The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-08-28
INDUSTRIAL AOIEs.
What Is Doing at Various Mnnurnc-
turing Points.

NEhsineerinG and Mining JournaD.
The Shoenberger Steel Company, Pitts
ourg' "a, Is enlarging its steel plant.
The Tudor Iron Works of Eas, ST
Louis, Ill, has closed down pending n
more active demand for iron.
The Cas- & Hedges Company, Chat
anooga, Tenn, will add foundry to
heir bo!lermaking plant.
Inc bethlehem Iron Company has
shipped two turret plates, weighing SO
ons. for the Iowa, to Cramp G. Sons.
Philadelphia
The Big Stone Gap Colliery Company'S
coke plant at Norton, Va, has en- sold
20 Oats 6 Company, Of Knoxville, Tenn,
for s31,210.
The pittsburg Forge and Iron Compa-
~, OF Woods Hun, Pa, has starred
twenty-five pudding furnaces and will
work them double turn.
r, The La Belle Iron Works, Wheeling,
W. Va. has ordered a duplex polish r
from the Anderson und.) Foundry and
Machine Works.
The Penn Steel Casting Company has
cast l6-foot four bladed propeller whee,
Tor Roach's ship yard. The weight of
the casting Is 1900 pounds
The Robinson Foundry and Mach!n
Company has been incorporated at Bir-
mingham, Ala, with n capital of S25. 900.
j. A. Wigs Is president
The Harlan & Hollingsworth Compa.
ny. Wilmington. Del. VIII build a larye
ocean tug for the Philadelphia G Read
Ing Railroad Company
IN ., ~ and l6-.nch mills of the Syl-
van Steel Works at Moline. H., has start
cd with full force and VIII run n.gAi
and day until further notice
Two thousand tons of Birmingham pig
iron were recently shipped - Europe.
The iron went by way of Mobile Ala
at which place 1t was loaded in the
ste amer.
All the pudding furnaces of Tug &
o. PiffShlH shn ln1 L.,
opera ton, as also those of the Republic
MIL OF the National Rolling Mil Com
pany.
Jones & Laughlins, of Pittsburg, have
about completed their new 34-inch bloom
ing mill. Four more Of the seri OF 40
inch basic open-hearth furnaces are
nearly completed
The Lebanon (Pa.) Manufactur;ne
company has shipped AZ new hopper cars
TO the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
pac!ty.
The plant of the Crystal Emery Wheel
company at Northampton, Mass, which
mas been idle for more than a year. has
been leased by George P. All n. of Bos-
ton, with the privilege of purchasing.
The Carnegie Steel Company's ere
mines al Scotia, Centre county. Pa, have
b en- started up after a three months
shutdown and are now running full
'HiS winch means employment 10 sew
eral hundred men.
Corr!gan. Mckinney &c Co, Cleveland
OHIO. have banked the Douglass Fur
mace, sharpsville, Pa. for an indefinite
= riod, and have put in blast Charlotte
furnace. Scottdale, Pa, for a short time
20 use up supplies of coke and ore now on
hand.
The contract has been ct for the new
plant of Block & Pollak, manufacturers
Oh steam FORCES and car axes to be built
an entire locomotive plant will shortly
ne taken to st. Petersburg from Phla-
delphia., Pa, on the British steamship
taieham, which has b en- chartered for
the purpose. The plant is to be erected
at Mini Novorod. the commercial me-
tropol.s of the interior of Russia. Con-
tracts Tor the machinery of the plant
amounting to over S500,0O0 were award
10 American manufacturers the bulk OF
them coming TO Philadelphia firms The
plant Is to be built in connection with
the Sarmova works, an extensive estab-
lishment engaged I'm manufacturing
cars. st amboats, steam boilers, etc, and
employing 5000 hands. The locomotive
plant VIII have n capacity for building
700 engines year and Will employ about
Eineers VIII be Americans. The build
ings have ben completed and are now
ready 10 receive the machinery. The
car has given valuable encoura cement
TO the enterprise. AS nearly So p r cent.
or The railways IN the empire are oper-
ated by the government, the new GONNA
ny Will get great share of Its work
The company will be know as the Rus
Manufacturing Company
me consignment aggregates over 5000
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