Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-01
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boiler shed to cover this Improvement. AT
Morehead Bros. & Co. battery of boilers is
being added, the present number being
found insufficient to raise enough steam to
run the mill. A two-weeks' shutdown is
necessary to make the change.
At Brown g. Co.'S mill, on Tenth street,
the new pudding furnaces are now about
completed. They now have a total of 81,
The mill will be kept idle until the present
two-high set of muck rolls can be changed
10 three-high train, the old style being
found insufficient for the pudding capacity
of the mill. The train of plate rolls is to
be moved into new building on the river
bank.
Many improvements are being made at
the works of the Totten & Hogg Iron and
Steel Foundry Company, on Twenty-fourth
street, which turns out stone-breakers,
chilled and sand rolls, pinions, double plate
shears, castings, etc. The company is hav-
ing erected an iron building, 176x105, to
contain their new open-hearth steel plant.
The building is to be equipped with the
latest improvements and most modern ma
chinery, including electric crane, core, and
annealing ovens, etc. They are also conf
pleting large two-story iron building, to
be used as storeroom for their patterns.
Scarcely Mill Not in 1t.
At the Lower Union Mill of Carnegie,
Phipps & Co. a new pumphouse is being
built on the banks OF the river to cost 81, 900.
At the Leechburg Foundry and Machine
Company's plant the Etna Iron and Steel
Company is erecting a new train of rolls.
The company contemplate other additions.
The Pittsburg Portable Forge Company
is erecting plant 52x79 on Smallman street,
between Twenty-fith and Twenty-sixth
streets, for the manufacture of portable
forges, steel barrows, railings, gratings, etc.
Mansfield & Co., the brass founders, have
just completed 20x110 addition to their
foundry and finishing departments, in order
to enable them to handle more expeditiously
the necessary business offering them.
Notices were posted in the Edgar Thom-
son mill, informing the employees that the
converting, blooming and rail departments
would close on the oath of December, to re-
main closed until January5. in order to
admit of the necessary repairs being made.
When resumption is intended. the works
every week will begin on Monday morning
instead of on Sunday night as Heretofore.
The Allegheny Bessemer Steel Works of the
same concern closed down on the oath buV
resumed on the Monday following.
At the Spang Iron and Steel Works, with
in the past few days, large train of plate
rolls were broken, also the housing on the
main shears. The rolls will be replaced by
new ones from Garrison's Foundry.
Some Orders and Shipments.
The following orders and shipments from
various works are noted: The Spang Steel
and Iron Company's Clapp-Grifith furnace
resumed work recently after two weeks
idleness, large orders for boiler plates and
marine equipments having been received.
William Fisher recently shipped from his
foundry and machine shops a heavy muck
shear to Findlay, O.. and similar one to
Wheeling, w. Va. Trade in this line is re-
ported good. The Oliver Iron ard Steel
Company has received The contract for
building the overhead iron work of the
Portview bridge over the Youghiogheny
river at McKeesport for S24, 900.
Ritter & Conley have been awarded the
contract for three 1Sx70 firebrick stoves and
an iron chimney 10x150 feet at the Swede
furnace now building at Swedeland. This
firm has also just made the first shipment of
material for the new furnace of the Colorado
Coal and Iron Company at South Pueblo,
Col. r. Monroe & Sons, of the West Point
Boiler Works, have a contract for ten
boilers 78x20. each boiler containing 7S
four-inch tubes, and weighing about Is
tons; also, an order for ten boilers 60 inches
in diameter and ranging from IA to 1S feet
in length; both orders are for consignment
to Cincinnati.
Lindsay & McCutcheon are shipping an
important order to California. 1t is for 500
tons of fine, narrow, light iron 10 be put up
in SO0-pound boxes. which are lined inside
with light galvanized sheet iron. Each case
Is air tight, made necessary because the ma
terlal goes all the way by water.
Two Very Small Locomotives.
81. K. Porter & Co., Limited, have just
shipped to the United States Government
at Sandy Hook little three-foot gauge
locomotive to be used on the Government
improvements The company has also
ready for shipment to San Domingo a yery
small locomotive for 23-inch gauge plan
tation road. They report having quite
number of both home and foreign orders
under way. Secretary Cronnemeyer,. of the
American Timed Plate Association is au-
thority for the statement that several tin
plate mills will be erected in Pittsburg the
coming spring.
The establishment of hospital facilities at
large manufacturing plants is becoming a
recognized necessity. Carnegie, Phipps &
Co. will establish an emergency hospital
near their Homestead mill, which will in
clude building located on the grounds
and all the conveniences OF a first. class place
of the kind, including day and night force
of an ambulance corps, where the injured
can be Immediately treated.
DR.. Emmens, the inventor of the explosive
emmensite, which seems destined to become
one of the leading high explosives Of the
future, has had cast two cylinders of
aluminium bronze at the works of the Pitts
burg Reduction Company. each s1< inches
long, with bore of IL inches and walls 2
inches thick, and which the inventor in
tends to use in testing that material with
reference to its fitness for making guns to
throw projectlles filled with high explosives,
and to further determine the resistance of
aluminium bronze.
Apparently Complete Success.
At present the castings appear to be sue
cess, and in case the subsequent tests prove
that guns can be made of aluminium bronze
that will answer all requirements, there is q
probability of their adoption by the National
Government
The agreement between the Edgar Thom-
son firm and their employees expired yester-
day and new one will be presented to the
firm, in which it is likely demand will be
made for q change of two or three crews Of
men, who are each to work eight hours. The
adjustment of the matter lies wholly be-
tween the men and the firm, and while its !