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Votume XXX.

THE

WEEK IN IRON CIRCLES.

THE MARKET AT LARGE.

The second week of the new year has been like
the first in the iron trade—an interval of weak
prices and contracted business, of much searching
for indications concerning the business of the year,
but with no promise of immediate demand. Hope-
fulness marks all calculations, and the accumula-
tion of unused money, with cheap money rates, is
ground for the belief that under a favorable tariff
and the assurance of a regime under which industry
may launch out, there will come investments that
will bring business to mill and foundries. The
position of wheat and the possibilities of further ad-
vance, in view of the large foreign demand that
must be supplied from the United States before an-
other harvest, and the success of our export cam-
paign in other lines, are other encouraging factors.
Yet at home the railroads give no great promise for
1897, and the tall building has been in such favor
as an investment in the past four years that it would
not be surprising if the pace were not kept up. It
has been figured that the railroads, in buying goo,-
ooo tons of rails in 1896 only renewed about half the
track that needed renewing, figuring the average
life of a steel rail at from 12 to 15 years. But the
question still comes, whether the policy of 1897 will
approach any nearer to the demands of theoretically
safe railroading. Meantime, the uppermost problem
with every producer is how to lower cost, and the
movement in the Pittsburg district that has set the
whole iron trade agog will bring a general recast-
ing of furnace mixtures and a general reduction of
freights, first on raw materials and eventually on
finished products. The developments in the Chica-
go district will be watched with interest, particular-
ly in view of changes of organization that are
promised. It is known that the delivered price of
non-Connellsville coke will be considerably lower
at Chicago in 1897 than ever before. The past
week has brought a continuation of the conditions
in Bessemer iron and steel billets at Pittsburg, with
which the year opened. Sales of $10 iron in the
valley have been made and reports are going, with-
out details, of purchases even below the $9.75
figures given in connection with one transaction
last week. The average furnaceman is holding
aloof and quoting $10.50 as minimum for prompt
iron. Steel billets are less active and mills are
quoting $16, Pittsburg, though $15 and $15.25 sales
are still reported. Southern producers of pig iron
are shading former quotations and now name $8,
Birmingham, for No. 1 iron, $7.50 for No. 2; $7.25
for No. 2 soft and $6.75 for gray forge; but these
figures still keep them out of territory in easy
reach of Pittsburg and the two valleys. There is
practically no buying either by mills or foundries.
Finished products are weak and in little demand.
Steel bars at 95c, Pittsburg, and tank plates for East-

CLEVELAND, O. JANUARY 14, 1897.

1 THE IRON TRADE REVIEW

NUMBER 2.

CHICAGO, ILL.

| ern shipment at but little above rc, Pittsburg, indi

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cate something of the eagerness of mills for prompt
business to tide over the wait. The prices agreed on
structural material and bar iron are no stimulus to
The beam pool has a meeting on Friday
The billet pool committee

buying
to discuss the situation.
has propositions from a number of mills in the Cen-
tral West for the transfer of allotments and an alter-
native proposition for the purchase of plants will be
entertained by several.

THE CLEVELAND DISTRICT.

The statistics given elsewhere of the output of
Lake Superior mines in 1896, including the all-rail
shipments, show a total quite too near the 10,000,-
ooo-ton mark. The all-rail shipments were about
100,000 tons more than in 1895, indicating a large1
output of Lake Superior charcoal iron last year.
Speculation as to the basis for Bessemer takes a

| considerable range between the price of last year

and that of 1895, when the basis was $2.90 for Bes-
semer soft ores. Some of the sellers of iron in the
valleys and Pittsburg seem to be discounting the
lowest ore price ever made. But conditions as they
exist are admittedly no criterion for the year.
The season of ore shipping will be well along be-
fore the new rail freight to Pittsburg will be opera-
tive, and 1897 ore will thus not receive the full
benefit of the cheap transportation that is ahead.
If reports are to be believed, the Carnegie-Rocke-
feller deal involved a proviso that insures a com-
bination rail and lake freight from the mine to
Conneaut of $1.20. Whichever way the distribu-
tion is made there is still a fair profit left, both to
the road and the vessel line.

More sales of low-priced Bessemer iron
have been made, and some of the Pitts-
burg deals heard of verge on the lowest price ever
touched in the valley. A considerable transaction
was closed on a $10 basis, early delivery. Fur-
naces represented in Cleveland have quoted $10.50
valley as minimum for promptiron. There is a
great excess of pig iron production in the valleys
under conditions likely to exist in the near future.
Foundry iron is getting lower, but there is little
buying to speak of. No. 2 iron went below $ro val-
ley on one transaction the past week, but the aver-
age furnace quotes $10.50, and for No. 1, $11. Gray
forge at $9, valley, is $1.25 below the quoted basis
for Southern, delivered at valley mill. We quote:

Pig Iron

DOSSCTRCT 2c ccccssees ose ceoseceee $10 65@11 oo Valley Scotch No. 1....... $11 65
No. 1 Strong Foundry.....11 40@11 65 Valley Scotch No. 2 .....ccceessscees 1115
No. 2 Strong Foundry.....10 90@11 15 GIAY POTBE......000..-00ccccccees 656 99
NO. 3 FOUMATY......000-.-..-.10 4O@I0 65 Lake Superior Charcoal..... ...... 13 50

Business comes up very slowly and rolling
mill running schedules are irregular and
Conservative sellers are not

Finished
Material. uncertain.
meeting the lower prices reported, but the extent
of the cuts some mills are making is disquieting.
Little is done in structural material, though one
large local block is sure to go up in the spring. Bar
steel has sold at 1c, Pittsburg, and below, with the
Cleveland quotation 1.10c. On sheets 1.95¢ to 2c
for No. 26, 2c to 2.10c for No. 27 and 2.15c to 2.20c
for No. 28 have been quoted. Low-priced steel has
pushed down the price of wire nails. Sales at $1.40,
Cleveland, are reported, and $1.35 is said to be
available. Old material continues very dull on the
basis of $11 for No. 1 wrought, $14 to $14.50 for
old iron rails, $7.75 to $8 for cast scrap and $11 for
old wheels.

[January 14, 1897.

CHICAGO,

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1142 MONADNOCK BLOCK, Jan. 13.

Last week was little if amy more active than the week
previous. Sales of all kinds of material were very small, and
judging from the inquiry in hand, the tonnage closed in the
coming week or ten days will not be much larger. The mar-
ket is dull, but it would not take a great amount of business
to infuse new life into it and make dealers more hopeful.
Producers and consumers alike would welcome any change,
but no one dares to make any prophecies as to the immediate
future. Every one had been expecting that business would be
very much improved by the middle of this month, but
that time is upon us with no visible betterment of the
situation. The trade continues to look forward hopefully,

however.
Pic Iron.—While there have been some few inquiries, they

have not been large enough or frequent enough to induce the
belief that business will be much improved immediately. In
the absence of any such transactions as would really test the
market, prices appear to be about as firm as could be ex-
pected. It is difficult to say whether any changes would be
made in quotations were the market to become active:

Lake Sup. Charcoal...... $13 50@11 00 | Southern No. 2 Soft...... $10 90@I1t 40
Local Coke Fdy. No. 1... 11 75@12 25 South’n Silveries Nq. 1. 12 15@12 65
Local Coke Fdy. No. 2.. 11 25@11 75 South’n Silveries NO 2. 11 65@12 15
Local Coke Fdy. No. 3... 11 oo@11 25 | Jackson Co. Silveries ... 14 00@16 05
Local Scotch Fdy. No. 1. 11 75@12 25 Ohio Silveries No. 1...... 15 OO@I5 55
Local Scotch Fdy. No. 2. 11 25@11 75 Ohio silveries No 2...... 14 50@I5 05
Local Scotch Fdy. No. 3. 11 oo@11 25 Ohio Strong Softeners... 14 00@14 28
South’n Coke No. r....... 11 65@r!1 90 Alabama Car Wheel...... 16 65@I7 (5
South’n Coke No. 2....... II 15@1t 40 Malleable Bessemer ...... 12 75@13 50
South'n Coke No. 3....... 10 90@I1 40 Coke Bessemer.............. 13 0OO@I3 50
Southern No.1 Soft...... 11 15@1t 40

Bar Iron.—This branch of the market is quiet and sales
have been small. There is no prospect of any immediate
change in the situation. Prices are well maintained. Quota-
tions are made as follows: Common iron, 1.25¢ to
soft steel bars from strictly billet stock, 1.20c to 1.30c.

RaI_s AND TRACK Suppiies.— A fairly good run of small
orders was closed last week, but nothing of any size was taken
and no large business is as yetin sight. Prices are made:
Rails, $26; splice bars, 1.40c to 1.45c! track bolts with square
nuts, 1.95c to 2c; hexagon nuts, 2.05c to 2.10c; spikes, 1.65¢
to 1.75¢.

BILLETS AND Rops.—The market is lifeless, with no sales of
either billets or rods made in the last week. No quotations
are made upon either of these products, but rods are probably
worth about $23, Chicago.

STRUCTURAL MATERIAL.—A few small contracts for bridge
material were placed last week, including one order of 400
tons. General business has been very quiet and no contracts
of any size have been placed or are in sight. Quotations are
as follows: Beams and channels, 1.73c to 1.80c; angles,
1.25¢c to 1.30c; plates, 1.25c to 1.30c; tees, 1.50c to 1.55¢.
Small lots from stock are quoted Kc to 4c higher.

P.iates.—No business of any consequence was placed last
week, and as the demand has been light it is not expected
that orders will show any improvement immediately. Prices
are made as follows: Tank steel, 1.25c to 1.30c; flange
steel, 1.45c to 1.55c; fire-box 2c to sc.

Sueets.—Both black and galvanized sheets are in light de-
mand and are not expected to improve much before the first
of next month. Quotations are weak at 2.20c to 2.25c, for
No. 27 black and 80 to 80 2% percent discount for galvan-
ized.

MERCHANT STEEL. —Very little business of any kind was
closed last week, but dealers are inclined to think orders will
be more plentiful the latter half of this month. Prices are as
follows: Open-hearth spring, tire and machinery steel, 1.85¢
to 1.95c; smooth finished machinery steel, 1.60c to 1.65c;
smooth finished tire, 1.55c to 1.65c; tool steel, 5.50c to 7.50c:
specials, 11c and upwards.

Otp MareriaL.—No transactions of consequence took place
last week and the demand continues light. In the absence of
business prices are only nominal. Quotations are made at
$13 and $14 for old iron rails, $10 to $11 for old steel
rails, and $11.75 to $12.50 for old wheels. Miscellaneous
scrap is quoted about as follows: Railroad forge, $11.50
to $12; dealer’s forge, $10.75 to $11.25; No. 1 mill, $8;
heavy cast, $8 to $8.50; malleable cast, $8 to $9.50; axles,
$14.75; cast borings, $4; wrought turnings, $5.50; axle turn-

I. 30C;

ings, $6 to $6.50; mixed steel, $7.50; stove plates, $5.75 ;
heavy melting steel, $9.25 to $9.75.

PITTSBURG.

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807 TRADESMEN’S BUILDING, Jan.13 §

Continued uncertainty characterizes local conditions in iron
and steel. Market information continues a matter of rumor
and estimates as to conditions and prospects vary widely.
Iron in considerable quantities has sold at prices believed to
be near $10.65, Pittsburg. Steel 1s still moving, but in smaller
Both buyers and sellers show timidity, regarding the
Finished material has

lots.
future and uncertainty
been in no demand, with prices tending in almost all lines

is general.

toward weakness.

Pic Iron.-—— The situation in Bessemer, instead of clearing,
has grown even more uncertain in the week just closed. Not-
withstanding denials and protests of furnacemen and dealers
generally, reports are not few of iron at and below $10.65,
Pittsburg. In view of the continued secrecy maintained re-
garding transactions, the exact truth is not known. The week,
however, has seen a very considerable tonnage of iron sold,
and at prices certainly not above $10.75, Pittsburg. One lot
of several thousand tons is known to have sold at $ro in the
valley and other lots are reported sold below this figure. Ru-
mor places the extreme of low prices even below that men-
tioned last week ($10.40, Pittsburg), but in every case the re-
port lacks confirmation. The situation, in short, is but a con-
tinuation of the uneasiness and uncertainty of last week, aug-
mented by being prolonged, with no definite indication of a
turn. The prospective reduction in the cost of making pig
iron has apparently been more than discounted by some
sellers. The tendency seems to be even in the discussions of
the matter to jump at conclusions and to exaggerate the pos-
Extreme weakness, with enforced
Gray forge

sibilities of cheapness.
sales here and there, help to complicate matters.
is not as weak as currently reported and has held its own well

in the week past. Foundry irons are lifeless. We quote

Bessemer
No. 1 Foundry
No 2 Foundry....
No. 3 Foundry.. Sie
EE SID cn tetistncrccemnsncrscenemncceeeestse eseceneeminesessentes | anenmnneneeneess

* ganas manent i1.§0 to 11.75
11.00 tO 11.25

Bittets.—The week in steel, as in iron, has developed no
relief from the disquiet and puzzling conditions of the first
week of the year. Reports of sales are confined to uncon-
firmed rumors, differing widely in character and largely un-
Local mills are believed to be well booked, as there
Extremely low

reliable.
is little struggle for the tonnage placed.
prices are spoken of, and $15, $15.25 and $15.50 are said to
be paid for the material taken. Mulls, on the contrary, quote
$16 to $16.50, but concede that these figures are shaded on de-
made that even lower steel
Sheet bars at $17 and

sirable orders. Predictions are
will be seen in the next ten days.
$17.50 have been in less demand, and it is believed require-
ments are well covered until July.

STRUCTURAL MATERIAL.— The Columbia Bridge, to be let on
Friday, absorbs attention and is the only large contract in
sight. The week in structural material has been unimportant
and no changes are noted, prices on angles and universal
We repeat quotations: Beams
24-
uni-

plates continuing very low.
and channels, 15 inches and under, 1.55c; 20-inch, 1.70c;
inch, 1.75c; angles, 1.10c to 1.15c; tees, 1.35¢ to 1.40C;
versal plates, 1.10c to 1.15c; zees, I.30¢ to 1.35¢.

Bars.—Steel bars are reported as selling, below rc, Pitts-
burg, for prompt specification, although local mills claim to
be maintaining 1.05c on all fair-sized orders. Some business
has been reported placed at .g5c, but the quantity is not large.
Bar iron has shown a little life, but the orders are of small
proportions. The reaffirmed association price, 1.15c, Cleve-
land and Youngstown, seems to be maintained. Muck bar,
owing to reduced values in billets and in steel bars, and the
increasing competition of the latter with iron, is reported
weaker at $19 to $19.50.

PLaTEs.—Some demand fire-box steel and an
occasional small requirement for tank. Tank,
I.1oc to 1.15c; shell, 1.25c to 1.30c; flange, 1.35c¢ to 1.40¢.

PipE AND SKELP. — Eastern demand, for cast pipe has been
considerable, but in wrought pipe neither iron nor steel has

is noted in
We quote

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been moving to any extent.
lots continues at 5 tens and 5 per cent, and on smaller lots s
tens is asked. Steel is held at six tens. Naturally there is
no demand for skelp. We quote Grooved steel skelp, tc to
1.02%c; sheared, I.10c to 1.15¢; grooved iron skelp, 1.1744c
to 1.20c; sheared iron skelp, 1.30¢ to 1.35¢.

Sueets. — Galvanized sheets have been the more active line
Prices,

Iron pipe for less than carload

of late, and we note a sale of 500 tons in the week.
however, are weaker and good orders secure quite low figures.
Black sheets

Eighty and 10 per cent off list has been done.
continue to

are fairly active, but also weak in price. We
quote: No. 26, 1.95¢ to 2c; No. 27, 2.05c to 2.15§c; No. 28, 2.20¢
to 2.25¢.

MERCHANT STEEL.—We continue to quote
1.20c; machine straightened tire, 1.35c to
1.30c to 1.35C; open hearth spring, 1.55c to 1.60c; machin-
sleigh shoe,

Soft steel bars,
1.45C; spring,

ery, 1.30c to 1.35¢; toe chalks, 1.55c to 1.60C;
1.45¢ to 1.50¢.

Otp MATERIAL. — Wrought scrap is reported weaker and in
A general falling off in values is noted,

occasional demand.
Short

although there are no sales upon which to base prices.
steel rails have sold in the week and also some No. 1 wrought
Wrought scrap, $11; cast scrap, $10 to

scrap. We quote
$10.25; car wheels, $11.50, gross; old steel rails, $13 to
$13.25; coil spring, $10.75 to $11, gross; hammered iron

axles, $16 to $16.50, net; rolled iron axles, $14 to $14.50;
heavy melting stock, $12.50 to $13; machinery cast, $9.75
to $10.

CoNnNELLSVILLE Coke.—The leading Connellsville interests
continue to quote $2 per ton of furnace coke. Other cokes

are being offered at $1.50 to $1.60.

IN OTHER MARKETS.

[SPECIALLY REPORTED FOR THE IRON TRADE REVIEW.)

The business of the first fortnight of the new year
has given few indications that can be made the
basis of general statements. It is certain that little has come
up, and the tendency is naturally toward weakness. The
purchase of 6,000 tons of foundry iron by one company is re-
ported, and the plates and shapes for the Japanese cruisers,
amounting to about 6,000 tons, are the only orders of note.
The latter, it is reported, went at somewhat below 1.20¢c, sea-
board. Immediate business is greatly wanted by the mills,
and they are quoting low prices to get it, since the start is not
looked for in the coming month. Rail business in 1897 is ex-
pected to show a decided improvement over last year’s, when
the tonnage was goo,ooo for standard sections, with light rails
and girders probably bringing the total up to 1,100,000 tons.
Sellers find no signs of the revival which is so generally pre-
dicted for this year, and buyers seem quite of the opinion that
current prices will be available a little later, with a chance
that they can cover at something below to-day’s basis. . In
pig iron, while two fair-sized contracts are reported, general
buying is slow and foundries hereabout are still looking for
the promised improvement. If the melt of iron is a trifle
greater, prices in some lines are the lowest. Pig iron produc-
tion is still gaining, and this is not conducive of higher prices.
We continue to quote $12 to $12.50, seaboard, for No. 2 found-
ry iron, $11.50 to $11.75 for No. 2 plain, and $10.75 to $11.25
for mill irons. In steel $18 is quoted, but it is understood
that $17.50 is*a possibility. done on a
basis corresponding to $15 to $15.50, Pittsburg, but the lower
price is not quoted now. In finished material little new busi-
ness has come into the market this month, and the fact that
Pittsburg is able to take a good share of any large contract is
a constant reminder of what may be expected from that
source until demand grows much larger. A basis below re
for bars, at Pittsburg mill, and in the neighborhood of tc for
tank steel is reporte 1 in connection with some recent business.
On carloads, seaboard delivery, the local market is 1.15¢ to
1.20c for bars, 1.25¢ to 1.35¢ for plates and angles, and 1.70c
up to 2c for beams and channels.

The week has been a very quiet one.
no business whatever is being done in pig iron,
most of the consumers being either closed down for the pur-
pose of, or their officials engaged in, the usual annual inven-
tory. In the absence of actual transactions, prices remain

Philadelphia

Some business was

» « . ; .e .
Buffalo. Practically

unchanged and until a heavy demand springs up are likely to
With no margin to the producers there is no op-

remain so.

THE IRON TRADE REVIEW. 5

portunity of lowering figures and without a lively demand
there no We
quote, on a cash basis, f.o.b. cars Buffalo, as follows: No. 1
No, 2, $11.75 to

to $12.60; No. 2

would be justification in advancing them.

foundry, Lake Superior ore, $12.25 to $12 50:
$12.35
silvery, No. 1, $14.25

No. 2,

12; Ohio strong softener, No. 1,
to $12.10; Jackson County
$15.25; Southern No. ft,
$11.75 to $12; Lake Superior charcoal, $14 to $14.50.

The first week of the new year has not developed
anything out of the usual run of trade in the iron
market. Buyers are able to cover their early requirements
at about so cents per ton off of prices ruling a month ago.
A few large orders were placed during the past week, one of
1,500 tons gray forge. We quote for cash f.o.b. St. Louis
Southern coke, No. 1, “$11; No. 2, $10.50; No. 3, $10; gray
forge, $9.75 ; Tennessee charcoal, No. 1, $13.25; Lake Superior
coke, No. 1, $14; Lake Superior car wheel, $15.25; Southern
car wheel, $15.25.

The manufacturers throughout this district con-
tinue a careful, conservative course, and are de-

soft, $12.25 to $12.50;

St. Louis

Cinncinnati.

voting unusual time to liquidation, shaping their affairs, and
perfecting plans and policies for the future. Unfortunately,
the conditions of general business afford ample time for
planning and adjusting, but those informed of the prosperous
period Great Britain and Germany have enjoyed the past year
and are still enjoying at the expense of American industries
and factories, are becoming impatient in the protracted de-
pression this country has been and is suffering. It is better
that the recuperation of trade be slow, steady and healthy,
and there is sufficient evidence of improvement to impart en-
couragement. While the market continues inactive, there is
a better demand for pig iron, which it is hoped will gradually
enlarge as steadily as the earlier risings of the sun each day,
and ‘ere spring shall come, fresh impulses of renewed life be
felt and seen on every hand.

For the moment prices are somewhat elastic, as quantity
and delivery are important factors as to figures. For current
business the prices below represent the market here: South-
ern coke, No. 1 foundry, $10.75; No. 2, $10.25; No. 3, $9.75;
gray forge, $9.50; mottled, $9.50; No. 1 soft, $10.50 No. 2, $10:
Hanging Rock charcoal, No. 1, $15 to $16; Tennessee char-
coal, No. 1, $13 to $14; Jackson County silvery, No. 1, $13.50
to $14; Standard Alabama car wheel, $14.75 to $15.50; Ten-
nessee car wheel, $13.50 to $14.50; Lake Superior car wheel

and malleable, $14.75 to $15.25.

Increased British Rail Shipments.

Business in rails between the United Kingdom and foreign
buyers showed considerable improvement last year. The ex-
ports to Nov. 30 reached 532,030 tons, as compared with 344 -
027 tons in the corresponding period of 1895, and 314,027 tons
in the corresponding period in 1894. The shipments made to
Japan in the first 11 months of 1896 increased to 47,338 tons,
as compared with 27,270 tons; those to Egypt advanced to
14,867 tons, as compared with 10,863 tons, and those to Mexico
to 17,554 tons, as compared with 5,667 tons. The Argentine
demand for British rails was again heavy, having amounted
in 1895 up to Nov. 30 to 70,914 tons, as compared with 12,877
tons. There were sent to South Africa 43,077 tons of rails to
Nov. 30, as compared with 19,965 tons in the corresponding
period of 1895, and 58,424 tons were forwarded to the Austral-
asian colonies, as compared with 34,095 tons. The great in-
fluence, however, which helped up last year’s exports, was
the largely increased demand from British India, the ship-
ments to that quarter to Nov. 30 having been 226,415 tons, as

compared with 128,154 tons.

