The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-21
PRESS DISPATCHES Indicate
revival OF STEEL BUSINESS
Hundreds Back Work in Ohio MilIs-Steel Corporation
Announces Heavy Expenditure for Equipment-News
of Vital Import o This Section.

Merry Christmas" for northern Ohio
steel workers was written Saturday In
the crimson glare from 1000 millstacks.
Production will soar to new peaks
this week. Pay envelopes will be fstter.
They will reach more men. For indus
trialist and millhand alike, the outlook
is brighter.
In some districts, operations will be
100 per cent of capacity. Hundreds Of
additional men will be given employ
ment. Extra mills were warmed up IN
anticipation of the years most active
period. In general, 1885 automobile
production was responsible for the step
up.
Reports from the busy Lora;n-
Cleveland district, from the Little
Ruhr" of the Mahoning valley about
Youngstown and the Steubenvil.e and
Ohio valley areas showed increases in
every line of steel manufacture and
fabrication,
reached SO per cent in the week ending
Saturday, the highest production since
June.
At Lorain, where the National Tube
Company mills are the life and blood
OF the city3s spending power, mills win
operate at SO per cent Of capacity, pro-
e T.
the best percentage there since mid
summer. Last weeks percentage was
Sc.
Lorain open hearths are running at
80 per cent of normal, while finishing
mills are being worked at rs per cent.
The biggest Christmas payroll of five
years is expected in the Ohio river
valley, with mills there running at
capacity production.
In the Youngstown area, operations
will be at Al per cent this week, UP two
points from last week Combined pay
rolls for Republic, Youngstown Sheet
and Tube, Sharon Steel Hoop and Car
negie will reach $2,5O0OO0 for the month
of December alone, it is estimated.
Mill orders continue to increase in
number and size, with farm equipment
and tinplate, both contraSeasonal pre-
dominating. Increase in automotive
orders is expected to boost production
to so per cent soon.
In Cleveland, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and
Otis Steel Company plants were to
operate at 60 per cent, as aga;nss so per
cent, for the preceding week.
Operations OF the Wheeling Steel Cor
poration at Steubenville are at 100 per
cent for the first time in months. AT
the Yorkville, Ohio, plant, "a tin mills
are working six days week. New men
are being added daily at the 81 900 900
cold roll mill there.
From Weirton, W. Va. came official
announcement that 20 of its % hot
mills in the tin plants would be started
Sunday night. Five hundred additional
men will be given employment.
The Follansbee Brothers plant, at
Follansbee, w. Va, and at Toronto,
Ohio, across the river, are working at
capacity after being shut down for sew
era: months.
TIE Beech Bottom steel mill of the
Wheeling Steel Corporation is running
at full capacity, while the Benwood. W.
Va, plant is operating at IS per cent
Twenty-three hot mills are working at
the Lsughlin plant of the American
Sheet and Tin Plate Company at Mar
tins Ferry, Ohio.
On top of the above comes the news
One fore part of the week Of q
$40.O00,O00 expenditure by the q. 8.
Steel Corporation in a program of new
equipment despite the fact that five
years ago it was declared already over
built. This latter piece OF news comes
as a direct harbinger of better times for
Ely and the other range towns where
the steel corporation is directly in
terestt . in mining industries.
Another s1s,OOO,OOO is involved in con-
struction of new steel production equip
ment for the Ford Motor Company. now
IN progress. National Steel Corpora
ton ha sannounced a $4,000, 900 ex-
pansion for its subsidiary, the Great
Lakes Steel Corporation.