Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-27

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had been rumors that because of the adj
vance in ocean freight rates the purchas-
ers OF Spanish ore would not obtain the
material they had purchased.
From Sharon. Pa, comes the announce
ment that improvements costing approx
mately S250,00O are being made at the
Stewart Iron company's plant there
These improvements include a new cast
| ing house, iron ore handler, conveyor,
| power house, storage bins for the ore,
| and other devices for the blast furnace.
| Work has been started on the develop
ment Of the Isabella Coke company's 81
| 100000 tract in the Connellsville district.
| The main line of the Monongahea di-
vision of the Pennsylvania will be
| changed to take in the plants which will
| have a capacity of about 100000 tons
of high grade coke yearly. There will be
| 1000 ovens erected at once and the ca
pacity of the plant will be extended grad
ually.
| OF the total production Of iron and
steel plates in 1908 Pennsylvania rolled
9S0025 tons, or over I'll per cent,
against 2,005,4 03 tons, or over 1853 per
cent. in 1907, and Of the total production
of iron and steel sheets in 1908 Pennsyl
vania rolled 551, 041 tons, or almost 40
| per cent against Otos 100, OF over tU.O
| per cent. in 1907. Ohio rolled $3.50
tons, or over 1917 per cent. of the total
production of plates in 1908 and 466, 1868
| tons, or over 1913 per cent. of the total
production of sheets. In 1908 there were
80 works which rolled plates but did not
roll sheets, 80 works which rolled sheets
but did not roll plates, and % works
which rolled both plates and sheets.
The decision of the Standard Steel
| Car company to build an open
| hearth steel works of its own and to
have it in operation early in the new
| year indicates that it is not tied up with
any plate and shape manufacturer for a
| term of years. Since. the expiration of
the ten-year contract with Pressed Steel
| Car company and the Carnegie Steel
company, early in the year, this COM
| pany and the Standard company, which
was assumed to have a somewhat SINH
| lar contract, have been obtaining their
material in the market, the orders gen
orally going to the Carnegie company.
A Pittsburg dispatch states that the
| largest mine fan in this country, if not
| in the world, is being planned by the
| Pittsburg- Buffalo company for the venti-
| lation of its three mines at Mariana,
| the Rachel, Blanch aud Agnes. The
new fan will be 35 feet in diameter-5
| feet larger than the largest fan known
in American mine practice. 1t will have
! a capacity of 100000 cubic feet of
| air per minute-enough air, if COM
| pressed to blow the whole summit of
| the hill away at Mariana. Two engines
| will be installed at the new fan, each
| heavy enough to handle the entire load,
providing an abundance of reserve
power.
The New York journal of Commerce
states that the railroads are still placing
orders for cars, the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy having ordered 500 all steel
gondolas from the Pressed Steel Car
company. Its previous order was for 500
refrigerator cars placed with the Ameri-
can Car and Foundry company, and its
total recent contracts have been 1000 all
steel and 5000 box cars The latter have
| been previously reported. The Northern
Pacific has completed its contracts for
1000 cars, including 1900 box cars placed
with the Pullman company and 200 with
| the Seattle Car company The Chicago
x North Western, as noted, is to obtain
1900 steel underframe gondola cars from
the Pullman Car company.
Rail mills at Chicago are booked ahead
to December for the South Chicago
works of the United States Steel corpo-
ration, and until October at Gary. Rail-
| roads placed orders for over $4,000 tons
of steel rails, and the Hartman lines
are to buy 10000 tons.
Structural steel companies of Pittsburg
| are well supplied with new business. The
| McClintic- Marshall Construction com
pany has taken the contract for the fab
| ricating and erecting of a railroad ter
minal at Kansas City, which will require
| some 10000 tons of structural material.
The steel will De supplied by the Carne-
| gle Steel company.
Officials of the PENNSYLVANIA railroad
have announced that improvements
amounting to about 100000 are about
to be made on the lines of the company
| west of PittSburg OF this sum $1,000
coo will be expended in improving the
Plttsburg, Chicago, CINCINNATI 4 St.
| Louis railroad, and $4,000.000 will be
spent in dOuble-tracking the line be-
tween Richmond and Irvington, Ind.
On the eth of Augpst the American
| Steel and Tin Plate company had in op-
Grafton total of 1873 sheet mills and ia
| tin plate mills. This is a gain of eleven
mills over the previous week, according
to the best estimates, and should be com
pared with the total capacity of 202 mills
in operation before the strike Imports
OF tin plate into Canada are once more
| aDS0lutely n0n-dutlabIe. Two years ago
the Dominion government imposed pen
atty on the importation into the Domin-
ion of tin plate purchased at bargain
prices. This restriction now has been
withdrawn.
The Baldwin Locomotive works have
| taken considerable business recentlv
They are now employing about 1900
men and expect to increase capacity so
that by October / their full complement
of 10000 men win be engaged. Among
| the recent orders have been thirty-five To-
! comotiyeS for the Great Northern rail-
| way, seventeen for the Northern Pacific
| and five for the Burlington. 1t is also
understood that the Baldwin Locomotive
| works will have a large share in the
| Baltimore & Ohio contract, which calls
for eighty eight locomotives. The Har-
riman lines recently ordered 1O5 loco
| motives.
The Jones & Laughlin Steel company
| today closed a deal with the Pittsbnrg-
Buffalo company for $500 acres of cox
| ing coal lands near the Mariana mine
| of the latter company. in the Ten-Mile-