Tue saw mill of the American River Land & Lumber Co.,
which is located close to the power house at Folsom, Cal., of
the Folsom—Sacramento Power Transmission, was started suc-
cessfully in December, cutting 50,000 feet of lumber a day.
The saw mill is the first in the country and indeed in the
world, which is operated by electricity. The current is three-
phase, taken from the power“house at Folsom, and the motors
are all of the induction type, the installation having been
made by the General Electric Co. The motors are one of 75
h. p., one of so h. p., both running at 720 volts, three of 30
h. p. and one of 5 h. p., operating at 200 volts.

6 THE IRON TRADE REVIEW.

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Tariff Hearing on Metals.

While Saturday, Jan. 9, was “devoted by the Ways and
Means Committee of the House to oral hearings at Washing-
ton, of representatives of interests affected by the rates on
metals, the most important communications on the metal
schedule will be submitted in writing. On behalf of the iron
industry, General Manager Swank, whose argument before
the Wilson committee was a strong protest against what
seemed quite certain to be done, and an answer to what
Grover Cleveland and others had been preaching in the cam-
paigns immediately preceding, will present to ihe considera-
tion of a majority friendly to the principle of protection, the
considerations that should weigh in determining iron and
steel rates. All the data needed for a complete statement on
behalf of the American Iron and Steel Association were not
in at the time of the oral hearing, but the iron statement will
go into details fully. The iron ore interests, for example,
took no action unitedly. The sentiment among producers in
the Lake Superior district varies from satisfaction with the
present 4o-cent rate to a desire for an increase to the 75-cent
of the McKinley bill, while there is a feeling, also, that an ad-
vance to, say, 50 cents would be the proper action.

The pig iron producers of the East had several representa-
tives present at Saturday’s hearing. Wm. A. Ingham, of the
Rockhill Iron & Coal Co., Rockhill Furnace, Pa., and of the
Andover Iron Co., Andover, N. J., spoke for the Eastern Pig
Iron Association favoring a return from $4 to $6.72 a ton, the
old rate. He was referred by a member of the committee to
the fact that 70,000 tons of pig iron had been exported from
Alabama to England recently. ‘‘Yes, I have heard that some
pig iron had been exported to England from Alabama or
Tennessee, but I think it was probably unsalable stock, and
might as well have been dumped into the Atlantic Ocean as
exported,’ was the reply, which indicated that Mr. Ingham's
information on this particular phase of the subject is far
astray. Continuing, he said that he had known of cnly two or
three Southern furnaces that had been successful—a state-
ment that had reference, no doubt, to dividend: paying suc-
cess. In reply to a question, he said that the selling price of
pig iron in England now is about $8 a ton, which was pretty
close to the cost of production in the Southern States. The
producers wanted the duties raised to avert any danger that
might hereafter arise on account of a decline of prices of pig
iron in England, and an advance at the same time of prices
in the United States.

J. M. Shimer, another representative of the Eastern manu-

facturers of pig iron, also advocated an increase of the duty
to $6.72 a ton. He admitted that the existing rate was suffi-
cient at this time, but that was due, he said, to ‘‘the abnormal
condition of the iron trade,"’ prices being relatively higher in
England than in the United States. The decline in prices
here was due to the general depression of business and to
close and sharp home competition. At present prices the fur-
naces of the United States would all be cold but for the fact
that wages had been reduced 25 per cent since the enactment
of the law of 1894, and toa point lower than he had ever be-
fore known . He had blown out his own furnaces tn Septem-
ber, 1892, because he feared Cleveland would be elected and
they had remained out of blast 20 months, when operations
were resumed with wages 25 per cent lower than in 1892. ‘“‘I
shut down again in September, 1896, because I feared Bryan
would be elected, but the furnaces will be lighted again on
Monday,”’ continued Mr. Shimer.

Joseph E. Thropp, chairman of the executive committee of
the Eastern Pig Iron Association, and the principal owner of
Everett Furnace, at Fverett, Pa., also urged the restoration
of the duty of 1890. Existing conditions are abnormal, he
said, low prices at home being due to reduced consumption,
in the general stagnation. He believed in providing against
foreign competition in the future.

J. G. Battelle, of Piqua, O., appeared in behalf of the sheet
iron and steel manufacturers. The industry has $14,000,000
invested and employs 15,000 hands. He filed a written state-
ment arguing in favor of higher duties on the grades of sheets
which come into competition with Russian sheets, and on
taggers sheets. The rates on these were fixed too low in
1894, he said.

The committee of the Tinned Plate Manufacturers’ Associa-
tion, to have in charge the tariff hearings before the
Ways and Means Committee, had been named by President
Graham, as follows: W. C. Cronemeyer, United States Iron
& Tin Plate Mfg. Co., Demmler, Pa.; George Grier, New
Castle Tin Plate Co.; H. A. Bishop, Ellwood Tin Plate Co.,
Ellwood, Pa.; A. N. Marshall, Marshall Bros., Philadelphia;
C. M. Stuart, Morewood Co., Gas City, Ind.; W. B. Leeds,
American Tin Plate Co., Ellwood, Ind.; Wm. Banfield, Wal-
lace Banfield Co., Pittsburg; President Graham and Secre-
tary Jno. Jarrett, ex officio. The report presented was chiefly
in manuscript and was largely statistical. A sub committee,
consisting of Messrs. Cronemeyer, Stuart, Battelle, President
Graham and Secretary Jarrett, presented the report.

The tin plate manufacturers want the advance in duty
graduated according to the quality of the product. On tin
plates the advance desired is to 1.5c per lb. In the differential
for black plate over common sheet iron an advance from \¢c
to Kc is asked. Mr. Cronemeyer, in addressing the commit-
tee, said that wages had been reduced ro to 25 per cent on ac-
count of the Wilson bill cut in the tin plate tariff, and that the
workmen yielded only after a long strike. Only the reduc-
tion in the price of steel allowed the mills to run even then.
The domestic output of tin plates has largely decreased, and
in 1896 the proportion of foreign black plates tinned in the
United States did not exceed three percent. Mr. Cronemeyer
complained of the provision which allows a drawback of go
per cent of the duties on all imported tin plate that 1s re.
exported. He said that 80 per cent of the total drawbacks
paid was on this account, and it was a serious injury to
American industry. In 1896 it amounted to about $1,600,000,
which represented $5,000,000 of wages that would have been
paid to American labor but for the drawback allowance. This
drawback was paid chiefly to strong and prosperous concerns
like the Standard Oil Co., and the great meat packing estab-
lishments. Prior to the introduction of the system, they had
paid a higher price for imported tin plate than they would
now have to pay for the American article.

John Jarrett spoke to the same effect. The average reduc-
tion of wages in the industry since 1894, he said, had amounted
to 25 per cent, no part of which had the manufacturers been
able to restore. ‘‘The cost of the reduction of duties has been
borne by American labor,’’ he said, somewhat bitterly, 1n re-
ply to a question, and added: ‘‘Wages are too low, and the
wage-earners are complaining.’”’

H. W. Hartman of Ellwood City, Pa., asked for specific
instead of ad valorem rates on seamless tubing, the latter
having hurt the domestic industry through under-valuations.

January 14, 1897. ] THE IRON

TRADE REVIEW.

—————oOooOo ee oo
9,934,446 TONS.

LAKE SUPERIOR IRON ORE OUTPUT IN 1896.

We present this w eek our annual statement of the produc-
tion of Lake Superior iron ore, mine by mine. The total for
1896 is 9,934,446 gross tons, as compared with 10,429,037 gross
tons in 1895, leaving the 1896 output only 500,000 tons below

the*greatest ever achieved. There were 84 shipping proper-

ties, against 86 in 1895 and 67 in 1894

MARQUETTE RANGE. :
Gross Tons.

Mine.
Cambria, 95,086
Champion, . ; - 3.375
Cleveland I. M. Cc Ban's 268,364
Dexter, . . elite ms! «ae © B.S ee 18,903
Grand Rapids, be oe WW ak ee Re Sed h..
Hartford, 4 16532
Iron Cliffs, 244. 755

ackson, ; 80,710
ee Angeline, 344, 753
Lake Superior, 459,576
Lillie, —_ 107,532
Mesabi's F riend, 10,540
Negaunee, — 175,394
eee ae ae ee 1,041
Platt, a aaa ane ae ee oe 11,296
Primrose, 6,040
mare , 323,057

epublic, 127,360
Richmond, 1,088
Star West, 9,658

53,216

Volunteer,
150,496

4Etna (Lowmore),
Auburn, . .
Biwabik,

Canton,
Cincinnati, .
Cloquet (Vega),
Commodore,
Fayal,

Franklin,

Genoa,

Hale,

Lake Superior,
Mahoning,

Norman,
Ohio,

Sellers,

Total,..

ments from

Mountain Iron (and Rathbun),

Oliver (Mis. Mtn. and Lone Jack),

Williams (N. Cincinnati),

tributed the all-rail shipments to local furnaces.
290,410 tons, against 195,127 tons in 1895

Me

17,723
131,478
242,565

16,261

57,324

96, 280

22,003
248,645
231,086

17,136

70,006

67,659
167,245
142,021

77,523

69,925
808, 2g1
153,037

11,249

. 2,882,079

The subjoined™table shows the distribution of the ship-
various ranges, as well as the ranges which con-

These were

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held its own:

1895 are interesting.
from its strike in 1895.
only been exceeded three times in its history.
lost heavily in 1896, the Menominee less heavily.
bi gained 100,000 tons and the Vermilion a little more than

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..|2,603 839 1,560,467) 1 799,971 | 1,088,090 |2,882,079|9 934,146

SHIPMENTS BY RANGES.

The changes in the position of some of the ranges from
The Marquette range suffered severely

Its splendid output the past year has
The Gogebic

The Mesa-

Winthrop, .
Total, . . 2,603,839
MENOMINEE RANGB.

Mine. Gross Tons.
Antoine, 110,821
Aragon, . 95, 809
Chapin, . age
Commonwealth, 93,797
Columbia, . 57,202
Crystal Falls, 44,520
Cundy (Quinnesec), . 3,395
Delphic, - §2
Dunn, 47,081
Florence, ; 35,136
Great Western, 14,643
Hemlock, 94,645
Loretto, 34.334
Mastodon, 60
Millie. re 21,815
Penn Iron Mng Dice's cay terms wees e ee, TE
Pewabic, a? as ae sg wine i we ee te ee pe,
Sheridan, 3,419

Total, 1,560,467
GOGEBIC RANGE

Mine. Gross Tons.
Anvil,. . - 57,493
Ashland, 91,149
Atlantic, 60,727
Aurora, . 187, 169
Brotherton, 50,490
Cary, . 38,821
Chicago, 504
Colby, 48,492
Eureka, 4.544
Iron Belt, 81,351
Montreal, 131,531
Newport, 142,369
Norrie, 329,068
Pabst, . 68,984
Palms, 114,108
Pence, 13,185
Shores, a. 12,196
Sunday Lake, . 89,441
Tilden, . 250,205
Windsor, 28,154

Total, . . 1,799,971
VERMILION RANG

Mine. Gross Tons.
Minnesota, 448, 707
Chandler, 471,545
Pioneer, . 149,07

. 49,073
Zenith, 18,765

Total, . . 1,088,090
MESABI RANGE.
Mine. Gross Tons.

Adams,

234,562

Mine. 1895. 1896.
Marquette, 2,097,838 2,603,839
Menominee, 1,923,798 1,560,467
Gogebic, 2,547,976 1,799,971
Vermilion, 1,077,838 1,088,090
Mesabi, 2,781,587 2,882,079

Total, 10,429,037 9,934,446
BY PORTS AND ALL-RAIL.

Mine. Gross Tons.
Escanaba, . . 2,321,931
Marquette, . 1,564,813
Gladstone, 220,887
Ashland, . 1,566,236
Superior, 167,245
Duluth, . 1,988,932
Two Harbors, . 1,813,992
All-Rail, 290,410

Total, . - 9,934,446

With our issue of next week we will publish the usual annual
supplement, giving the shipments from Lake Superior iron
mines for 1896, and the preceeding 41 years by ranges and by
mines.

At Newport News, Va., work on the battleships at the ship-
yard here has been temporarily suspended on account of an
order requiring that all plates used must first be subjected to
longitudinal and transverse tests. Several hundred men have
been laid off on account of the order and others will follow
unless it is revoked by the Navy Department. It was ex-
pected that 3,000 men would be employed at the yards by
Feb. 1.

Tue annual meeting of the Ohio “Institute of Mining En-
gineers will be held in the Y. M. C. A. Building, Columbus,
O., Jan. 20-22. The papers apply almost entirely to coal min-
ing. One of wider application is by E. P. Lord, general
superintendent of the Locomotive Works of H. K. Porter &
Co., Pittsburg, on ‘‘Compressed Air Locomotives.”’

8 THE IRON TRADE REVIEW.

ENGLISH VIEW OF AMERICAN TOOLS.

The large purchases of American tools by English and Con-
tinental shops in the past six months, particularly tools used
in bicycle manufacturing, have excited considerable comment
on the other side. The causes for these purchases lead £x-
gineering, of London, to some reflection on the rapid advance
in the machine tool industry in the United States. Its com-
ments are interesting and suggestive, and we reproduce them
below:

No doubt a good many ingenious cycle making tools have
been constructed in this country, but these have been largely
designed by the cycle makers themselves—when they happen
to have been mechanics also—and have not been put upon the
market. Under these circumstances, the American makers
have stepped in and are at the present time reaping a rich
harvest in selling pretty well at their own prices, special cycle
making machinery of a nature which cannot be purchased
from British manufacturers.

The fact is the more annoying because there is nothing in
these tools which our native mechanics could not have pro-
duced if they had only thought—but then, thinking is the
hardest work a mechanic does. We recognize the ingenuity
of these American machines, the skilful way in which they
are devised to get over difficulties and to produce mechanical-
ly the maximum result—both in quantity and quality—with
the least amount of costly human intervention. The candid
Englishman must admire these things, but he is apt to at-
tribute them wholly to the natural mechanical genius of the
American—something native to the soil, which he summar-
izes as ‘‘Yankee ingenuity.’’ Now if in anything genius may
be rightly described as ‘‘an infinite capacity for taking pains,”’
it certainly is so in regard to mechanical design. All these
beautiful devices we see in the Pratt and Whitney machines
did not flash into the brains of their originators during idle
moments, like lightning 1n a summer sky; but, however sud-
denly the end may have come, they were the results of previ-
ous study of what was required, and careful thought as to the
best way of producing it. And if this is true of the individu-
al, it is equally so of the corporation or firm to which he be-
longs. We had in this country some years ago a man who
grasped the importance of extreme accuracy in mechanical
work, and, having recognized a need, he thought no pains
wasted which enabled him to reach his end. It would be un-
true to say there are none of the same stamp in England now,
but if we could believe that the spirits of the dead walk the
earth, we should look to find the ghost of Whitworth in a ma-
chine tool shop of New England.

It is hard to account for this higher perfection of light ma-
chine tool making on the other side of the Atlantic. We are
apt to consider that in a new country things are inclined to
be hap-hazard and makeshift, but we must not forget that
the engineering history of New England extends almost as
far back as that of Old England. At any rate, the first Ameri-
can designers had all the benefit of our early experience; for
come what may, nothing can rob England of the honor of be-
ing the birthplace and nursery of modern mechanical en-
gineering. Perhaps we have been a little spoiled by our past
success.

The earlier British engineers perfected the standard ma-
chine tools, and the engineering industry of the country has
been so great that makers have not been forced into what are
known as “‘special lines.’’ When the heads of firms find they
can make a good income by selling the same thing over and
over again, they do not seek for fresh combinations; unless,
indeed, they have a natural love for designing. It may be
that it is here the New Englander has now the most consider-
able advantage. In the past, many of our own machine tool
makers .were men who were brought up in the shops; me-
chanics, made into business men and heads of firms by the
force of circumstances, but still mechanics. They had mastered
their craft in the school of necessity, and loved it for its asso-
ciation with early days, and as a means by which they reached
prosperity. They sent their sons to expensive schools where
the spirit of mechanical ingenuity has been an unknown
thing; classics and the politer branches of learning being con-
sidered all important. When the young man entered upon
his business career he would be put into the shops; a strange
world where his previous training gave him no insight into

what should be done. He found the work of design and ex-
ecution in the hands of those who were destined soon to be
his subordinates. In the press of business it had grown to be
looked upon as inferior work, relegated to the draftsman and
foreman. He would remain in the shops long enough to get
a “‘fair knowledge of the work,’’ and then pass to the office
to take what was thought to be his proper position in direct-
ing the commercial and financial policy of the establishment.
Of course, there are many firms of machine tool makers in
England where the designing is in the hands of a responsible
partner, who has a direct money interest in the production of
the best results; but the instances are by no means so plenti-
ful as they should be, and wherever found, so far as our ex-
perience goes, the business is a successful one. There are
also now many machine tool makers who are of the school we
have referred to, men who began life as mechanics and have
prospered by dint of frugality and industry until they have
works of their own. Now, although men of that stamp were
excellently equipped for the work of 40 or 50 years ago, they
are not at all suited to take a leading position and guide an in-
dustry in the present day of higher demands and wider com-
petition; in fact, although they do most ‘conscientious work of
the kind they have been brought up to, they have sometimes
a narrow mental horizon, and once they have got on in the
world, are the most adverse to change of all classes.

In the United States we have somewhat different condi-
tions. Our remarks apply chiefly to the New England States,
but we believe the same conditions prevail in most parts of
the Union. The early machine tool makers, like our own,
were men who had a thorough workshop training; that is,
they, worked for their living, and did not simply ‘‘ pass through
the shops.’’ The New England mechanic is, however, a
different man to his confrere in this country. Whatever may
be said about ‘‘there being no more equality in a republic
than under a monarchy,” and of the ‘aristocracy of the al-
mighty dollar,’’ or of ‘‘class distinction being as closely
marked in America as in England,’’ there is no doubt that
the New England mechanic holds himself more the equal of
his employer than does the English craftsman; and, further,
that the employer recognizes this claim. The fact has noth-
ing to do with the form of government; in our opinion the
root of this healthy feeling 1s in the method of education un-
der which the sons of masters and men, or, if the terms be
preferred, of employers and employed, sit on the same form
at school. The influence is good for all; it levels up both
classes. It widens the sympathies of one, whilst it refines the
other. How much America owes to this healthy comming-
ling of the classes in early youth it is difficult to say; but
there can be no doubt that in the past it has been a most po-
tent factor in the production of a race of native born Ameri-
cans—upon which we Englishmen may look with pride as our
near relatives—a race which has enabled a new country to as-
similate the vast crowds of aliens that have flocked to its
shores from all parts of the world.

In regard to the engineering industry, and the machine tool
trade in particular, the results have been most fortunate.
The sons of employers have entered upon their career with a
truer appreciation of the work of the artisan, and the value
of shop practice, on which the success of the business must,
after all, so largely depend. On the other hand, the young
artisan sees that his employers are not a race apart, but have
characteristics in common with himself, so that it only needs
a change of environment to enable him to take his place
among them.

It may be said this is more a social problem than one hav-
ing any bearing on the machine tool industry. We think
otherwise. The nearer approach to social equality between
employer and employed—the executive, the drawing office,
and the bench—leads to a unity which is strength. The
American workman speaks out more boldly, he ventures to
differ more emphatically, or rather he differs without the
though that he is venturing, and holds his point firmly. On
the other hand, the employer is not afraid to discuss matters
with his workmen; he does not feel he loses caste by arguing
the matter out, even if he got beaten in the argument. In
fact, the two classes meet on an equality which is necessary
to perfect council.

It is not, as we have intimated, so much by mechanical
genius as by foresight and enterprise—the two qualities gen-

co

January 14, 1897] THE IRON TRADE REVIEW.

erally go hand in hand—that the Americans have achieved THE GROVES GEAR MOLDING MACHINE.

their success in light machine tools, more particularly in labor ———

saving appliances for special industries, such as the sewing On Dec. 22, 1896, a patent was granted S. Groves, of Pitts-
machine, the watchmaking, and tiie typewriter trades: we burg, on the gear mold ng machine of which a view is given
would add the small arms industry, but we remember that in the accompanying illustration. Mr. Groves’s work in this
here English tool makers have achieved notable triumphs in direction is quite well known to foundrymen in the United
the past. There are ple nty of mechanics in Great Britain States, and his papers at association meetings have brought
who, if definite ends were set before them, would solve the out well the state of progress in perfecting machinery for
problems of construction involved in producing automatic ma- molding gears, previous to the {1 ling of his applications for
chines equal to those which are now coming in such numbers patents. The application on the patent so recently granted
across the Atlantic But with us there is the obstacle that was filed in Se ptember, 1895 Meantime research was made
the brain to direct and the brain to doso seldom come together in Germany, France and England to test the originality of
We know one eminent engineer in Great Britain who attrib- some of the claims mad have been sustained. Mr
utes much of the remarkable success that has attended his Groves holds the sole patent right, but Taylor, Wilson & Co
career to unrestricted counsel with those he employs, and, we and the Union Foundry & Machine Co., of Pittsburg, have the
may add, he has always given an ungrudging rec ognition of right to manufacture upon the machines now in operation at
their services; but it requires a clear vision and more than their plants. At present Taylor, Wilson & Co. are sole manu-
ordinary strength of mind to see the wisdom of such a course facturers under the patent. It is the expectation that the use
and to follow it up in a country where the after influence of a of the machine will be pushed, also. among steel founders.

HE GROVI EAR MOLDING MA NI
feudal system is not altogether extinct, seldom as the fact is The only difference between making cast iron and steel gears
recognized. consists in the sands used to form the molds. In all other
We are conscious that what we hav: here said will not meet respects the process is the same
with the approval of many of our readers. Some will say our The Groves machine is adapted to the molding of spur
Statements, even if true, are injudicious and unpatriotic; a bevel, helical, staggered and worm gears from 6 to 72 inches

fouling of the industrial nest—a cry ing of stinking fish. It is diameter and 15-inch face. Its special advantages are thus
needless to say we think otherwise, or this article would not

summarized

appear in print. The purchasers of commodities all over the 1. Tne cross-arm, or jib, is balanced, as also is the vertical
world soon find out the best markets Anything written tooth-block slide, thus guarding against the undue straining

bears lightly in the scale as against practical experience; but and springing which is a defect of « xisting machines
it is well that any falling away should be emphasized, so that 2. The flask-table is capable of easy movement, since it is
manufacturers may be incited to bestir the mselves before | supported on ball be arings, rolling in care fully turned grooves.
trade 1s permanently directed into other channels. At pres- The balls are separated, the interval being nine inches.
ent we occupy far away the premier position in the manu- 3. The precise centering of the tooth-block vertical slide and
facture of heavier machine tools. For instance, the chief | flask-table is secured by a tapered sweep spindle. The ver-
marine engineering shops and shipyards of the world |

tical slide is lowered upon the weep spindle—which is fixed in
Eg » } » , | ‘ + | = ] } ]

are ‘fitted with British-made plants, or, at least, close | the center of table—prior to the making of every gear, with a
copies of our designs. There is no good reason why we view to testing the accuracy of the slide in relation to the
Should throw up the sponge in the contest for smaller tool | center of the f

orders.

ask-table.

