Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-04

progressing rapidly, and will be ready for
operations this summer.
The Hainsworth Steel Company has tested
its new 32-inch blooming mill, and found it
satisfactory. The Homestead Mill also re-
Gently tested their new four-hIgh set of plate
rolls, ana found them all right.
1t Is expected that the new mill OF the Du-
quesne Tube Company will be in operation
by next july. Coal gas producers are being
erected, and will be used in case of the fail
ure of tbs natural supply. The product of
the new mill will be pipe from two inches
to ten inches in diameter At Park Bros. &
Co. the entire mill is running double as far
as the supply of fuel will permit. The firm
is erecting three batteries OF four boilers
each on the river bank opposite their ham
mer department. They have also purchased
a strip of land adjacent to their open-hearth
mill, upon which they have commenced to
erect mill.
Suspensions and Repairs
The Pittsburg Locomotive Works. ALLIE
gheny, has closed down for repairs.
Furnace A, of the Monongahela Furnace
Company has been banked, owing to the
scarcity of the coke supply.
The Clinton Rolling Mill Company shut
down temporarily lasS week, owing to the
shortage OF pig metal.
A break in the machinery OF the National
Tube Works Company has laid off the pud-
ding department for about week.
Carnegie, Phipps & CO. second Lucy
furnace has been banked, owing to the short
age of coke. Both stacks are in readiness
to start when full supply of fuel can be
had.
All repairs at the Edgar Thomson Steel
Works have been completed, and the plant
is now ready Cor a resumption, but owing to
the quiet condition of trade, the time is
rather indefinite At the Edgar Thomson
blast furnace plant there are now four
stacks out of blast and five remaining in
blast. The nail plate mill may not be
started up again until May or June.
The two mills of j. w. Trend & Co., one
at Millvale aud the other on the Southside,
have been ordered shut down. At the Mill
vale mill the puddlers returned TO work
after one months idleness, but are idle
again after but one week s activity. One
train OF finishing rolls is on double turn.
At the Southside mill every department is
closed and the blast furnace has been idle
for over two months, thus throwing about
800 men out.
At the Twenty-ninth and Thirty-third
street mills of Carnegie Bros. & Co., bust
ness is exceedingly quiet and workmen are
orders and scarcity of gas. These works
when running tull, employ about 5000
men. AT present there are not more than
200 men working outside those engaged in
The railway car supply department. The
scarcity of gas renders work very tedious
and greatly lessons the capacity of the mill.
Orders, Shipments, Output
The Stirling Boiler Company recently
sold the Cincinnati Water Works several
water tube boilers sggregating 1900 horse
power.
The Pittsburg Reduction Company is now
turning ont on an average AS pounds of
aluminium daily, all of which they have
market for.
The Pittsburg Bridge Company has Sc
cured the contract for two bridges in Louis
lana 1t a cost Of SIS, 400.
Mackiutosh, Hemphill & Co. are running
very full in every department, and in some
are working double turn. Considerable |
work is on hand, and owing to the limited |
time they have for completing it a resort to |
night and day work is necessary.
The Trethewenv Manufacturing Company |
report trade exceedingly good, with their |
share fully up to their capacity. In order |
to keep up with increased trade they are |
putting in a new planer and a new grind |
ing machine, the latter for the purpose of |
EIluQluS Tue lace alu also l0e uIletl ana /
journals Of rolls for the Government, to be
used in the Mint
The Hume Safety Boiler Company has
made contract for a battery o! 500 horse
power boilers with the johnson Company
Of Johustown. They also have propusalG |
out ior about 1000 horsepower in that vicin-
ity.
William Fisher last week shipped H.
foot grinding pan and foot dry grinding
pan to a New York firm. He also made
another shipment. OF an S-ton bar shear to
Canal Dover, o.
The Leechburg Foundry and Machine
Company has received large order for cast
iron work Tor a vertical shaft of the Ameri-
can Sulphur Company at Sulphur Springs,
La, and has also nearly completed the cast
iron WORK for 16 54-inch boilers for the Rad
ford-Crane Iron Company, of Radford, Va.
Other work nearly ready to ship includes a
large hydraulic shear for the Belleville Steel
Company, of St Louis; also, pair OF plate
rolls 2jX12, for the Wellman Iron and Steel
Company, of Thurlow, Pa. C. X.