Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-04


The steel works al Mlngo Chic i on
fall time.
The rolling NTH at Milwaukee, Wis, il
running steadily, the scale agreed upon
ct PittsbuEg being accepted by the mill
owners.
All the machines in the Western Nail
Company's works, at Bellville, Ill, 154 in
number are in operation.
The Granite iron rolling mills, of St
Louis, Mo-, win close down after July 10th
for period Of six weeks.
The iron and steel works at Birmingham,
Conn, have resumed, after an idleness OF
several days.
The Union Steel Company of Chicago is
still busily engaged in the rail department,
and the other portions are also fully en-
/ plOyed.
| Zug's mill, Pittsburg, is idle for repairs.
Their nail factory is expected to start up
about the 18th of this month.
The mill at Warren, Ohio, is doing moth
ing, and unless great care is taken the build
ings viii 90 to ruin.
The Allentown, Pa, rolling mill is on in
the bar and guide mill departments, but
idle in the forge end
The nail mill of Jones & Laughlin, of
Pittsburg started up in full last Tuesday,
after being idle for thirteen uonths.
1t has been definitely settled that char
coal blast furnace, rolling mill and nail
mill will be at once erected at Ashland,
Wis, by Ashland and Milwaukee parties.
The new nail mill at Wellston, Ohio,
will be in operation by September l. The
nail machines will arrive in tewe days
and be put into position.
Thirty new pudding furnaces are (" be
added to the forge department OF the Ma
tional rolling mill at MeKeespOrt, Pa,
shortly.
The engine having broken down at the
Vesuyius mill, Sharpsburg, Pa, last Tues
day morning, the forge department is idle.
The finishers are working and being sup
piled with muck iron from the Star forge
in Allegheny city.
The Helmbacher Forge and Rolling Mills
Company, of st. Louis, have two hammers
at work on axles and an equal number OF
heavy forging for sugar mill machinery,
deliverable at New Orleans Other depart |
ments of their works are idle.
The Cleveland. Ohio, Rolling Mill Com
pany is running full in all departments,
the new rod mill and the hoop mill having
resumed. The steel works are running the
best in their history, and the rail mill is
turningOutitsf full capacity. Trade Rerietr
Gas has been turned into the furnace of
the new steel mill at Youngstown, Ohio,
and the first charge put in. The ingOtS will
he !, 900 pounds each, and as no mill in the
valley can reduce them to billets, the pro |
duct will be shipped to Pittsburg for re-
ductiOn.
The great nail strike at Bellyille, ILL.,, has |
finally come to an end, the settlement at
Pittsburg of the wages question proving !
satisfactory to both the nailers and opera |
tors. Under the new agreement the men
will not receive less than IL cents per keg, |
no matter what the price of nails may be. /
The mills employ about $50 men, and will /.
start up again in few days.
A Chattanooga telegram states that the
Roane Iron Company will resume work ut
its rail mill, which has been idle for five
years. The works are to be remOdeled into
a BesScmer steel rail mill. A four ton con-
verter will b erected and preparations
made to put in another converter OF the
same speed As soon rs business will war
rant it the work of remOdling the mill be-
Gin. IL will have a capacity of $50 tons
of rails per day, and will give employment
to no less than one thousand hands.