The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-07-29
news OF OUR INDUSTRIES
Hsppeainss Of Interest to ths Staple
Trades and Perticulariy TO ths Trade
in Iron, Steel and Anthracite Coal.

The North Cornwall (Pa) furnace
will soon blow in. 1t has been IDLE
about two years. Bessemer pig iron
will be made. for which the furnace has
an annual capacity of 10000 tons.
Active progress Is being made In the
building and equipment Of the plant OF
the Star Tinplate company. at Pitts
burg. Pa. 1t Is expected that 1t viii be
ready for operation the last or August.
The plant Of the Scottdale Iron and
Steel company, limited. Of Scottdale.
Pa. manufacturers Of iron and steel
sheets. has resumed operations In full.
with the exception OF mills Nos. and Z.
which are being rebuilt.
The Lehigh Steel and Iron company
Is arranging to start its No. furnace
at Allentown, Pa, before the end OF the
month. High grade foundry iron will
be made. The annual caacity of No. 2
stack is about 10000 tons.
One OF the two stacks OF the Allen
town PaD Iron company was blown in
July Is. after more than "a years idle
mess.
The Phoenix Iron company, OF Ph0e-
nixville. Pa, 1t is stated. are to blow in
their furnaces soon. They have been
idle about four years. When last run
ming the furnaces made gray forge pig
iron. for which the three stacks have
an annual capacity Of about $4,000 tons.
Swede furnace No. l. Of Swedeland,
Pa. is In blast, as we'll as furnace No. 3.
The capacity of both furnaces Is 1000
tons pig iron a week.
The Unadilla Valley railroad. extend
Ing from Bridgewater to New Berlin,
New York, a distance Of twenty miles.
was formally opened on Thursday. 1t
connects the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western with the New Berlin
branch of the New York, Ontario and
Western.
1t is officially denied that a deal is
pending between the Central Vermont
and the Grand Trunk.
Negotiations have been In progress by
a number of Pittsburg capitalists look
ing toward the erection Of a tinplate
plant at McKeesport, Pa. 1t is under
stood that. should the plans be carried
through, a special process for Timing.
invented by Ex-Governor James A..
Beaver. will be used.
Carbondale Leader: The Franklin
Coal company has decided to enlarge
the capacity Of its plant for the manu-
facture Of buckwheat coal out of its
culm pile, by the use of a quadruplex
shaking screen twenty feet long. con-
sisting of four screens, one above the
other. and operated from one shaft.
This screen is now being built by the
Hendrick Manufacturing company. and
will be in operation about the middle Of
| next month.
| Wilkes-Barre Record: For years the
Reading has permitted the shipments
of its Lykens Valley coal to be included
in the anthracite tonnage. In our opin-
ion this is manifestly unjust to the
Reading. Lykens Valley has a pecu-
liar quality, and it is non-competitive
with much of the coal mined by the,
other companies, excepting possibly the
Franklin coal mined for the Pennsyl-
vania railroad. All or portion of this
tonnage ought to be excluded. and the
adoption of this suggestion would be a
practical and easy solution of the pres
ent difficulties surrounding an adjust
ment Of the relation Of the Reading
railroad to the tonnage allotments.