Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-12-30
MILL NOTES.


]. Morgan Coleman, of Youngstown, O.,
intends to build rolling mill at Rusk,
Texas.
1t is believed that by the close of the
present month about |, SOC, 900 tons Of steel
rails viii have been sold this year.
1t is said that 3 Pittsburg conc m is to
take hold of the Laclede iron WORKS, IN
North st. Lous, which has been idle for
some time past.
Jas. P. Witherow & Co, Pittsburg, are
row bidding on seven new iron and steel
plants to be erected in the South during
the next year.
The Cleveland rolling mills report that
the past year has been chiefly characterized
by an enormous Increase in the demand for
architectural iron.
The Bolton steel works, one Of Csnton's
leading industries, mas bsen transferred to
Pittsburg parties for $500, 900. The new
firm is to bs known as the Bolton Iron and
Steel Co.
1t ia said that the Allegheny Bessemer
Co, puqussue Station, MouougaheIa val
ley, will soon start up the converting de-
partment with the view 10 material to roll
rails by early spring.
The new rolling mill which the Rich
mord Spike Co. is building at Manchester,
Va will be driven by water power. 1t
will contain sn S-inch train of rolls snd
three railroad spike mschines.
The Union Steel and Iron Co., which is
building a rolling mill at st. Joseph, Mo-,
will contain 21-lnch train of rolls for roll
ing nail plate from scrap. Sixty-fve nail
machines wilt cut up the plate.
At Trinidad, Col, merchant iron roll
iug mill will be in operation by February
l, 1889, which Will produces twenty-five
tons of iron per day. A horseshoe factory
will he added to the plant as soon as COM
pleted, and nail and pipe works are soon
to follow.
The new rolling mill of the Minnesota
Car Company, at Duluth, Mimi, will con-
tain one 1Oinch aud one l8.inCh train OF
rolls, slabbipg hammer aud two axle
| hammers. Two Smith furnaces will sup
ply the trains OF rolls, aad two Smith re-
gelerative gas furnaces VIII supply the
| hammers.
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| iron work to be used in the new Cnambsr
of Commerce atChicagc. About 10, OOU
! tons of steel beams, wrought-iIon glrders
and other wrought iron and steel work will
be required. The whole contract will
amount to something over $5OO,OOO.
The officers Of the PottstoTn, Pa, Iron
Company, whose nail fsctory has been
! living idle during tie last two or three
weeks, nave requested the nsilers TO &C.
cept a reduction of % per cent. The feed
ers are already working at bottom figures.
At a conference of the employees held on
the It'll inst, they then gave the company
to understand that the would prefer TO
ductiou of working hours instead If re-
duc'ion of wages as contemplated, II the
company found il necessary to make
change after January l.
Every few weeks one hears of new cosl
discoveries in out of the way pisces; then
Suddenly "a dead calm" settles upon al
the vicinity and no more is heard OF the
pr ospe Give riches OF that part of our glori'
Gus Union. Ont in Dakota there has been
some experience of this natCre.-COdl Trade
Journal.
| Inc JOU LTuut OOW''Sut CVAACSbOu 1Sh' .
Columbus, o, ssys: The coal business
Of toe present year hiss received an impetu:
never known before. 1t was feared by PEG
pie outside of the trade that the spplica
tiou of natural gas 10 the mechanic art:
would seriously affect the coal trade, and
thus irju,e Columbus in business way
The trade mas not, however, in the least felt
the withdrawal of the Findlay district from
its market. The gas has not been pipe6
any great distance, and tie falling eff i
only locll-that, toe, in district in which
but little coal was used except for house
hold purposes.