1
4. The tooth-block pattern is lifted out of the mold verti-

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TRADE REVIEW.

[ January 14, 1897.

cally by a permanent rack; but it can also be withdrawn
from the sand horizontally, by means of an original eccentric
device constituting a duplex arrangemént, especially valuable
in the making of helical and worm gears. vie

5. By means of a tooth combdevice, the sand of the tooth
space is held down by an ingenious swing lever arm, while
the tooth-block pattern is being withdrawn. This overcomes
the old trouble of the sand breaking away under hand pressure.

6. The lifting and lowing “of mast and cross-arm is per-
formed by means of the well-known trundle gear, the prime
mover in which is a pinion with only two teeth or staves.

7. The flask is supported upon four adjustable brass stools,
having right and left-hand threads; and hence can be levelled
in much quicker time, with a spanner or wrench, than by the
old-fashioned method of hammer and wedges.

8. Probably the most economical improvement of all is the
substitution of an index plate, with 7,550 holes (manufact-
ured by Brown & Sharpe, of Providence, R. I.), for spacing
the teeth, in place of the expensive and inconvenient system
of change gears ‘found on nearly every other machine in ex-
istence. This change means equal accuracy, easier operation,
and at the same time saves the expense of an immense num-
ber of cut gears—7o at least—thus making the machine self-
contained. A chart is provided by which all odd numbers of
teeth up to roo and all even numbers up to 200 can be fixed in
one minute. sone

The first gear molding machine “was invented in 1855 by
Jackson, of Manchester, Eng. Then followed the Scott ma-
chine, with its center spindle, and moveable arm. Later Whit-
taker, of Oldham, Eng., introduced his machine, in 1875.
He abandoned the central spindle and fixed table, and re-
volved the flask-table instead of the tooth-block arm. Sub-
sequent machines have followed Whittaker in these particu-
lars. John Walker, formerly of the Walker Mfg. Co., Cleve-
land, patented a machine which differed in the mode of cen-
tering, beveling and supporting the flask from the back. The
Walker ‘striking machine, which rendered it unnecessary to
connect the cope and drag together until the teeth are finished,
the arm cores placed and the center core fixed in the drag,
was a notable contribution.

' Joun T. Rowtey, vice-president of the Keystone Axle Co.,
Beaver Falls, Pa., is the inventor of a new process that will
be“used in the manufacture of steel axles. The machinery
for the plant has just been completed by the Robinson-Rea
Mfg. Co., of Pittsburg, and will be shipped to Beaver Falls at
once. The principal part of the machine is an immense roll,
weighing 30 tons. Heretofore axles have been forged length-
wise, and afterwards the taper and shoulders had to be put
on. By the new process the billets will be rolled to about the
desired size, after which they will be placed in the rolls edge-
wise. One roll will press them against a die, which will form
the axle into the exact shape required. Immense saws will
cut the axles to within a sixteenth of an inch of the length de-
sired, and they will then be finished with an ordinary facer.
The plant will have a capacity of 250 finished axles a day, and
will be ready to commence operations by Feb. 15. The com-
pany expects to secure the contract for furnishing all the axles
for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Mr. Rowley, the inventor, was
connected with the Cambria Iron Co. for a number of years.

At New York, ‘ex-Governor Hoadly, formerly of Ohio, W.
C. Whitney and W. L. Elkins are three members of the Com-
pressed Air Power Co., capital $1,000,000, just organized to
manufacture compressed air motors. Judge Hoadly is presi-
dent, and Almeric Paget, Mr. Whitney’s son-in-law, is vice-
president,

Tue production of Scotch pig iron in the United Kingdom
was 1,180,005 tons in 1896, and stocks" at the close of the year
were 508,169 tons. The consumption in 1896 was 1,152,4€0
tons, against 974,887 tons in 1895 and 678,805 tons in 1894.

" Tue American Pig Iron Storage Warrant Co. had in yard
Dec. 31, 1896, 200,700 tons. In the first 10 days of January
2,100 tons was put in yard and 300 tons withdrawn, making
stocks on Jan. 10, 202,500 tons.

PERSONAL.

M. K. Moorhead, of Pittsburg, president of the Mononga-
hela Navigation Co., is lying at the point of death. He was
for many-years connected with the iron industry, being found-
er of the firm that later became the Moorhead-McCleane Co.,
and operated the Soho furnace and mills.

Edward W. Parker, of the United States Geological Sur-
vey, Washington, D. C., was in Pittsburg last week looking
up the coke statistics left unfinished by the death of Joseph D.
Weeks. The Government work so well performed by Mr.
Weeks will be taken up by Mr. Parker.

Horace V.Winchell,*of Minneapolis, Minn., leaves this week
on a professional trip to the Pacific Coast, and will spend the
next four weeks in Washington, Oregon and California, in the
examination of gold mines.

Madison Main has resigned his position with the Douglas
Furnace, Sharpsville, Pa., to become manager of the Cherry
Valley Furnace at Leetonia, O.

Walker Kennedy, mechanical engineer of Pittsburg, has
gone on an important industrial commission to Japan.

Dr. Chas. Huston, president of the Lukens Iron & Steel Co.,
Coatesville,“ Pa., died at that place on Jan. 5, in his 75th year.
For nearly half a century he had been connected with the
Lukens company, his official relation to it beginning soon
after the death of his father-in-law, who started the business
in 1810, and whose name it bore. Dr. Huston contributed an
elaborate paper on ‘‘ The Iron and Steel Industry ’’ to the
memorial volumes entitled ‘‘One Hundred Years of American
Commerce," published in New York last year.

Curtis W. Shields, whose contributions on the uses of com-
pressed air in shop and foundry are well remembered, severed
his connection with the Ingersoll-Sergeant! Drill Co. on Jan.
1, to take charge of the sales department of the Pedrick &
Ayer Co., operated by Manning, Maxwell & Moore, 111 Li-
berty street, New York. Inthe Anugineering Magazine for
January appears an interesting article by Mr. Shields, well
illustrated, under the title, ‘‘ The Rise of the Young Giant,
Compressed Air.’’

The sudden growth of the power transmission branch of
the electrical industry is due to the recent developments in
the knowledge and application of the alternating current.
The use of the direct current, while perfect so far as the motor
is concerned, became too costly as soon as it required to trans-
mit power, by its means over long distances. Thus, when it
became necessary first to transmit power over long distances
and then to utilize the energy in motors, the necessity com-
pelled invention. The introduction of the multiphase system
solved the problem and gave to the electrician a means of
transmitting power over many miles, supplying him at the
same time with an alternating current motor in which to

utilize it.
The new system found a field ready for it in the far West,

and indeed all over the country is places where coal was
scarce and consequently costly. Waterfalls were eagerly ac-
quired, and examined as to the possibility of their utilization.
In California and Oregon three noted water-powers are now
transmitted over many mills—the waters of the Willamette
give power which is employed to run motors in Portland,
Ore., 124% miles away ; those of the American River at Folsom
supply“tlight as well as power to Sacramento, 24 miles away;
those of the San Joaquin to Fresno, 35 miles away. At Og-
den a power house is in course of erection which will contain
water wheels driven by water brought through a pipe nearly
seven miles long. These wheels will drive generators from
which the current will speed by wire to Salt Lake City, 36
miles distant, and even as far as the mines of Mercur, some
30 miles further on. Other notable power transmission
plants are operating successfully in many different places in
the United States, some exclusively used to drive and light
mills and mines, others to operate all kinds of machinery,
street railways and arc and incandescent lamps. One district
should be mentioned —that of the Lachine Rapids, where 12
1,000 H. P. dynamos will be set up to supply current to Mont-

real for all imaginable purposes.

Each plant represents a very large investment, in water
rights, real estate, buildings, hydraulic and electrical ma-
chinery and line, and yet each will, if it has not already,
prove a success, warranting the disbursement and reimburs-
ing the investor.

THE IRON

January 14, 1897.]

IMPROVED AIR HOIST

The straight lift pneumatic hoist shown in the accor

ing cut is of improved construction, and built by the Pn
Yor

]

Ss used o nak

of roo Broadway, New

tic Engineering Co.,

smaller sizes seamless drawn brass tubing
the cylinder, while for those of larger proportions
greater length of lift, seamless drawn steel tubing is employed

; } f +

re constructed of cas

In some special cases the cylinders a

1ron.
A hoist giving a four-foot lift is the size generally used in
most shops. They are however furnished with a length of

lift ranging all the way from three to 20 feet, and a capacit
of from 200 to 20,000 pounds.

A feature of the hoist shown here is the
air valve to the cylinder instead: of to the

attachment of the
lower
the usual practice. This admits of the head being removed
the same as a steam cylinder cover, and without disconnect
or

ing the air pipe or detaching the cylinder from the trolley

The hook which carries the load hoisted is swiveled to

crane.
the lower end of the piston rod in such a manner as to requirs
the least possible amount of room. This an advantag
IMPROVED AIR HOIST
where head-room is limited, worth considering. The piston

rod is fitted with a gland containing a packing, and requires
practically no attention beyond being oiled occasionally

Air is admitted to the hoist by tl
one direction and exhausted by reversing it. Regulation can
be secured from a scarcely perceptible motion of the piston to

1e movement of a lever in

full speed at will. One of the most important features of
hoists of this class is the air valve. In the lift shown the
valve is extremely simple in its construction and has proved

reliable and economical in its working.
It is a lift valve provided with a soft rubber seat, in con-

ther will dust

sequence of which it will not leak with wear, nei
or dirt keep it from closing tightly.

amination can be had to any point

Ready access for ex-

The valve closes automatically (holding t t any
Ihe
result is a great saving in air compared with hoists having

valves which must be manually closed.

he piston a

point desired) whenever the operating lever is released

The range of these hoists is wide, and is attained by means
of a quick hose coupling valve and by having live air drop
hose connections in convenient places, or wherever there is
lifting to be done.

Horizontal hoists are fitted either with or without multiply-

ing sheaves, according to circumstances, and in some cases

head, as is

TRADE REVIEW. 11

the e! le to tel e, tl aA gh lift witha
le hese patt ‘ more compli
eS expens e than t tvle, and should be
( oO! whe iff ent fhe i-To innot be had for the
il pattern
I mproved air hoist we ipted to take the place ot
ain blocks and hand cranes of a 1 ind it is used very
generally in ma ne shops, architectural iron works, boiler
shops, bridge works, foundries, railroad shops, car-wheel
foundri packing houses, ice plants, power stations, quar
es, etc As a foundry hoist its use enables the molder to
opel s flasks without other help
Western Foundrymen’s Association.

‘he next meeting of the Western Foundrymen’s Associa-
tion will be held at the Great Northern Hotel, Chicago, at
P.M., Wednesday, Jan. 2 In place of the regular busi-
é meeting, an info il reception to the members of the
ussociation and their friends will be given. It is desirable
that a better acquaintance among foundrymen be fostered,
ind it is hoped that t will be a very successful meeting and
‘ id to mor tive nterest in the work of the associa-
on. In order to make the necessary arrangements for the
ollation, the secretary desires that those who intend to be

present shall so notify him at least as early as Jan. 18
At the December meeting of the association a preliminary
eport of the Committee on Cores was presented and dis-
sset It is desirable to obtain as full data as possible on
the subject of the best temperature at which to dry cores,

ind foundrymen are requested to send to the secretary of the

issociation, A. Sorge, Jr., 1533 Marquette Bldg., Chicago, the

"

esults of any ol itions which they may have made in
r practice
Tue 28th annual banquet of the Western Society of En-
gineers was held on Tuesday evening, Jan. 5, at the Tech
nical Club‘ Chicago. Announcement was made at the ban
et of the result of the annual election of officers. as follows
Preside ‘homas T. Johnston; first vice-president, Alfred

Noble: second vice president, ynolds; treasurer,

Jam

En (a eT trustees, G. A. M Lilijencrantz, Horace E.
Horton and Ferdinand Hall After dinner arg address was

ade by Vice-president Noble, in lieu of the retiring presi-
dent, Mr. Wallace, who was unavoidably absent, in which he
gave a } of the work of the society for the last year.
Other addresses were made by Norman L. Patton, Robert W

George Beaumont and Emil Gerber

of representatives of the Amalgamated Asso-

manufacturers at Youngstown found, on a

Nove I

should be made in the $4.50 puddling rate.

| of 1¢

of the business of nber and December, that no

12 THE IRON TRADE REVIEW.

[January 14, 1897

Machinery Trade in 1896.

The following additional letters have been received from
manufacturers of machinery tools relative to the develop-
ments in their business in 1896:

The General Electric Co., New York:

The business of 1896 compared very favorably with that of
other years, the power department alone disposing of over
75,000 h. p. of machinery, nearly twice the amount sold in
1895. A steady growth, although not so striking, was ob-
served in our other departments as well. To enumerate the
additions to our line of products would take up altogether too
much space. Hardly a day passes but some new device for
the practical use of electricity is invented in our factory, and
extensions to the plant and equipment are being made con-
tinually, The new tradedevelopment of 1896 was particularly
the increased use ofthe electric motor on the steam roads. You
are acquainted with what has been done on the New York, New
Haven & Rartford Railroad; the Baltimore & Ohio has pur-
chased a new locomotive of smaller capacity, making four, and
other important main trunk lines have at present under con-
sideration plans for the reformation of their roads, which have
been submitted to them by us. The prospects for 1897 are of
the brightest, in spite of the very slow recovery from busi-
ness depression.

The Dean Steam Pump Co., Holyoke, Mass. :

Our business for the year 1896 compared favorably with
1894 or 1895, but was not by any means up to the limit of our
capacity. During the year we made some alterations in our

lant and have very greatly improved our facilities for manu-
acturing our pumps, by the addition of a large number of
new machines especially designed for us. We have added a
number of new pumps of special design, some of which are
already earning for us a remarkable record for economy.
Among these are water works machines at Andover, Mass.,
where we have new type of vertical fly-wheel cross compound
engine, sold under a guarantee of 125 million duty, which on
test developed that | a and which on every-day operation
is working even more economically. We have had a good
trade in marine pumps, nee added a complete line during
the year of vertical machines for boiler feeding, bilge, ballast
and also twin vertical air pumps. We anticipate an improve-
ment in business for the coming year.

J. E. Snyder, manufacturer of improved upright drills,
Worcester, Mass. :

I did one-third more business in 1896 than in the year previ-
ous. I added several new lathes and other appliances, which
I was obliged to do on account of the foreign demand for my
improved upright drills. I have run full time the entire year
of 1896, and have a good supply of orders booked for a starter
the present year. I shall be much disappointed if there is not
a very great improvement in home trade in a few months.
Prospects are good.

The Ferracute Machine Co., manufacturers of presses, dies
and other sheet metal tools, Bridgeton, N. J.:

We have had a prosperous year, and have been running
with our full number of men, working very often three nights
each week, and sometimes a double turn. We now have suffi-
cient orders in for some weeks ahead. We have added con-
siderably to our plant, in the way of machines, jigs and other
small tools, as well as a large vault for storing valuable books
and papers, with additions to offices, storage rooms, erecting
shop, etc. Our work during the year has been for the most
part on American orders, especiaily for our new and im-
proved presses for bicycle work; but later in the year we re-
ceived a large number of foreign orders, requiring nearly the
whole of our force to turn the work out. hese orders came
from England Germany, China, etc., part of them for mint
purposes and others for bicycle and electrical factories, etc.
We think the prospect is good for the coming year.

The Webster & Perks Tool Co., manufacturers of solid die
bolt-threading machines, Springfield, O. :

Our business of 1896 was good, better than the two years
revious. We have made no extension in plant. Business
or 1897 bids fair.

Norton & Jones Machine Tool Works, manufacturers of

drills and other machine tools, Plainville, Conn. :

The year 1896 was not a very good one for business, but we
managed to make a living and some profit. We did not shut
down, except for the usual holidays, during the year. We
consider the prospects for 1897 good. We are receiving con-
siderable inquiry and are booking some good orders.

Crocker-Wheeler Electric Co., manufacturers and electrical

engineers, New York:
The business of the Crocker-Wheeler Electric Co. for the
year 1896 was nearly 30 per cent greater than for any previous

year. The perfectly equipped plant built in 1895 has been in
operation steadily during the year, and has been pronounced
by all who have seen it an ideal factory, the notable feature of
which is the distribution of power by electricity, with the ab-
sence of shafting and belting. The average power used is
about 30 h. p., whereas it would require 75 h. p. to operate
shafting in the main building alone. We have added several
new machines to our line during the year, and other large
sizes are being designed. We have a number of large con-
tracts for lighting and power plants, and the prospect for 1897
is very promising.

Charles H. Besly & Co., manufacturers’ and machinists’
hardware, Chicago:

The prospects for business during 1897 are much better than
for several years past. We are now at work upon a new gen-
eral catalogue covering our entire line, which we hope to
have thoroughly distributed early this year. Weare making
special efforts to introduce the specialties of our own manu-
facture, viz., Gardner grinders, Gardner die heads, Gardner
die stocks and the Badger die stocks for bicycle use. We are
also making taps and dies of all descriptions, and shall in-
crease our working force at Beloit as soon as the season
progresses, adding such extensions and equipment as occa-
sion demands.

The Davis & Egan Machine Tool Co., builders of engine
lathes, planers, boring mills, drill presses, etc., Cincinnati:

We had a very good business during the year 1896. Dur-
ing the summer months we only ran about two-thirds of our
regular force eight hours per day, but during the past four
months we have been doing a remarkably large foreign busi-
ness and as a consequence are now running nearly 600 men
12 hours per day. We have put in a great many new ma-
chines 1n our shops to meet this demand, and should business
in this country improve to any extent we expect to do in 1897
the largest business in the history of this company. Our Mr.
Davis has just returned from a six months’ trip through
Europe, where he visited Russia, Germany, Austria, France,
Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Belgium and England. He
established agencies in the leading cities in these countries,
and we are in good shape to get our share of the business of
the old world. We have just secured the premises at the
corner of Lock street and Eggleston avenue, and will erect a
fine warehouse there within the next two months. We have
sufficient orders on our books at the present time to keep our
works running full time up to the first of May. During the
past year we have added to our line two sizes of boring and
turning mills, 37-inch and 51-inch; two large lathes, 52-inch
and 60-inch swing; automatic screw machines, two and three
spindle sensitive drills; 20-inch and 22-inch planers, 24-inch
geared shapers, (-inch and \%4-inch punches and shears. We
believe we make to-day the largest variety of machine tools
of any other concern 1n this line.

‘“* BENNER’S Propuecigs,”’ 11th edition, has just come from
the press of the Robert Clarke Co., Cincinnati. We are in-
formed on the title-page, as in previous editions, that these
are prophecies of ‘‘/u/ure ups and downs in prices,’’ the reader
being thus kindly saved from any misapprehension as to the
character of the article he buys. Doubtless there are a few in
the iron trade who still find diversion in this jumble of “‘ pig
iron, hogs, corn and provisions,’’ and possibly a few others,
who will point to ‘‘fulfillments’’ of Benner. We can only re-
gret, however, that the publishers have not been successful in
bending the gifts of the author toward meteorology or some
kindred field in which the audience would be larger and the
ability to appreciate humor unhampered by any serious ap-
plication.

R. E. Grant, Middleport, O., 1s in the market for engines of
the following description: One 20-inch x 30-inch left-hand slide
valve; one 60 h.p. Corliss; one 75 h. p. slow speed automatic.
Each engine to be complete and in good order. Name of the
maker, dimensions, style of each part, cash price and freight
rates are desired in the first letter; otherwise the buyer will
not consider the offer.

Tue Wellman-Seaver Engineering Co. has recently fur-
nished two of the Wellman charging machines for open-hearth
furnaces to the Carnegie Steel Co., Ltd., for its Homestead
works, making six of these machines this company now has
in use. Other orders placed for this apparatus include one
machine for the Buhl open-hearth plant at Sharon, Pa., one
for the Lukens Iron & Steel Co., Coatesville, Pa., and one for
the Otis Steel Co., Cleveland.

January 14, 1897]

THE FOUNDRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION.

The regular monthly meeting of the Foundrymen’s Asso-
ciation was held at the Manufacturers’ Club, Philadelphia, on
Wednesday evening, Jan. 6, with the new president, P. D.
Wanner, in the chair.

The executive committee submitted no formal report, but
Secretary Evans, speaking for the committee, said: ‘‘ I think
we can safely report ‘progress,’ although we might have more
work and better prices. Prices here appear to be lower than
in any other city. Car wheel castings, for instance, are made
in Philadelphia for less than one cent per pound—say 95 cents
per hundred. Agricultural and general castings run below
two cents, the prices actually varying between 1% to 13
cents. Last week a contract was let for castings for the
Philadelphia Water Department, and other city work at less
The work is to be done by W. S.

than 1% cents per pound.
Last year the work fell to D.

Rhodes & Co., of Philadelphia.
S. Creswell at 134 cents.

‘This leads us to the question whether the price of castings
is going up or down. I believe that 1897 is to be a good year,
and it seems to me that the better class of foundrymen, con-
fident of the progressive era that is to follow McKinley’s in-
auguration, are holding off for better prices.

“There was another question of import discussed at the
The Hard-
Many

meeting of the executive committee last weck.
ware Association has inaugurated a new credit system.
of the members have formed themselves into a ‘chain of
credit,’ each member representing a link. The idea, of
course, is for mutual protection against unscrupulous cus-
tomers who, having exhausted their credit with one firm, at-
tempt to shirk their obligations by transferring their trade to
another firm. The Foundrymen’s Association 1s contemplat-
ing the adoption of a similar sysem.”’

President Wanner, representing the cast-iron pipe section,
had no report to make except that prices were very low. This
led Mr. Evans to remark: “I understand that the National
Pipe & Foundry Co., of Scottsdale, Pa., recently contracted to
deliver cast-iron pipe on the streets of Baltimore at $19.40,
gross."’ Mr. Wanner corroborated this, and added: ‘‘R. D.
Wood & Co., of Philadelphia, have taken a contract to deliver
in Middletown, Conn., a quantity of pipe at $18.69, gross.
This, I think, is the lowest yet."’

‘It is also a fact.’’ said Mr. Evans, ‘‘ that car-wheels are
selling in this vicinity for less than one cent, subject to the
ordinary test.

“Not in this city,’’ corrected Mr. Whitney.
have been made in this city since May last."’

*Well,"’ said Mr. Evans, ‘‘I mean the surrounding coun-
try.”’

Mr. Asa W. Whitney then read his paper upon ‘‘Transverse
Strength of Chilled Iron as Affected by the Relative Direc-
It 1s as follows

‘‘Nocar wheels

tions of Stress and Chill.”’

Transverse Strength of Chilled Iron as Affected by
the Relative Directions of Stress and Chill.

