The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-31
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS.

The PittSburg Bridge company mas lts
plant running night and day on number
of orders received lately. and the pros
poets are good for several months of
steady work.
The Latrobe Ta) Steel works recently
manufactured what is said to be the larS-
est tire ever rolled In America. 1t was
lOl inches outside diameter i inches wide
and three inches thick.
The Sharon Boiler works are erecting
at the Alice furnace, at Sharpsville, Pa,
the largest boiler ever built in the She
mango valley. 1t is u Wheeler patent
vertical water-tube boiler, Of 400 horse
power
The tin plate plant OF the Ellwood Tn
Plate company, at Ellwood City, Pa, Is
now in operation to nearly its full ca
pacity. Three trains of rolls are running
and the timing department will be put
in operation very soon.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad company
intends stocking the trout streams of
Bradford, Sullivan and Wyoming coun-
ties, of which there are many, also all
streams emptying into the Susquehanna,
with black bass and other fish. This VIII
attract sportsmen from the larger cities
and will In this way benefit the Valley.
The New Castle Pa) Steel and Tin
L
The company recently closed IL contract
for the most complete electrical plan i'll
the world Extensive additions are to be
made to its plant. Norton Bros, of Chi
cago. who are to become partners, are
thinking of building an immense stamping
works in connection with the mill.
During the year of 1894 A. S. Van Wickle,
of the Hazleton region, mined over 100000
tons of coal at the Milnesville colliery
and shipped $4,000 tons to market. This
is probably the largesXt shipment from
any single breaker in the anthracite re-
gion. The place was in operation SOl days.
The Delaware and Hudson company is
having instruction cars placed all along
the road to instruct the employees in the
use of the Westinghouse air brake.
The Carbon Steel company of Pittsburg,
Pa, large manufacturers of plates and
sheets, recently received an order from d
leyeland firm for about 10000 pounds of
ship plates which Were to be placed on
lake boat that hand been damaged. The or
der was secured on Saturday morning,
and the plates We're forwarded by express
the same afternoon reaching Cleveland
Sunday morning. They were placed on
the boat the same day, in time for her to
leave the dock at noon.
The order for armor plate which the
Bethlehem Iron company recently re-
ceived from the Russian government
amounts to 1900 tons. The contract is
for un-Harveyized plate, which will be
used on two warships the czars govern
ment is building. Twelve hundred tons
will be of 16 inches thickness, and 300 tons
of Z inches. The contract requires that
600 tons be delivered at St. Petersburg
within seven months from the receipt of
the drawings, and the rest in five months
thereafter The order will keep the great
plant of the company in operation fora
year. Work on the armor Will begin at
once.
Coal of good quality has been discOv-
cred in the new tunnel which is being
driven north from the west gansway near
the bottom of No. slope at Audenried
The seam was unearthed to a thickness of
about one foot near midnight on Wednes-
day near the center of the face, and every
inch of rock that is being pierced ever
since discloses the fact that the seam Of
coal ia attaining greater thickness. The
new seam is thought by many to be the
LykenS Valley, the same as was discov-
cred in the No. 10 slope at Beaver Brook
few weeks ago. The discovery of this
new vein If it turns out as expected will
give employment to many idle miners. 1t
means the development of new coal
territory which will take many years to
exhaust.
Philadelphia Stakeholder: "The anthra-
cite coal sales agents have decided to re-
strict the February production to 1900
600 tons. In February, 1891, production
was 2229, Az tons, and in the same month
in 1893, 3,OS4l56 tons. 1t is evident from
this action that the several companies
mean to reduce their stocks in hand as
largely as possible through the restrict
i've policy. In this they display COM
rnendable WISDOM for the trades only SAL
walton, in these dull times and sharp conf
petition, is to keep the supply on as near a
level with the demand as possible. So far
as could be learned, the session was an en-
tirely harmonious one; and it was devel-
oped, in the course of an informal dis
cussion, that the situation shows a slight
| Improvement, due, OF course. to freer
movement of coal from second hands to
| consumers"