The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-10-02

Vast and stupendous, as we'll as costly,
win be the coming Improvements at tho
Mingo Junction plant of the Aetna
Standard Company, The improvements
mean a complete revolutlonizlng of the
present mode OF making steel products
and undermining the plant In every way,
To reach the desired perfection there Will
have 10 be almost a complete change and
II Is estimated that the Improvements
will cost S75O,O0O and even more. Every
thing win be modernlZed 80 as to enable
them 10 compete with any firm In the
same business in the United States.
When the proposed improvements are
completed the Mingo Junction plant VIII
be one OF the most extensive and best
equipped steel plants In the valley,
The buildings 10 be erected will cover
almost four times the space the present
plant occupies and before building there
win be considerable filling TO be done
and several houses will be raised. Tha
company has secured permission from
the government TO straighten out thd
river bank to a certain line. The entire
trackage and switching arrangement
Will have to be torn up and laid down
along new lines and to conform TO the
final line the buildings are laid out on.
The coal viii go in on elevated tracks,
The plans for the new mills and plants
are not completed, but In the main they
contemplate the following:
The present Bessemer steel plant will
he torn down and rolling mills will be
built where It stands. Several ware
house and office buildings will be torn
down to make room for the new mills,
The rolls which were put In several years
ago, will be torn out. Tho two furnaces
viii DO modernized by the putting In of
modern appliances, such as molds, etc,
while new blasts, blowers and engines
win be put In for the furnace not in oper-
alton and both will be operated TO the
full capacity. Along the Cleveland &
Pittsburgh railroad, running parallel
with the tracks in rows OF three or four
each, Will be erected, the new finishing
mills and farther north of the mills will
be erected d large warehouse. At the
extreme north end OF the company's
property will be erected large and fine
ly equipped open hearth steel plant, the
building to be $40 feet long. The BESSIE
men plant win be erected Just north of
the present steel plant and rolling mill.
and 1t will be SOOx25O feet In the way OF
dimensions and 1t will be equipped with
the most modern appliances, The engine
and boiler house will be almost
doubled in size. A big compound con-
denslng engine will be put in for blow
ing purposes at the furnaces.
The iron will be taken from the fur
naces in liquid form I'm 25-ton ladies,
placed on cars and taken to the convert
ers and from the converters II will go
into inGots, which will stand on cars and
from there 90 to the blooms and rolling
mills and continue on TO the finishing
mills. always in heated state until 1t Is
finished product. They will turn out
all kinds of merchant iron, axle iron, and
gle iron, sheet and corrugated iron, bridge
plates. light rails and numerous other
articles In Iron. The latest improvement
in hydraulic, electric and travelling
cranes and other devices will be brought
into use 10 facilitate work. Some OF the
product Of the furnace or rolling will no
doubt be shipped to the Bridgeport plant
OF the Aetna-Standard.