Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-28
MILL NOTES.

The Youngstown mill run full all last
week.
The Thumbull Iron Co 5 mill at Girsrd,
O., run full last week.
The mill at Colunbis, Pa, is running
full time on grooved skelp ard tub iron.
The New Jersey Steel and Iron Co., Of
Trenton, is rolling 20inch beams.
A syndicate proposes to build a nail fac
tory at Nashville for making nails out Of
basic steel.
The plant of Messrs. Brown. Bonuell 4
Co., OF Youngstown, has been orderedSsid
oy the courts.
About l75 men are employed at the
Greencastle, Ind, nails works, where the
2l-cent rate is paid.
The Falcon mill at Niles, O., was idle
all last week. Their machinery for the
new sheet mill has not all arrived yet.
The recent report of Receiver Fsyette
Brown, Of Brown, Bonnell 4 Co., shows an
available balance OF S., l62 81.
The Kelly Nail and Iron Co at Ircnton,
Ohio, will increase their capacity by the
erection Of nineteen more nail machines
at once.
The movement looking to the building
of nail mill at Minneapolis, Misn, has
taken definite shape, and efforts will be
made to put the same into operation at
once.
The strike at the rolling mill at Blandou,
P, continues. The puddle boss forbade
the use of scale and water in pudding,
hence the strike.
The Beaver Falls, Pa, Iron Co., after
great many vexstious delays, announce
that they will begin operations st their mills
February ~.
The Eighteenth ward finishing mills Of
the Cleveland, Ohio, Rolling Mill Co, have
shut down since last Wednesday, except
one turn in the hoop mill.
Ground for the new bar mill st Scott
dale, Pa, has been stsksd CT, aud work
on the erection of the buildings will COM
meuce as soon as the weather viii permit.
1t viii be l00xl60 feet.
The rolling mill at Hubbard, O., and the
one at Warren are fast going to rack and
ruin. All efforts to get these millsin opera
tion have siUgulsrly failed. Tie Warren
mill is particularly rusty and out Of order.
Industrial matters at Niles, o., arersther
unsatisfactory. The mill recently run by
George Summers Sr., is idle; there is no
prospect Of the nsilers going to work, and
the Thomas furnace has been compelled to
bank for want Of coke.
At South Troy, n. Y, the Albany iron
works was on last week in the puddling
department. The Is inch and Belgian
trains, nail and riVet factories are on this
week. The l4-ineh traia aud one OF the
hammers will also be started.
The iron workers at the Pennock mills
at Coatesyille, Pa, have notified the firm
of desire for 20 per cent increase in their
wages after Marco l. The firm have q
large number of orders. They have made
no reply to the men as yet.
The Edgar Thomson steel works, at
Brsddock. Pa, have received from the st.
Louis and Cairo railroad "a order for l5,-
600 tons Of so pound rsils The road is
l52 miles long, and is to be changed iron
narrow to standard gauge.
The great steel manufacturer, Marshall,
Of Sheffield, Eng is about to remove his
entire works to Ameica. The firm employ
5000 men. Some scores Of the most skill
ed will be taken over, and the rest will be
hired in America.
Already orders for 800, 800 tons Of steel
rails have been placed since January LIST.
Il is now conceded by the steel rail makers
that the mills will be taxed to their full
capacity during 1856. Th5 price per ton
for steel rails in the East is $3i. This is
81 10 higher than last summer.
Work has begun in the new mill Of the
!. spubhc iron works, on South Twenty nth
street, this city. The buiidtng Of the mill
vas begun last summer, aud is jus! com
pleted. II contains SIX scrap furnaces and
two heating furnaces, together with two
trains of rolls, one two high and one three
high.
Andrews Bros. & Co. have beOn on fuu
all week, and prospects are good for bust
ness until next June. Brown, Bonnell i
Co 3 mills run full last week, double, ex'
cept the nail mill. 1t is expected this
weeks run will be SIMILAR. Orders are
good. Work on ths usv universal
mill is going forward. This mill will
greatly increase the output Of these mills.
It's necessity has long been felt. The pro
duction of the various mills is very salts
factory. Nothing but the new mill at
Cartwright, MeCurdy & Co 8 was on last
week. The new mill ran double turn