Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-08-22
MILL NOTES.

The Bellaire, o., steel works have again
started up.
The Franklin iron works, at Harrisburg,
Pa, will soon be put in operation again.
The contract has been let for nail works
at Lock Haven, Pa, which will be built at
once.
The nailers of Oakland, Cal, are having
trouble with their employers, and have
been locked out.
Work has been resumed at the Fishback
rolling mill, at Pottsyille, Pa. They started
up double turn on Monday.
The Susquehanna rolling mill, at Column
bla, Pa, having adjusted matters satisfae-
torly with its employees, will start the
mill ut once.
The experiment of the Standard nail
works, of Middleport, Ohio, of making
nails out of old steel rails, failed to work
on the first trial.
There Is trouble again at the mill of w.
II. Eyerson & Co., ,ScOttdale, Pa, but
hopes are entertained that a satisfactory
settlement will be arrived at ut once.
The big bar mill has been changed to a
rail mill, and is now working on 52-lb
steel I. rails. The Booth mill and puddle
mill, We learn, have started up.-SOuth
CiereidRd, o., Adroeate
The puddlers at the Northern OF Wabash
rolling mill, Terre Haute, Ind, after an
enforced idleness running through a COM
paratively long time, are again at work, at
three heats turn for the present.
The Apollo sheet iron mills of p. II.
Laufman Il Co., at Apollo, Pa, will be
ready for business within two weeks. The
output will be utalized in the manufacture
OF tnewares, spoons, locks, powder kegs, etc.
The new plate mill of the Sharon Iron
Company is completed and in operation,
and they are turning out some large plate
iron. 1t Is expected the 22-inch mill will
be completed by September l.
The indianapolis Rolling Mill Company.
of indianapolis, Ind, is erecting two 10
ton Siemens Open-hearth steel furnaces, to
make steel for rails and other purposes. 1t
is the intention of the company to add two
more furnaces to the plant.
The Oliver & Roberts Wire Company,
PittSburg, Pa, has started new plant for
drawing cast steel, steel spring and other
special wires, and also for thinning wire. 1t
is going more extensively into the manu-
mcture Of general market wires.
The New England nail-makers are con-
Sidering the prOpriety of putting in BesSe-
mer plants or else going out of business.
II the New England nail workers are to be
put on the same basis as to wages as the
10
cape from using the Bessemer system.
The entire works of the Valley mill, at
Youngstown, Ohio, were closed down last
the result of dispute between
the rOughers and rollers, the latter refu-
sing the rOugherS' demand for an advance
Of one cent per ton. About 600 men are
affected.
The stack at Hogsett's furnace fell last
Friday. 1t is q complete wreck, but will
be rebuilt at the earliest possible moment
The works are closed. A new stack it is
will cost $50 1000. The works
have been running ut their fullest capacity
for long time URiORtOrR NelcS.
At Troy, y. Y, the various mills of the
the Albany iron works are still idle, eX-
cept that repairs are going on in them.
The steel works, rail mill and merchant
mill are running ON full time. At the last
named mill, where strike involving Is or
20 men Was lately in progress, everything
has been settled satisfactorily.
Our pipe makers have orders for wrought
iron pipe for use in Russia, Mexico and
South America. In this city and vicinity
are said to be some of the largest wrought
iron pipe works in the world, and we be-
Iieve the claim is correct. 1t is estimated
hat the produe ton of wrought iron pipe
in the country is equal to 200 tons per day.
-imei lean Manufacturer.