In presenting a novel feature of chilled iron, it would of
course be more thorough to show how it was known that the
complications of the subject had been taken into account, to
prove such a summary of tests as that given below valuable,
as really measuring to an approximate degree heretofore un-
noticed phenomena. But time not permitting this detail, it
must suffice to state that though my report deals with but a
small number of test bars, none of which were analyzed, I
know that they are practically of the same general class of
material—cast iron suitable for good car wheels; and from
long experience with chemical and physical tests of cast iron
and particularly from the calculated chemical composition of
the cupola charge in the case of Series I., I am certain that
even the considerable differences shown between the two
series (I. and II.) do not amount toa difference in kind of
metal, but merely to degree in quality of the same kind of
metal. The wide difference here shown in strength and resi-
lience between duplicates or similar bars of chilled iron, brok-
en in one case by a stress at right angles to lines of chill, and
in the other by a stress in the same direction as lines of chill,
is therefore mainly if not wholly due to the relative directions
of stress and chill. As a matter of fact, the same phenome-

non is more or less observable in cast iron suitable for pur-

THE IRON TRADE REVIEW. 1

poses other than chilled castings. It will therefore be more
accurate to understand the word ‘‘chill’’ in the caption of this
paper as meaning ‘‘the direction of the most rapid dissipation
of heat.’ The physical effect depending upon the composi-
tion as well as upon the rapidity of the dissipation, the result
is not always solid white iron.

It is to be hoped that the presentation of these facts will
lead some who may have previously noted them to report
their tests, as the matter has a bearing upon the selection of
proper forms and sizes of test bars.

The transverse strength is represented in this table by mod-
ulus of rupture, as by that means bars of different dimen-
sions can best be compared. The formula is that given
about two years ago by Professor Johnson in an article in the

Tron . lg

For any bar of rectangular cross section it is 2¢ x

equals modulus of rupture. Here /V is stress; /, length;

|
bd
4, breadth, and @ depth of test bar.
in each case by 18 (the factor for a 1-inch square bar 1 foot
long), the strength of such bar is shown, assuming of course
the same grain and density as that from which the modulus
Note how reasonably close the agreement is

By dividing the modulus

was calculated.
in spite of the variations in dimensions of the measured and
tested bars. Ins less homogeneous metal, and particularly in
gray iron, the agreement is less close.

Some of these bars were rumbled to see whether in such
hard white castings any change in strength would result. In
one former case where the conditions were not well known the
rumbling apparently caused a large gain in strength. Mr.
Outerbridge, of Wm. Sellers & Co., has demonstrated the gain
made by rumbling in the strength of gray iron bars, and my
few experiments agree with his in general. But this uniform
white iron is little affected, if at all. It is also the fact that
certain strong very homogeneous gray compositions gain less
in rumbling than ordinary mixtures similarly cast.

Another point of interest is the fact that it is proven pos-
sible to cast a high chilling iron in such form as to have near-
ly or quite the same modulus of rupture, whether cast in sand
so as to be just totally gray or cast of the same volume be-
tween ‘‘chills’’ or iron sides of mold, giving a test bar of a
less depth so as to be totally white. Compare bars No. 3
(Series I.) and No. 3 hexagon. This agrees with our regular
tests of wheel metal, since the writer devised a proper cross
section and method of casting test bars for hard iron.

In March, 1891, daily tests of the transverse strength of the
chilled wheel metal were adopted. The bars were cast 2
inches square by 15 inches long and were chilled on the four
sides. They therefore presented the same appearance in the
cross section as the small ingots 1 inch square by 4 inches
long devised by Mr. Outerbridge and illustrated by him in an
abstract of his lecture on ‘‘Pig Iron,’’ at the Franklin Insti-
tute, Feb. 6th, 1888.

That is, the meeting of the crystals or lines of chill form a
more or less distinct pair of diagonals. The transverse tests
of the large bars,“‘as shown by the steady stress of the testing
machine, was nearly as erratic as had been the tests of the
small ingots by hammer blows, and were of us@‘only in com
nection with the gray bar tests of same metal.

In high chilling iron particularly, the square bar of 4 square
inches sectional area cast in sand was found very unreliable
as an aid to the development of my chemical method of iron
mixing. Therefore, in January, 1895, I obviated the trouble
with hard corners by making them more obtuse, and adopted
a hexagon cross-section of 4 square inches area. This gives
a side of 1.24 inch width to rest on knife edges. This bar is
very satisfactory fora great range of metal, and a large
amount of study and tabulation has been based uponit. I
was thus encouraged to make the chilled bar more reliable,
and by March, 1895, after several experiments devised the
present very satisfactory form, the results of which are worth
tabulating along with those of the hexagon gray bar of same
metal. By keeping the same area of cross section as before
(4 square inches), but obtained by the depth 1% inches and
width 2% inches (2.67 inches) a solid white bar results even
with comparatively low chilling iron.
bar only, being cast against a chiller while the edges or nar-
row sides are in contact with sand, the lines or crystals of
chill form straight parallel lines, and meet end to end from

opposite sides, and the meeting line being at the neutral axis

The wide sides of this

14 THE IRON

TRADE REVIEW.

[ January 14, 1897.

of the test bar, a slight flaw or incompleteness of chill there
only slightly affects the strength. No change was made in
the form of chill tests, which are 2% x 11% x 6 inches, the
narrow edge 114 x 6 inches being exposed to the iron chiller.
The fracture of these probably shows a slightly higher chill
than the same iron cast in the slightly different for n of chill
tests referred to in Series IT.

Contraction is measured from small lugs cist on a corner of
hexagon gray bar, and on the narrow side of the rectangular
chilled bar. The outer faces of these lugs are sm>oth. as
they are cast against a cast iron yoke protected otherwise by
sand from the heat of the metal.

The 1% inch square bars were cast in the same molds as
the regular flat chilled bars, but from a 1% inch square pat-

TESTS OF TRANSVERSE STRENGTH OF CHILLED WHEEL IRON.

not conveniently taking bars of this depth (224), the small
square bars were more convenient.

Some rather imperfect tests of the crushing strength of
such chilled iron show 150,000 to over 200,000 pounds per
square inch in what I presume is the weak way. I know of
no tests made on the ends of the crystals such as the position
of load on tread of a wheel. I believe it is much over
200,009 pounds, probably 300,000 pounds at least per square
inch.

Tensile strength tests in the weak way agree with a rough
calculation from the transverse strength in the weak way, be-
ing 13,000 to 18,000 pounds per square inch. In the strong
way the tensile strength is probably not less than 25,000
pounds.

EFFECTS OF DIRECTION OF CHILL.

SUMMARY, SERIES I AND II.

MARCH AND SEPTEMBER, I590

I—A. WHITNEY & SONS’ WHEEL IRON. 1I—ANOTHER FOUNDER'S WHEEL IRON
| | a th, - ® . :
Comparisons referred to. < \, “a4 z L REMARKS
| de oat pa oe —)
Modulus of Rupture or relative oes oes a. 2 2 és
ee, Sete. Hella | ¥ mY s |s% te 29 — —
transverse Strength. F x ~~ —= lS ee
e | & Oy be © Mea .| & De
aE =|< ett = = -— - an wo & f 2 _ et Oo ¢ R=Rumbled
Strong = =|0 Stress | Weak | se = & ~ — - = rt) of = D> 2 h =heavily
een Se = wu | HH postition f sis had yee S [3% 35) ‘e.. =" | lightly
~ e r= s | 2 | = E Se8/ d¢ £9
“hi ; : a =~ = cp lee OD] BO Y Re
- Chilled surfaces marked c. DP Z. *Q | Depth. Breadth.| © 0 a = ~
Maximum results in the Strong | I 4 |No.3| 1%7x 2%" | 477 | .22” | 53100] 2950 60.1 Not R
Position. | Il 5 | C se’ = 1” 54°’ 23° | §0010) 2779 46.3 Not R
Minimum results in the Strong | | |No. 2} 1%7x 2%” | 1” 21” 47700) 2650 9.1 Not R
eas & 4 | 2 3 a 477 . 49
Position. Sl te l 5 | H 1%” x 234 | %”’ 23 45050) 2503 49-9
Maximum results in the Weak | | 2 b 1467%x1%" | 7” 33025) 1835 23.4 Not R.
Position. | Il 2 b 1%%x 1%” | 54/7 < 26665) 1482 | 15.0 R. 3 hours h.
Minimum results in the Weak | I 2 bx 1%” x 1%” yu” | .24’” | 26408) 1467 14.0 Shae Ge
Position II 3 | e¢ | 147% x1%” 54’ | .22” | 23935! 1330 14.1 Not R.
rae Pree . to A. Ax} 1%47x1%” py
Average results in the Strong | 4 + 7 : ts dd »9// 50426) 2802 S1.5 Not R
Position of a mixture for | Nos. 2, 3 Ay fae. 94 sa 50430) 2502 51.5 :
lighter wheels I 4 |ABC! 14% x 1%” |
oS . | H | 47" w 92/4" | 627 .2 ‘44 —=ece 2642 ( e > H. N >
*Includes one softer bar not | Land II ah ki . a A A 3 | 3 4 47554) 264 44.6 & ot R
: é square
completely chilled. ee 7 — en se ott: beet 2; 2673 7
’ bs a rectangular | .63 “_|_+23 48112; 2673 47.1
| I 2 |b. bx 147%x1%” | .75” | .24” | 20717| 1651 18.7 See above
. | I | 3 |abe 4’ x1%” (¢| 123°" | 28422] 1412 15.2 a R. % hour]
Average results in the Weak | i ‘7. =*h - . “ . , —
Position | » & 3.peurs b
4 | | c Not R.
|ITandIIj; 5 | abc} 1%”%x1y%” | .65” | .23” | 27140) 1506 | 16.6 See above.
Average results in Weak Posi- | re It is evident that
tion being taken as 100, aver- | I 496 o +-60.7 4175 Rumbling has lit-
. . *,4: 2 ou] ). Ss 7
age results in Strong Position | Il ‘4. Bis 44 — ; 4-193 + tle or no effect on
show difference by percentage - I ¥ 4 4 Be ys 2 | this solid white
of + or —. , j tand II | = ing (Ranting ad +1 | iron.
Compare the same iron as No. 3 ay
in Series I castinsandin Hex. | No.3 | |
form 4” area section same as Hex. | Hex. | Each side = |
No. 3 chilled bar (totally gray). | bargray| 1 |No.3 1.2408” | 3 | .15” | 53280) 2960 | 104.2 Not R.
—28-95—A. W. & Son’s Wheel |.. | | , coulis ” ,
3 95—A. W. & on’s Vheel IStrg. pos.| 1 1” sq. . 1” 46836 2603 28.2 , :
Iron cast approx. 1” sq. but |,‘ , 3 : |; Not R.
wen i 2 i” Of. y 24085 1338 7-3
measured. j 5
7 a ——— | — t — ‘
The average results of Series I] See ~ fi : : : Gen. av. 18.2%
being taken as 100, the aver- . ; 4 : ¢ in favor of Series
ay el ig Strong | 4 to 4/ above! A .g; —8. 6.06 15.5
age results of Series I show a saat \4 sete. See vi | +49 | 4 |+6.0 +155 | 1 Allare Heavy
difference by percentage of = woo. |. to 2\labov be +2 44.0 | 416 423.0 Wheel Mixtures
: > 2\é > , 29. x 23.
. 3 ss D oa ve? Bie “ Bars tot’ly white

+ or —. . |: |

In Series I, chemical composition of charge was known.

In Series II, the physical characters of the irons in charge were known.
In Series I, the physical characters of the preceding day’s test bars were accurately known and same compared with daily

tests for many years.

By occasional] analysis of test bars and some tabulations and experience, the daily small variations are

translated into chemical changes which are to be applied by slight frequent adjustments to the charge by calculation from

analyses of the material at hand.
than in case of Series II made in the old way.

tern, in order to show the difference in strength of the two
positions merely by comparison of the breaking stress. For
rough comparison this does very well, as when strained
across the chill they break at 4,000 to 6,000 pounds, while du-
plicates broken by a stress in the direction of chill crystals re-
If the regular flat bar were

quire 9,000 to 11,000 pounds.
broken by placing it edgeways, it would not stand over 16,000
pounds, even in the case of a metal like No. 3. which broken
flat in the strong position of chill required 17,700 pounds. If
the strength were the same in the other directions, 30,100
pounds would be required to break it.

Our, testing machine

A greater range of materials and more changes in the constitution of the charge is allowable

Asa W. WHITNEY.

Note the value of watching the resilience to compare irons
of the same strength for a steadv load.
The comparison of the two series of tests, I. and II., as
given in the table, is probably about as favorable as can be
made for the best modern practice in the old way of making
and controlling iron mixtures. Series II. may be taken also
as representing a quality of metal about equivalent to that
attained at A. Whitney & Sons’ before the adoption of the
above mentioned chemical system.

Series I. represents about an average specimen of A. Whit-
ney & Sons’ wheel mixture. Its physical characters were at-

January 14, 1597]

—

tained by properly calculating the ultimate chemical composi-
tions for cupola charges, and maintained without regular
analyses of the casting by translating the small daily varia-
tions in physical test pieces and castings into chemical equiva-
lents. indicating the chemcal change to be made on the charge.
Thus, in spite of the usual cupola return of scrap and other
adverse conditions, the charges are regulated to produce
Series I. was cast of the same

practically equivalent castings.
wth no

metal as our regular test bars of March 1g, 1896,
thought of comparison with another founder’s metal, but
merely to experiment further on the relations of chill and
stress. These bars were not broken until August 20, 1896;
and though the strength was not above the average, it then
occurred to the writer to ask another wheel maker, expert in
the old way of regulatng mixtures, to contribute to the ex-
periment. The object was to prove the same phenomena in
metal cast in the same manner, in the same molds, under
other conditions of mixture and cupola practice, but well
within the range of good wheel metal. The request was
kindly granted, the results appearing as Series II. The re-
sults of Series I. were examined by maker of Series II. after
his bars were cast, but before they were shipped to the writer.
They were cast about Sept. 20, 1896, packed in saw-dust to
present any ‘“‘rumbling’’ or ‘‘molecular annealing’’ effect in
transit, and broken by the writer in October, 1896, on the
same machine and in the same manner as employed 1n case
of Series I.

Of course, an accurate comparison of the relative merits of
the old and new way of making up cast iron mixtures can
only be made by taking other tests and expense into account
for a year or more. That comparison has, however, been
made at our works and shows for itself on our records with
an enormous balance both physically and economically in

favor of the new way.

At the conclusion of the paper, which was profusely illus-
trated with specimens, Mr. Schumann asked: ‘‘What was the
test of a bar chilled on all sides?”’

Mr. Whitney: “‘It would be hard to say.
ular.”’

Mr. Schumann
would develop an increase in strength."’

Mr. Whitney: ‘‘It doesn't show it.”’

Mr. Glover: ‘‘What metal did you use in these bars?”’

Mr. Whitney I want to call attention
to another interesting point,'’’ added Mr. Whitney. I have
found that it is possible to weld chilled to gray iron without
Certain compositions will stick to chilled iron

It was not reg-

‘I should think the hexagonal shaped bar

‘Car wheel metal.

burning it on.
without burning.”’

Mr. Glover moved that a vote of thanks be given to Mr
Whitney, which was done. Mr. Schumann said:* ‘Gentlemen,
this paper is of great importance to the iron trade, and should
be carefully studied. It has given me some very valuable in-
formation.”’

“I must give Mr. Schumann credit for some of the data
contained in this paper,"’ replied Mr. Whitney. ‘His paper
read before the New York convention contained some valu-
able hints.”’

President Wanner then called up for discussion the ques-
tion: ‘‘What should be the temperature of core ovens to do
the most effective work?"’

Mr. Rodgers favored quick-drying ovens, fired at one end,
with the flues laid under the floor, and with equal heat at top
and bottom.

Mr. Schumann said
be the most effective, the principal idea being to change the
air quickly and get rid of all moisture. I consider
preferable to coal in this work because it gives an equable
temperature and dries up the moisture more quickly. The
There should be a

‘‘I should say about 500 degrees would

gas

draft is also an important consideration.
great draft.

Mr. Ellicott
gradually to 400 or 500 degrees.’

Mr. Schumann: ‘‘You are undoubtedly right there, for too
quick an oven is liable to crack fine molds.”’

Mr. Wanner: ‘‘We have a number of ovens at our works
which we have improved very much of late, that is, during
I believe in a pretty low furnace where

”

‘*l rather favor a slow tire at first, working up

’

the past few years.
it is possible, a good draft, a deep oven and a good chimney

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15

Mr. Schumann: “I've heard of a core oven on the same
principle as the drying machine used in laundries. This is a

cylinder filled with small tubes, with steam space between the
cylinder and the tubes. A small fan drives the air through

the tubes, which are heate1 to 250 degrees. The air is then

passed into the space where the molds are, and thence to the
outlets, which are near the floor. I believe a number of these
machines are in use in this country."’

Mr. Messick: ‘‘We have tried that machine but found it in-
It doesn't give enough heat."’
‘‘We have tried drying molds with hot air but

efficient.

Mr. Ellicott
it would not work. It would only make the mold sweat pro-
fusely.’’

Mr. Glover thought 350 to goo degrees the safest tempera-
ture for the core oven.

Secretary Evans announced that there was a surplus of
$1,400 in the treasury, and it had been deemed advisable to

invest $1,000 of that amount to the credit of the association
He asked the members to give their opinions as to what
would be the safest and most lucrative investment. There

was very little discussion, and the matter was finally left to

the executive committee. The meeting then adjourned.

Talk of Illinois Steel Co Changes.

For some time past rumors have circulated in Chicago re-
garding a possible change in the management of the Illinois
Steel Co., to take place at the time of the annual meeting
The financial column of the Chicago Pes/ had the following to
say the first of this week

“An explanation of the recent fluctuations in Illinois steel
is furnished in a New York dispatch, which was circulated
this morning, as follows: ‘The drop in Illinois steel stock to
32'4 has attracted attention to a selling order which has been
in the stock for several days and supposed to be for one of
the managers of the company. There have been rumors for
some time of acoming change in the management, and the
forced selling now is supposed to be conclusive that a change
has been decided upon. The company has not been doing
very well for some time and this has tended to keep from the
there from inside
the Car-
interests has

market support which usually has been
sources. It is known that the recent
negie company and the Rockefeller

given great cause for anxiety on the part of other steel and

deal between

iron ore
iron companies, because the Carnegie company is 1n a posi-
cheap steel. This

the steel and iron

tion under this arrangement to make very

deal has come, moreover, at a time when

companies are not in good shape as a result of the prolonged

depression in general business. All the companies have had
to borrow a great deal of money to meet losses and continue
operation. It is understood, for instance, that the Lllinois
Steel Co. lost something like a million dollars last year and
could not help losing it. While
serious thing to the company, it is indicative of the general
situation. On the other hand, it that
Illinois Steel, like other companies, has wonderful recupera-

The anxiety, however,

this is not of itself a very

must be remembered
tive powers when business is good.
of the smaller companies to perfect a combination is under-
standable in view of what would follow upon a free-for-all
policy on the part of the Carnegie and other large concerns.’ "’

Notice has been given that the eighth regular annual meet-
ing of the’stockholders of the Illinois Steel Co. for the election
of officers and such other business as may be presented will
be held at the office of the company in the Rookery, Chicago,
on Wednesday, Feb. to, at11 A.M. The stock transfer books

will be closed from Jan. 22 to Feb. 12

Tue Railroads have united in a petition to the Inter-State
Commerce Commission to ask Congress to extend the time
limit for the equipment of cars with air brakes and automatic
, and the [n-

The act becomes effective Jan I, 1595

stated in

couplers.

ter-State Commerce Commission its recent report

that a vast amount of work must be crowded into 1897 if the

law were complied with on all hands by the time set.

” Ar New York, ex-Governor Hoadly, formerly of Ohio, W.
C. Whitney and W. L. Elkins are three members of the Com-
pressed Air Power Co., capital $1,000,000, just organized to
manufacture compressed air motors. Judge Hoadly is presi-
dent, and Almeric Paget, Mr. Whitney's son-in-law, is vice-

president.

ghen s AS <n 5

>

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16 THE IRON TRADE REVIEW.

[ January 14, 1897

THE GARDNER DIE HEAD.

The Gardner No. 94 die head is built to approximate as
closely as possible a solid die. This is attained by using few
moving parts and having those parts very stiff. ‘The sliding
die carriers extend across the full length of the head, giving
long wearing surfaces and more rigidity. ‘The dies are closed
by a taper pin forced into the back of the carriers. The fol-
lowing points are urged by the manufacturers, Chas. H. Besly
& Co., Chicago, for this die head: That it is as stiff and rigid
as a solid die; will cut threads true to size; has few wearing

parts; will not wear out quickly; will not clog with chips; will
do as fine and as close work as desired, and the cost of extra
dies is small.

In a recent lecture at Sheffield, Eng., Prof. Arnold dealt
with the mechanical properties of steel castings. He stated
that in order to determine the influence of other elements,
particularly of manganese and silicon, it is necessary to know
the properties of nearly pure iron and carbon steels. A mild
steel, with .21 per cent of carbon, under test stood a maximum
tensile stress of 24 tons per square inch. When 1 per cent of
manganese and .25 per cent of silicon were added, its stress
went up to 33 tons. The stress of a.2 per cent hardened
steel was 34 tons; but a .21 per cent hardened steel, with high
manganese and silicon, developed a stress of nearly 1oo tons.
The critical point for steel castings is .45 per cent of carbon,
and any.increase over this amount rapidly lowers its ductil-
ity. With regard to the flow of gas through the walls of a
crucible, Prof. Arnold stated that under favorable conditions
several hundred gallons of gas may pass into the steel during
the short time occupied in melting a pound of steel.

Gro. H. Barrus, a Boston expert, has reported to the Almy
Water Tube Boiler Co., of Providence, R. I., the results of
evaporative trials made upon one of the Almy water tube
boilers. The coal consumption per hour per square foot of
grate was 12.2 lbs. in the tests of one day and 13.99 lbs. on an-
other, and the evaporations per hour reduced to the equiva-
lency of feed at roo degrees and pressure 70 lbs.,were 1,300.4
Ibs. and 1,472.8 lbs. respectively. The average temperatures
of flue gases were 513 and 473 degrees. The percentages of
moisture in steam were 0.35 and 0.4 respectively. The water
evaporations per pound of coal were 8.895 and 8.867 lbs., and
the equivalent evaporation per pound of combustible from and
at 212 degrees, were 11.746 and 11.922 lbs., a most excellent
showing. In their demonstration of economy the results will
well stand comparison with the best that has been achieved.
The expert, in commenting upon the data, says: ‘‘An evapora-
tion of 11.922 lbs. of water per pound of combustible, which
was obtained on the test of Nov. 2, is rarely exceeded by any
form of hand-fired water tube boiler, whatever its size. One
of the noticeable features in the operation of the boiler was
the dryness of the steam exhibited on all the tests. Even
with conditions of forced blast, when over seven pounds of
water was evaporated per square foot of surface per hour, the
moisture was less than one per cent. The heat balance shows
that practically all of the heat units available in the coal were

accounted for, either in useful evaporation, or in chimney and

other wastes.

EnsiGN Noau T. CoLeMAN, inspector of steel in Harrisburg,
Pa., will be tried on Jan. 11 at the Washington Navy Yard
for alleged dereliction of duty. His defense is that his duties
were made too heavy.

