Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-09
PENNSYLVANIA IS BUSY
Furnaces and Shops Are
Starting Up Everywhere.
MORE WORKMEN NEEDED
Railroads Are Carrying Heavy
Loads of Freight.
FIG ORDERS HAVE BEEN PLACED
Shipping Men Preparing for Flour
ishing Condition in Export Trade.
Signs of Prosperity.

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the great industrial region uf Pittsbd. <
and vicinity come reports of great re-
newed activity in all lines Of business
and OF trade.
Factories are resuming. new contracts
being made buying orders are pour
ing in. furnaces are being fired up. The
sky is Redeemed with the glare of fires
which have not burned i'll months. la or
ing men are happy. and every indication
Is at hand that the future is to be a time
of plenty and prosperity.
From Connellville comes the report that
protection promises are being kept in
the coke regions. BY December ! every
one of the ]. loo ovens owned by the Oliver
Snydner Coke Company Will be burning
and the Orient Company has issued in
strutions TO have all of its 1870 ovens burn
ing by tomorrow morning. Similar orders
have been issued to other managers Of
coke ovens in the district.
The H. c. Prick Company has 10000
ovens. of which 46 per cent are
burning. Independent operators have
about 1I.2Io ovens of which 53 per
cent are in operation 1t is expected that
the dead ovens IF these various COM
panies will soon be operating in fun
again.
Various plants have started up at New
Castle and at Amh-idge. The American
Bridge Company will turn out 5000 tons
of bridge and girder work for the Atehi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
At Sab:aton, the American Sheet and
Tin Plate Company has started five hot
mills and expects to start the other five
In ten days or two weeks
Ore Records Broken.
All records for carrying iron ore into
the I'ittsburg district are being broken
showing conclusively that the United
ing for sometime to make the year 1909
the biggest in the history Of iron and
steel.
More than 1O.CO).OO0 tons of ore. or
enough to run most of the blast furnaces
TO their full capacity for year, are piled
up in the district. In addition to this
aLou, 3,UO0.OOO tons will be brought in,
than they have ever used in any year.
And yet arrangements have been made
for using all this immense stock in 1900.
The Bessemer and Lake Erie railroad,
the United States Steel Corporal TONS car
rying line. has brought I,666,OOO tons of
ore from the lakes between the opening
of the season in midsummer and Novem-
Der l. Last year it carried 5,S43, OO tons
OF ore. As there are almost two months
left OF the present year the local steel
men declare they Will more than equal
the record of 1907.
The Bessemer and Lake Erie road car
rlcs about half the ore brought into the
district. Other lines are carrying heavy
in proportion to the territory they cover.
So ore shipments into the Pittsburg dis
,riet this year will probably be 1900. 600
tons. which. added to the surplus left
from the shipments last year. gives an
enormous tonnage on which to start to
work in January.
Moreover the steel corporation, in its
anxiety to have enough ore on hand to
make record-breaking run next year.
VIII lead It's own lake vessels with ore
and run them until the ice sets in for the
winter.
Rolling Stock Ordered.
\ big contract for 900 gondola steel
cars for the South and Western railroad
las been given to the Pressed Steel Car
Company of Pittsburg. The plates and
shapes for these cars will be furnished by
the Carnegie Steel Company. This means
work for a large number of men at the
Mckeef rock plant.
The company Is also building 1.50O steel
gondola cars for Virginia railroad and
ots0 cars for a western railroad system.
The Pennsylvania railroad has notified
the steel corporation that 1t will need q
large tonnage of rails and that 1t will
place the order at once.
John III. Jones of the Pittsburg- Buffalo
Company says: II signed contracts to-
day that have been delayed for some
weeks. calling for a new mine equipment
amounting to several hundred thousand
dollars. Within the next two weeks more
orders will be placed and upward of
si.nc"on will be expended for new ma
chinery for our company in Washington
county. These Improvements will mean
an increase in worrkmen and larger
pay rcll.
Shirt Factory Gets Busy.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.
YOUNGSTOWN. Pa, November 9-In
addition to the Lees mill, in Bridgeport.
and other local industries being put in full
blast since the election of Taft. the an
nouncement comes that the Quaker City
shirt factory, employing several hundred
hands. will be put on full time next week.
They have been working short hours and
sholt-handed for months.
Saw Works on Full Time.
special Dispatch The Star.
BEAVER FALLS. Pa, November o.
The works Of Emerson. Smith & Co.
have resumed operations in full blast
after having been idle working only
part OF the time for months.
Two additional gangs of men have been
put to work the Pittsburg and Lake
Erie railroad bridge over the Ohio river at
Beaver. The nrm that took the contract
for i big addition to the Ingram Richard
son Manila turing Companys plant, con-
tlnscnt upon the election of Taft, has be-
gun preparations for work.
Republic Furnace to Start Up.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.
NEW CASTLE. Pa. November 9-The
Atlantic furnace. owned by the Republic
lion and Steel Company. is to start up
scon after being idle for a year. Work
Nas began today on repairs and improve
ments. preparatory to resumption of the
furnace. which employs 215 men.
Busy on Automobile Supplies.
Special Dispatch 10 The Star
POTTSTDMN, Pa November 9.-The
Light Foundry Company has started to
work on many orders, received contingent
upon the election of Judge Taft The
company manufactures automobile cast
irSs and supplies.
The light-Merkel Company. manufac-
tufers Of motors. also has largely in
creased its force since election day.
Bryan Menace Forgotten.
Special dispatch to The star
WEST CHESTER, Pa. November o.
As result of the election of Judge Taft
tie works Of the Sharpless Separator Com
pany ia West Chester. not only will be
kept running. but will be operated full
handed within month About four
weeks ato the company issued a state
ment tina. IN prospect Of the election Of
Bryan. which then seemed possible 1t
would he necessary TO suspend operations
uptf' the stock IN ha boy