Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-09-05

nail factory of the Mahoning Valley Iron
Company was started last Monday. The
other eighteen machines would have been
started would there have been nail plate
enough ahead. The machines will only
run single turn this week. If the plate
mill gets enough ahead they will probably
De I'M double turn next week.
The puddlers employed in the East End
and Light & Knapp's rolling mills, Leba-
non, Pa, are out on a strike because they
were refused an advance of so cents per
ton, increasing their wages to 81 per ton.
About 100 pudlers are employed in these
mills. About 100 helpers, besides the
rollers, catchers, labOrers, etc, are thrown
u OF work. The men say they are deter
mined to stay out until their demands are
acceeded to.
The tendency from iron to steel is shown
IN many ways. One of the signs in Pitts
enrg, is the disappearance of pudding fur
naees. AT the great American Iron Works
Of Jones & Laughlins, for example, where
a new BeSSemer plant is about completed,
six pudding furnaces were torn down,
leaving %. In these large works there are
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mers and siNty-three nail machines. The
annual capacity is %, 500 net tons, and
1900 kegs of nails.
The London IroRmORger states that 90
900 tons of steel rails have Just been or
dered in this country for the United States.
The orders are for two lots of 10000 tons
each, one being taken in the West Coast
district and the other in Wales. The price
is said to be about E3 lbs Cd per ton. The
American rail mills are remarkably busy,
hence these orders have come here. There
are also inquiries for steel billets for the
United States, and orders for them are
likely to be placed shortly.
The Hall Rolling Mill, at Hubbard, o.,
was sold by the owner, Jesse Hall, to Henry
0. BOnnell, w. Scott BOnnell and James
Botsford, representing the Mahoning Val
ley Iron Company and BOnnell, BOtsfOrd,
| & Co, of Youngstown, for ST., 800. Nearly
three years ago the present purchasers Ope-
rated the mill for several months under a
lease, and offered Mr.. Hall $35, 900, but
he refused to sell for less than $4,000.
Since then the mill has been idle, the owner
running it short time at a loss. The plant
consists of q muck mill, bar mill, and y
inch train, the machinery beingi in fair con-
ditiOn. The purchasers will ut once COM
mence making necessary repairs and hope
to have it in operation within thirty days.
The nail business is rapidly settling back
into its old time activity and harmony.
The smoke is clearing from the battle field
and it is in order to put III eStoppage tOall
elimination and recriminatiOn. Some nc
tions have been determined on and carried
out during the long strike, which at the
time seemed unwise if not reprehenSiblc
but there may have been, and know there
were, stringent forces behind the curtain
which compelled some Of these proceed
ings. 1t is Il good time to let the dead
past bury its dead. The new steel plant
of the Wheeling Steel Company has COM
menced operations under the most auspici-
Gus influences. The third day the output
sized up 100 tons of first quality BesSemer
steel; this is, | believe, unprecedented.
Some little friction has been hindering,
but not 50 much rs is usual with new ma
chineTy.-CDH Short.