INDUSTRIAL SUMMARY.

New Buyers in the Market,and Some of Their Wants :—

{If you are in need of machinery of any description, please notify The
Iron Trade Review, and we will put you in communication with our
advertisers at once.)

The H. C. Bowen Foundry Co. has been incorporated at
Providence, R. I., with a capital stock of $50,000. The incor-
porators are Henry C. Bowen, Providence ; Seabury W
Bowen, Fall River, Mass., and Elisha C. Mowry, Providence.

The Norway Iron & Steel Co., ot New Castle, Pa., has been
incorporated, and it is reported that this company is a reor
ganization of the Raney & Berger Iron Co.

The Titusville Forge Co., Titusville, Pa., has been incor-
porated with a capital stock of $30,000. The incorporators
are J. P. Hanle, J. Y. Dillen and J. G. Bentin, all of Titus-
ville, Pa.

The Eureka Tempered Copper Works, of Erie, Pa., has been
incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000. The directors
are Charles Schimmelferg, of Warren; Alfred Short and O.
C. Hirtzell, of North East.

Rollins Bros. will build a $10,000 electric lighting plant at
Sharpsville, Pa.

A. Lane & Sons, Peoria, Ill., capital stock $25,000, will
manufacture architectural iron. The incorporators are Adam
Lucas, Emil E. Lucas and Hugo V. Lucas.

The Fifth Wheel Mfg. & Pipe Bending Co., of Flushing, L.
I., has been incorporated with a capital of $100,000. The
directors are Richardson C. Layton, T. W. Rysdale, of
Brooklyn, and Charles J. Goulden, of New York City.

H. G. McGhee & Co., Bedford City, Va., will buy 16-inch
lathe, drill press, small miller, taps, dies, reamers, etc.

The commissioners of Allen County, Ind., open bids at Ft
Wayne Feb. 25, for the building of a new court house and a
new power station. The equipment includes steam heating
apparatus, forced blast system, water tube boilers, electrical
construction, electric elevators, corliss engines, etc.

New Construction:—

The City Bureau of Bridges, of Pittsburg, has asked for
$153,013 increase in appropriations. Of this amount $100,000
is wanted for rebuilding the Point Bridge and approaches.

The new National Galvanizing Works at Versailles, Pa.,
are now ready for occupancy. Men are being transferred
from the old plant, which is to be abandoned.

Of the 120 ovens now under construction for the United Gas
& Coke Co.’s bi-product plant at Glassport, Pa., 30 will be
started about Feb. 1. It is expected that 120 additional ovens
will be built ultimately. The company will furnish fuel for
the National Tube Works Co.'s plants at McKeesport, the city
light works, the United States Glass Works and several other
manufactories. The company’s ordinance for pipe lines
through Port Vue, Reynoldton, McKeesport and other places
will be brought before the various city councils.

Welbaum Bro.’s have purchased a tract of land in Brook-
ville, O., and will erect a machine shop and foundry.

The Southern Railway (J. H. Holt, general foreman, Wash.
ington, D. C.,)has purchased 50 acres of land at Coolwell, Va.,
to be used as the site for the erection of machine and repair
shops, etc.

A new casting house of iron and steel, 70 x 150 feet, and 65
feet high, is under construction at McKeefrey & Co.'s fur-
nace, Leetonia, O.

Some negotiation is in progress between Youngstown par-
ties and the Meehan Boiler Co., of New Castle, Pa., with a
view to the erection at Youngstown ofa boiler works, ma-
chine shop and foundry for the manufacture of the Meehan
boilers.

Additions, Enlargements, Removals, Etc. :—

The Ellwood City, Pa., tin plate works will be enlarged at
once. The company will build an addition 75 x 225 feet in
size and costing over $25,000.

The addition to the Newport (Ky.) Rolling Mill Co.'s plant
includes two roughing mills and rolling mills and a galvaniz-
ing department. Two finishing mills, a roughing mill and a

January 14, 1897]

THE IRON TRADE REVIEW.

tion of blast furnaces.
“Why not?’’ said we.

type, that had given out after a few years’ use?

thought it advisable to get somethin

OPEN HEATERS FOR BLAST FURNACES.

‘‘We do not believe in them for plants of this kind,’’ was the remark made to
us recently by a prominent engineer whose specialty is the design and construc-

In reply, he stated that such plants were run con-
tinuously night and day, without any stops for examination and repairs, and that
therefore closed or pressure Heaters were preferred for this particular service.
Was it not curious that at that precise moment we were shipping two of our
large COCHRANE HEATERS to replace some six Heaters of the pressure
These closed heaters had
rusted out after continually leaking, and the owners—blast furnace people
better adapted for their purposes.
ot water—real purification—reliability—ease of operation and cleaning—
simplicity and adaptability for the purpose of the material used, insuring
freedom from repairs and longevity—these are the advantages which are
doubling every year our sales of the COCHRANE HEATERS.

HARRISON SAFETY

BOILER WORKS,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.

cold-roll mill were furnished by the Lloyd Booth Co., of
Youngstown, O., and a 1,000 h. p. engine by the Lane & Bod-
ley Co., Cincinnati. The fly-wheel is 30 feet in diameter and
weighs 58 tons.

The Davis & Egan Machine Tool Co., of Cincinnati, has
just secured the premises on Sixth street, extending from
Egleston avenue to Lock street, just across the street from
the present factory, and will immediately begin the erection
of a warehouse, which will be completed in two months.

The Corsicana Iron Works, Corsicana, Tex., purchased by
Carlier & Wilson, of Waco, Tex., will be improved and en-
larged and additional machinery purchased.

Hubbard & Co., Pittsburg, have projected an addition 150
x 75 feet to their plant and will use it as a rolling mill.

The Midvale Steel Works, Nicetown, Philadelphia, will ex-
tend its ordnance machine shop 128 feet. Alterations are
also to be made to the hammer house, the entire work costing
about $25,000.

At Alton, Ill., the Duncan Foundry Co. has begun the con-
struction of an addition to its new shop, and the improvement,
when complete, will add materially to the capacity of thi®
busy concern.

The projected addition of the Ellwood Tin Plate Co., Ell-
wood, Pa., will be 75 x 225 feet and will accommodate the
cold rolling, annealing and pickling departments.

A new foundry, 49 x 90 feet, has been built and some new
equipment added, in connection with the reorganization of the
Sharpsville (Pa.) Foundry & Machine Co. The new or-
ganization, which is controlled by Geo. W. Johnson and Thos.
M. Eagan, will start the works shortly.

Fires and Accidents:—

At Ellwood City, Pa., the foundry department and enamel-
ing works of the Derwent Foundry Co., burned, Jan. ro, with
$25,000 loss. The fire was discovered first about the cupola
The works will be rebuilt.

A fire at the plant of the Enterprise Boiler Works, Youngs-
town, O., Jan. 8, did $4,000 damage to buildings and equip-
ment; covered by insurance.

The Duquesne Steel Works of the Carnegie Steel Co. have
been thrown idle by an explosion in the blowing room of the
converting mill, doing considerable damage to the engines.

At the Diamond Fire Brick Works, Akron, O., two boilers
exploded, the damage amounting to $2,000.

General Industrial Notes:—

The Illinois Steel Co. has retired from the manufacture of
black and galvanized sheet, and has given up the lease of the
Corning sheet mill at Hammond, Ind. The entire stock on
hand of black and galvanized sheets, amounting to about
1,000 tons, has been sold to J. T. Ryerson & Son, of Chicago.

J. G. Wagner, of Milwaukee, and the Milwaukee Bridge &
Iron Works have been consolidated and incorporated under
the name of the J. G. Wagner Co. The officers of the new
G. Wagner, vice-

concern are J. G. Wagner, president; R.

president and treasurer; W. G. Scase, secretary, and W. J]
Hahn, general superintendent

The Dunbar Furnace Co.,
pleted repairs to its No. 2 furnace, which will be blown in this

The furnace stack has been practically rebuilt and

of Dunbar, Pa., has about com-

week.
other improvements made which are expected to increase the
output to 250 to 300 tons perday. The furnace is now 17 x
75 feet.

The Hopedale Machine Co., Dutcher Temple Co., George
Draper & Sons and the Hopedale Machine Screw Co., of
Hopedale, Mass., together with other corporations controlled
by the Drapers, are being consolidated into one large corpora-
tion, with a capital of $5,500,000. The new company will be
known as the Draper Co., and E. S. Draper will be president
and G. A. Draper treasurer.

The McNeal Pipe & Foundry Co.'s works, Burlington, N
J., have been shut down indefinitely.

The Woodstock Iron Works, of Anniston, Ala.,
put their coke furnace No. 4 into blast soon.
will be exclusively used.

The office building of the Sloss Iron & Steel Co., Brookside,
3, involving a loss

expect to

Brown ores

Ala., was totally destroyed by fire on Jan
of about $15,000, covered by insurance.

At Pittsburg an opinion has been
equity case of James Tod and others against the Sterling
Steel Co., of that city, being an action to compel an accoynt-
ing of certain royalties claimed by the plaintiffs upon steel
manufactured by the defendants under a secret process. The
case has been before the Supreme Court and the decision just
handed down holds that under the decision of the Supreme
Court the defendants are bound to account for all steel made,
sold and collected for under the name of ‘‘Sterling double
special steel.’’

The furnace of the Youngstown Steel Co.,
after an idleness of some months has been blown in
the improvements and repairs were
made.

Clare, Duduit & Co., Rempel, O.,
furnace in blast this month.

A number of the departments of the
Johnstown, Pa., have resumed operation
the rail mill, which will roll 10,000 tons of standard steel rails
for the Pennsylvania Railroad

The Indiana Steel Castings Co. is reported to be getting its
new plant in operation at Montpelier, Ind.

The Eagle Furnace property, at Spring Valley, Wis., has
been purchased by F. S. Wright, of Newark, O. This fur-
nace was built to make charcoal pig iron from local ores.

James McGregor, of Jackson & McGregor, Saginaw, Mich.,
has sold his interests in the firm to E. D. Church, of Jackson
& Church, and hereafter both institutions, the boiler shop and
the machine shop, will be run under the firm name of Jack-
son & Church.

The suit of Fayette Brown, formerly receiver of Brown,
Bonnell & Co., Youngstown, O., against the Mahoning Gas
Fuel Co. for $65,000 damages has just come up for argument

handed down in the

Youngstown, O.,
During

shut-down important

will put their Madison

Cambria Iron Co.,

Among them was

18 THE IRON TRADE REVIEW. [January 14, 1897.

MOUNT SAVAGE FIRE BRICK.

UNION MINING CoO.,
Proprietors of the CELEBRATED Mount Savage Fire Brick

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Established 1841. Capacity, 60,000 Per Day; 18,000,000 Per Year.

The First Manufactory of its Kind in the U. S.

Home Office and Works:-MOUNT SAVACE, Allegany County, Md.

Branch Offices :—No. | Broadway, New York, N. Y.: No. 222 So. Third St., Philadelphia, Pa.; Ferguson Block, Pittsburgh, Pa.,
Stowe, Fuller & Co., 195 Merwin St., Cleveland, Ohio.
TENSILE STRENCTH 60,000 LBS.
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HIGH ELECTRICAL PERMEABILITY.
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Mount Savage and Queen’s Run Fire Brick

CONSULTING AND CONTRACTING ENGINEER.
The leading BRICK of this country.

; MANUFACTURERS OF
Steel Plants, Sheet and Tin Plants, Gas Furnaces and Producers Structural Iron OHIO FIRE BRICK. ALL SHAPES IN STOCK.
and Steel. The largest shippers of FIRE BRICK in the West

Plans and estimates furnished. Warehouse and Docks: 186-193 Merwin Street,
CLEVELAND, OHIO.

COMPANY.

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Automatic Billet Heating Furnaces.
CONESTOCA BLDC., PITTSBURC. PA.

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ST. PAUL ,
TACOMA,
PORTLAND,

The company is trying toraise capital to build an open hearth }

in the Supreme Court in Columbus, O. The case grew out of
an alleged violation of contract by the gas company.

Right of way has been granted Electric Heat, Light &
Power Co., of Reynoldsville, Pa., for the erection of a com-
plete plant and contruction of lines

James Gardner, Jr., manufacturer of fire clay retorts and
fire brick, Pittsburg, has removed his offices to rooms 501-502
Hamilton Building.

The Snow Steam Pump Works, the Ludlow Valve Co. and
the National Tube Works Co. have established a joint sales
agency in London.

Witherbee, Sherman & Co., the well-known iron mininy
firm of Port Henry, N. Y., announce that since a disagree

furnace to make its own billets, figuring that this would save
about $6 a ton

The damage to the Braddock plant of the Consolidated
Steel & Wire Co. caused by the blowing out of a cylinder
head is being repaired, and work will be resumed next week

The Connellsville Coke Co., of Pittsburg, capital $12,000,
has been chartered The directors are J G. Beale, Leech
burg; John F. Acheson, Pittsburg; E. N. Ohl, New Castle.

The hearing on the various attachments against the Dorner
& Dutton Mfg. Co., Cleveland, car wheel manufacturers, re-
sulted in the appointment of E. E. Strong as receiver.

At Liberty, Ind., the Columbia Drill Co. has gone into the

ment has arisen as to future management, a suit has be: hands of a receiver Suits for $38,000 were filed against the
§ g
brought to settle it and sell the property. Pending such liti company Its paid in capital was $50,000 on its organization
: S I | ] g
gation George T. Murdock has been appointed for the purpose three years ago. Assets are put at $17,000

of continuing the business. The firm has no indebedness
The members are F. S. Witherbee, W. C. Witherbee, G. D.
Sherman, L. W. Francis and G. T. Murdock

The Los Angeles, Cal., Iron & Steel Co. has been obliged
to go into the hands of a receiver for want of sufficient capital

The Cleveland Steel Casting Co., Cleveland, has given a
$40,o0oomortgage to the Guardian Trust Co., to cover an issuc
of 10-year improvement bonds

At Columbus, O., Jan. 9, the Central Trust Co., of New

York, brought suit in the United States Circuit Court against

January 14, 1897]

THE IRON TRADE REVIEW. 19

U. BAIRD MACHINERY CO.

PITTSBURC, PA.

Have a Special Lot of Second-Hand Tools. Allin First-Class Condition.

1—55” Allen Riveter.

1—24x24x7 ft. New Haven Planer.
1—30x30x8 ft. Harrington Planer.
1 —36x36x18 ft. Sellers Planer.

1—16x18” Lathe & Morse Crank Planer. 1—16x5 ft. Bullard Engine Lathe.
2—15” Hendey Shapers.

1—15 Youngson Shaper

1—15” Smith and Mills Shaper.
{—36x36x20 ft. N. Y. Steam Engine Co. 1—10’ xs’ Prentice Engine Lathe.

1—18x8 ft. L. W. Pond Engine Lathe.
1—24x8 ft. Phillips Engine Lathe.
I—24x14 ft. Lathe & Morse Engine Lathe.
1—38x14 ft. New Haven Engine Lathe.

Planer. 1 each 14” and 15’’x6’ Ames Engine Lathe.

AND MANY OTHERS.

We have all the best makes of New Tools.

Send for Second-Hand List.

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All Kinds of Pipe, Globe afd Gate Valves, Fittings and Appliances for Steam, Gas, Water and
Hydraulic Work,

Phosphor Bronze ( “ Elephant Brand”) Castings, Coolers,
Tuyeres and Cinder Notches for Blast Furnaces supplied
promptly.

Rolling Mills, Steel Works, Blast Furnaces Coal and
Coke Works, Power Houses for Electric Street Railways, etc.,
promptly fitted up by Experienced Workmen.

Nos. 108

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four way, for operating Mill and Hydraulic Machinery of all
kinds under any desired pressure, and Stop Valves for same.

Agents for the CAMERON STEAM PUMP, which is made
in every possible variety, and suitable for all purposes to
which Steam Pumps can be applied.

to 118 Third Avenue. PITTSBURCH, PA.

the Columbus & Hocking Coal & Iron Co., whose general
offices are in Columbus, to foreclose a mortgage for $930,000,
due Jan. 1, and accrued interest amounting to $30,000. Jay
QO. Moss, of Sandusky, was appointed receiver of the defen-
dant company Dec. 26, on the application of the receivers of
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, which had obtained a default
judgment for $60,000. The trust company asks that the prop-
erties be sold. The Columbus & Hocking Coal & Iron Co.
has 130,000 acres of coal land in Hocking, Perry Vinton and
Athens counties, and seven furnaces. The lands were ob-
tained 14 years ago by Gen. Samuel Thomas, of New York;
the late J. R. Buchtel, of Akron, and the late Walter Crafts,
of Columbus, O.

The American Steel Co., operating the old Premier plant
at Indianapolis, has shut down to make changes, to manu-
facture rails.

A joint stock company, composed of western Pennsylvania
men, is being organized to build a gigantic iron and steel
plant at Port Angelos, a fine harbor on the Pacific coast, 35
miles north of Seattle, Wash. The company has been incor-
porated under the laws of Washington State, and is capitalized
at $1,500,000, half of which has been subscribed. George M.
Nimon, of Braddock, is president; Thomas J. Murphy, Pitts-
burg, vice-president ; M. E. George, Mc Keesport, secretary,
and William J. Weisser, Allegheny, treasurer. Great bonuses
have been offered the company. It will be given 8o acres of
land as a site for the plant, and 200 acres for a town site, with
right of way for a railroad, and 500 feet wharfage on Puget
Sound. Vice-president Murphy has just returned from Port
Angelos. He says he found everything as represented by its
board of trade. The company will open an office this week
at 444 Fourth avenue, Pittsburg. The plant will employ 1,000
men. Work is to begin as soon as the weather opens in the
spring. It is proposed to erect a blast furnace, 30 open hearth
furnaces, bloom, billet, bar, rod, wire and rail mill, tin plate
dippery and the necessary machine shops, boiler works, etc.
The capital stock is divided into shares at $100 each. It is
proposed to get a number of western Pennsylvania iron and

steel workers to take stock, and in the spring go west and
build the works, and then bring their skill to bear in operat-
ing the plant—[ Pittsburg Dispatch.

A Johnstown, Pa., dispatch says that the Cambria rail mill
No. 1, the 12 and 16-inch mills and the scrap mill resumed
operations Jan. 11. The steel mill 1s also operating.

The Monongahela Tin Plate Co., Pittsburg, which has a
capacity for producing 12,500 tons a year of sheet bars and
black plates for tinning, has purchased the plant of the Du-
quesne Tin Plate Co., which has a wee kly capacity of 3,000
boxes of 14x 20 plates. As the Monongahela company has
never tinned its plates and the Duquesne company has gone
into the market for black plates, the new deal brings together
plants that can very advantageously be joined. H. W. Oliver
is president of the Monongahela Tin Plate Co.; R. R Quay,
vice-president and treasurer; E. G. Applegate, secretary,
and John C. Oliver, manager.

The Youngstown, (O) Car Mfg. Co., whose plant has been'‘idle
for some months, started up this week on an order for 125 cars.

A considerable shipment of Alabama iron was unloaded at
Pittsburg wharves last week, coming by way of the Tennes-
see and Ohio rivers.

Jones & Laughlins, Ltd., of Pittsburg, have asked for a re-
ceiver for the Southern Hotel Co., Columbus, O. The capital
stock of the company is $400,000.

Edgar Thomson Steel Works, after running on billets since
the first of the year, changed this week to rails.

John Fulton, of Johnstown, Pa., mining engineer, has been
engaged by a Pittsburg syndicate to examine and report upon
the coal in a body of over 8,000 acres, in the Monongahéla
region, as to its value for coking.

*hiladelphia Furnace, at Florence, Ala., will be sold at auc-
tion by the Industrial Trust, Title & Savings Co., Philadel-
phia, Feb. 24. The stack is 75 x 17 feet, has three stoves,
and its annual capacity is 45,000 tons foundry iron.

An assignment has been made by the Tyler Foundry &
Machinery Co., at Tyler, Tex. This is one of the largest con-
cerns of its kind in the State. The officers are H. H. Row-

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and, president, and J. F. Christian, general manager. R.
B. Loring, Jr., was made assignee.

The Lackawanna Iron & Steel Co. has put its No. 1 Cole-
brook furnace, at Lebanon, Pa., in blast.

A Wheeler boiler, manufactured “by the Sharon Boiler
Works, Sharon, Pa., has been installed at Struthers Furnace,
Struthers, O. A considerable saving in fuel and attendance
will be secured.

The American Axe & Tool Co.'s plant, at Beaver Falls, Pa.*
resumed Jan. It.

Geo. H. and W. B. Page are to take hold of the West End
works at Dixon, Ill., and convert the plant into a machine
shop for repairing and manufacturing.

A branch office of the Lidgerwood Mfg. Co. has been estab-
lished at 26 S. Water street, Cleveland, in charge of Robt. W.
Kaltenbach, who has been with the company a number of
years.

The Keystone Axle Co., Beaver Falls, Pa., has struck suffi-
cient gas to operate its plant.

Track Renewal Orders far too Small.

We learn from Mr. Swank that the rails rolled in the United
States in 1896 amounted to about 1,100,000 tons. This is,
however, only an approximate estimate. The product in 1895
was 1,300,000 tons. In 1887, when we built 13,000 miles of
new railroad, we rolled 2,140,000 tons of rails, which was
much the greatest output in one year. Last year the new
road was about 1,700 miles; and assuming 300 miles more for
sidings, we have a total of 2,000 miles of new track. This
would have absorbed, estimating on 65-lb. rail, about 200,000
gross tons, leaving g00,o00 for renewals. The Interstate
Commerce Commission gave the total track in the United
States on June 30, 1895, aS 237,000 miles. Let us say, for
ease in estimating, that a year later it was 240,000 miles and
that the average rail was 60 lbs. per yard. Then the total
tons (gross) in track would have been 22,560,000 and the ton-
nage of rails available for renewals (goo,o00 tons) was about

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one-twenty-fifth of the total. It is safe to say that this is not
half enough to keep the tracks in good condition. It is impos-
sible to say how long the average rail lasts; but 1244 years
would be a long life for some tracks and a short life for
others, and may not be far from a proper average. This
whole estimate turns, it will be observed, on several free
guesses; first, that the average of new track is 65-lb. rail; sec-
ond, thatthe average of all track is 60-lb. rail, and third that
the average life is 12% years, and we only put it out asa
starting point for some one who has more accurate knowl-
edge. From him we shall be glad to hear.—[{Railroad Gazette.

EXCURSIONS TO MEXICO

Via Pennsylvania Lines, January |9th and February
27th.

Under escort of American Tourist Association, Reau Camp-
bell, General Manager. Sleeping and dining cars and special
baggage cars through all the tour without change. More
miles and days in Mexico, more cities and towns than ever
offered. Tickets include all expenses, sleeping and dining
cars, hotels, etc. For information, apply to F. Van Dusen,
Chief Assistant General Passenger Agent, Pennsylvania
Lines, Pittsburg, Pa.

