The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-05-24
general news OF INDUSTRIES.

The anthracite coal trade has been
stimulated to more activity during the
past week by the expectation of an ad.
vance in circular prices for coal on
June l The mining and carrying COM
panies, with perhaps one or two Oxcap-
lions, are refusing to accept orders or
contracts for coal at the ruling prices
for delivery after the lat proSimo, and
this has already stiffyned the actual
selling quotations to about net circular
prices. The demand for conl has i'm
proved somewhat, but there is no gen.
eral increase in consumption at pres
ent, Householders who live out of
town during the summer months are
beginning TO lay in their fall and VIM
Ter supplies, and this has improved the
retail business. The demand for pea
and buckwheat coal is greater than ever
but the supply is largely deficient. The
junior steam sizes of anthracite con.
tinue to grow in favor. Since the re-
cent utteranco of Mr.. Eckley B. Coke,
that the utilization of tue hundreds of
great mountains of coal waste rs good
fuel is now an assured fact and no
longer IN experiment. number of new
culm washeries will be erected in the
various districts OF the anthracite field
to reclaim what has heretofore, since
the introduction of anthracite as fuel,
about 1920, gone to the culm dump as
waste. -PhiIadelph Ledger.
Preliminary work incident to taking
down the Ferris wheel on the Midway
Plalsance was begun last week. This
consists of placing false work, engines
and hosting apparatus. Some dav
next week the big wheel will turn for
the last time in Chicago. At that time
several Ferris Wheel Company officials
will ride around on the struts that are
still in place. Some will simply hold
to the ten-inch iron beams. while
others, more timid, will be tied on. II
will take ten weeks to take the wheel
to pieces. The car that WAS used for
carrying the Krupp gun will be used
for the seventy ton axle. The material
will be taken in five trains of thirty
cars each to New York city. There
are !, 900 tons Of metal in the wheel
and 900, 600 feet of timber is needed for
the false work. Taking the wheel
down will be more dangerous than
putting 1t up. Only one life WAS lost
in erecting the big attraction.
For the first time in twelve years the
mills of the Mahoning Valley Iron
company, at Youngstown, are idle for
want Of fuel. The company has plenty
orders, but not a pound of coal. All
departments Of the Union Iron and
Steel company's lower mill, except the
bar and guide mills, are idle through
lack of fuel.
j. Fl. Carpenter, of Reading, Pa, the
OF the steel shell that has done
so much damage to Harveyizsd armnr |
plate. says that he paid out 800. 900 |
just to see the secret processes in use
in two foreign steel works-ons in
France, the other in England. A tut
ton fee like this seems large; but Mr..
Carpenter doesn't regret having paid it
out. for it gave him some new ideas
worth vastly more to him.
A new hot blast copper furnace is
described in the Arizona papers, the
main feature consisting of an arrange
ment for heating the blast before it en-
tiers the furnace; that is, there is a
wind jacket completely surrounding
the crucible of the furnace, and in
connection with the blast supply pipe
and also with the regular wind box.
In operation the blast coming from the
supply pipe enters the wind Jacket in
the usual cool condition, slightly high
er than the surrounding atmosphere.
and passes completely around the cru.
here coming in contact through
out its passage with the hottest por-
ton of the furnace. After making
the circuit Of the crucible it flows
into the regular wind box. and
tnpnCe to the tuyerea In tim rayui,r