Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-08
Industrial Notes.

THE Wheeling steel plant will start to-day.
THE coke trade is settling down to a steady
pace.
teries are idle.
tions yesterday.
Company's works.
ALL the furnaces at Sharpsville, Pa, are in
blast and are doing we'll
Forty are lights will be put in the -Etna
Iron works at Bridgeport.
THE Belmont blast furnace, which has
been banked for over five months, has re-
sumed operations.
THE work of rebuilding the Beaver re-
finery, which was destroyed by fire recently,
has been commenced.
THE changes which are in progress at the
Benwood Iron Works are being pushed for
ward as rapidly as possible.
THE sliding scale of wages at Homestead
has been arranged on basis of S2j for steel
blllets, a reduction of so cents over the last
quarter.
SEVENTY men who were temporarily sus-
pended from Ritter & Conlev's Woods Run
works were given employment yesterday
morning.
WORK has been commenced on a new set
of kilns for the Wheeling Lime and Cement
Company, which will double the capacity of
the plant.
II. h PORTER & Co. are sending q large
dummy" locomotive to Ia coma, WASH, for
use on a street car line between that place
and Puyallup.
THE employees of Spang, Chalfant & Co.'S
steel plant at Sharpsburg, together with two
or three Sunday schools of that pla ce, pic
nicked at Rock Point yesterday.
YESTERDAY eOS immigrants reached the
city. Fifty-three stopped here, and Immi-
grant Inspector Layton says Pittsburg gets
more than its share of foreigners.
THOMAS CARLIN's SONS, of Allegheny, were
awarded the contract to furnish the Pitts
burg, Allegheny and Manchester Traction
Company with all the castings necessary for
its new road.
NEGOTIATIONS are in progress for the lease
of the sheridan Coal Works, at Ironton, o.
NJ. & I. r. Harris. of Ironton and Nh. L.
Davis, from the East, propose to lease and
operate the works.
A PITTsBURG glass company is negotiating
for a site at Stauffer, on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. The citizens have offered a
plot of ground and s., COO in money if the COM
pany will locate there.
L. E. TIGNER, green bottle blower, has been
in this city engaging worknen to be en-
concern will operate under the title of
Tigner Glass Company.
The Leechburg and Westmoreland Coal
and Coke Company are getting ready to
operate extensive works near Leechburg.
The company has options on nearly 400 acres
of coal and 100 acres of surface lands.
A NEW manufacturing suburb has been
started near the borough of Elizabeth, and
has been named Blaine. The American
Vault, Safe and Lock Company, of Chicago,
will establish its works in the new town.
O'NEILL & PETERSON, coal operators at
Bunala, on the line of the McKeesport and
Bellevernon Railroad, have decided to put
machines in the plant and the contract has
been given to the Michaels Company, of
Pittsburg.
THE Union Foundry and Machine Com
pany, of the Southside, has shipped a car
load of machinery for the haulage plant of
Frank Williams Il Co. at their Oak Ridge
mines, Armstrong county, Pa, and will ship
another car this week
W. A. COCHRAN. the protector and manager
of the Leechburg Foundry and Machine Com
pany plant, has disposed of a portion of his
stock in the concern. He has accented an
offer from Avonmore to build works, and the
work of building begins next week.
THE Clearfield coal region miners have
adopted scale fixing the standard thick
ness of veins at three and one-half feet, for
which their wages shall be 80 cents per gross
ton. Where the vein is less thickness the
rate will be ~ cents per inch per ton addi-.
tional.
THE second turn of the Edgar Thomson
Steel Works, Braddock, Monday night
eclipsed all the records previously made in
any steel mill, and tested the capacity of the
four converters recently erected The turn
made 60 heats and $50 tons of steel The
record before was $50 tons.