James J. Davipson, president of the Union Drawn Steel
Co., of Beaver Falls, Pa,, and Congressman-elect from the
25th Pennsylvania District, died Saturday, Jan. 2, at Phoenix,
Ariz., whither he had gone for the benefit of his health.
Quick consumption was the immediate cause of his death, al-
though he had been ailing for some time. Interment will be
at his home in Beaver.

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LOCATIONS FOR
INDUSTRIES.

The name of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Pau!
Railway has long been indentified with practical
measures for the general upbuilding of its terri-
tory and the promotion of its commerce, hence
manufacturers have an assurance that they wil
find themselves at home on the company’s lines

The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway |

Company owns and operates 6,154 miles (9,90
kilometers) of railway, exclusive of second track
connecting track or sidings. The eight State
traversed by the lines of the company, Illinois
Wisconsin, Northern Michigan, Iowa, Missouri
Minnesota, South Dakota, and North Dakota
possess, in addition to the advantages of raw
material and proximity to markets, that which
is the prime factor in the industrial success of a
territory—a people who form one live and thriving
community of business men, in whose midst it i+
safe and profitable to settle. Many towns on the
line are prepared to treat very favorably wit}
manufacturers who would locate in their vicinity.

Mines of coal, iron, copper, lead and zinc, forests
of soft and hard wood, quarries, clays of all kinds
tan-bark, flax and other raw materials exist in its
territory in addition to the vast agricultural
resources.

A uumber of new factories have been induced
to locate—largely through the instrumentality of
this company—at towns onits lines. The central
position of the States traversed by the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, makes it possible
to command all the markets of the United States.
The trend of manufacturing is Westward. Noth-
ing should delay enterprising manufacturers
from investigating. Confidential inquiries are
treated as such. The information furnished a
particular industry is reliable.

Address LUIS JACKSON,

Industrial Commissioner, C., M. & St. P. R'y.
425 Old Colony Bldg., Cuicaco, ILL.

If you are thinking of enlarging your
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chasing machinery of any kind, send us a
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IRON TRADE REVIEW, 21

THE GLONBROCK STEAM BOILER CO.,

~~ —_ BROOKLYN, N. Y.

MANUFACTURERS 0F———

THE MORRIN “CLIMAX” AND ‘ COMPOUND ”

WATER TUBE BOILERS

No Ground Joints. No
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cause trouble from Un« qual Fxpansion or Contraction.

No Metallic Jointa.

No Cast

No Screw Joints,

Packing Joints, Iron Pipes.

Quick and Steady Steamers,
Positive Circulation.

“CLIMiX” Is
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VANIZING ..
WORKS.

all its branches. Highest prices paid for new Scrap Zinc.
for Pump Chainsand Rubber Buckets write us for prices.

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| MANUFACTURERS OF

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BOILERS.

For Stationary, Portable,

or Marine use,

Also of TANKS of all kinds.

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th e boi ler business

For a long time,

|
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ESTABLISHED 1854.

SOUTHWARK FOUNDRY & MACHINE CO, PETER GERLACH & CO.,

MAKERS OF

PHILADELPHIA, PA., Saws, Tools and Machinery.

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IMPROVED DUPLEX SYSTEM

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Entirely automatic, most scientific, sensible and economical
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LANE & BODLEY CO.,
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Belt Elevators, Saw Millis.

C.eveland Union Station.

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DREDGING MACHINES

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THE HOOVEN, OWENS & RENTSCHLER CO., Hamilton, O.

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Engines for Rolling Mills,

Electric Railways and
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Engines of all Sizes and

for all purposes.

46 South Canal St., CHIcaGo.

9 and 41 Cortlandt St., New Yorx«.

ewis Block, PITTSBURGH, Pa.

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Cc. MOORE & CO., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

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Manufacturers

Don’t continue in the old rut and rust out.

_——

Be progressive—keep in touch with the times. Free .

Move to Chicago Heights Factory

where you can reduce the cost of production Si tes
and cheaply distribute the product of ,

the factory to the consumer.

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Corner Fifth Avenue.

CHICAGO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Seamless
Steel Tubes,

For Hydraulic Tubes, Jacks, Presses and
Hoists, Lathe Spindles, Bicycle Hub Stock
Projectiles, Hollow Shafting,Shells for Carbonic
Acid and other Gases, Piston and Valve Rods,
Axles, Bolts and Columns, Working Barrels,
Roller Bearings, Bushings, Couplings, Boiler
Tubes and other purposes where

Strength, Uniformity
and Durability

ARE REQUIRED.

The following Sales Agencies
will be pleased to supply any
additional information that
may be desired, viz:
Kellogg Weldieas Tube Co.,
45 Milk Street, Boston.
Wm. J. Haines & Co.,
906 Filbert Street, Philadelphia.
Heury L. Coe,
727 Garfield Bidg., Cleveland.

Kellogg Weldiexs Tube Co.,

The

Kellogg Weldless

Tube Co.,

Findlay, O.

Our tubes are hot drawn, without weld or seam ; from
the best quality of steel, in lengths from 8 to 25 feet,
and of any degree of hardness, from .08 to .60 carbon
—They are equal in every respect, except finish, to
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price.

For special work, requiring extremely low sulphur
and phosphorus, we are prepared to guarantee a
maximum of

.020 SULPHUR and .015 PHOSPHORUS.

New York City.

M. T. Milex & Son,

317 and 318 Western Union Bldg., Chicago
Cc. R. Taibot & Co.,
g and 10 Wiggins Blk., Cincinnati.

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R. D. NUTTALL CO.,

99 BOQUET STREET, ALLECHENY, PA.

All Kinds of__.——_,

GEAR CUTTING

N oon rnd)

Is Right in Our Line. Trv Us.

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

Electrical Apparatus
FOR THE ECONOMICAL OPERATION OF

Iron and Steel Mills, Engine Shops, Factories of all kinds, Mines, ete.

WATER-POWERS UTILIZED.

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ESTIMATES AND PRICES ON APPLICATION.

Main Office, SCHENECTADY, N. Y.

Sales Offices in all large Cities in United States. Foreign Department, 44 Broad Street, New York.

The ‘‘ Money Quesrion” is what the financiers are worrying about but |
COOD FOUNDRY IRONS is the question which interests the foundrymen.
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Is one of the requisites of satis-
factory results. In the expansion

BY USING

CLINTON AND HECTOR eg”

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Me For Softness, Strength, Fluidity and Uniformity

of business which is confidently
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the very near future, advertisers
who have made themselves regu-
\larly prominent in the past two
CLINTON IRON & STEEL CO., years will be first to reap the re-
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January 14, 1897]

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WM. JESSOP & SONS, Limited.

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Per year $3.00.

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TRADE REVIEW. 2

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the expansion of

future, advertisers

ee HR RK

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~y

TnE i896 EDITION

OF THE

IRON AND STEEL DIRECTORY

The American Iron and Steel Association

has just completed a thorough

revision of its

DIRECTORY OF THE IRON AND STEEL
WORKS OF THE UNITED STATES,

Bringing down to Jan. |, 1896, a de-

scription of these works. There is also

COMPLETE DIRECTORY

to other industries which are large con-
A new feature
is a complete list of MALLEABLE
IRON WORKS. There is also a list,
brought down to 1896, of Plate and Sheet
Mills and of Tin Plate Works in the United

States.

sumers of Iron and Steel.

Making a complete Directory of
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ROLLING MILLS,

BESSEMER STEEL WORKS,
OPEN-HEARTH STEEL WORKS,
CRUCIBLE STEEL WORKS,

PLATE AND SHEET MILLS,
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IRON AND STEEL BRIDGE-BUILDERS,
IRON AND STEEL SHIP-BUILDERS,
HORSE-NAIL WORKS,
LOCOMOTIVE WORKS,

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CAST-IRON PIPE WORKS,
WROUGHT-IRON AND
WROUGHT-STEEL PIPE WoRKS,
CAR-AXLE WORKS,

CaR-WHEEL WORKS, AND
CARBUILDERS

IN THE UNITED STATES.

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FOR SALE.

Second-hand drill press manufactured by William
Sellers & Co., 6 spindle, automatic feed, out gear
ing throughout. Will take piece 1o’x6” wide. Can
be seen at our shops, Barberton, Ohio,
description and prices

THE STIRLING CO.,
Pullman Bidg., Chicago

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[January 14, 1897.

BUYERS’ DIRECTORY OF IRON AND STEEL TRADES.

Air Compressors—

Rand Drill Co., Chicago, Tl.

The Lane & Bodley Co., Cincinnati, O.
Analytical Chemists—

Dickman & MacKenzie, Chicago, Ill.

F. A. Emmerton, Cleveland, O.

Sharpless & Winchell, Minneapolis, Minn.

O. Textor, Cleveland, O

Robert W. Hunt & Co., Chicago, Ill.

Wellman Seaver Engineering Co., Cleveland, O.

Fessenden & Ridinger, Pittsburg, Pa.
Anti-Friction Metai—

C. H, Besly & Co., Chicago, Ill.

North American Metaline Co., Long Island
City N. ¥. :

Magnolia Metal Co., New York City, N. Y.
Babbitt Metai—

Cc. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Il.
Belting—

Cc. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Ill.
Blacksmith and Carriage Supplies—

Cc. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Ill.
ulowers—

Buffalo Forge Co., Buffalo, N. Y.

B. F. Sturtevant Co., Boston, Mass.

Blast Furnace Supplies —
Atwood & M’Caffrey, Pittsburg. Pa.
Enterprise Boiler Co., Youngstown, O.
soilers and Boiler Attachments—

Wm. B. Pollock & Co., Youngstown, O
S. Freeman & Sons Mfg. Co., Racine, Wis.
Cahall Sales Department, Pittsburg, Pa.
Enterprise Boiler Co., Youngstown, O.
The Edward P. Allis Co., Milwaukee, Wis.
The Hooven, Owens & Rentschler Co.
Fulton Steam Boiler Wks. & Fdy., Richmond
Ind.
The Hazelton Boiler Co., New York.
The Stirling Co., Chicago, I11.
Clonbrock Steam Boiler Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Harrison Safety Boiler Works, Philadelphia.
Lane & Bodley Co., Cincinnati, O

Almy Water Tube Boiler Co., Providence, R. I.

Boiler Covering—
C. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Ill.
Boller Fronts and Fittings—
Vulcan Iron Works Co., Toledo, O.
The Lane & Bodley Co., Cincinnati, O.
Boiler Tubes—
S. Fix Sons, Cleveland.
Rolts and Bolt Machinery—
Upson Nut Co., Cleveland.
Bolts and Nuts—
Upson Nut Co., Cleveland, O.
Boring and Turning Mills—
H. Bickford, Lakeport, N. H.
Brass Castings—
Nolte Brass Co., Springfield, O.
Brass Work (Special Finished)—
Nolte Brass Co., Springfield, O.
Bridges—
Shiffler Bridge Co., Pittsburg.
Buildings (Steel Frame.)—
Shiffler Bridge Co., Pittsburg.

(arbon Points—
Jeffrey Mfg. Co., Columbus, O.

Castings—
Lorain Foundry Co., Lorain, O.

Castings (Brass)—
Nolte Brass Co., Springfield, O.

Chain Hoists— :
Moore Mfg. Co., Milwaukee, Wis.

Chemiste—
Dickman & MacKenzie, Chicago, Il.
F. A. Emmerton, Cleveland, O.
Sharpless & Winchell, Minneapolis, Minn.
O. Textor, Cleveland, O.
Robert W. Hunt & Co., Chicago, Ill.

Chilled and Sand Rolls—

The Lloyd-Booth Co., Youngstown, O.
Wm. Tod & Co., Youngstown, O.

Coal and Coke—
Forster, Waterbury & Co., Chicago, Il.
Cc. K. Pittman, Chicago, M1.
Pickands, Brown & Co., Chicago, I'l.
W. H. Coffman Coke Co., Bluefield, W. Va.

Core Compound—
National Jeloluse Co., New York City.

Corrugated Iron—
Sykes Iron & Steel Roofing Co., Niles, O.

Berger Mfg. Co., Canton, O.
Aitna-Standard Iron & Sieel Co., Bridgeport, O.

Conveyors—
Jeffrey Mfg. Co., Columbus, O.

Cranes and Derricks—

Wm. Tod & Co., Youngstown, O.

American Hoist & Derrick Co., St. Paul, Minn.

Marion Steam Shovel Co., Marion, O.

Addyston Pipe & Steel Co., Cincinnati, O.,

Brown Hoisting & Conveying Machine Co.,
Cleveland, O.

“dwin Harrington, Son & Co., Philadelphia.
Moore Mfg. Co., Milwaukee Wis.

| Damper Reg ulators—
Hine & Robertson Co , New York.

Dles—
Toledo Machine & Tool Co., Toledo, O.
Cady Mfg. Co., Cleveland, O.

Drills—
Dietz, Schumacher & Boye, Cincinnati, O.

Drill Presses—
Lodge & Shipley Machine Tool Co., Cincinnati.
C.H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Il.
U. Baird Machinery Co., Pittsburg, Pa.
Edwin Harrington, Son & Co., Philadelphia.
Drop Presses—
Toledo Tool & Machine Co., Toledo, O.
Bertsch & Co., Cambridge cy: Ind.
C. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Il.
Dry Kilns—
Buffalo Forge Co,, Buffalo, N. Y.
B. F. Sturtevant Co., Boston.
Dynamos—

Westinghesse Electric & Mfg. Co., Pittsburg.
General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y.

Eave Troughs and Conductors—
Berger Mfg. Co., Canton, O.

Electrical Supplies—

eens Electric & Mfg. Co, Pittsburg
General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
Elevators—

The Lane & Bodley Co., Cincinnati, O.

Emery and Corundum Wheeis—

J. Wendell Cole, Columbus and Chicago.
Sterling Emery Wheel Mfg. Co., Tiffin, O.
Diamond Machine Co., Providence, R. I.

Emery Wheel Machinery—

J. Wendell Cole, M. E., Columbus, O., or Chi-

cago, Ill.
. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Il.
Sterling Eme Wheel fg. Co., Tiffin, O.
Diamond Machine Co., Providence, R. I.

Engineers and Contractors—

Robert W. Hunt & Co., Chicago, II.

Wellman Seaver Engineering Co., Cleveland, O.
Fessenden & Ridinger, Pittsburg, Pa,

Edward E. Erikson, Pittsburg, Pa.

Engineers’ Supplies—

C. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, J 11.

H. Channon Co., Chicago, Il.

Jenkins Bros., New York City.
Engravers and Electrotypers—

Cleveland Electrotype Co., Cleveland, O.

Engines (Gas)—
The Prouty Co., Chicago, Ill.

Engine Packing—
Cc. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Il.

Engines (Steam)—

Wm. Tod & Co., Youngstown, O

B. F. Sturtevant Co., Boston, Mass.

The Edward P. Allis Co,, Milwaukee, Wis.
The Hooven, Owens & Rentschler Co.
Buffalo Forge Co., Buffalo, N. Y.

Lane & ley Co. Cincinnati, O.

Exhaust Heating Apparatus—
B. F. Sturtevant Co., Boston, Mass.
Buffalo Forge Co. Buffalo, N. Y.
Exhaust Heads—
| Hine & Robertson Co., New York.
Factory Sites—
Chicago Heights Land Association, Chicago.

Fans—
Buffalo Forge Co., Buffalo N. Y.
B. F. Sturtevant Co., Boston, Mass.
Feed Water Heaters and Purifiers—

Stilwell-Bierce & Smith Vaile Co., Dayton, O.
Hine & Robertson Co., New York.

Files, Makers of—
Cc. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Ill.
Fire Brick ard Clay—

. V. Rose, Sharon, Pa.
nion — Co., Mt. Bevage, Md.
Westmoreland Fire Brick Co., Pittsburg, Pa.
Reese, Hammond & Co., Bolivar, Pa.
Clearfield Fire Brick Co., Clearfield, Pa.
Stowe, Fuller & Co., Cleveland, O.
Dover Fire Brick Co., Cleveland.
F. B. Stevens, Detroit, Mich
Stuart Fire Brick Co., Pittsburg, Pa.
Fire Proof Covering—
C. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, I/l.
Flasks—
Brass Founders’ Supply Co., Newark, N. J.
Foot and Power Lathes—
Lodge & Shipley Machine Tool Co., Cincinnati.

Foundries—
Wm. Tod & Co.. Youngstown. O.
Lorain Foundry Co., Lorain, O.

The Rippel Mfg. Co., Mt. Gilead, O.

S Freeman ® sone Mfg Co Racine Wis.

The Lane & Bodley Co., Cincinnati, O.

Hooven, Owens & Renischler Co., Hamilton, O
: putes Steam Boiler Wks. & Fdy., Richmond,
nd.

W. A. Jones $e! Co., Chicago.

East Chicago Foundry Co., Chicago.
Foundry Supplies—

Newport Sand Bank Co., Newport, Ky.
T. P. Kelley & Co., New York City.
Clearfield Fire Brick Co.. Clearfield, Pa.
Stuart Fire Brick Co., Pittsburg, Pa.
F. B. Stevens, Detroit, Mich.
National Jeloluse Co., New York City.
Brass Founders’ Supply Co., Newark, N. 5.
The Ohio Sand Co., Conneaut, O.
Forgings—
Cleveland City Forge & Iron Co., Cleveland.
American Smokeless Furnace Co., Cleveland, O
Friction Metal—
Magnolia Metal Co., New York City, N. Y.
Furnaces—
Brightman Furnace Co., Cleveland, O.
American Smokeless Furnace Co., Cleveland, O.
Playford Stoker Co., Cleveland, O.
Furnace Linings—
Union Mining Co., Mt. Savage, Md.
American Fire Brick & Clay Co., Mineral Pt., O.
Fuel Oil Burners—
W. S. Rockwell & Co., New York City.
Gal vanizers—
Cleveland Galvanizing Works, Cleveland, O.

Gear Cutting—

The R. D. Nuttall Co., Allegheny, Pa.
Grindstones—

C. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Ill.

Graphite Paint—
Jos. Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey City N. J.,
Gray Iron Castings—
Kurtz & Buhrer, Foundry Co., Chicago, Il.
W. A. Jones Foundry Co., Chicago, Ill.
The Lane & Bodley Co., Cincinnati, O.
Hoists—
Edwin Harrington Son & Co., Phi.adelphia.
Moore Mfg. Co., Milwaukee, Wis.
Heaters and Purifiers—
Harrison Safety Boiler Works, Philadelphia.
Heating and Ventilating Apparatus—
Buffalo Forge Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
B. F. Sturtevant Co., Boston.
Heavy Hardware—
C. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Ill.
Hoisting Engines—
The Edward P. Allis Co., Milwaukee, Wis.
Earle C. Bacon, New York City.
The Lane & Bodley Co., Cincinnati, O.
Hydraulic Machinery—
Stilwell. Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co., Dayton, O.
Ingot Molds—
Lorain Foundry Co., Lorain, O.
Injectors—
C. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Il.
Insurance Companies—
Hartford Steam Boiler I. & I. Co., Hartford, Ct
Iron Buildings—
Shiffler Bridge Co., Pittsburg, Pa.
Iron Nails and Steel—

Bethlehem Iron Co., South Bethlehem, Pa.
C. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Il.
Cambria Iron Co., Johnstown, Pa.

Iron and Steel Rooting—

Sykes Iron & Steel ay | Co., Niles, O.
Berger Mfg. Co., Canton, O.
4itna-Standard Iron & Steel Co., Bridgeport, O

Iron Ore, Bar and Pig Iron—

| Oglebay, Norton & Co., Cleveland.
| Condit-Fuller Co., Cleveland.
Forster, Waterbury & Co., Chicago, Ill.

Central Iron & Steel Co., Brazil, Ind.

Junction Iron & Steel Co., Mingo feaction, oO.
#tna-Standard Iron & Steel Co., Bridgeport, O.
The Cincinnati Corrugating Co., Piqua, O.
Cambria Iron Co., Johnstown, Pa.

Clinton Iron & Steel Co., Pittsburg.

Pickands, Brown & Co., Chicago, II.

| Iron Shutters and Doors—
| The Cincinnati Corrugating Co., Piqua, O.

Iron Working Tools—

‘Toledo Machine & Tool Co., Toledo, O.
H. Bickford, Lakeport, N. H
Lodge & Shipley Machine Tool Co., Cincinnati.
Cc. H. Bes! Co., Chicago, Ill.

ohn Adt Son, New Haven, Conn.

iamond Machine Co., Providence, R. I.
U. Baird Machinery Co., Pittsburg, Pa.
Fdawin Harrington Son & Co Philadelphia
Dietz, Schumacher & Boye Cincinnati, O
L. S. Starrett Co., Athol, Mass.

January 14, 1897. | THE IRON TRADE REVIEW. ”
WESTINGHOUSE RLECTRIG AND MANUFACTURING (COMPANY,
PITTSBURG, PA.

Manufacturers of Standard Systems for Electric Light and Power Distribution

IN CITIES, FACTORIES, MILLS AND MINES.

THE TESLA POLYPHASE ALTERNATING SYSTEM OF ELECTRICAL TRANSMISSION by which Power,
Incandescentand Are Lighting may be Supplied from the SAME CIRCUIT.

WHICH IS THE MOST DURABLE, ECONOMICAL AND EFFICIENT ON THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. 120 Broadway. CHICAGO, New York Life Buiding. SAN FRANCISCO, Mills Buliding.
OSTON. Exchange Building, PHILADELPHIA, Girard Buliding. .
BUFFALO, No. 8 Erie County Bank Bidg. PITTSBURG, Westinghouse ullding. SYRACUSE, N. Y., Bastable Buliding
CHARLOTTE, N. C., 35-38 College St. ST. LOUIS, American Central Building. TACOMA, WASH., 102 S. 10thSt.
WESTINCHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY, LTD. 32 Victoria St.. LONDON, S. W., ENGLAND. 32 Ave. del’Opera. PARIS, FRANCE.

For Canada, address AHEARN & SOPER, OTTAWA, ONT.

—_—
Link Belting— Planers— Special Machinery—
The Jeffrey Mfg. Co., Columbus, O. Lodge & Shipley Machine Tool Co., Cincinnati Toledo Machine & Tool Co.. Toledo. 0
Link-Belt Machinery Co. Chicago, Il. U. Baird Machinery Co., Pittsburg, Pa | Edwin Harrington Son & Co., Philadelphia.
Double Spindle Lathes— Plat
Dietz, Schumacher & Boye, Cincinnati, O. — baie es Skylights—
neath Enterprise Boiler Co., Youngstown, O Trauslucent Fabric Co., Quincy, Mass.
Lodge & Shipley Machine Tool Co., Cincinnat! | Plumbers’ and Gas Fitters’ Supplies— Stamping and Punching—
U. ird Machinery Co., Pittsburg. Pa. C. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Il.
Edwin Eegrington, Son & .. Philadelphia. Polishing Machin Cady Mfg. Co., Cleveland, O.
Diamond Machine Co.. Providence, R. I. ‘nes—
Dietz, Schumacher & Boye, Cincinnati, O. Diamond Machine Co., Providence, R. I. a Boller Inspectors—
Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance
Machinists’ Tools and Supplies— P bi Co., Hartford, Conn.
H. Bickford, Lakeport, N. H. Sotnnn® SUNgee—
C. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Ill. Buffalo Forge Co., Buffalo, N Y. Steam Pipe and Boiler Covering—
Diamond Machine Co., Providence, R. I. ey | Mfg. Co., Cleveland, O. C. H. Besly & Co., Chicago J)!
U. Baird Machinery Co., Pittsburg, Pa. C. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Ill.

