Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-05-14
MLNGO INDUSTRIAL


MINGO JUNCTION. O., May 13.-Before
the Aetna-Standard Iron 81 Steel Company
was absorbed by the steel trust, improve
ments We're projected which resulted in
the expenditure of about 100000 mostly
in the introduction of the latest ponderous
machinery to greatly increase the output
of steel with the least possible expense To
he early beginning of that work, Mingo
ewes her Importance as an iron and seel
town to-day, for the work pianred by the
Aetna-Standare mad been carried so far
and the investment was so large before
passing into the hands of the steel trust
that the trust decided to complete the
work formulated, and make steel on the
largest scale. Furnaces for the reduction
of raw ore TO the form of pig iron have
been put in shape TO soon produce daily
thousands of tons of pig iron, which is
the raw material for the steel piant. At
this point in uhe business there VII be
tremendous saving in running expenses,
as we are informed that the pig IRON will
be taken directly from uhe furnace and
carried to the steel vessels in It's molten
state and vii never become pig ron as
we see 1T to-day. Thus tbs casting house
at the furnace viii disappear in time with
no demand for sand with which to mod
the furnace product INTO pigs. The first
solid appearance of the once raw ore will
be when it fats on the steel plant table
rolls in the form of iugots. In the mean
time it VII have passed through the YES
sci process and become steel without ever
having left The molten state. The ngots
will be carried TO the roMs by a car run
automatically, will be automatically
dumped in the rolls by a "trip trigger .
There the ingot wild, of it's own weight
open a switch and be admitted TO the
large rolls ard the switch VII be closed
by hanging weights as soon as the ingot
has passed. Thus on it's return the ingot
viii be shot to the small rolls by the
same closed switch. This switch will dis
place from two to four men The rolls
are run by the most powerful engine in
the Ohio Valley, having two cylinders
each 45x72 inches From the main Plant
the product may be run to an auxiliary
mill by machinery after having passed
through the shears to be cut to order
Three electric cranes each with a capacity
of 10000 pounds, are in the main building
and another outside. over the railroad
tracks new electric plant is in opera
ton; many batteries of new boilers have
been placed, and the power is nearing
completion. New locomotives have been
purchased, one to work solely in the mod
yard, which yard is a model of perfection
in switching facilities. The ground once
occupied by the W. & l.. F. railroad is
now covered by new iron buildings and
the railroad has been removed several
hundred feet nearer the river on dump
ground, that has been made in the last
few months The expense has been enor-
nous, but the cost will son return to the
trust, as steel is as high in price as ever,
and the tonnage men make less than one
half per hundred tons of what they re-
ce.ved eight years ago. Both turns at the
Mingo plant are run at less cost than was
paid to each turn at that time. Every
thing has been erected with a view to in
creased production and decresc in work
ing force