Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-08-01
MILL NOTES.

The Belfont mill, at Ironton, O., is run
ming.
The tack factory at NOrriStOwn, Pa, has
again started up.
\ large steel mill is being built at Quin-
sigImOnd, Mass.
4 mill for rolling light sizes Of iron is
to be erected ut Milton, PA.
Every department of the mill at MingO,
Ohio, is now on.
The mill ut Irondale, Ohio, is running
steadily, with good prospects.
The steel works at South Troy, n. Y,
are running steadily.
The Burden iron works, ut South Troy,
y. Y, are idle tor repairs.
The German government is about 10 try
the use of basic steel in place of Swedish
iron for the manufacture of horseshoe nails.
The Old Colony iron works, at Somerset,
Mass, gives evidence of an early start, re-
pairs being now under way.
The nail mill of the Fall River, Mass,
iron works is now in full OperrtiOn, with
good prospects.
The machinery for the new steel casting
plant mt Crown Point, Indiana, is rapidly
being placed in position.
The tack factory at Whitman, Mass, is
not running very steadily, the firm having
decided To carry no tacks in stock for the
present.
A process of rolling plate and sheet steel
from old steel rails is about completed and
a company is being organized to erect
mill to put it into operation in Pittsburg.
Work will soon begin on the remOdling
and repairing shop of the old Falcon mill
nj Niles, Ohio, it having been leased by
ClevelandpartieS.
All departments of the Albany iron
works. ut Troy, n. Y, were on last week,
rxccpt the Ii inch train. The mill will
he idle for about a month now.
The old Allikanna iron works, near Steu-
benville, Ohio, was idle for several days.
1t is now known rs the Cartwright iron
works. The mill is now running.
The Helmbacher Forge and Rolling Mills
Company. of st. Louis, are buster on heavy
forrings for sugar mill and other machinery
The Sterling Steel Company, of DENIM
Ter. Pa, is idle, owing to the erection OF
new 81 pot erucible steel furnace and the
introduction of natural gas as fuel.
The new nail mill at Hammond, I'LL, Is
RAPIDLY approaching completion. There
will De $50 nail machines, three heating
furnaces and four batteries of grlndStones.
The wages ofthe employees of the Penn
svIyania Tube Works, at Soho, PlttsDurg,
have been advanced 10 per cent. Six
months AGO they were reduced and the hrm
promiscd to increase as soon aS possible
The advance was voluntary one.
The Tudor Iron Works, East st. Louis,
are putting down two new trains OF rolls
in the mill, and are building new gas iur-
paces The improvements which they nave
under way will aggregate very large out
lay Of capital.
The eo-operatiye nail mill at Bellevue,
m i all under roof, and there are twenty
two machines on the ground. For some
reason however, the engine had not yet
been delivered, in consequence OF when
the starting of the works has been delayed
for unite while.-Age Of Steel.
The boiler plate mill of the Pottstown
Iron Company has closed down, ana II i
understood that the management lntend 10
tear ont some of the machinery and replace
Il With other. The mill will be idle two
months or more. The universal mill started
IoSt Monday. after remaining idle nearly d
year. The nail factory of the same COM
nony il still running single turn.
Nstrike existsin the Centralla nall WORKS
The FEEDERS are striking against the naiierS'
who in turn have a misunderstanding with
the company. The nailers want the conf
many to adopt their scale, while the COM
,,Spy says they can either work by the
r,onuf,rturers' scale OF take their TOOLS
from the mill. The nailers Will hoiu q
meeting and propose to settle all diineui-
ties with the feeders if the nailers scale Is
adopted.
The engine of the Reading Iron Works
rolling mill. which was hauled IN q wagon u
an the way from Pittsburg to Reading nan
y century AGO. and was in constant use
ever since. has been taken out of the mil
and its place is to be taken by o new anu
Iarger engine. which has been built at the
Sc6ft foundry. New cylinders ana I'M
nocnse driving wheels will also be put IN
The rolling mill will be put in operation,
ao,,in August 1. Work ut the sneet nm
vas resumed ON the 18th inst, after making
repairs.-AmerieaB Manufacture.
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