The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-14
MINE. MILL AND RAILROAD.


The Carnegie company, of Pittsburg,
which produced more iron and steel in
October than in any previous month In
its history, proposes to soon begin the
erection of four additional immense
blast furnaces. When the new furnaces
are completed this company will have a
total annual capacity of about 100000
gross tons of pig iron, or nearly one
ninth of the present total annual ca
pacity of the whole country.
A charcoal blast furnace which is
soon to be erected at Ogden, Utah. will
be So by IL feet. 1t will have a 6-foot
vertical blowing engine, and will be
equipped with iron stoves. The pipe
foundry to be connected with the plant,
will have a daily capacity of from
thirty to forty tons of gas and water
pipe. A general foundry and machine
shop will also be built. Negotiations
are pending for the establishment of a
small rolling mill for the manufacture
of merchant iron, for a stove foundry
is among the possibilities. 1t is hoped
to have all these enterprises in active
operation early in the spring of 1895.
The armor-plate department of the
Bethlehem Iron company, of South
Bethlehem, Pa, Is to have important
additions made to it. Two large open
hearth furnaces are to be added to the
four now in place, and a large plate
rolling train is to be installed in the
same building.
Among the metal exports from Balti-
more during the last week in October
were 500 kegs of nails and 26,SS0 pounds
of wire to Dublin. Frequent consign-
ments of nails and hardware are made
to the West Indies, but exports of
American nails and wire to British
port, especially in the quantities shown
here. are new and worthy of note. II
seems to show that American manufac-
turers are beginning to take advantage
of the close approximation Of prices in
the two countries.
A Plttsburg dispatch says: D. B.
Oliver of the Oliver Iron and Steel
company, says that the big new tin
plate mill projected on the South Side
before the election will now certainly be
built as result of the Republican vic
tory at the polls. The divers and
others interested in the venture are
busy getting ready the plans. The COM
pany will be incorporated shortly with
capital of about $1,000000. The con-
tracts for erecting the plant will be
given out some time soon after the
first of the year and the work will be
started as early as the weather will
permit. The plant will give employ
ment to 500 hundred men as soon as II
Is completed and twice as many before
many months after. 1t Is proposed tC
make the new mill the largest of Its
kind in the United States and one OF
the largest in the world. The estimated
cost of the MILL excluding the cost OF
the site, is $400,O00
Manufacturers and dealers are hope
full of fair volume of business in holi
day specialties, and are stocking up ac
cordingly. In regular lines OF business
a more cheerful feeling is clearly ap
parent as result of the elections
which have demonstrated that tariff
tinkering will no longer have to be taker
into consideration in contracting fol-
the future. Orders that have been helt
back will make an important aggregate
This is particularly true of the iron anC
Steel trade. The more seasonabl,
weather is having the natural effect o
stimulating inquiry for winter goods
but as yet the demand for spring neces
sites has failed to develon