Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-02-24
MILL NOTES.


Joliet steel works is closed down.
The G-ari iron rolling mill Of the St.
L.ouis Stamp. * Co. is running three eight
hour turns q day.
Toe Richmond STANDARD spike works are
nearly completed, and will bsgin opera
ITEMS Ia March.
The Keystone Iron Works Limited, at
Reading, Pa wnich was idle for some
time, has resumed operations.
The North Chic,go Lolling Mil Co. is
manufacturing spiegeleissn. The ore Is
bsought from Batesyule, AK.
The Natioual Forge and Iron Co. re-
Gently formed, with a capital stock OF
$3.50, 600, VIII build a mill IN the immedi-
ate vicinity Of Chicsgo.
The Milton, Pa Manufacturing Co. is
reflting It's rolling mill, add Is putting IN
nut sud washer machinery. Heretofore II
has MAIDS only bar aud hoop iron.
The large new plate mil row in course
of erection by the Maumee Rolling Mill
. Co., Of Toledo, o, viii be ready TO con-
meoce operations about the middle OF
March.
Morris Sellers & Co, of Chicago, man
I ufacturers of the Samson sphce-b3r, will
/ hereafter manufacture IL in steel as well IS
in Iron. This has made necessary several
alterations IN the rolling mill.
The sheldon axle works, of Wllkesbarre,
Pa, have bsen shut down for lack OF Or
dsrs. The establishment employs 1900
me-, AID is the largest Of the kind in the
country. No date has besn fixed for
starting in sgaiu.
The STANDARD rolling mill, at Minneap-
oils has been tern down. i, was idle In
/ 1887 and ISIS. Us annual capacity was
/ ] 200 net tons of bar iron. The only other
rolling mill 10 the State, the Capitol iron
works. 90 S.. Paul. Wss also Idle IN ISoo.
r. bert SnodgIass has given notice OF en-
snuIicatiop for q charter for the Harris
burqh Rolling Mill CO. which viii
manufacture iron and steel. The new
corporation will take charge Of The ll-
I f.ted Lochiel plsD. snd their is 70 be an
pie capital back of IT,
The plaut of the Kansas City Bolt and
/ MT Comrarv is now n runUing order.
f Tire works consists of q rollicg mill, spik
s-d nut forging shop, bolt and washer
shop. etc. The capacity Of the mill when
in FOOD working order viii be twenty tons
/ of merchant bar, nu snd boil. iron daily.
Az tie Psunsyl7aris steel works, Steel
ton. Pa. the merchant mill is crowded
with orders. aud both trains are run night
and dav. TIE 10 inch train on rails aad
beliefs and the Is icch train on light rails
aud sizes of merchant steel. The machine
shop. frog. switch and signal department
are running night and day.
TIE Fisbbsch rolling mill Of the Potts
vile Iron snd Steel CompNuy, at Pott'-
vile. p. was ega'n closed down 90 toe
/ Both ult. for au iGdsfinits period. Inls
pl.nt suspended operations N December
/ last but resumed several weeks since. IL
is stated thst operations may be resumed
agaio within the next thirty days, but this
viii 9epenG entirely OF the amount OF or
ds1s thst ore received IL the meantime and
upon the success or an effort 70 reduce
wages.
TIE Ua:oa S.eel Nail Co, Of Omaha, has
abandoned its works al that plsce. Il will
continue It's corporate existsnce, however
for the purpose Of caring for its real estate
ins.er.s.s, which are centrally located IN
the civ OF Omaha and ara very valuable
This company will plant iiself at st. Joe,
No where large inducements were pre-
sen.e5. Active work on buildings viii oe-
,ia ou. New machinery has been pur-
chased. and merchant bar iron, wire nails
aud cnt a,eel nails Will be manufactured.
A success. fal test Of T. ". Bssn's p 'tent
D--c.s9 for manufacturing car wheels oot
of relied steel was made few days ego at
the Standard Ilou Company's woaks, at
No-ri.tovu. Pa. The Continental Steel
Car Wheel Company hss heen formed and
eepitsIz-d at 100000, every dollar OF
w5ich has been tsk.n, aud If the move
mept % Owe euccessful il is intended to
erect q complete new ant on the present
sifs of the Slemmer oil works, in Nlrrls-
town Ala recent test a complete, full
sized wheel was turned in five minutes az
ter the steel irgot rad b97n plac,d between
the rolls -Lehigh Register
There is much activity among the iron
works Of Chester county, Pa. Messrs
Hnsion * Sons new steel miN, at Coates
vile. is being rapidly pushed to completion;
Mr.. Kurtz, who recently purchased the
Valley iron works, has given the contract
for a large new iron mill, and Craig, Ridg-
way & Son, founders and machinists, who
now have the largest foundry in that part
Of the State, will enlarge their works IN the
spring. The large Brandywine iron works,
owned By Worth Brothers, will soon be IN
| full CD sration.-Bulletin Iron and Steel as
sOcigtiOH.