The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-21
IRON Mill TO START
BIG INSTITUTION AT COLUMBIA
HEIGHTS WILL BEGIN OPERA
TIONS BY DEC. rs.
LONG SENTENCE FOR DURHAM.
BOODLING ALDERMAN MUST SERVE
THE STATE SIX AND ONE
HALF YEARS.
STAY OF EXECUTION GRANTED.
Determined Fight for Liberty Will
Be Made in the Higher
Courts
LONG SENTENCE FOR DURHAM.
STAY OF EXECUTION GRANTED

The announcement is made that the
Minneapolis iron and steel rolling mills
will start Immediately. The plant is
situated in the suburb of Minneapolis
known as Columbia Heights, ard is
one of the industries promoted by
Thomas Lowry, president of the Twin
City Rapid Transit company, VINO is
one of the largest stockholders. Since
the late revival in the IRON and steel
trade Mr.. Lowry has interested addi-
tional local capital to a large amount,
the balance of the money necessary De-
ing raised by him within the last few
days in Pittsburg. Among the Pitts
burg gentlemen interested is Horace
w. Lash, who will become president
and general manager. The plant will
start Immediately with about 300 hands,
and with the addition of a new open
hearth steel plant which will be made
in the spring, employment will be
given to about 500 men. The opening
of the mills at Columbia Heights will
necessitate a large amount of building
in that locality.
EQUIPMENT OF THE MILL.
AS the mill will begin operations on
or before Dec. 10, it will be equipped
with eight gas producers two bushel-
ing furnaces supplying an 18-inch
muck train and squeeZer, two extra
sized heating furnaces, supplying a
12-inch and 9-inch combination finish
ing train, the 12-inch frame including
a device for splitting rails. These
trains are to be driven by direct en-
CINE connection the total power of the
seven engines in the mill being in ex-
cess of 1000 horse power
The mill has a full equipment of
shears, etc, and is also furnished with
full line of nut and bolt machinery.
This equipment will enable the mill to
turn out, on the first day of operation,
if needed, rs tons of bar iron and steel
of all sizes and shapes, including a
respectable tonnage of bolts and nuts,
and when the open hearth plant is
erected in the spring, and which
should be in operation some time in
July the total capacity of the plant
will be 125 tons per day Of bar iron
and open hearth steel.
During the coming winter, it is also
expected that there will be installed
in the mills a foreign department,
which will produce railway car axels
and heavy fOrgings of all kinds. In
addition, this department will manu-
facture also special sizes of bolts and
nuts which at present can only be pro-
cured in this part of the country by
sending to Chicago or st. Louis, or to
points more distant.
LABOR TO BE EMPLOYED.
One of the most important matters
in connection with the opening of the
plant is the labor which will be en-
ployed in it's operation. Mr.. Areundal,
the manager of the mills, estimates
that, with the present equipment, he
will need somewhere about 250 or 300
men, and with the opening of the open
hearth plant in the spring in all 500
or more men will be needed Many
of these men,, of course, will of necessi-
ty have to be brought from the East,
where they have thoroughly learned
the trade. There are in Minneapolis.