
The new! clause which will be presented
at the conference was the same which was
signed by Oliver Brothers & Phillips. II
reads:
It is understood that for all finished
iron worked on any finishing mill made
out OF pile containing two-thirds or more
rails or old rail iron, 10 percent extra
above current prices shall be paid.
The clause over which there Is SO much
trouble Is worded to read:
1tis understood that for all finished
iron, cracked or fawed, worked on any
finishing mill, made out Of old rails, the
same shall be paid for.
In the new clause the phrase Cracked
or hawed" Is omitted, thus protecting the
manufacturer, and in Its place 10 per cent.
extra above current prices is to be paid
for all finished iron made out Of a pile
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or old iron; this is to protect thework.
men. It Is claimed by the members that
in ninety-nine cases out of hundred II is
much harder to work with iron made
from old rails or old rail iron.
THE LAudHLlN AND JUNCTION STEEL PLANT.
The Bulletin OF the Iron aud Steel Asso.
citation contains the following particulars
Of the new steel plant to be erected at
Mingo:
Contracts have been made for the cree
ton Of q new Bessemer steel plant at Min
90 Junction, Ohio. twill be operated by
theJ Junction Iron Company and the Laugh
| lin Nail Company, Samuel Laughlinbeipg
President Of the former company, and his
brother Alexander Of the latter. The
plant Is to be completed in September
next. Its location will be near the blast
furnaces OF the Junction Iron Company,
which will make the Bessemer pig iron
needed. A part OF the equipment, em-
bracing two 5-ton conyerters, three S.foot
Icupolas, q 34.inch reversible blooming
mill with hydraulic tables and lifting ap.
paratus, pair Of % by So reversing en-
gines, and blowing engines with 3finch
steam and 4S.inch air cylinders and 5-foot
stroke, will be built by Mcintosh,
Hemphill 4 Co., Of Pittsburgh, with
@. a. Amsler, NJ. E., late Of the
Riverside Iron Works, in charge
Of the construction and supervision.
Eight Holley cranes will be built by Nor.
gan, Williams 4 Co., OF Alliance, o.
Twelve boilers and an iron building so by
$50 feet, for converting department, en-.
CINE and canister houses, etc, will be
supplied by Ritter, Conley & Co., Of Pitts.
burgh. Four duplex pressure pumps will
be from Epping, Carpenter \ Co. The
hydraulic apparatus, pipes, valves, ETC., will
be furnished by Atwood & Met atfrey. The
daily capacity will be 800 tons Of nail
slabs. Tho two companies, whose Offices
are at Wheeling, West Virginia, though
their works are in Ohio, are extensive
manufacturing Of nails, and they expect
their joint product Of steel nails to be
$500 Kegs daily when their arrangements
are completed. The erection Of the new
steel plant win involve an expenditure Of
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