Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-11
TO MOVE SLIGO MILL.
A Possibility That the Sligo Plant
May Go to Connellsville.
THE TOWN OFFERS INDUCEMENTS.
Increased Business Makes More Room for
the Works Necessary.
THE GLEANINGS OF THE LABOR MILL

Phillips, Nimick & Co., the proprietor!
Of the Sligo Iron Works, on West Carson
street, are contemplating the removal oi
their plant, and have received an offer to &c
to Connellsville. From present indication.
they will not 60 there unless more liberal
inducements are held out to them.
The object of the firm for wanting tc
change their location is on account of their
hampered condition and utter inability to
increase their facilities for handling their
largely augmented business. Their mill is
the first one below the Monongahela bridge,
and it is situated between the Panhandle
and Lake Erie Railroads. The latter COM
pany has purchased all the available
ground in the immediate vicinity, and it
has constructed thereon side tracks for the
use of shippers. Phillips, Nimick & Co. sold
them considerable portion of the ground
upon which the railroad company erected
a roundhouse.
The firm now find that they must enlarge
their works, but the ground cannot be Sc
cured to do it. The railroad company also
wants the ground the firm does business on.
and is willing to pay good price for it.
For these and other reasons the firm will
REMOVE THEIR PLANT
to a larger site, but when they will do so,
they do not know.
A member of the town council of Connells-
vile was in the city yesterday looking af-
ter the matter. He said that at the meeting
of the council on Tuesday night last Coun-
Gilman Mullen stated that Phillips, Nimick
s. Co., of this city, desired to remove their
plant. He stated that Manager Bailey, of
the mill, owned Is acres of ground on the
north side of Connellsville. UPON which
steel works had once stood. The ground
was large enough to suit the company, and
he advised the council to offer some in
ducements to get the company to locate on
the site.
A resolution was then introduced BY
Councilman Mullen, offering the company
free water for three years. The Southwest
Gas Company, through a representative,
stated that they would furnish natural gas
to the company 25 per cent lower than they
could secure it in Pittsburg.
The clerk of the Council wrote to the firm
stating what they had to offer. The firm
were given to understand that if the offer
was net sufficient they could
STATE THEIR TERMS
and tie matter would be considered at the
next Meeting. The company have not yet
made any reply.
The removal of the plant from this city
would cause considerable commotion among
the employees of the company on the South
side. The firm employ between 400 and 500
men. The plant is one of the oldest in the
city, laving been built In 1926. 1t has "a
single pudding furnaces, ten heating fur
naces, two hammers and five trains of rolls.
They lave been taking all the muck iron
made in the Clinton mill and finishing it.
An attempt was made to see Manager
Baile,, of the mill, last night, but the gen.
tlemal is in the East. A call was made
upon Mr.. w. a. Nimick, member OF the
firm, and that gentleman said:
II 10 not think we will 90 to Connells-
vile, but we will ultimately have to move
from cur present quarters. The Lake Erie
Railrcad wants to buy the ground we oc-
cupy, and on account Of the way their busi-
ness j. improving they will have to have it
or remain one-horse road. We have
little ground we could use in enlarging
our works, but whether it would pay
to spend considerable money now and
sell out to the railroad after a while is the
question. We must get the ground some
where, and wherever we get the best offer we
will locate. One reason for not going to
Connellsville is that we would only have
the Baltimore and Ohio road for an outlet.
This company has never seemed to favor
shippers, and does not suit US like the Lake
Erie road "