The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-09-18
NEWS OF OUR INDUSTRIES.
Happenings OF Interest to the staple
Trades and Particularly to the Trade
in Iron, Steel and Anthracite Coal.

The largest check ever drawn on
bank was one of $l2,27S,750. 1t was
drawn by q. W. Young In favor of
Thomas "A. Mcintyre, of Brooklyn.
An express company of Chicago Is
about to start "a new system for the
delivery of light parcels within the city
limits. Tricycles will be used instead
of express wagons.
The New York anthracite companies
have raised prices for coal about 20
cents u ton. One of the presidents says
the demand ds growing every day, and
Is causing the advance in prices.
General Superintendent Petcairn. OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad company,
at Pittsburg, states that his company
VIII, as soon as a site Is selected, be-
gin the construction of a magnificent
depot at Pittsburg. The structure Is
estimated to cost about $2.OOO,O0O.
The Bethlehem Iron company Is en-
larging its immense works. and Is about
to install what is said to be the largest
blooming mill ever built In this cOun-
try. The rolls are thirty-four inches In
diameter and 12S inches long, and the
housings weigh thirty-fOur tons each.
The satisfactory condition of the
Southern textile industry Is very APP
parent. the financial year which ended
Sept. |, showing an increase of more
than 100 mills, and an increase of nearly
13O, 900 Lales in the consumption of cot
ton, as compared with the previous
year.
The Lukens Iron and Steel company,
of Coatesville, will erect two Bottom
basic open-hearth steel furnaces. The
company now operates four open
hearth furnaces by the acid process, but
on account of the many orders on its
books Is compelled to increase its ca
pacity.
The hottest mines In the world are
the Comstock on the lower level the
heat Is so great that the men cannot
work over ten or fifteen minutes at a
time. Every known means of mtigat-
ing the heat have been tried in vain.
Ice melts before it reaches the bottom
of the shafts.
Representatives of the Cambria Iron
company, of Johnstown, Pa, have been
in specting the Gaysport furnace, with
view to an immediate resumption of
operations there. This furnace was
abandoned five years ago, and Its re-
newal Is due to the activity In the pig
metal industry. A large force of work.
men WILDE employed.
The new blast furnaces under erection
by the Carnegie Steel company, limited.
at Duquesne, will each be equipped
with four stoves of the latest Cowper-
Kennedy type. These stoves will be
twenty-one by ninety-five feet in size.
The furnaces will be twenty-five by 100
feet, and each stack will have a capa-
city for turning out 500 tons every
twentyfour hours.
The Huntington and Broad Top
Mountain railroad reports coal ship
ments for the past week, amounting to
SO, 743 tons, compared with 42.559 tons
for the corresponding week last year.
an increase of 11,lS3 tons. The total
amount shipped during the year to date
Is l.5S9,O7 tons, compared with 1876, 743
tons for the corresponding period last
year, an increase of 2Ol ,334 tons
Philadelphia Press: The anthracite
coal trade is in somewhat better shape
The demand has improved. though it is
far from what Il should be at this. the
busy season. Prices have been ad-
vanced, as is usual, but the trade is not
likely to be much benefited for a couple
of weeks, as many contracts have been
entered into I'm anticipation of the ad-
vance. In this city 1t is likely that
the advance will be maintained. In
New York there is talk Of a 25-cent ad-
vance In coal prices. If the companies
are agreed on 1t and hold together it
will be a good deal of value to the trade
in October and November but the New
York companies have not been able to
agree on anything this year. As COM
pared with the midsummer months the
trade should be better and the carry
ing companies ought to make more
money. There are no reports whatever
of a permanent settlement of. differ
ences.
The scarcity of Bessemer ore in this
country and the general demand for 1t
led to the belief some time ago that
foreign countries would have to be
called on to furnish the ore required
All these predictions have come to pass
and yesterday a cargo of iron ore was
received at Philadelphia from the Medi-
terranean ore district. 1t Is thought
that instead of being hurtful 1t will he
a boom ITO domestic ores. 1t Is thought