Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-31

heSOrtlnS TO tuel GaS.
A number of furnaces are running on fuel
gas manufactured from coal, and recently
15O tons to each heating furnace was heated
with this fuel in "a hours.
lt is reported that a company with a
capital of 5000, 900 has purchased a site in
the Twenty-third ward, this city. on which
to construct plant to produce iron for
crucible steel by the Adams direct process,
the capacity to be 60 tons per day. The
Latrobe Steel Works has adopted the
Adams direct process for making open
hearth steel for locomotive tires They are
having constructed at Youngstown tire
mill, which will roll tires from the size of
the largest locomotive to that of small
car wheel. The mill weighs 100 tons, con-
talns seven hydraulic cylinders, and will be
driven by pair of ], 400 horsepower
engines.
The strike inaugurated some weeks ago at
the works of the Braddock Wire Company
is still in force, and, at present, appears to
be no nearer settlement than when it was
first enforced. The men claim it is not con-
tinued solely for the reinstatement of the
two discharged rail workers, but also to
obtain recognition of the Amalgamated
Association Committees by the manage
ment. The strike at Bakers Chain Works
at last accounts was still on. Twenty-Five
boys who are out for an advance of 20 cents
day, declare they will not return without
the advance.
Strikers Were Not Sustained.
The Millvale Iron Company started in all
departments after two weeks shut down.
The strike was not sustained by the union,
and new men were secured at Carrie Furnace
No. l. The three old style hot-blast stoves,
which are in use at present, will be replaced
with similar number of Massock &
Cookies make. At the Homestead Steel
Works they are now turning out steel plates
for 16 new boilers for two blast furnaces
built by the Radford Crane and Iron Com
pany, Virginia. Ritter 6 Conley, of this
city, have secured the contract for making
the boilers, which will be each 80 feet long
and AZ inches in diameter.
At the works of the Lewis Foundry and
Machine Company they are building q 15O-
ton Tallman wire rod mill for the United
States Steel Company, of Jackson, o. The
Lewis firm mas also shipped to the Roanoke
Iron Company. OF Roanoke, Va, Bottom
squeezer and a large shear. Will
lam Fishers engine. foundry and machine
works has secured contract for crusher and
nine-foot grinding pan for a local brick
making firm. They just shipped two similar
pans as the above TO the Crescent works, on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Wilson,
Snyder & Co. have been awarded the con-
tract for building two 10000, ,OOO-gallon
pumps for the Cincinnati Water Works.
Ritter & Conley have secured the contract
from Richard Heckscher & Sons of Swede.
land, to build their No. 2 furnace which
will be 1515 feet by 80 feet, and erected at
Swedeland.
The Totten & Hogg Iron and Steel Com
pany IS furnishing, besides other equip
ment for the Westerman Natural Gas and
Iron Company, at Marion, Ind, large
double lever plate shear. The local COM
pany is also turning out number of steel
castings for drawbridge construction at
Memphis and other Southern points, as well
as stocking up on their stone crushers, an
ticipating heavy demand next season.
Big Orders for Local Firms.
b. K. Porter & Co. are ready to ship for
tine United States Government, for use on
the Mussle Shoals Canal improvement in
Alabama, in towing barges through the
canal, two Forney style locomotives, 48
inches gauge, ana named respectively "Yan-
kee" and 'Dixie." j. r. Witherow g. Co.
have contracts on hand for the construction
of nine new blast furnaces, all at different
points in thr South, and all of the material
for the construction of which will be sup
piled from this market.
The following is partial list of orders
received by the Westinghouse Machine
Company: For compound engines, one 200 |
horse power, for New York, Cincinnati and
st. Louis eacn, and two 200-horse power Tor
Newark. N. j.; two 15O-horse power for De- |
troit; one 150-horse power for Clifford, Ark; |
one 100-horse power ior New York and Gal |
weston; one S0.horse power for Media, Pa;
two 65-horse power for Bryn Mawr, Pa; |
two 50-horse power and one 35-horse power |
for shipment to Australia. For Standard |
engines, one 250-horse power for Michigan |
City, Ind; one 100-horse power for West |
Croton, Mass, and one 45-horse power for |
Germany. For Junior engines, one 70 |
horse power for New Cumberland, W. Va,
and two 50-horse power for Walls station. |
The aggregate sales for the month of Decem-
ber were AZ engines, with total horse |
power of $3.50. The sales for the entire
year of 1890 numbered over 900 engines,
with an aggregate horse power OF over
30, 900.
Improvements, Additions and Stoppages.
The men employed at the National Tube
Works, numbering about 1000, have a
movement on foot to organize a mutual
benefit association. Hussey, Binns & Co.,
of this city, recently melted the first crucible
steel ever produced in Washington county,
at their new works at Charleroi. The Clin-
ton Furnace, on the Southside, was recently
banked, to admit of necessary repairs being
made.
Shoenberger & Co.'s blast furnaces, on
Pike street, are now doing better work than
ever. In one week recently the largest ton
mage of pig iron in the history of the plant
was made. The Neshannock Furnace, at
New Castle, owned by the Crawford Iron
and Steel Company, has Just blown out,
after successful moi 80 weeks, producing
in that time 109, 790 gross tons OF Bessemer
iron, and average of nearly !, ,219 tons per
week, which is one of the best average runs
of any furnace in this vicinity. The ALLIE
gheny Bessemer Steel Works, at Duquesne,
closed down last week, to remain closed for
several weeks for repairs. Gas will be put
under nearly all The boilers in the works.
A large 20-ton converter will be added and
a new blooming M III completed.
Will Demand "a Scale.
1t is rumored thst the workmen desire
a scale similar I'd the one in iorce at the
Edgar Thomson mill and the Homestead
mill, and if such demand is made it is
likely it will be granted, as that is the
favorite wage system of Mr.. Carnegie. Car
negie, Phipps & Co. are rapidly pushing to
completion the immense new beam mill at
which will cost fully $500, 0OO
1t will be some months yet before all the
contracts will be given. The only work so
far completed is the ponderous engine built
by Robert Wetherne & Co., of Chester, Pa
The fywheel weighs $50 tons, the bedplate
and outboard weigh 100 tons, and the shaft |
IS 26 inches in diameter.
The Edgar Thomson Works of Carnegie
Bros. & Co. at Braddock will suspend OPERA