Bertsch & Co., Cambridge City, Ind. B. F. Sturtevant Co., Boston, Mass. Steam Packing—
Lodge & Shipley Machine Tool Co., Cincinnati C. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Ill.
Dietz, Schumacher & Boye, Cincinnati, O. Presses—

Machine Screws— Toledo Machine & Tool Co., Toledo, O. nas Shovels and Dredges

Illinois Screw Co., Chicago, Ill. Bertsch & Co., Cambridge City, Ind. Bucyrus Steam Shovel & Dredge Co., Bucyrus, O

Cc. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Ill. C. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Il. Marion Steam Shovel Co., Marion, O. r
Machine Shops— Pulleys— Steam Separators—

pre gt Bag ey A oO. W. A. Jones Foundry Co., Chicago, Ill. Hine & Robertson Co., New York.

The R. D. Nuttall Co., Allegheny, Pa. Steam Specialties—

The Lane & Bodley Co., Cincinnati, O. Pumps (Steam)— C. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, 1!
Magnesia Covering— Battle Creek Steam Pump Co., Battle Creek, | 5...) , oe

C. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Ill. — ~— Wm. Jessop & sons, Ltd., New York, N. Y.
Metal Bearings— The Edward P. — Co., Milwaukee, Wis. Steel Castings—

North American Metaline Co., Long Island| Atwood & M'Caffrey, Pittsburg, Pa. ,
City, N. Y. Henry R. Worthington, Brookive. 4 Fe cee & Gone, 148. = York, N. Y.
one ie Hughes Steam Pump Co., Cleveland, O. sarge ” cago, 2.

e ws— Sti : &Ss Vaile C é :

©. & C. Co. Chicago, Il. Stilwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co., Dayton, O a pails Blooms and Bille

Pyrometers— Cleveland Rolling Mill Co., Cleveland.

Milling Machines— — Bethlehem Iron Co., South Bethlehem, Pa.

Lodge & Shipley Machine Tool Co., Cincinnati. Edward Brown. Philadelphia, Pa Cambria Iron Co., Johnstown, Pa
Mining Machinery— Uehling, Steinbart & Co., Ltd., Newark, N. J ‘os . r

Recyrus Steam Shovel & DredgeCo., Bucyrus, 0, | Radial Drilis— Seeel 8 pe and Gtenetie—

Cc. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Ill. | Dietz, Schumacher & Boye, Cincinnati, O J. H. Fleharty & Co., Cleveland.

The Edward P. Allis Co., Milwaukee, Wis.

Earle C. Bacon, New York City. Railway Supplies— Steel Shafting—

The Lane & Bodley Co., Cincinnati, O.
Gates Iron Works, Chicago, I11

Motors— Rock Drillsa—
pene = ne Electric & Mfg. Co., Pittsburg.| Rand Drill Co., Chicago, Ill.

Finished Steel Co., Youngstown, O
Steel Tanks—
Berlin Iron Bridge Co., East Berlin, Conn.

Cleveland City Forge & Iron Co., Cleveland.

General Electric Co., Schenectady, N.Y. Stokers—
Molding Sand— | Rolling Mill Machinery— Playford Stoker Co., Cleveland, O.

Ohio Sand Co., Conneaut, O. The Lloyd-Booth Co., Youngstown, O. American Smokeless Furnace Co., Cleveland, O.

Newport Sand Bank Co., Newport, Ky. Brightman Furnace Co., Cleveland, O.
Oilless Bearings— Rolling Mill Supplies—

. . Turnbuckles—

North American Metaline Co., Long Island, Atwood & M’Caffrey, Pittsburg, Pa
City, N. Y¥. Cleveland Cit Forge & Iron Co., Cleveland.
O01} Barnere— Reots— Central Iron & Steel Co., Brazil, Ind.

W. S. Rockwell & Co., New York City. Shiffler Bridge Co., Pittsburg. Tanks— ‘ -

, 5. Freeman & Sons . Co., Racine, Wis.
o- oop nen. nice Sand and Chill Rolls— Enterprise Boiler Co., Youngstown, O.
. y - , Til.

Diamond Machine Co., Providence, R. I. The Lloyd-Booth Co., Youngstown, O. Tinning Machinery—
Oil Extractors— saws— The Lloyd-Booth Co., Youngstown, O.

Hine & Robertson Co., New York. Peter Gerlach & Co., Cleveland.
Oil Pumps— Tin Plate—

C. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Ill. Screens for Coal Ore, Ete. Atlanta Steel & Tin Plate Co., Atlanta, Ind.
Ore Crushers— Robt. Aitchison Perforated Metal Co., Chicago.| “t®#-Standard Iron.& Steel Co., Bridgeport, O.

The Edward P. Allis Co., Milwaukee, Wis. Harrington & King Perforating Co., Chicago. "ects.

Gates Iron Works, Chicago, Il L. S. Starrett Co., Athol, Mass
Packing— Screws— -

C. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Ill. Illinois Screw Co., Chicago, Ill Tool Steel—

kins Bros., New York Cit C. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Ill. w & So 4
Jenkins Bros., Ne y. Upson Nut Co., Cleveland, O m. Jessop ns, Ltd., New York, N. Y.

Hine & Robertson Co., New York. C. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Il.

Paint— Second-Hand Machinery—
Tube Welding—

Iron Clad Paint Co., Cleveland. The Jas. L. Haven Co., Cincinnati, O : :

Jos. Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey City, N. J. J 6. Piz Gone, Cleveland.
Pattern Leather Fillet— Shafting— Twist Drills—

Canton Leather Fillet Co., Canton, O. Finished Steel Co., Youngstown, O. C. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, I1l.
Pattern Works— The Lane & Bodley Co., Cincinnati, O. Valv

Gobeille Pattern Co., Cleveland, O. on , iP - sachi c = Besty & Co.. Chi m

im earing and Punching Machinery— . H. Besly o., cago, Ill.

Perforated Sheet Metal Jenkins Bros., New York City.

Harrington & King Perforating Co., Chicago, I)! Bertsch & Co., Cambridge City, Ind.

Aitchison Perforated Metal Co., Chicago. Toledo Machine & Tool Co., Toledo, O. Ventilating Fans—
| hosphor Bronze Castings— Long & Allstatter Co., Hamilton, O. Buffalo Forge Co., Buffalo, N. Y.

Nolte Brass Co., Springfield, O. Sheet Iron— B. F. Sturtevant Co., Boston, Mass.
Pig Iron-- Cleveland Rolling Mill Co., Cleveland. Wire Rope—

Pickands, Brown & Co., Chicago, Ill. Berger mw hy — tt " American Hoist & Derrick Co., St.

a Aitna-Stan Iron & Steel Co., Bridgeport, O.

Figs Covering Brightman Furnace Co., Cleveland, O. Wire Machinery—

C. H. Besly & Co., Chicago, Ill. Playford Stoker Co., Cleveland, O. John Adt & Bon, New Haven Conn.

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80 THE IRON TRADE REVIEW. | January 14, 1897

THE EDWARD P. ALLIS COMPANY

MILWAUVUEKEE, WIis.
MANUFACTURERS OF

Biowing Engines, Hoisting Engines,
Pumping Engines, Air Compressors,
Special Engines for Electric Lignting
Street Railways and Rolling Mills, Ore
Crushers, Crushing Rolls, Stamp Mills,
Concentrators, General Mining, Milling
: a ind Smelting Machinery.

Reynolds Corliss Engines,

NEW YORK. CHICAGO, MINNEAPOLIS. DENVER, BUTTE. CITY OF MEXICO. SAN FRANCISCO,
PITTSBURG.

Tilinois Screw Co......

Alphabetical List of Advertisers, ios cicsntes

_ | Teffi
The star (*) indicates that the adv. appears alter- Venkines e~- ae oe RN

nate weeks; the dagger (tf) once a month; the | Jessop & Sons. Lid. Wm...
double dagger (ft) once in three weeks; the | Jones Foundry Co., W. A.......
parallel (J) three times out of four. Junction Iron & Steel Co

Kellogg — wane Co..

pacr | tKelly & Co..

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Aitna-Standard Iron & Steel ‘Co. Lloyd Booth Co.. seesserecececees 34
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Allis & Co., Edward P.. coscsersreeeseneceesees SO] Lorain FOumdry CoO.....c.cccccccccsssccceseseceessceceettoces I
Almy Water Tube Boiler Co.. Nassthheixeanht ae
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Magnolia Metal Co..

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Dover Stuart Fire Brick Co.. seantipnnce 33
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East Chicago Foundry Co

Emmerton, F. A,.....csssseersrenresersseeee _

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Harrington, Son & Co., Edwin.. ‘ ~~ 35) WRITE
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Hartford Steam Boiler Seep | hed Ins. + Cove. sine 3 | THE
Hazelton el Co... r . 22
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Hughes Steam Pump Co....... »@ PRINTING &

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PUBLISHING CO.,

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IRON AND STEEL MARKETS.

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Hematites No. 1 non-Bessemer............. - 2.2§@ 2.50
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No. 1 Gray Forge, red short
No. 2 Gray Forge, neutral

No. 1 American Scotch.. weasesssesoseces
No. 2 American Scotch...
Lake Superior Charcoal............ aliens: ase

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Local Scotch Foundry | seve II 25@ 11 75
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Southern Silveries No. 1............... woos 12 15@ 12 65
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Ohio Silveries No. 1......... mone 15 15 55

145 15 ©;
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Ohio Silveries No. 2..
Ohio Strong Softeners...

Alabama Car Wheel... 1665@ 17 15
Malleable Bessemer... «» 12 75@ 1350
Coke Bessemer... eunscuneneusacesscoocaqens 13 13 50
CINCINNATI (re cported by Rogers, Brown & Co.)
Southern Coke No. 1, Foundry............ $10 75@ 11 00
Southern Coke No. 2 and No. 1 Soft... 10 25@ 10 50
Hanging Rock Coke, No 1....cccccccceeeee 125 13 50
Hanging Rock Charcoal No. 1, Fdy..... 15 16 00
Tennessee Charcoal No 1.............. 13 13 25
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Standard Attiednt Car Wheel... unenee 147 s 50
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Jackson Co. Silvery No. 1.. sevseeeree 14 25@ 15 25
Lake Superior Charcoal 13 50@ 14 50
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STRUCTURAL MATERIAL.

Beams and Channels (f. 0. b. Cleveland).... 1.65
pe ecnsese
WOE snscsecocceresnepeccccezsses
Universal Plates........

MERCHANT IRON AND STEEL.
(Less than car-lots, Cleveland.)
Rounds and Squares.—Bar Iron.

LO ae es ©

2to2 + .20 extra
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January 14, 1897.] THE IRON TRADE REVIEW. 3]

7 PERFORATED METALS mm

OF ALL KINDS FOR

MILLING, MINING AND AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY. E33]

Perforated Iron, Steel, Copper, Brass, Tin, Zine, Lead, Ete., to Order.
Large and Varied Assortment of Sizes. Correspondence Solicited.

THE ROBERT AITCHISON PERFORATED METAL CO., GN
Office, Room 510, 265 to 269 Dearborn St., CHICAGO, ILL. Works, So. Chicago.

TTT
DUTT

Works and Mines, Westmoreland, Pa.

The
Playford
Mechanical
Stoker

Guaranteed to

Abolish smoke, to increase
boiler capacity and to save
fuel.

For information, address,

The Playford Stoker Co.,

No. 61 Case Library Bldg.,
CLEVELAND, O.

NEW YORK
HAVEMEYER. BLOC,
PITTSBURG.

SARNECIE

CHICAG
MARQUETTE

Pays special attention to

s
iron ore, blast furnace,
I eVieW rolling mill, foundry and
machine shop interests.

Per year $3.00.

IRONCLAD PAINTCO. iron ciat Paint co.

Factory, 76 & 77 Central Way. Sec. & Treas., No.3 Case Build’g, And get the genuine article, and

CLEVELAND OHIO. save liability of suit for using an

article made in violation of the pat

ents issued to Wm. Green, and now
owned by this Couipany.

IRON CLAD PAINT is the
most durable, most
fire-proof and Cheapest
Paint made.

FURNISHED both Dry and
Ground in Oil

USED BY NEARLY ALL THE
RAILRUAD®,

6% to 7% 2.50 extra
y% to & 10

+, to 11-16 20

% to oie

7-16 Lo 15-32 4
| 4% to 13-32 50

§-16 tO 1i-32....000 cove °

\% to 9-32 :

D- BB ccccceccescoese tat

310 sees 2.50
|

Flats.—-Bar Iron.

1% togx tor : 1.20 Base
4% to6x % tol... pecece 1o extra
64% to8x % to! 60
| 8% to tox # to! - ™

iM togx11-16to 1% *
14% to6x1 1-16to1’ hentia 40

64% to8x1 1i6tor1r penetaneines —— 60

8% to ox! 1-16to1% poncesene ~

210 4X 19 tO 2......0005 pcevsececcccoeceses 50

4% to6x %to2 pecese 60

6% toSxz toe : : ™

5% to 10x 154 to2 1.00
2to4x2%to3 pees 60

4% to6x2%to3 : So

GEE OD © BE GO OO Brectccccssccscececccsccccnssens 1.00
i%toimxkKto aa 10
1101 1-16x % to %....... ; 20

B4 00 05-36 SH 96 OO Mi crcccccescesccccccceces tocccones 40

Se to 11-16 x & to % 50

% tog 16x % to &% go

Heavy Band Iron.

7 to 10x & to 5-16 eee 7oextra
6% to 6% x \& to 5-16 : »> =
4% to6x \& to 5-16 cone 30

1% to4x \ to §-16 20

1t0o 1% x \& to 5-16 : » 2

\% to 15-16 x \& to 5-16 - 5

% to 11-16 x & to 5-16 Bo

% tog-16x \& to 5-16 1.00

% to 7-16 x \& to 5-16 1.5 “

Heavy bands, 7-32 in. thick 1-10 c. per Ib. higher
than \% to 516 thick. Bevel Kdee shaft iron
1-10 higher than same size of Heavy Bands.

Light Band Iron.
7 to8x No. 9 to 3-16 oo extra
7to8 x Sos. 10, 11 and 12 ro “
6% to 6% x No. g to 3-16 70

‘

6% to 6% x Nos. 10, 11 and 12 Re
4% to6x No. 9 to 3-16

\ to6 X Nos. 10, 11 and 12 60
1% tog x No. 9 to 3-16 4
1% to 4x Nos. to, 11 and 12 ‘
1 to 13-16x No.9 to 316 7
1 to 1 3-16 x Nos. to, 11 and 12 x
13-16 to % x No, 9 to 3-16 60
13-16 to x Nos. to, 11 and 12

11-16 to \ x No.9 to 3-16
11-16 to 4& x Nos. 10 11 and
Q16t Te FS ee .
9-16 to x Nos 10, 11 and 12 I
7-16 to % x No gto 1¢ 1
7-16 to 4% x Nos 10, 11 and 12 14
% x No. gto 3-16 epocecosoocennes

% x Nos. 10, 11 and 12 ¢

Same as Light Bands, of same sizes
Beaded Band Iron, 1& in. to2 in 70
Sand Band Iron, 1-10 c. above same sizes of
Light Bands
Oval Iron.

Wy tO 1G. ccceeres : : 40 extra
% to 13-16......... a 50 oe
>», to 11-16 . secere ee cece 60 ve
Bie GP OR cocsuseesecccenvennputenntensucnmesvancngntns + Bo

Hg tO 7-16....0.+4- eces _ 1.10

\% to9 16 x 3-16 1.00 -
>% to 11-16x %& 1.x .

Half Oval and Half Round,

24 CBD Bocccccccccccce 6o extra
m™ to2 eve 50 .

ME BD BG BO .ccccccccccscocccccccccs0s cccscoccccceses 70

Ye LO 11-16... .000- - - rr

% t. 916 . 1.20 *
% to 7-16 2 =>
Aa eeese . 3.50 we

4 cerescocccoce . oecceces sO
Half Ovals less than \ their width in thickness.
extra price
Horse Shoe Iron,
All sizes ; nsvenensennun 1c extra
Cutt. ng ordinary bars to specified length, .20 to
30 extra, according to length and size

Steel Bands.

Width English Standard
In Inches. Gauge
1 1-2 to6, Nos. 7, 8, 9 or 3-16” 1.50 Base
Extras
1% to 6, “ 10,11, 120r %” 05 per too lbs.
1 to 1h, “ 9, 8 gor 3- 6” 10 :
1to 1”, *“ 40, 11, 12 or %” 1s ’
13-16 and %, “ 7,8, 9 or 3-16” 20
137-16and % 10, 11, 12 or \%" 25
u-16and \%, “ 7,8, 9 or 3-16” x ‘
jad \, 10 Ii, 120r \%” 5
>o-16 and % “ 9, 8 9 or 3-16” 40
g16and +, “ 10 11, 120r \%" 45 ee
% Nos. 7, 8. 9 or 3-16" : —
ly * 10, If, 12 0r %" 60
7160“ 7, 8, 9 Or 3-10” 75
7-19 4“ 10, 34, 12 or 4%" 8s
‘ 9 8,9 OF 3-16" 95
, “ to, 11, 12 or &" 1.05
Iron and Steel Hoops.
Width English Standard
in Inches Gauge
17-716 to3 Nos. 13, 14, 15 and 16 160 Base
Extros
1716 to2, “ 17, 18, and 109 05 per too Ibs.
I 7-16 to 2, “ 2 10 .
1716 to2, “ 21 , Is
17-16 to 1%, “ BB wcocccceccconseces 25 oe
1K%toiy%, “ 13, 14 and I5........ .05 ‘
%to 1%, “ 16, 17 and 1f.......... 10

ater

I TNE EGE AE iS I NE ST CRE le te

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OY ROR EE ON AO A

32 THE IRON TRADE REVIEW.

[January 14, 1897.

Soft Steel Bars, Light

LOW PRICES

do not always influence busi-
ness. Some brands of goods
are undesirable as a Gift.

Write us for our catalogue
and send us a sample order
and see if there is not Economy
in using First Quality goods
at Fair Prices.

=
c

~~,

Structural Shapes, Rails.

TIN PLATES,
CALVANIZED SHEETS,
CORRUCATED IRON,
BLACK PLATES,

Sheet Iron and Steel, any fin-
ish, patent leveled or common.

Aetna Standard Iron & Steel Co.,

BRIDCEPORT, OHIO.

W. H. COFFMAN COKE CO.

BLUEFIELD, W. VA.

GENERAL FACTORS AND SH'PPERS OF

POCAHONTAS CO a4 Ee.

<~ FLAT-TOP =

So low in ash that it requires no fluxing for foundry purposes
at the World’s Fair in 1893:

Our foundry and turnace coke was awarded the first premium
AVERAGE ANALYSIS OF COKE

iis, ick cunbindindattnadbsadasveninainsktdedes en 1 CIIBUIE ancceteee- ceccoreveceesssectodnensuecasasceesese ecuonenes 77
Fixed Carbon ads ’ SEIT It Mi iinsuisctacsdigastencnssoaapconencecetnanattectenenesansanet eveees05.004
VORMtile BARRE « .ncccresceccccccccesecccscececese cos csceseced 00 494 =

Foundry.Furnace and all sizes of crushed coke. Guaranteed lower in Sulphur than any other commercial coxe

Pays special attention to

'
iron ore, blast furnace,
é on la é eVIeW rolling mill, foundry and
machine shop interests.

Per year $3.00.

WORLD’S FAIR AWARD -

We are the only Steel Roofing Os. awarded Medal
and Diploma for PATENT CAP BOOFING
at World’s Columbian Exposition. We are alse
large manufacturers of all styles of Mra Roorme,
Srpine, CzlLIne, ero. Send for Catalogue and Priee
List. Mention this paper.

SYKES-IRON & STEEL ROOFING CO., - Chicago and Niles, 0.

THE 1896 EDITION aeeeietnar series oF " of blast

furnaces, rolling mi.ls, Bessemer and
OF THE

| Open-Hearth steel works, plate and sheet

[ron and Stee] Directory. mills, nail mills, tin plate mills, mal-

Will be sent postpaid by Zhe Jron Trade | | leable, cast iron pipe and wrought pipe

Review at $6.

works, car wheel and locomotive works.

DO YOUR eee.

SKYLIGHTS LEAK?

Then send for our catalogue. It will tell you how to repair them so they will

never leak.

Translucent Fabric Skylights are now in use in all parts of the
United States, and are giving the best satisfaction. Why? Because they never

crack, break or leak, cost nothing for repair work and are inexpensive to build

1%to1%, “ 19 and 20 15 per roolbs

|
lito, “ 2 names 20
| RS ae 30
|} is-r6and1, “ 13, 14 and 1I5.. 10

15-16 and 1, “ 16, 17 and 18 15

15 16 and 1, 19 and 20 aici: Ga

m-16and 1, “ 21....... 25

CO a -35
| %, Nos, 13, 14 and 15. -+0e0 *

%, ** 16, 17 and eC aa

%, * = ‘and A iciactadiis sckatenets ie

% eR 35

} — 45
3 ¥%, ‘and 13°16 Nos. 13, 14 and 1I5..... .30

% and 13-16 “ 16, 17 and 18 25

¥% and 13-16 “ tI9and 20 ‘ 40

rn "WD icsse selnnness 45

% and 13-16 ‘ 22 . 50
fe ere 60

11-16, Nos. 13, 14 and 15 peoseoeupocccoees 35

11-16, ** 16, 17 and 18.... 40

11-16, “ 19 and 20... 50

11-16, ~ eqqundios cecese x

11-16, oe A aaiiten 70

11-16, ST BBococcscccce-ccccsesccccecocssees .80

Be, § SROR. BB. BOG Wicccececccccseenses . .40

¥%, a * * | soe 45

%, —. » ees 55

ys, a sodieeneens

ya, Se i iaicgtreemereescccsenstcenen cousins 75

ye. — pusepoeaseseosace 85

916, “* 13, 14 and 15 ee

~ in << 5 { Seer 50

916, “ ane

916, “ 7°

916, “* So

9-16, ‘ ceocccesece go

%, ‘ 43, 4 and 15... 55

\, oa } i} ey *

4, a | | ee oo eo

%, FG nannistcebecstetecenenseneccesmne so

4, OP cicaliahiesevien ankibutiahhnaienan x

¥, — es sicvalialedsi 1.

