Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-12-13
MILL NOTES.

The Bolton steel works, st Canton, O.,
are on double turn.
The South Troy, n. T., steel works are
running steadily, and prospects for an all
winter run are Asuering.
The Barnum iron works, of Detroit,
Michigan, were totally estroyed by FIRE last
week
The Mcdonald rolling mills, of ST. Louis,
are running one hammer on railway sxles
day and night, and the mill single turn.
1t is proposed to erect wire mill at
Somerset, Somerset county, if the neees-
sAry stock is subscribed BY. Somerset citi-
Zens.
The Ellis L Lessig Steel and Iron Co.,
Pottsyille, Pa, intend erecting 40 add
tioual nail machines in their factory, max
ing the total 100.
The Agswam nail works, owned by the
Central Manufacturing Co, at Warehsm,
Nsss., were destroyed by an incendisrY FIRE
on the 30th ult.
One Of the pudding furnaces Of the Fal.
con mills, at Niles, o., is being turned into
a sheet bar furnace for the manufacture Of
sheet bar iron, to be rolled st the new sheet
mill
The Tennessee rolling .nill, owned and
operated BY the Ewald Iron Co, of st.
Louis, Mo-, has been running tull all year,
and has in hand good orders.
Work has Begun on the new nail plant
at BelIeville, III. 1t is expected that
blooms will be made ready for the rollers
within ninety days.
The rolling mile Of South Troy, n. y,
are running about IS usual this week. The
nailfeeders are working eleven hours per
day. The factory is about 5000 kegs be-
hind IN orders.
A patent has been granted to Pittsburg
parties 10 make steel nails from old rails.
The nails closely resemble iron nails, and
their rough surface enables them to hold
better than other nails.
The Western forge and rolling mills,
East st. Louis, Ill, are as busy as their
capacity will permit. Their hammers are
employed on both light and heavy iron,
and also steel forgings.
The Klomsn mill at Moundsville, W.
Va, which was bought by q syndicate rep
resented By Jos D. Weeks, Of Pittsburg
has been inyalidated by failure to pay an
iustallment Of the purchase money within
the time given.
The Calumet iron works. Cummings,
Ill. propose to start up with feeder nsilers
as soon 90 they can be got together: The
mills of the Calumet Iron and Steel Com
nsny are the largest nail mills in the West,
having capacity when in full blast OF
over one thousand kegs OF nails per day
The manufacture of mild steel BY the
Rsssemer process has, it is said, been so
greatly reduced in cost in England that
steel Shius and iron ships oil the same class
come TO be offered at precisely the same
price. This possibility, tits remarked, arises
largely from the fact that steel ship OF .
given strength can be made Of much light
er weight than one Of irOn'
The Laeleds rolling mills, st. Louis
started up on Monday, after q stopPsge OF
more than year. The padding furnaces,
bloom, forge, plate and sheet rolls have
s,srted 10 run, which will require about
Gao men. The product of boiler plate and
sheet Will be from forty TO fifty tons per
day. A part OF the Peod9Ss WIZ 9e S's S;i
for which purpose they will buy steel Dill
. .c:.
A correspondent to the Labor Tribune
from BeIlevius says: The Waugh nan
mill il working full time and paying tne
2I-cept scale, and al the boys are happy
"a siv;ng a hsluiuz hand to the men out
on an mike At the Western mill. Tbs men
Are Ar All firm and coutentsd, and determined
70 win the battle against the unjust de-
msn5s Of the nail manufacturers. We
have the good will Of the merchants and =,
leading citizens Of Bellevills, ssis plainly
seen bS their actions. A good many OF
them have subscribed stock with some OF
our Workmsn to build new nail MILL anu
thew are ct work on It now.