Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-07
MILL NOTES.

-N1 1900
The New Jersey Steel and Iron Com
pay Of Trenton, Is rolling 2O-inch | beams.
At the mills OF the Bayview, Wis, are
running now with good prospects.
The Council Bluffs, Ia, Tack and Nail
b. have fled articles Of incorporation,
with $50, 900 capital stock. The company
is buying machinery for manufacturing.
New Oeleans is to have a rolling mill to
work up scrap iron, of which about 1000
monthly are shipped North and West, and
returned in the shape Of bar iron.
The l4.inch and Is inch, ss we'll al the
Belgian train, are going at the Albany iron
works. The puddlers keep uniformly busy.
The nail factory is fully occupied aud the
rivet factory partly so.
The manufacturers Of steel wire nails
will meet at PIttsburg, March ii, to COM
plete arrangements tor N organization.
The National Steel Wire Nail Association
was formed in New York city last week.
The iron and nail factory belonging to
the Pembroke Iron Co., in Maine, have
been idle since July, 1884. The works
gaze employment to about 500 men. Large
Quantities Of bar and hinge iron were turn
ed out daily, also shout n hundred kegs
of nails There is prospect OF g Boston
company taking charge Of the works and
opening them in tbs spring.
The owners of the nail mill at BsyView,
Wis. have held a conference with the
nailers formerly employed there with a
view 10 harmoniee the differences existing.
o. ". Potter, Johu C.. Parks, n. W. Hinton
and W. b. Parks representing the COM
pan and c. II. Squires aud a delegation
of nailers held a lengthy consultation, but
failed to arrive at any conclusion.
At South Troy, N. Y, only the nine-ineh
rolls of the merchant train are working at
the Burden mills on the fats. The city
nine pudding furnaces and one scrap fur
mace are on this week. Two horseshoe
trains aud msehines and the punching and
~swsgging departments are employed as
nsuSI. At the water mill four horseshoe
trains and machines are in operation, also
the riyet train and rivet factory.
The new cooperative nail mill, to be
erected at Larmi, White couGty, I'LL, 10 al.
ready an assured success. The citizens CT
that Mace have subscribed $4,000, besides
Eve sores OF grourd, and the Top mill OF
Wheeling, W. Va has also subscribed $zU,-
OOl, Active operations will at once be
begun, and the mill will in sl probability
put nails on the market inside OF tour
months from present date.
The thirty or forty vietimized men OF the
Cleveland Rolling Mil Company's Booth
mill department have found work OF the
OGs Rolling Mill Companys rod mill.
Bayis. the blackhsted boss roller, is SAID TO
be the best boss roller in the country. The
men who held the strikers together during
he last strike in the Eighteenth ward, have,
"a ia we'll known, been blacklisted and can
not 90 to work. Soma went to other
10 Eps, but the blscklisting followed them,
and they returned. They are still without
wark, and their families are destitute
Cleveland (O) Workman.
The North Chicago Rolling Mill Co. 10
engaged in making 10000 tons OF rails to
he laid side by side with English hammer
ed rails as q test Of superiority. The Fog,
lish rail to form one side Of the o ana
the North mill company 9 rail the other
Surely no isirer test could be given than
that, The mill company, IN conjunction
with their employees, are now making an
effort TO srrsngethe scale Of wagestor 1887,
Tbs nrospects are fair for an smicable set
,lament By the basis of settlement after
| the long strike Of IS and SO 1t was agreed
that one years notice should De gwen OF a
desired change By either psEtY, hence the
early beginning Of the negotistions.-baiiy
Calumet.
In a short time six Bsssemer steel works
Oil be in operation in the immediate
vicinity of Pittsburg. The Edgar Thorn
son AMI the Pittsburg Steel Casting Com
napy have also had q Besssmer Plsnt tor
soms wears. The Clspp Critics plant Is
also "A Bessmer works. The Shoenberger
nlsnt il nearly ready for operation, and
soon this firm, that has 50 long been con
nected with the iron industries OF Western
4 Pennsylyanis, will cease TO manufacture
iron except in its blast furnaces, n WI
become steel manufacturers, having ool1
a Bessemer and an open-hesrSh plant
Zones & Laushlins now Bessemer plant II
sIso bsing pushed forward, aud the spring
Iii nrahsbly find it in operation. Them
tsrestinv polS. about these works Is ina
nnIv one Of them, the Edgar Thomson, II
Is~pufscturer of steel rails. The Pitts
burg Bessemer ia prepared to make rails
SboSld II be eeemed best, but its sntir,
PRODUCTION is in demand for merchant steel
Chiefly in the shape of blooms, slabs, etc.
for reHorkingin other steel and IRON WoFks
The Pittsburg Steel Casting company
make has been sold in a similar shape
Probably some proportion of the productio,
ofJOnes & LaughLns and Shesnbsrsef |
Co, viii also be put on the market .
blooms, billsts or slabs, but at one WoSk
AZ least a large percentage will be role
into various forms at the Works-AmeT
can Manufactures.