The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-07-19
news OF OUR INDUSTRIES
Hsppsninss Of Interest to the staple
Trades and Particularly to the Trade
In Iron. Steel and Anthracite Coal.

The Beech Creek Is In the market for
1000 cars. The order will be given out
this week. The cars win be hopper bot
tom gondolas and will have Westing-
house brakes.
1t Is announced that Mini b. OF the
Catasauqua Manufacturing company.
located at Fullerton. Pa. will start Its
pudding department at once. The mill
has been idle several years. From 100
to $50 hands will be given work.
The Pennsylvania company has noti-
fled the proper officials that no freight
car shall be used which Is not equipped
to comply with the act providing for
compulsory equipment Of cars with
gra birons. hand holds and standard
draw bars.
Steel company. OF Pittsburg, makers
OF iron and steel bars. with works at
CHARTERS. Pa. Is running night and
day In all departments. The company
recently advanced the wages of Its
puddlers % cents a ton.
Coal will be railroaded from Silver
Creek to Johns colliery at St. Clair by
the new firm of Taylor. Patterson Il Co..
when the immense new breaker being
planned Is finished and new veins will
be opened at Johns. Eventually en-
ployment will be given several hundred
people.
Last Friday. while the miners were
at work In No. 10 slope, owned and
operated by the Lehigh Coal and Navl-
CATION company. located about two
miles above Tamaqua, 1t was discOv-
cred that an old breast. which had not
been worked for ten or fifteen years,
was on fire. Although everything pos
sble to quench the flames was brought
into play, the place is still burning.
Its origin is a mystery.
During the month Of June the steel
rail mills of the country received orders
for 1000 tons OF steel rails. Not for
many years have SO many rails been
ordered in one month. The prospects
for the railroads of the country being
large buyers of rails and other iron and
steel products the coming fail are very
bright. The boom Of 1879. which re-
sembles the present one very much, was
commenced by the railroads; the pres
ent revival. however, was started with
out their help. but they will undoubted-
ly do their best to help 1t along.
Deputy Attorney General Elkin has
given Hugh Mcdonald, Of Pittston,
inspector of the Third anthracite re-
gion. an opinion In which he holds that
each mine Is required by law to have a
mine foreman and that two separate
and distinct operations operated by
different companies cannot employ one
foreman to supervise both operations.
The attention of Inspector Mcdonald
was recently called to two companies
in his district which have Joined their
underground workings and have a sim
gle foreman for both operations. The
opinion Of Mr.. Elkin is to meet this
case.
Arrangements are under way by
which the Greenvills Pa) Rolling Mill
and the Atlantic works at Sharon,
Pa, will be put in operation soon. The
plant at Greenville contains 30 pudding
furnaces. four heating furnaces and
three trains of rolls. 1t produces hoops,
bands and cotton ties, and has an an
nual capacity Of $4,000 tons. The Sharon
plant Is equipped with SO pudding fur
naces, eight heating furnaces, six trains
Of rolls and 40 anil machines. It pro-
duces bar. plate, hoop, rod iron and
nails. its annual capacity being $1,000
tons. Both plants have been idle three
or four years.
Returns received from the manufac-
turers by the American Iron and Steel
association show that the production Of
pig iron during the first six months of
this year was 4.0S7,55S gross tons, as
compared with $685., ,405 tons during the
last half of 1894. and 2,717,9S3 tons in
the first six months of 1894. The in
crease in the past six months. as COM
pared with the corresponding period of
last year, was 1.369,575. or just so per
cent, while the increase over the pro-
duction In the last six months Of 1894
was only 14S,153 tons. The production
by states during the last two half year.
ly DeriOdS was aS fO1Ows.