The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-28
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS.

| Since the Lehigh Valley Coal company
has taken charge of the No. 2 South Sugar
loaf colliery. they have increased the out
put of coal from 150 to 200 cars of coal per
day.
The employees of the blast furnacec Of
| the Il. g. G. Brooke Iron company, at
B!rdsboro, have been made happy by the
announcement that their wages had been
| advanced 10 per cent, dating back to
June |.
The Jeanesville machine shop Is very
busy at present turning out new breaker
machinery. mine pumps, etc, and force
OF machinists are employed at night. At
present the company Is building n COM
pound duplex pump for the Halstead mines
of the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern Coal company.
The business statement of the Reading
railroad and the Coal and Iron company
Tor May shows an increase in profits Of
Lib, as compared with May, 1894. For
six months the profits OF the two compa-
nies are $227, jd6 greater than in the CORE
spending period of the previous year, and
the deficit Is $i3G,0n less than In 1894.
The Lehigh and Wilkes Barre Coal COM
pany are making extensive improvements
to their No colliery at Audenr.ed The
breaker is being overhauled and "a new
set of jigs have been put in The old
cylinder boilers will be replaced by Stir
ling Barberton make. which are tube boil
ers, and are said to have much greater
capacity.
The rod, nail, wire and galvanizing mills
OF the Braddock Wire company, at Ran
kin Station, will shut down next Saturday
to make important extensions to the big
plant. The wire works has orders on hand
to keep all its mills running through the
year. In the past eight or nine months
the plant has run to its capacity on both
turns. employing 900 men. The bar mill at
divers works will be put in operation
next Monday giving employment to a
large number OF men.
The Pennsylvania railroad statement for
May makes an excellent showing There
was an Increase in gross earnings east of
Pittsburg of SSS6,199, an increase in ex-
penses of ,O79 and an increase in net
earnings or S27S,1l9. For the year to date
hVe months, the Increase in gross earnings
has reached the enormous total of 81 49,
WO and the net Is $685. ,6il greater than in
1894. West of Pittsburg there was an in
crease in the month in gross earnings of
s52S,5Gj and an increase of net earnings of
S3Si,27. For five months the Increase in
gross has been $1,329,O12 and the net $685.
OS3. The earnings for June are likely to be
equal or better than in May
Operations at the Latin Coal company's
works at Latin are moving on steadily.
according to the Pittston Gazette. The
new breaker that Is being built to re-
place the one destroyed by fire on Dec 3 il
well under way. j. C. Tyrell, of Kingston,
is the contractor. The plans were fur
nlshed by w. B. Culver, of Scranton, and
the Vulcan Iron works (Wilkes- Barre
shops furnish the machinery. The break
er Is larger than the old one and will have
a capacity of at least 1900 tons a day
Work on the breaker is being pushed and
II Is hoped to be ready for operation in
about 1--WE weeks. BY that time the new
smart that is being sunk Is also expected
to be finished. Robert Smallcomb is in
charge of the sinking operations and the
work is going on day and night. The
shaft will be sunk to a depth of 23O feet |
1t viii pass through two veins and reach |
the red ash vein at the bottom Besides |
these veins, the company has the rem
nants Of the strippings from which con-
coal will be secured A slope 800
feet long is being driven from the present |
workings to connect with the new shaft |
ana mus furnish second opening. To |
furnish power to operate the enlarged |
WORKS, four new boilers, of seventy horse |
power each are being erected in addition |
TO the siX cylinder boilers which furnish |
power at present. w. G. Thomas, of West |
ilttston, Is the superintendent of the COM
pahy ana Is overseeing the operations.