Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-25


acquisition, nothing is available as to
the Official changes that will result.
inc Bethlehem officers will visit the
Steelton and Sparrows Point plants
this week, partly with view to deter
mining what new construction will be
advisa BILE.
Editors note: The result of Presi-
dent Grace's visit to Steelton has al
ready been told fully in these col
umns.
For some time it has been known
that the Bethlehem Steel Company
had plans for the building of n besse-
mer plant looking to the production of
bars, tin plate and possibly wire. 1t is
not unreasonable to expect that these
plans will now be carried out, in part
at least. at Sparrows Point, on which
much of the export operations of the
company will naturally center.
The Property Acquired
"A total annual producing capacity
of upward OF S,50O.000 tons of ingots
and total of Z blast furnaces repre-
sent in a broad way what the acqui-
sition by the Bethlehem Steel Company
of the Pennsylvania Steel Companys
properties means. Both the Steelton
and Sparrows Point plants have hesse-
mer converters and dupleXing has been
practiced for some time. The Penn
sylvania Steel Company has I blast
furnaces, including two low-phos-
phorus stacks at Lebanon, the Mary
land Steel Company stacks and the
Bethlehem Steel Company 8 stacks.
The Pennsylvania and Maryland plants
are each rated at 100000 tons annual
ingot capacity and the Bethlehem
Steel CompanY's ingot capacity is gen.
orally put at 400. 900 tons. with close
to 100000 tons capacity, part COM
pleted and part under construction
with the turn of the year.
n hna n dfii ion 10 tte efa aDi
rail capacity with the Maryland mill
at tidewater. the Bethlehem has eX-
tended greatly it's shipbuilding faCili-
ties, has acquired the important
Mayari ore deposits of Cuba, has n
"a l-5 per cent. interest in the Corn
wall ore Bank Company' Cornwall,
/ Pa, and now owns the Penn Mary
/ Coal Company property of 10000
acres of coal lands in Indiana county.
| Pa. which produced 1000 tons in
/ 1912.
The Maryland Shipyard
The shipyards of the Maryland
Steel Company build vessels up to 500
feet in length as we'll as floating dry
docks and caissons for pier work and
come now under the same control as
those of the Union Iron Works Com
| pany, San Francisco; the Samuel l..
Moore & Sons Corporation, Elizabeth
port. n. j.; the Harlan & Hollings-
worth Corporation, Wilmington, Del,
| which also has a car building plant
and the Fore River Shipbuiding Com
pany. Quincy. Mass.
The Cuban iron ore properties
owned through the Spanish American
Iron Company, at Mayari. Nipe Bay
Cuba. consist of about 10000 acres
known as the Daiquiri mines, which
produced 900 tons in 1913. and
so 900 acres, known as the Mayar
mines which produced 676. 600 tons in
1918. With these nickel-chrome ores
the Pennsylvania Steel Company has
possessed a special product for cast
ings and rolled products outside of the
ordinary competitive field.
THE Steelton rail facilities include
girder rails for street railroad work
and its structural rolling mills, with
facilities for heavy sections, will ado
appreciably to the $4,000 tons ca
pacity of the Bethlehem structure
mills Besides a remarkable bridge
shop at Steelton, there is large FROG
and switch shop, and the output in
clues also manganese and other steel
castings and forgings.
President Grace
The election of +. G.. Grace as
president of the Bethlehem Steel Cor
poration is recognition of the talent
for constructive planning and for adj
ministration which have marked the
rapid advance of the Bethlehem Stee
Company in recent years. Mr.. Grace
started with the company in June
1899, on his graduation from Lehigl
University. He began in the electrica
depa rtment but in 1902. at the age o
26 years, he was appointed superin
tendent of yards. Four years later h'
was general superintendent. after fou1
months as assistant. In 1908 he wa
elected a director and general man
ager of the company and in April
1918. was elected president"