Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-13

by the divers and is being remodeled; one
Isabella, which is to be torn down and re.
built, and one Edgar Thomson, which will
soon be ready for business. The estimated
weekly capacity of the inactive stacks il
$500 tons.
The delegates for the sixteenth annual
convention of the Amalgamated Associa
tion of Iron and Steel Workers, who con
veued in this city on the I'd inst, are still
struggling over MANY minor parts of the
forthcoming scale, and will probably moi
finish their work until the latter part Of
next week. The most important question,
at least from a general point of view, to de.
eide, was amicably arranged during this
week. 1t was the fixing upon a price fol-
boiling to ensuc during the coming year.
Considerable discussion was indulged in be-
tween many of the delegates, some of whom
advocated an advance to Sc per ton on the
grounds that an advance in the tariff duties
should bring corresponding advance in
wages. After some length last years price
OF 50 so was adopted, and there is no doubt
but that this rate Will be very acceptable to
mill owners
This was the most important question to
be decided and its amicable settlement
brings with it a sigh of relief The remain
| ing work of the convention is only of minor
Importance to the general public. 1t will be
devoted to arrangement of the remainder of
the scale and no pronounced changes from
this years scale are anticipated.
No Great Local Activity.
The condition of activity among the many
| local mills is not marked. Orders continue
rather scarce. Some few mills are idle and
but very few are working to their fullest
capacity The Elba mill is still undergoing
extensive repairs and may possibly not re-
sumo until the advent of fall. AT the Mill
vale mill nothing definite can be learned as
to how soon the works will re-
sume. The plant has been
| idle since February last, and
reports are current of negotiations pending
for its sale. The Clinton mill, Lindsay s
McCutcheon's, Brown & Co.'S and Zug &
Co. s are all reported to be not running
very full fo- various reasons. All depart
ments of the Duquesne Forge Company at
Rankin, near this city. have been closed
down. At the Homestead mill the open
hearth department is reported doing very
well with the exception OF No. 3 furnace;
No. 1 is working steady, with the eight
furnaces averaging % tons to furnace; No.
2 has recently started up with four furnaces
after two months shutdown. During the
last 80 days the following stacks in the city
resumed casting: Clinton; Edgar Thomson
.; Eliza; Isabella; Lucy 2; MOnongakela
and Shoenberger 3.
At the National Rolling Mill at McKees-
port there are at present 20 knobbllng fires,
and the average work of the knobblers for
the last ten months has been four turns per
week; per turn of scrap blooms, 1000
pounds; best metal per turn 5000 pounds.
The Braddock Wire Mills at Rankin resumed
work this week after two weeks shutdown
on account of natural gas shortage.
T. 31,.a IL
stituted. AT Carnegies lower mill the pud-
dlers on the May turn are somewhat disap-
pointed al the way the fuel supply is treat
ing them. The 75 axle-makers at this mill
who recently struck have gone back to work
on an agreement whereby they are paid 5
cents extra for such axles, and they are to
make two less per day.
The foundation for new boiler house for
furnaces H and /, of the Edgar Thomson
plant, has just been finished. 1t will con-
tain a battery of 16 boilers, making a total
of 154 that viii be in use at this plant. The
Canonsburg Iron and Steel Works have
decided to erect another sheet mill south |
of the present plant, which will give en-
plovment to 100 additional workmen.
New Mills Going UP.
The National Tube Works at McKeesport
are pushing the construction of their new
have pudding department of 40 furnaces
and finishing department of IL furnaces |
and four trains of rolls, Singer, Nimick s. |
Co. are laying the foundation for the ma
chinery, new and very extern |
sive cold rolled steel plant, which |
they intend erecting adjoining their |
present works in the West End. |
The plant will be of the most modern de- |
sign, and when completed will add consid-
erably to the firms output and employ |
great number of additional men. This |
firm is also constructing extensive railroad |
trestle work from the Panhandle Railroad |
cars containing coal. The use of this fuel |
is as substitute for the played-out gas sup |
ply. In the Eagle Rolling Mill at Saw |
Mill Run, operated by the divers, two |
furnaces have been remodeled |
from the old double style, making q single |
furnaces in all at this plant. At the COM |
pany's mill in Lower Allegheny, the pud- |
ding furnaces have been increased from 42 |
to 80.
AT the Republic Iron Works the return |
to the use of coal in the pudding furnaces has
made il necessary to tear down all the double |
puddle pudding furnaces, as they cannot be |
operated with coal. There are II such fur
naces at this plant, and when rebuilt the |
furnaces will have to be reset to allow more
room for the coal box, etc. The Wetheway
Company has set up in its
shops large open-side planer 48ox4So and
16 feet. The firm has also added to their
a grinding machine, which will
be run at 200 revolutions per minute. This
machine is for grinding rolls, and will
swing roll up to $50 in diameter and 400
long, and was bought especially to work
on Government rolls
Among the recently chartered organiza-
tions is noticed that of the Baily Farrell
Company for $500, 900; R. d. Nuttall & Co.
S125, 900, to manufacture machinery with
requisition for one from the Spang Iron and
Steel Company. The Pittsburg Malleable
them by William Tod & Co., of Youngs-
town, a large molding machine. The Pitts
burg Bridge Company has been awarded the
contract for the construction of the iron
bridge over the Shenandoah river by the
West Shenandoah Land Company. The
has also booked several small
bridges for construction over streams in
and Virginia.
The Pittsburg Office of the Babcock &
Wilcox Company report the following sales
of their boilers during last month: TO the
North American Construction Company,
l04 horse power; J. B. Ford & Co., $50 horse
power; Edith Furnaces, $50 horse power;
Thomas Furnace, Niles, o., 250 horse power;
Gas Light Company, $50 horse
powsr, and Oliver s. Roberts Wire Compa-
ny, 800 horse power. The Westinghouse
Machine Company is reported as having re-
ceived an order from the Spreckles Refinery
for 62 Of their engines for shipment to
The A. Garrison Foundry Company is at