Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-14

their private line; Carnegie, Phipps s. Co. s
upper and lower mills. Shoenberger 81 Co..
Brown & Co., Zug & Co., aud the Pennsyl-
vania Forge Company. All the other mills
in this vicinity are using coal in their pud-
ding furnaces, and the result is that the
present demand for this class of fuel is un-
precedented since the Inauguration of
natural gas as a general fuel.
Heavy Consumers of Coal.
1t is estimated that at present there are
over $50, 900 bushels of coal being consumed
BY the different mills, and that this amount
will shortly be increased. Among the
largest users are the three Oliver mills, COIL
suming 10000 bushels per day; Painter
& Sons, IL, 900 bushels; Park Bros. & Co.,
10000 bushels; Republic Iron Works, 1000
bushels; Howe, Brown & Co., {, 1000 bushels;
Millvale Mills, $500 bushels, and Lindsay
& McCutcheon, :, 900 bushels.
Great improvements have been made
throughout the Edgar Thomson mill during
the past four weeks and they are all now
ready for resumption. Furnaces "a" sd"
and "E' are still out of blast for repairs
and the remaining six stacks'are casting.
1t is claimed that the coke shutdown has
caused this mill to remain idle, but the
truth of this statement can be doubted, when
and thousands of tons Of coke stacked in the
yards. The real cause of the idieness is due,
no doubt, to the lack of orders. 1t is posi-
bic that the Carnegie firm will adopt the
sliding scale method in their Allegheny
Bessemer Steel Mill, similar to that at pres
ent in force at the Edgar Thomson and
Homestead mills. The late trouble at the
Allegheny mill will, no doubt, hasten such
action.
The strike occurring at Oliver Bros. &
Phillips Woods Run mill, owing to the
puddlers' refusal to work the iron furnished
by the firm, was amicably settled by the
firm agreeing to furnish the men with better
quality of iron. Heretofore the puddlers In
this mill have been making their own
cinders but the firm will hereafter furnish
them with cinder from their Tenth street
mill.
Extensive Repairs Under Way.
The armor plate mill of Moorehead, Nc
Cleane & Co. has been idle for some time
undergoing repairs.
The Edith Blast Furnace at Woods Run
has been leased from the National Tube
Works Company by Oliver Bros. & Phillips,
which latter company will close down the
plant for repairs, The Pittsburg Steel Cast
ing Company are erecting three new boilers,
one steam hydraulic crane and one iron
crane, in order to facilitate the handling of
heavy castings.
The Boston Iron and Steel Company, con-
trolled BY the National Tube Works Com
pany, are rapidly pushing to completion the
mill which they are erecting, and in which
they will use all the machinery that is use
full of the old Alikanna mill, near Steuben
vile. Carnegie, Phipps & Co. are erecting
near their Upper Union Mill new build
ing for the manufacture of girders used In
bridge construction. 1t is expected to be
within month, when their ca
pacity will be quadrupled. Sterritt &
Thomas contemplate erecting an addition to
their now extensive works. The building
will be ironclad, three stories in height, and
completed in month.
The general outlook for the continuation
of the present activity among the different
iron and steel mills, at least as far as the
are concerned, is very bright.
C. K.