Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-27
Industries that Have Been Stimu-
lated by the Mckinley
Bill
From Every Quarter Comes the
Hum of Mills that Signifies
Prosperity.
Great Activity in the Industrial
Centers-Raise OfPrices in
Some Places.


inquiry from manufacturers within three
weeks. Two hundred looms for the
Granite mills, Fall River, will be made.
additional help is being hired
The new Ray Print works, North Bel
bingham, were started and did the first
printing last week. The plant is valued at
100000.
The manufacturers at New Bedford are
overrun with business. Every mill in the
city is running to its full capacity, and
and orders are ahead. The agents report
an unprecedented demand for mill supplies,
and every manufacturing concern in the
city is engaged in filling the large orders
1t is reported that a stock company is
being organized to erect a factory at
Laurinbu1g, n. G.
The Balligomingo wooden mills at Con-
shohocken, Pa, recently purchased by a
syndicate, are to be put into operation
soon, giving employment to | 200 hands,
and it is rumored that John Wood is nego-
tiating for the purpose of lighting the
fires in the long-idle furnaces after the
necessary repairs are made. -
The several hundred employees of the
Berkshire weaving mills, Frankfort. Pa,
have been agitating for some time the
question of an advance in wages, which
resulted in a committee being formed to
wait on the owners, and, if possible, secure
an increase without causing any trouble
The committee has been informed that their
request mas been favorably received, and
that they would receive an advance of 2
cents on each cut-abOut As per cent
The Viewers union and the knights of
Labor were united In this movement for
the first time in Frankford General
satisfaction is felt over the course taken by
the employers and the employees.
Charles BarreZ, the senior member of the
firm of Charles Barrez & Co., New York,
is at the head of a corporation of Ameri-
cans and Frenchmen who intend doing a
gigantic wooden manufacturing business
in this country The plans of the corpora
ton are to build S2,000.000 mill within
days journey to New York. Mr. Bar
req, together with several Chicago gentle
men, has travelled over the entire country
during the past few months in search of a
suitable site. Two of the sites are in
PhIladel phia, one in Providence and the
other in Pawtucket, r. l. OF the four
sites to be submitted, one of those in
Philadel phia is almost certain to b. chosen.
The mill will give employment to not less
than 5000 people.
The Brooklyn SawMills company en-
81 80 and 81 d day to So so.
Furnace No | of the Carrie Furnace
company at Rankin Station, Pa, which
has been out of blast since the month of
July, repairing and adding new stoves,
will probably be put in blast the coming
week
The Milvale Iron company operating
the Graft, Bennett & Co.'S plant at Ben
nett Station, Pa, have now the bar and
universal mills steadily at work, and
are turning out a large product. Some
further additions and improvements are
contemplated.
There was an increased demand for steel
at the works OF the Pennsylvania Steel
company this week, and every department
is pushed ON hurried orders. The furnaces
are all In blast and doing good work. No
2 on Thursday made 30 tons of Bessemer
iron, being the largest tonnage ever made
by that furnace. No. 3 furnace, which has
been making spiege for several months,
commenced the manufacture of iron again
yesterday. There were 1902 on the Sep
TENDER pay roll.-Steelton Reporter, Octo-
Der Is.
The Cambria pa Iron company
blast furnace No. &c, the Centennial, "
made the biggest run of pig metal week
before last in the history of the company s
works. The product was LIS tons.
The Jefferson Iron works have notified
their naiers that from now on will they
work till seven clock each evening. and
three clock on Saturdays. This order is
due to an active demand for nails which
exists in the Ohio Valley just now. All
the mills are having good run.
r. Of ho of +I,o
Philadelphia Iron and Steel company, at
New Philadelphia, are being operated to
their full capacity. There are IA single
and one double pudding furnaces in oper-
alton IN the pudding department and
four trains of rolls in the finishing depart
ment. The product is sheets and plates.
The industries of Fitchburg, Mass, are
quite we'll employed, to judge from the
activity of the representative firms given
below The Simonds Mill company EN-
pIoys 100 men, using 20 tons of steel per
week. Tie Fitchburg Steam Enginecom-
pany is working overtime three nights
per week The Fitchburg Machine Com
pany has begun on extra time, with great
ly increased business.
E. H. Watts, of London, Eng. presi-
dent of the Watts Steel and from company
now building an iron and steel plant In
Middlpsborough. Ky. contemplateS, it is
said, removing to Middlesborough from
England structural iron works plant
with a capital of 100000
The A. Busch glass works is the name o.
new glass making concern to be started
up at St. Louis, Mo, about December |
They will have tank furnace and make
green bottles. This enterprise is control
led by the Anhauser Busch Brewing com
pany, which also owns and operates the
the Streator Bottle and Glass Works, O.
Streator, Ill.
Philadelphia parties will probably move
several carpet factories to Kensington
Ca
The City Manufacturing Co., of New
Bedford, Mass, is considering building
new 10000 spindle mill, $50 112 feet
four stories. also a new boiler and engin,
house. Id all about 117,000 square fee
will be built on the companys lot, next t,
the old mill at the foot of Grinnell street
Estimates have just been received by tn,
Bennett Mill Cor. New Bedford, for new
picker building, ga "a feet, three stories
with passage way to connect with old mill
and work will probably be started at once
The leading citizens of Austin, Tex
have determined to put up a cotton mill i
that place to cost a half million dollars
The company will be formally organized
The Bellaire Stove company, of Be
laire, Ohio, AMI Spence, Boggs q Co., G
Martins Ferry have granted 10 per cent
advance in wages to their stove plat
moulders