The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-25
HAVE COMMENCED 10
MOVE STEEL MILLS
ONE BUILDING RAZED AND
READY FOR SHIPMENT.
North Mill Starts UP Today to Help
Out the South Mill in Filling the
Rail Orders Now on Hand, That
the Work of Tearing Down the
Mills and Moving Them to Buffalo
May Be Proceeded with at the
Earliest Possible Opportunity.
Meeting Here Wednesday.

Scranton can now prepare to say
farewell to the Lackawanna Iron and
Steel company's mills.
The work of removing the plant TO
Buffalo has been begun.
What was the carpenter shop of the
South mill has been torn down and
prepared for shipment to Buffalo. II
will be re-erected on the new site on
the shore of Lake Erie, to serve as a
temporary shelter for the men engaged
In the work of constructing the new
plant, or rather in re-erecting the old
plant for it is the intention to move
from here not only the machinery but
also the buildings.
Eventually, with some alterations
and extensions, it will be the carpenter
shop of the new plant.
The rest of the company's property
will follow as fast as conditions will
permit. From the present outlook it
VIII be about eighteen months before
this moving is accomplished.
Today the North mill will resume
work, after an extended idleness, TO
help the South mill fill the present
contracts for rails. For some time past
the North mill has been operated al
most solely for the manufacture of
angle bars and special steel, the South
mill having been capable of caring for
all the rail orders without any great
eXertion. The desire to rush the work
on hand accounts for the North mill
being utilized for making rails. The
following advertisement Is significant:
NOTICE OF CHANGE.
The Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company:
Notice is hereby given that it is the intention
of the Lackawanna Iron and Steel company to
apply to the governor Of the commonwealth for
an amendment to the charter Of the said cor.
poration by adding to article third thereof the
following proposition, to wit:
"Third-Said corporation may also carry on
the manufacture of iron or steel, or any other
part of its corporate business at or near the
city Of Buffalo, in the state OF New York, in
any other place without this state which the
board of directors may, from time to time, des.
ignatc for such purpose
(Signed) Walter Scranton, President.
(Sgned) J. z. Higginson, Secretary.
A meeting of the stockholders will be
held at the company's offices in this
city, Wednesday, to vote on the ques-
tion of increasing the size of the board
of directors.
The removal of the mills will take
people. There are 1900 men employed
at the South mill alone and fully as
many more at the North mill, furnaces
and other departments of the plant.
Most of them will go to Buffalo and
take their families with them. A rough
estimate of the number of Scrantoni-
ans who will follow the mill is $500.
AS an instance of the lateral effect
\, AL a a.
might be mentioned that the Delaware.
Lackawanna and Western company
last year handled over a million dol
lars worth of business for the steel
company. This was principally in
haulage of ore from Buffalo to Scran-
ton and manufactured products from
Scranton to Buffalo.
DID NOT DO IT ALL.
And the Lackawanna did not do all
the hauling for the mills. A few years
ago, the steel company made a large
| purchase of ore in the West. The
Lackawanna road, which has branch
and trestle into the blast furnace,
was asked to give a price for carrying
the ore from Buffalo to Scranton. The
rate was unsatisfactory and the steel
company cast about for other means
of getting it here. After considerable
| figuring, 1t was arranged to bring the
ore over the Lehigh Valley and Jersey
Central to South Scranton, transfer 1t
to ore cars and have it taken TO the
blast furnace. An engine and cars had
to be specially purchased for making
this last leg of the trip, but the steel
company saved money.
NYn NOT hnwavar tha faIlt pf the
railroads that the mills are going to
Buffalo. The rates which the steel
company now has on the Lackawanna
or the other roads are not complained
of. The roads simply can't make a
rate that will enable the steel COM
pany compete with the Western mills
Most of its ore now comes from the
Lake Suprlor regions and most of the
manufactured product goes to the
West. The Carnegie company owns
it's own line of boats on the lakes and
it's own railroad, the Rochester and
Pittsburg, which takes the ore from
the boats and deposits it at the
Homestead mills. The returning cars
carry the manufactured rails. Under
these conditions is is plainly evident
a mill located in Scranton and having
no independent haulage can not sue.
cessfully compete with the Western
mills.
Many South Siders are fondly cling
ing to the story that w. w. Scranton
has induced Henry C. Frick to unit,
with him in establishing a structura
iron and steel rail mill In Scranton
to take the place of the departing
rail mills
The story is evidently the child o.