The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-09-14
THE TOWN OF MINGO.
ITS GROWTH N IMPORTANCE,
Keeping Pace with the Growth of the Iron
and Steel Works thsre-The lauyhlin
and Junction Steel Plaut-Ths Big
Blast characterization Works.

Blast Characterization Works.
In the present live and prosperous tow
Of Mlngo Ia seen a striking result Of thu
sagacily, enterprise and liberality o
Wheeling manufacturers, This toWI
owes It's present hourishing condition, in
deed | 9 very existence, to the operations
and growth OF tic Junction lion Com
pany, whose extensive and valuable plant
including a nail factory, plate mill Rnd
, blast furnace, is located there, and the
Laughlin and Junction Steel Company
whose large works for the production d
Bessemer steel Is one OF the most complete
and admirable manufacturing establish,
ments In the country.
Natural gas has been brought twenty.
I've miles from the Hickory district In
Pennsylvania, and all the heating and
steam Is derived from the new fuel, which
has been in use throughout the entire
plant for over thirty days, this being the
frat mill In the Wheeling district 10 use It.
There are no natural adYantagea which
the location does not allow the companies
to enjoy, always placing them in the ad-
vance among the most progressive con
Germs Of the day,
The LsughIin and Junction Steel Com
pany 10 composed Of the Lsughlin Nail
Company, Of Martins Ferry, and the juno
ton Iron Company, Of Mingo. Its steel
plant covers space Of about 25O square
feet, aud has q capacity, demonstrated by
actual work, Of 275 tons Of finished steel q
day.
This vast enterprise ia controlled and
administered by Samuel Laughlin, Presi.
denti William L, Glessner, Vice Presl-
dent; Alex. Glass, Secretary. W. O
Bradley and Thomas Ainsworth are It's
managers, and Robert Richardson, Harry
Stallmsn and Harry Franzheim are EN-.
ployed In the office,
TUE STEEL PLANT EQUIPMENT.
The plant consists OF two five ton con.
verters, three cupolas fifty feet high and
eight ieet In diameter, one swindle soak.
ing pit and one ingot heating furnace,
with capacity for heating "a ingots al
one time. There Is one blooming train
run by double reversing engine with
cylinders % inches In diameter and IS.
inch stroke. The works are 10 nicely
planned that there Ia no rehandliug, thu
cranes being so located as to take the iron
from the Cupolas and pour II into The con.
verters; take the steel from the converters
and pour 1t into the moulds, strip and
charge into the heating furnaces; convey
from there to the roll tables. When rolled
! into slabs and billets II Ia carried on tables
by rollers TO the shearers and loaded by
hydraulic cranes on the cars. There arr
eleven cranes In oil, operated from one
point. They are: 0neladle crane, one pour.
Ing crane, two bottom cranes, three ingot
cranes, one shear crane, twoloading cranes,
all hydraulic, aud ono steam crane.
There are besides two blast engines with
4S'inCh stroke; one double reversing
blooming train engine, 4S.inch stroke: one
table engine; one stationary engine, IA
inches in diameter with 4S.inch stroke
three duplex pressure pumps; an aCcu.
mulator for increasing the hydraulic press.
ure TO operate the cranes, weighted 10 $50
pounds pressure; two No. 10 Sturteyant
blowers; twelve boilers, 24x44, with two
l6'inCh hues, fed by two duplex 6.inch
water pumps; bottom house three dry.
ing ovens;a Crusher and pulVerixer; one
Spiegel furnace two locomotives, named
Samuel and Sydney" after the Presi.
dent and his wife.
The steel plant buildings consist OF a
hoist tower oil iron, rs by IL feet; a con.
verting house 1870 by 10 feet, also Of iron;
a blooming house, 10 by % feet, wooden
frame covered with iron; one house GOV.
ering the boilers, engines and bottom
house, l75 by 55 feet, Of wood frame and
iron and fun stoFn.rnnu,u for hstoI, la,
etc.
FURNACE DEPARTMENT.
The blast furnace is under the superin.
tendenCe oil George A. Dean, manager.
II Ia fifteen feet In diameter and sixty
feet high. A second furnace IL now being
built by Gordon, Strobel & Lsurean, Of
Philadelphia, end is TO he seventeen feet
in diameter by seventy. five feet high, and
complete and modern in all lie details and
appliances. The furnace buildings are a
brick stock house, 100 by 70 feet, with
slate roof; two hoist towers, 100 feet high
and % feet Gquare, one Of brick and the
other iron two brick casting houses, 100
by 45 feet, with iron roofs; one brick en-.
CINE house, 90 by 80 feet; a boiler pump
house 20 feet lquare, and a power house
at the liver 20 by 80 feet. The boiler
sheds are 20 feet square and three In mum.
Der.
There are four iron hot blast stoves,
two blast engines, u boilers In batteries Of
hree, each being IS feet long and A
inches In diameter, with two flfteen.inCh
fines. The boilers arc fed by three pumps
located In the engine room. The water Is
supplied by five steam pumps loca'ed at
the riv zone Pinch, one 10 inch and
one 9inch Cameron and two 7.inch Coop.
er pumps, pumping directly to the several
depaltmentg and the surplus going to a
basin located on an elevation OF about
o. feet and 1900 feet ON the river.
The furnace capacity when fully
equipped, will reach about 25O tons daily.
rLATE MILL AND NAIL FACTORY.
The plate mill Is completely equipped
with three Smith heating furnaces with a
heating capacity Of 1870 tons Of iron daily
ard rolls and shears for the same.
The nall factory is under the manage.
ment oil Samuel Sloan and @. W. Dean,
practical and efficient mon, and Ia equip.
ped with l20 nail machines and 3S grind.
stones; two bueing machines, three tend.
ing aud one annealnR furnace. The fac.
tory is lighted throughout with the electric
light.
Tho machine shop Is In charge Of John
Quinn, who has the supervision al all
machinery. II is most completely fitted
up with all the modern appliances Of such
q department Of 60 extensive On establish.
ment as that OF the Junction Iron Com.
pany,
The nail mill buildings arc: The plate
mill building, 1870 by 05 feet, wooden
frame covered with iron nail factory, 800
by 05 feet, Of tho same character; anneal.
Ing house, 100 by 20 feet same; ware
house, 100 by % feet, brick and iron
blacksmith chop, 90 by 2S feet, brick and
iron machine shop, 90 by 32 feet, brick
and iron; houSe over heating furnaces and
boilers, 1856 by 80 feet.
There 10 also laboratory, situated on
the river bank, the building being 40 by 40
feet. Geo. s. Miller Ia chemist aud Thos