Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-09-18
OHIO VALLEY
STEEL PLANT
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wonderful age of steel making

long. In the Northern end will be
placed a 1000 b. p. battery Of Wa
ter Tube Boilers. Adjoining the
boiler house will be a Pump
and Compressor room. In this
will be located the necessary
Boiler Feed Pumps and the Air
Compressor Plant. Directly op'
posite this room, and down on the
rivers edge will be placed dry well,
at the bottom of which are the
large service pumps, which will sup
ply water for the entire plant. South
of the Pump and Compressor room,
We come to the main dynamo and
engine room. Here are located one
$50 XIV Bullock Generator, direct
connected to an I8xIS. Skinner
engine, this outfit Is being supplied
by the Pittsburg Foundry & Eugin.
eering Co. of Plttsburg, Pa. and
one $50 XIV Crocker-Wheeler Gen.
orator direct connected to a 1878
Cross Simple Buckeye Engine. The
Generator for this outfit Is being
supplied by the Croker Wheeler
Engine Co. of Amphere, N. J.
and the Engine Is being
supplied by the Buckeye Engine
company of Salem, Ohio. In this
room will also be located a 3ox6o
Hamilton-Corliss Engine referred
to above. This Is an innovation In
modern rolling mill practices, as
heretofore 1t has been customary
to locate the mill engine right cut
In the mill building. In this case,
however,b extending the coupling
connection, the engine IS located
In the main engine room free from
the dust and dirt of the mill, and
yet this Is accomplished without
losing any of the benefits of direct
connection.
In addition to the equipment
mentioned above, the Niles Tool
Works company, of Philadelphia
are building complete machine
shop equipment, which will be To-
Gated In the extreme northern end
of the Foundry. The Niles Tool
Works company are also building
40 ton, a 20 ton and 10 ton
Electric Travelling Cranes. These
travelling cranes will be of most
modern type. The Morgan Engin-
eering company are also building
for the plant a S ton Open Hearth
Furnace, charging machine, This
machine will run on the crane way
by itself, In the Open Hearth
Building, automatically charge the
furnaces.
The open hearth furnaces, the
soaking pits, heating furnaces and
the boilers will all be fred by
natural gas. The entire plant will
be lighted by electricity, which will
b. distributed to two hundred arc
lamps In the foundry, and machine
shop, so arranged that the mould
ers and machinists can take the
light directly 10 their work. In
every respect, the plant of the Ohio
Valley Steel & Foundry company
will be modern and up to date. 1t
will be better than sny similar
plant In the United States, as the
Pres. Mr.. Robinson has made
study of Open Hearth Steel Pro-
duction all his life, and he Is spar
Ing nothing to make his plant the
best equipped In the world.
The Ohio Valley Steel & Foundry
Co. will employ from between six
and seven hundred and fifty men,
and com nencing Nov. Ist, 1908
will turn out finished steel. 1t
will probably be Jan. 1st, 1904, be-
fore all departments are running on
double turn;as most of the apparatus
which will be installed Is being
built especially for this particular
plant and the management autici.
pated the usual delays In securing
machinery of this kind. However,
the Foundry department will be
working double turn and to Its
full! capacity by Dec. 1st.
while the above number of mer
will be employed. This represents
an unusual large pay roll as most Of
these men will be skilled In their
profession and consequently, their
wages will be excee dinghy high.
Nothing will demonstrate the
gigantic proportions of the above
enterprise more than the statement
tho+ IN a 0hIo Valley Steel Foundry