Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-07-08
steubenville Industrial.

Special to the Register.
STEUBENVILLE, u, July 7.-As the
work at the LaBeile plant here pro-
gress, the immensely of the plant is
being made apparent. They expect to
get started in the universal mills by
September !. Just what kind OF rolls,
the size, etc., are being put in, is with
held as the officials say they are work
ing out new ideas in these mills. Me-
chanics are busy these days in the two
big structural iron buildings, each 600
feet long, putting in the rolls, engines,
and other appliances. In the first of
these two buildings is an electric trav
cling crane, with a capacity of 10000
pounds, made by a Milwaukee firm.
There are two heating furnaces of i'm
mense capacity, in which steel slabs
are put in at one end and punched
through to the other by machinery,
and then out on table rolls of massive
proportions, and the hot metal goes to
the end of the building, where it goes
into the finishing department., for
which rolls are arriving and being put
in. The engines and hydraulic pumps
being put in are huge and of late PAT
tern and great capacity. Four big gas
producers have been built to furnish
gas for the heating furnaces, and any
other departments needing gas. Three
batteries of Sterling Water Tube boil
ers occupy structural iron building
Of their own. The rolls that are in
re;s on brick and cement foundations
II feet in depth and built on two foot
concrete foundations. An electric
plant has been put in. A twelye-incn
main is being laid to the city water
lines for temporary purposes, as they
propose to erect pumping station on
the river bank and reservoir on the
hill west. Among the departments
projected for the plant according to
men who know, is a new furnace of
big capacity, maybe two, and an open
hearth steel plant. K. e. Espenshade,
the manager of the mill here, and the
one at Wheeling as WELL removed here
some time since, and is residing in the
4. B. Wright property on South Fourth
street. In time, it is rumored with
some basis for it, the works at Wheel
ing will be removed here and tnen the
people here may expect TO see nail ma
CHIMES IN operation in the old factory,
and they may make the old iron nail
too. When the new furnace and steel
plano is erected a second pump station
will be erected. In the finishing mill
is a travelling electric crane of 10000
pounds capacity.
Col. Robert Haney of New York, is
here to take charge of the color mixing
department of the Wall Paper Factory,
which has got started after repairs
rendered necessary by the late fire,
were completed.
Cur Steubenville Glass blowers are
arriving home from factories in Cana
| da, Indiana and Pennsylvania, where
they have been working the past sea-
son. A dozen camping parties of glass
: house boys have started out for var
ious points. The Acme Chimney
shut down Saturday for the regular
summer stop. During the summer ex-
tensive repairs and Improvements will
be made The addition in which will
be erected the continuous glass tank
which will increase the capacity so per
cent. will be completed during the
summer.
The Ohio Foundry is having a
weeks shut down while stock is TAX
en-. The molders expect to resume
work the latter part of next week.
The Steubenville Pottery Is shut
down for week, which the men ap-
preciate. as the past year they have
been working steady, and often over
time. In fact 1T has been the steadiest
and best run the Pottery has had so
far, and orders were good.
Improvements still continue at Min
go Junction. No. /, new furnace. 900
tons capacity, is being lined. No. 2
new furnace foundation is in and the
construction has begun. Four new
stoves of immense capacity have been
completed. Six thousand horsepower
of Sterling water tube boilers are be-
ing put in and in the new engine
house is 5000 horsepower engines.
An ore bridge is being erected, which
will be ESQ feet long and an incline is
being built to it. Cars will be unload
ed by crane on the level into cars.
which will be run on TO the bridge
and be dumped into the ore bins.
The American Steel Hoop Co. took
hold of the 10-inch mill at Mingo
Junction plant, which if>purchased re-
Gently, on July LIST, and two trusts are
now on the ground for the employees
to reckon with.
E. S. Souers and others, of New
Philadelphia, are considering erecting
an electric plant at Irondale il the cit
liens will subscribe for 500 incandas-
rant Ephtg for their Residences and