7-16, “ 13, 14 and I5........... 80

a Wk BT EE icecacectonnspenes go

7-16, I i cterenisincnets ex eeeT.00

H, —e bi.» 1.00
Hs, ae | * ¢ Seen 1.10

%, ff nen 1.20
sheet Iron.
| No. to 1x
| Ty tll iciecntuseninamnsameanhmatibnetidinted apeandneledabentin I 70
ths TR sceepeqnabemanengpasiondemesengnmameinammnrtaiaiivententi 1 &
| NO. 15°17 ...ccecereseees esses steteeteenesssctenneness I 75
| No. 18... 1 8,
yy awe 2¢
By CED ccsntciites” invsinencvsctncnstdanitandtinseveumntentinn 21
eS ae tlieieees 2 x
SD TEEG, Ti citeattetisnien <enaseubeantimentnddencneiniitinddie 2 30
Steel Boiler Pinten—1- 4 in. Q@ud Heavier:
SCD ERE TES a I 35
Shell aibteriataiadias iene 1 45
By rere scsvccvecevescccccosconss SS
Marine Flange sninnpeieusievenimeunnainaineeunesiin semened Gt
FP i ccennscninereiqusenecinecuseowsnencevecnevinumssecceneres 2 05

Above includes plates 90 inc ches wide
| 90 to 96 in. wide padnmueriieneensaveconessied %c. Ib. extra

96 to 100 in. wide............... jennings Ic
100 to 104 in. wide.............. en 1%c
| 104 to 106 in. wide..............+ _ ... Special

|

|
|

American Oaat Tool Steel.
ROUND, sou. ARE, AND OCTAGON. cts Ihs

1 to 2in. inclusive.. Sdecdpetnniincedt coanernes -+-. 08
4 Yin. “ peoceccces ove eevees csncscoed 08
7-16 to % and 2% to3 AN ncianesiidiiaiiaestaiseia 09

2% togin ‘ soncuanenanscaeeue peenesuete ---.09%
5 to 11-16 and 4%... sneiiaennitelaiailalinnaiminsiibicsueentient 10
SEN OD Wil nvescuussaneenenumsessonss evs evecsnennaevseceoveente 104
\ to 9-32 and 6% to 7 in ...... nnennetiomamenes a
D iicticiesntcscuuutstinaisareaesnenniminbiinbierencsecence ee

Flats. cts. Ibs
2 to 916 in. wide by 2 to % thick...........0.......... 08

Bessemer anu ©. H. steel.

Bessemer Machinery.......................base price, 1 40

TRANSLUCENT FABRIC CO., QUINCY, MASS.

lg : - I 45
Open-hearth Spring... pcosiianipnaneeiiepeees ” 1 So
Sleigh Shoe. : Sa ae os I 45
rnd cticinneitietnnnaiiitiaintebeinah ; oe 1 90
Cutter Shoes, tapered and bent.. " I 60
Ruglish Lowi Steel,
JOBBOP’ Bice. .c00cececcceseoescccceqecses scceoenvenesenseuess 15 4c
Hobson’s *’ Best’ 1séc
_ ng, RR RN 35¢
Burden Boiler Rivets.

4, %, 11-16 and ¥% inches diameter................. .3 00
Bridge %, %, 11-16 and ¥% inch diam.................. 2 55
Wrought Pipe and Boiler Tubes.

Lap weld black base, a. .-62
Butt ‘ . ( “SGseieeeenemer ~~.
ee Oo csenssbonbinticinn 52%
Butt “ 4 af i _ eae 50
Boiler tubes 2%" and smaller ..................00.6. wer

Boiler tubes 244” and larger.............. we
Casting screw and socket joint... ais. sand
a dis. 47%

January 14, 1897.]

SHIFFLER BRIDGE COMPANY,

BUILDING DEPARTMENT. |

SPECIALTIES: STEEL AND IRON BUILDINGS FOR ROLLING-MILLS
TIN PLATE PLANTS, STEEL WORKS, FOUNDRIES, FACTORIES, ROOF
TRUSSES, GIRDERS, COLUMNS, BEAMS, CORRUGATED IRON, ETC.

Branch Offices :
1123 Betz Building, Philadelphia, Pa.
65 Dexter Building, Chicago, D1.

228 Lumber Exchange, Minneapolis, Minn.

Main Office and Works:
48th Street and A. V. Ry.
PITTSBURG, PA.

|
Pays special attention to |
iron ore, blast furnace, |
rolling mill, foundry and |
machine shop interests. |

Per year $3.00.

The Iron Trade Review

CAMBRIA STEEL.

Steel Rails, Blooms, Billets, Beams, Bars, Axles, Angles, |
Channels, Castings, Forgings, Zee Bars, Car- |
Channels, Locomotive, Car and

Structural Steels, etc.

}

CAMBRIA IRON COMPANY, S. W. Cor. 15th and Market Sts., opp. Penna. R. R. Station, |
Philadelphia; Chicago office, Western Union Building; New York office, (for Rails |
and Axles), 33 Wall St.; Cleveland office,Bourne, Fuller & Co; Detroit office, Newberry |
Bldg.; Toledo office, The Nasby, No. 401; Cincinnati office, cor. Elm and Pearl Sts. |
Works at Johnstown, Pa.

GAUTIER STEEL DEPARTMENT OF CAMBRIA IRON CO.,

JOHNSTOWN, PA.

MERCHANT BAR STEEL: Including Tire, Toe Calk, Machinery, Carriage Spring, Rail-
road Spring. Hoe, Rake, Fork, etc.

ACRICULTURAL STeEL AND SHAPES: Finger Bars, Knife Backs,
Bundle Carrier Teeth, Tedder Forks and springs, Spring Harrow Teeth, Harrow
Seat Springs, etc.

PLOW STEEL: Flat and Finished Plow Shapes,
Hammered Lay, Rolled Lay, etc.

Rake Teeth,
Drag) Teeth,

Digger Blades, Slabs (Penn and Pernot),

Cold Rolled Stee! Shafting. Steel Harrow Discs. Cambria Link Barb Wire.

Chicago Office,
209 Western Union Bidg.

Atlanta Office,

Philadelphia Office,
326 Decatur st. |

New York Office,
611 Phila. Bourse.

102 Chambers St.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Silica Brick

For Open-Hearth, Basic and Acid Steel Furnaces, Glass and Copper
Tank Furnaces. Extra Shapes MADE TO ORDER.

Office, Room 21, Conestoga Bidg., Cor, Wood and Water Sts. PITTSBURG. PA. |

THE IRON TRADE REVIEW.

|

33

INERY SUPPLY MARKET.

[From Store, Cleveland
Anvils.
ae ee ow fA BD 10
WUE Uiinctsenensnsceneenpennnnnnensnbnsnveiecnesccanenppasneet BD ia
Bellows.

, HiT1’S..........cceeeesss0-18 40
Blacksmiths foo eee dis so&i0
Ee ae ae a dis « o& 10
FEES cxqnssvencnnsencncsnsevensunngumenseenivessebaned dis 40& 10@s50

Belting.
Boston Belting Co.'s standard ............. dis Jo & 10
- = a dis co& 10
- “ a ea dis 55
Cleveland Rubber Co. extra standard......dis 6o&10
ee 8) Fe ae dis 50
Shultz Raw Hide Leather Belting, single......dis 40
Munson’s Short ——- Leathetr........+00+ dis 50
Munson’s Short Pp uble and Light
ae is so&10
Shultz Raw Hide Leather Belting, Double
Ue AS ee scnccccncencesseunibinnansestnttents dis 4
EEE dis

os

Alexander Brothers’ pure oak tanned.........
Blowers and Exhausters.

BD. W, Gheng ORE BO erecesecncocconccssnsecesesanssnesccosened dis 20
1050S TESST OB ro cccccncccensrncnscesensenencecwseccocsdeed dis 35
Chucks.

Cushman’s 4 Jaw Independent....................... dis 45

- | EES dis 40
- a Be inensssncesncntscssnnciocsintenl dis So
" 2 Jaw Brass Workers......... dis 30
_ PEiiresescccenngebenengesnaccencnsusmeavensesnah dis 45
Wescott’s Scroll Combination.............../.....dis 334
ws ae dis «
- Little Giant Drill....... wsaeitiialediindl dis 33%
Horton's Independent............cc0s.c.eseeseeeseseeee is 45
| Whiton’s Independent...............ccsseesseneereenees dis 45
National Combimation..............ccccessessseressseeeeees dis 45
Sweetland TF: ‘aatiaahamaaiatnanniiliieinasiniiail dis 4
Sp inincnccninmntanonntenieiainiteianadd dis 40
Morse eearenineatanl dis 20
Skinner’s Combination Lathe.................. dis 40&15
- Independent Lathe..............0+: dis 40810
a Universal Lathe......... ...c00---+.dis 408&10
“ Poe icsnsnsnsnenvesnresananeeemecsimmmanseosendl is 30
Cutters and Reamers.
CAPONE oc cccccvecccnccseccccsscsccccccsens cececeesecsened 18 10@I5
Pratt & Whitney................. Adis regis
TET dis 10@1«
| dis 10 to Is
Brown & Sharpe, Milling Cutters.. dis 15
” i ee Ge iccecocccscecces Ais 15
; Crow bars.

GnSb BORG. .cocersrecccecresccscceseccncnsconenssescenececectocs PF sh
DOG, CORTE BR encctissenescevecscnssnnieniestencene Bilb gs
Drill and Drill Sockets

Twist Drills

Morse Taper&Straight Shank to 1\"dis so & 10 to 60

| Morse Taper and Straight Shank Larger

ST Bi” wecenenesnctmetenindeteneccnemmntmnsnneienaninniel dis 25
a E
Standard Twist Drills...... ..............
Cleveland “ w 6m
Emery.
No. 4 to No. 54 to Flour.C. F
46 gr. 150 gr. F. F
Se 4c sc 2%c
ae GERD SD Ti ccnennensecebunns 4%c sKec 2c
¢. _| | Saeeeeee 5 ¢ se g €
| 10 ® cans, ro in case......6 c 6%c s €
to cans less than 10.10 c lo ¢ 7c
Emery Cloth and Paper.

Barder, Adamson & Co..........cccccseceeeeees dis 59@sb&5
fils Giie SEUNIT TIN acerenitinatanennnnnnntnnetseenemnacssonned dis 50@50&5
Kmery Wheels.

RIT cectsncncnressnnmitaneietnnbtniitatnettinaneuiabeed dis 60@70
IIT Uirnsnnnnsnecunasnatecdinuieedsienmninieeienein dis “0
AE NC .. dis 70
IOI iseitepnpsnanemmanmnnnndtenmtitieteianied dis 60@70
UTI ensincneinennncunsnsqncounmnsatiniiilinesnannts dis 1o&33
POI EID copcrsrevenccmseninsinsnantinmntisiidenncannal dis 50
Coit enncntcnmnessatiesonnnnnnenensbeatpbennineuncanstnase dis 65@70
Vitrified is 60@70
Wee icntheqnnscniemnseunintcncinsiinhaibintaiennidadiiel dis 10
RE eee dis 60& 10@70
Cvyclone....... ceseesseeeeescecessesee iS 60@60& 10
Files
dis tnienneniniaaienl dis 60&1 To& 1¢
SRB arnccasescevsosnssscsnessetesiens dis Soh tobconrenre

= Oe a ae dis a5
fo £4 dis 60&1 10& 10
Black Diamond...............0.00: dis 60&1 1o&10
= dis 60& 10@60& 1o& 10
OREO Ses 8 65@70
IS REAL WN dis 70
BUTI inssenccnsnsccerecccnscdnescccssesscosvetenasbsuiesbsiibbeiak’ dis 25
ETO incsemsessonseggereecgpnapensenementen peseuaune dis 30
TY NG OT ees dis 50
Industry File Works Hand Cut........ haiitasiedl dis 50
Hammers.
i's Gis WO cnccnspnencncensactcenteniigngeunceiadinainmnsiiibies dis 40
Atha new list, Jan. 15, 1887.............. dis 50
Heavy hammers and sledges under . a
” = ss . QUGE & WB kcsicceccccces 8:

Jack Screws.
ee dis 75

Nuts and Washers.

Size of boltinches ¥ 5-16 % kK I
en s 7 3i 4 4 3 3%
ee 15% 1% 8% sé Sk
Washers...... ecco 9 8 4 5 4% 4% 4%

In lots less than 100 Ds, @ ® add Kc., 1 h boxes
add ic to list.

Nails (wire).
Standard Penny Nails, ® keg, base.
1.50

i See
Less than car lots...$1.60

84 THE IRON TRADE REVIEW. [January 14, 1897

Press Plates.
SHY3LVAM O3LVINGIDY
JO UOT} puvjsy}ia oF
S31V1d NI3W9S IZNOUS

Perforated Filter

PERFORATORS OF STEEL, IRON, COPPER, ZINC, BRASS AND TIN.

For GRAIN CLEANING AND MINING MACHINERY, SUGAR AND MALT HOUSES. BRICK AND TILE WORKS, FILTERS,

use WOOLEN, sagen PAPER AND PULP MILLS, DISTILLERIES, FILTER PRESSES. SPARK ARRESTERS, GAS AND WATER WORKS

In RICE, FLOU A COTTON SEED OIL MILLS, STONE, COAL, AND ORE SCREENS, OIL, GAS AND VAPOR STOVES, COFFFE MACHINERY ETc.
STANDARD SIZES PERFORATED TIN AND BRASS ALWAYS IN STOCK.

Main Office and Works, 226 North Union Street, Chicago, Ill., U. S. A. Eastern Office, No. 284 Pearl St.. New York.

Oilers.
OS is THE LLOYD-BOOTH 60 YOUNCSTOWN,
a rT OHIO.

Malleable (Hammer's) ‘No. = "$3.60; aio. rt

$4.00 ; NO. 3, $4.40 B AOZ........0.ceeeeeeed

; Picks. ‘

BmTBSRORD, © OO 6 BO... .cccccccccccceccccccccccoveseoees $12 dis 60 >
” | ee $13 dis 60

Pulleys. aw

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enero ae Chicago Branch, 59 So. Canal St.
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esta aes Somers, Fitler & Clarke. Pittsburg
Wrenches.

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Alligator Sali =H YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO.
Merslatence The Porter-Hamilton Engine

In Advertising Reversing Engines,
Is one of the requisites of satis- Blowing Engines, Con-

factory results. In the expansion | verters,Hydraulicand
of business which is confidently | » Special heavy machin-
sarees hoy United oo in | ery for the iron and
aetatee donde — Soon tak “A ae eee.
é , é seives O11 -
egu Williams nioréted Vertical Engines

larly prominent in the past tw
_— P 2 pag cg a wo For Direct Electrical and all High Class Work.
yes SO Teap ue at 39-41 Cortland St., N. Y. Park Building, Pittsburg,

wards of persistent publicity. E. F. WILLIAMS. SEWARD 8. BABBITT

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January 14, 1897.]

THE IRON

TRADE REVIEW. 35

THE CELEBRATED

HARRINGTON HOIST

Is Made only in Philadelphia.

EDWIN HARRINGTON, SON & CO0., INC.,

1526 Penna, Avenue,

iron-Working Tools.

ACTURERS
OF

Compound Lever
Sheet Iron Shears,
all sizes. Seven dif-
ferent styleSquaring
Shears and Punches,
Crimping, Forming
and Straightening
~ Rolls, etc.

Bertsch & Co., Cambridge City, Ind

J. M. ALLEN, President.
WM. B. FRANELIN, Vice-President.
F. B. ALLEN, Second Vice-President.
J. B. PIERCE, Secretary and Treas.

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BURWELL & BRIGGS, General Agents, 32 Wil- |
shire Bldg., Cleveland, O.

Cc. A. BURWELL, Chief Inspector, 32 Wilshire
Bldg., Cleveland, O.

J. BE. WOLCOTT, Special Agent, 96 ath Avenue, |
Pittehburgh Ps

PYROMETERS

Edward Brown,

ESTABLISHED 1860.
311 WALNUT St., PHILADELPHIA.
Manutacturer and Patentee
OF THE
(or Graphite) Pyrometer.

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Hot Blast
—The only stationary Pyrometer
now in use durable over 7oo de-
grees.

The Standard Portable Pyrometer— |
For Blast Furnaces.

Mercury Revolution
Centennial Exhibition
Accurate for all time.

Annealing Oven Pyrometer—to 3,000
degrees—ot 1893.

Tin-plating Pyrometer—of 1894.

indicator.—
Medal.

Mercury and Steam Cauges.

THE BETHLEHEM IRON CO.,

Principal Office and Works,

SOUTH BETHLEHEM, PA.
STrEeEIE RAILS.

BILLETS AND MUCK BAR,:

STEEL. FO RGiINGS.
HOLLOW SHAFTING, CRANKS, ROLLS, GUNS AND ARMOR.
Rough, Machined or Finished, Fiuid Compressed, Hydraulic Forged.

NEW YORK OFFICE, 100 BROADWAY. \PHILADELPHIA OFFICE, 42! CHESTNUT ST.
CHICAGO OFFICE, MARQUETTE BUILDING.

TOLEDO MACHINE & TOOL C0.,

501-505 Superior 8t., edo Ohio.
We manufacture ted
Power Punches. Forging Presses.
Power Presses. a Presses.
+ Straight Sided Double Pitman Presses.
vrop Presses.
Embossing Presses.

Automatic Feed Presses.
Stamping Presses. Power Slitting Machines.
Riveting Machines. Power Shears.

Special and Automatic Machinery Dies for all classes
of work in sheet metals

Write for catalogue and prices. No

3 Power Press.

No. 34 Power Press

THE “CLEARFIELD” FIRE BRICK
MANUFACTURED BY
THE CLEARFIELD FIRE BRICK CO., Limited,
Office and Works at CLHARFIELD, PA.
929 Liberty Street, Pittsburg, Pa., John Richardson, Agent.

CLEVELAND ROLLINC MILL COQO.,

CLEVELAND, OHIO,
——MANUFACTURERS OF —
BESSEMER AND OPEN-HEARTH STEEL,

| Blooms, Billets, and Slabs, Steel Rails, Steel Beams, Channels and Angles. Steel Forgings, Bar
Spring, and Sleigh Shoe Steel. Steel Wire of all kinds. Barbed Wire, Irom and Steel Plates,
Galvanized and Black Sheet [ron and Steel Corrugated Iron Roofing.

=» KING'S SIX TON
ELECTRIC CRANE

an be furnished at low cost.

information to the MARION STEAM SHOVEL CO Marion, Ohio. 7

RE

DOVER FIRE BRICK CO.,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Farnace, Mill and Special Shape Fire Brick.

Office, 44 Mercantile Bank Bidg.,
CLEVELAND, mas

Pays special attention to

iron ore, blast furnace,
é ron ld é eviAW rolling mill, foundry and
machine shop interests,

Per year $3.00.

THE GENTRAL IRON & STEEL CO.

BRAZIL, INDIANA,

MANUFACTURERS OF

Wrought Iron Open Hexagonal Turnbuckles,

MADE FROM THE BEST CHARCOAL IRON.
than any Similar Article on the Market.

Guaranteed Stronger

“THE IRON TRADE REVIEW.

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[January 14, 1897,

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THE

‘SEAVER
NGINEERING CO,

w England Bldg.

fo

LEVELAND, O.

| AND
SONTRACTORS.

/ELLMAN,

fe make a specialty of the de-
a and construction of STEEL
‘RES, ROLLING MILLS
| STEEL WORKING MA-

Emery Coruncum Wheels and Machinery.
Writeto Je WENDELL COLE, M. E.,

District Manager, No. 911 Chicago Opera House Block, Catone. il., or

and Wisconsin.

THeaE HART 22: DETROIT

ox 84, Columbus, 0

@@ N. B.—Also Agent or WM. SELLERS & Co.’s SPECIAL TOOL GRINDER and
Twist DRILL GRINDER WITH POINTER, for Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois

iron ore,

The Iron Trade Review

machine shop
Per year $3.00

Pays special attention to
blast furnace,
rolling mill, foundry and
interests.

Fred. F, Sharpless. Horace V. Winchell.

SHARPLESS & WINCHELL.

809 and 811 Wright Block, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

BORING AND

TURNING
MILLS,

4,686 Ft. Swing,
H. Bickford,
Lakeport,

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Analytical Chemists and Assayers.
Consulting Geologists and Mining Experts

Mines examined. Advice given on treatment
of ores and development of properties.

Intimate acquaintance with Lake Superior
Mineral Regions.

(ENERY. Metallurgical
maces of ai! xinds. seei| QILLESS BEARINGS. 12
idings for all purposes. Spe- For Loose Pulleys and |

velling Cranes and Gautries.

fe have undertaken to exploit
Berry Safety Boiler.

WHY?

cause after watching itin the
dest kind of service for two
rs,we are fully convinced that
imbodies in its construction
good points than any other
ever built.

|will be manufactured at the
tks of John Mohr & Sons,
ieageo, which fact alone is a
jrantee that both material and
tkmanship will be the best
t money can buy.

pme of the good points of the
iry Boiler are the following:

t gives uniformly DRY
STEAM.

it is SAFE and durable.

economical in first cost.

'is economical in mainte-
nance.

the greatest horse-
per square foot of
floor space occupied.

md for our descriptive pam-
which will tell you the

Hlectric and other power

other bearings. Perfect- | Send for Photograph and Low Price.

ly clean. No cutting or |

f fire fi ver-
eating. Send for Loose |. ES. Stevens
90 Griswold St., Detroit, Mich.

Brick, Fire Clay and Foundry Supplies,

H. H. CAMPBELL.

Brightman Furnace Co.
648 Broadway, CLEVELAND, oO.

SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF THE

Brightman Mechanical Stoker

FOR STEAM BOILERS.

heating. Send for Loose
Pulley circular.
No. American Metaline Co.

40 to 48 Third Street,
Long Island City, N. Y. | Fire

N. W. TAYLOR.

THE MOST ECONOMICAL IN FUEL
and the Best Device in the World for Preventing Smoke.
Send for Catalogue “A.”

THE CHICAGO GAS and GASOLINE ENGINE

The simplest gas and gasoline engine on the market.
Iias no equal for absolute, steady speed and durability.
It is a dwarf in size and a Samson in strength.

Catalogue sent on application.
MANUFACTURED BY

J. J. NORMAN CO., 60 S. Clinton st., Chicago, III.

H. CHANNON COMPANY,

——=DEALERS IN

Wire Rope, Manila Rope, Packings,

Blocks and Chain Hoists,
Cotton Waste.

Tackle

Mle story.

SUBSCRIBE FOR

THE IRON TRADE REVIEW.

CASTINGS {3::s:
made to order.

NOLTE BRASS COMPANY,
65 and 67 E. Washington St., Springfield, Ohio.

for all purposes.
PHOSPHOR BRONZE
for Machine Box Bear-
ings, etc.
Special Finish-

ENCINE LATHES.

14” to 42” SWINC.

THE LODGE & SHIPLEY M.T. GO.

Culvert & Harrison Streets,

CINCINNATI, O.

“HAMMOND” AND “ACME”
crave FIRE BRICK

CRADE
ARE THE BEST.

MANUFACTURED BY

Reese, Hammond & Co.,

BOLIVAR. PA.

24-26 Moerket St. - = - -

CHICACO.

Specialties: Tile, Grate Settings, Stove Linings
and Difficult Shapes to order, Cupola Blocks.

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