Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-03-18
STEUBENvILLE INDUSTRIAL.

STEUBENVILLE, O., March IL
The Aetna Standard plant of the Ma
ticnal Steel Co. lost a guiding spirit
this week in the death of Gen1. Supt.
Samuel 7. Williams, who had charge
of the steel plant and the mills Mr.
Williams learned the iron and steel
business at an early age, at Ports
mouth, where his brothers were in the
iron business. He next went to Johns
town, Pa, with his brother, j. R. Will
liams, and while experimenting some
work had his hand crushed. Before
his hand was out of sling he was
made manager of the Troy, N. Y, iron
works, with "a foremen under him,
each one old enough to be his father.
Next, he was made manager of Henry
Disston & Sons iron works at Phila-
delphia, Pa, and he superintended the
building Of steel plant for them.
Next he was superintendent of the
Standard Iron Works at Bridgeport,
o. He built an iron and steel plant
at Muskegon, Mich, and an iron works
at Muscatine, Iowa., but he went down
in the financial groundswell of 1890.
Next he was manager of the New Phil
adelphia, o., Iron & Steel Co., and next
he came to Mingo.
Parties are still viewing the Chelsea
pottery at New Cumberland, but they
find drawbacks to the purchase, one OF
which is that the plant is built so
near the river. All through the works
are inscriptions relating that the
water reached such a height on such a
date.
Officers of the American Tin Plate
Co. have inspected the Irondale plant
and an enlargement and many i'm
provements are said to be considered.
They surveyed to see if the land need
ed for additional switch facilities, I'M
provements, the contemplated inlarge-
ment, etc., could be secured. Addi-
tons will be built and new mills added
which will double the capacity of the
plant and give employment to about
400 more hands. When he sold the
plant to the Trust, w. H. Banfield re-
tanned several hundred acres under
laid with coal, and this is the land that
will be expanded on. To bear out the
above statement it is said the plant of
the Ohio River Tin Plate Co., at Free
dom, Pa, which went into the Trust,
is being dismantled and shilt)ed to
Irondale.
The branch office Of the American
Clay Manufacturing Co., which is to
be located at Toronto, will handle the
business of the ten plants in that vi
cinity, viz, the Empire, Freemans,
Connors, Calumet, Ohio Valley, Great
Western, Forest City, Jefferson, Markle
and Black Horse.
In connection with the article in the
Register about the revival of the iron
nail and its durability, case is cited
here about its lasting qualities. In
1852 large roof was shlngled with
the old split pine single and nails
from the Jefferson Iron Works. The
roof lasted till 1886 with little or no
repair, when a sawed pine single roof,
with wire nails was put on. Every
year thereafter it required repairs, and
by 1891 was in much worse condition
than the old roof was five years before,
and then a slate roof was put on by
the owner in sheer desperation. The
shingles on the second roof were in
ferior to those of the first, but the
main trouble was with the nails, the
heads rusting off apd allowing the
shingles to be blown to the four winds.
Carpenters, builders and property
owners would hail the old-fashioned
cut nail made from puddled iron as an
unmixed blessing, as people want a
nail that will stand the weather.