Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-09-30
MILL NOTES.

The Brown onnell Co, Youngstown,
o., had an unusually large pay on the 10Th
inst, namely SSS, 900.
The Lawrence Furnace Company, Of
Ironton, intend to build thirty-ton coke
furnace near their present idle furnace at
Culbertson.
George ". Bryan, of Pittsburg, will
start up the steel mandatory of Atkins
& Co. az Pottsyille. Tue works will turn
out steel beams by the Clspp-Griffith pro-
cess
The Bessemer, Ala. Rolling Mill Co. will
put IN an additional battery of boilers at
their rolling mill 20 secure more power.
They have lately built an addition to their
mill 50xl00.
No. bar mill, new department at the
National rolling mill, Mckee, port, ia
which iron will be rolled for 24-inch pipe,
is being constructed. 1t will be ready for
operation or December 1.
The indianapolis Rollirg-mill Company
will probably change &c wire mill. 1t
has 4 double and 2 single pudding furna-
ces, 8 heating furnaces, trains, 2 fifteen
gross tons Siemens furnaces. Product 3d.
900 tons of light aud heavy rails.
1t is stated that an effort is being made
to stsrt up the plant of the Cartwright
Iron and Steel Co., at Steubenville, Ohio,
which made an assignment about two
months sgo. The works were formerly
known IS the Ahksnna rolling mill.
The owners of the Harrison rolling mill,
st. Louis, ore erecting buildings at Kan
sas City, into which the machinery will be
moved. The Helms plant, East St. Louis,
will be removed to Kansas City, 80 the
Times Of that city asserts.
No. ? Bessemer mill of the Pennsylvania
steel works ut SteeltOn, Pa, produced an
average of go tons of ingots every day IN
the second week in September, and on
Thursday night made 70 heats OF 1t tons
each on the 12-hour turn. This Is the
heaviest production reached in the history
of the mill.
The National Tute Works at McKees-
eolt, on the 10Th inst. shipped the last OF
large order Of water pipe for the city
water works st Carson City, New. The
contract required twenty.e;ght freight cars
60 transport the pipe. Most of it ia TWEEN
ty-four inch, and Is the largest made In
tls country.
The car works at Roanoke employ on
~ average 1000 hands which IS larger
number than ia now employed by any
other car works ia the south, though De
catur and Admission will soon he on a par.
A few years ago Roanoke was little
country village of 400 inhabitants; now It's
population numbers Il. 600, and Is steadi-
ly growing.
The Prospect Rolling Mill Co., Clevs-
land, o., have started business IN t1e OLD
CruCible Steel Co.'s works, corner OF Car
Den suest and the Cleveland and Pitts
burg railroad. They will manufacture 81
grades OF bar and horseshoe iron and steel
ties. The capacity of tte,e works will be
about so tons daily. They have SIX fur
nace5, and they expect to have their works
all in complete running order In forty
DAYS. They will employ sbou: two hun
tired hspds.-IrOH Trade RerIe'o.
This is sort of Chestnut" but 1t
comes in q new spd interesting shape: II
il the intention of the Pennsylvania Steel
Company to eventually build near Baitl-
more eight furnaces of $50 tons each daily
capacity. Besssmer mill'with daily ca
pacity of 1000 tons, works for making
steel plates for ship building and other en-
terprises, possibly Including the construc,
ton of steel steamships. When completed
IL will be one of the most perfect IS well as
one of the greatest iron and steel plants in
the world.
Il is understood that if the Laclede
Plate and Sheet Mill Co., st. Louis, Sc
cure another lease on the Lsclede rclling
mills, they will order Improvements OF
S2O, 600 or SIS, 600, TO better adapt the
mill to the requirements Of the rolled iron
trade of the west. II is undecided as yet,
however, which of the three interests offer
ing to take the property under lease viii
secure it. though the matter Is exrected to
be settled in week or two. But it Is
quite safe to say that, in any event, the
mills will be operated this winter.-I"das-
trial World.