The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-02-26
Steel Corporations Idle Plants at GAINESVILLE
And ~Steubenville, are now about to be Operated

NEW YORK. Feb. ss-The subsidiary
companies OF the United states steel
Corporation arc daily being made more
self-contained Among the interesting
improvements making the various sub
sldtsry companies independent OF out
side concern Is the building OF "A plant
Tor the manufacture Of muriatlc acid In
connection with the speiter -torts a..
the Denora plant OF the American steel
ana Wire Company. The output of acid.
y Is estimated. will De- fift ytons a day.
The product VIII be utilized In the pro-
cess OF galNanizing wire. sheets and 9th
tr PRODUCTS. About 100000 Will be
expended The Steel Corporation has or
ItIed m LOO coke ovens at Gary that
nave been idle for a year and has blown
In n small furnace a. Niles. OHIO. Il IS
contemplated TO utilize the obsolete
plants at St~eubenville and at GAINESVILLE.
Dhio, because OF the increasing pressure
Tor steel upon the eeu eypiants.
The Grassen Chemical Company mas
paced contracts FOR plant extension IN
OF structural steel wItn the ". y. Krat-
ger company. rms includes ZSS tons
Tor tho ohio works al Niles. 500 tons Tor
Gre docks and buildings In New Jersey.
lao tons for the In llama plant and 225
tons tor the West Virginia works.
The Carnegie steel Company viii fur
nish 5000 tons OF rolled and forged steel
Tor tha building or locomotives at the
the Ncw York Central Railroad. IL ~
understood that an additional order for
about b.uvo tons Of steel has been placed
with the carnegie company uy the Amer
lean Locomotive Company Tor similar
work
The demand for wire products con-
tinues enormously heavy Tor both do
nestic and foreign shipment. Export or
Independent wire drawers a. well a. by
the American Steel and Wire Company.
pressure for. special grades 81 steel wire
10 may be noted that one wire darwer has
recently taken "A contract Tor about fitty.
tons or wire rods 10 De used in the man
ufacture OF window shade rollers al Toe
a pound. This is equivalent 10 about
$500 per net ton. Under ordiuar ycondi-
lions even SO "a tom is considered an eN-
tremeiy high price.
Another illustration OF the conditions
prevailing throughout the steel industry
IL the sale Ol o. nY-produCt hv one OF
The large steel COMPANIES on the lake. AZ
an advance or nearly 500 per cent. Prior
60 the European wal this b~y-product
Nas sold at 50 "a ton. Within the --t
Few DAYS one sale was maup az $50 A
ton. ana another - ou the point OF uging
ago tins by-proaucf was neims E,t1n
away practically. uu. the new conditions
surrounding manufacturing Industries.
especially the makers OF ayes. brought
usually active demand Tor this particular
commodity.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. AZ
ter placing an order for $50 tons or
bridge work with the Fort Pitt Erilc,
Company, has put out new Inquiries TOR
nine bridges cto elhrfuate street cross
iugs IN chicago, calling Tor l.auN tons OF
structural steel. The Erie railroad Is
stan considering the placing OF an order
Tor a bridge at Rochester. y. y. calling
Tor 500 tons. bids Tor which have already
been submitted uy the bridge builders.
several other Inquiries for small bridges
are sttll In the market Tor Eastern roads
ana about 1000 tons Of ~imIItr uI=c-IIa-
neous work IS pending iu the central
West.