Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-09

reached, This ineipisnt Improvement 10 at.
tnputed IN d great measure 10 the scarcity
Oh htoehsl causing q strong buying meys'
ment The voluntary shutdown 0f The Ma
honlng and Bhenanse Valley furnaces, 10
well A. The forced cessation OF casting among
many fnfnHess In the districts from which
Pittsbufg draws its supplies, owing 10 the
failure TO receive supplies Of coke, has
greatly restricted production Ia this market,
ana the Inevitable result o. the laws OF sup
ply ana demand IL now eHiy arising,
No Advance Leeked Fer
" 10 very probable that no pronounced
advance will continue and Q dull and de-
pressed market is expected to rule during
the summer, While the local mills are not
evefstoeked with orders they are nsyerthe-
less making extensive preparations for an
enlarged trade.
, Furnace No2 of the Isabella plant 10 to
be torn down and rebuilt The foundations
were weakened during the late food and
this precaution Is necessary to save the
plant from wreck. Furnace No l, which
has been out of blast since October, has
been refined and started. The keystone
mill is putting in battery OF new boilers.
Howe. Brown g. Co. are building new
heating furnace at their mill. Last week
the breaking Of the anvil block on their
large steam hammer caused few days sus-
pension OF work. The Monongahela plant
at McKeesport was recently put in opera
tion, giving employment to over 300 men.
Owing to the lack Of coke furnace B will
remain idle. The National Tube Works
Company, of McKeesport, is building mill
No. 3 to its adjoining plants. Painter &
Sons have fully resumed on gas, after using
coal for few months necessitating the re-
cleaning of their pudding furnaces. Car
negie, Phipps & Co. are erecting an addi-
tional plant to the Government works. The
machinery to equip the plant is being i'm
ported from Scotland.
Other Repairs In Progress.
The No. blooming mill of Jones &
Laughlins has shut down in order to permit
of a general overhauliug and additions be-
ing made. The Fischer Foundry and
Machine Company has recently added 16.
foot boring mill, 12-foot planer, 48-inch
horizontal boring machine, 72-inch radial
drill press and 20-ton travelling crane.
These works are very busy just at present
and recently turned out 20x24 engine and
two lotion travelling cranes for the Pennsvl-
vania Tube Company and 20-ton travelling
crane for foundry practice.
William Fisher recently shipped from
his extensive works an eight-ton bar shear
to city firm; ten-ton shear with engine
for burs and rails to Blandon. Pa; pan
for grinding sandstone and washing the
sand thus produced, to Connellsville. The
Sterling Boiler Company has made sales of
Sterling boilers to Marshall, Kennedy &
Co., of this city, and to the Pacific Rolling
Mills at San Francisco. The Pittsburg
Bridge Company has received the contract
for plate girder vladuct 800 feet long over
a railway track at indianapolis. This
company has had very heavy business
this season.
Totten and Hogg have contracted with the
Minneapolis Rolling Mill to furnish sn 18-
inch: :three-high muck train of modern de-
sign. They have also received an order for
number of chilled rolls tor rolling tin
plate, from the Granite Iron Company, st.
Louis. Messrs. Seamon, Slath & Black,
Thomas Carlin's Sons B Co., and the
Leechburg Foundry and Machine Company
also report the receipt Of large orders for
their different products. G. j. K.
A SURPLUS Of fat means disease. In TIE
DISPATCH tomorrow Celia Logan will tell
hovv Tn ureveut nhn orrnal abdominal n deve1-