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THE IRON TRADE REVIE 








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VotuME XXXIV. 





CLEVELAND, O., OCTOBER 31, 1901. 


NUMBER 44 





“THE WEEK IN IRON CIRCLES. 


THE MARKET AT LARGE. 


\ strong situation has been strengthened in the 





past week. Lower prices may come next year, but 
reductions are not likely to find any place in the pro- 
gram of the iron trade for some months to come. On 
the other hand, there is an influential sentiment 
against advances from today’s basis, and a healthy 
fear of crossing the price line at which curtailment of 
consumption begins. So far as full occupation of 
plants and profitable prices can make it so the pres- 


ent situation is eminently satisfactory, with just 
enough fear of the future in the minds of the consti- 
tutionally fearful to prevent serious mistakes. The 
talk of an advance in rails is not likely to come to 
anything more than to hurry pending deals. If the 
price should go to $30, which is opposed by strong in- 
terests, it will not apply to the requirements of any 
large buyer. There has been good business closed in 
the week, including 50,000 tons for Southern Pacific 
and round lots for the Wabash and Union Pacific, both 
of which are expected to do more buying soon. Lead- 
ing mills are filled to October and foreign orders are 
being lost because of inability to make deliveries. A 
contract for 100,000 tons for Manchuria is in the 
balance, with the probability that part at least must 
go to English or German mills. The announcement 
that another Pittsburg rail mill will be finished by 
July 1 means some slight relief to an oversold condi- 
tion, but the lack of reserve rail capacity is em 
phasized by the fact that the Ohio plant now out for 
repairs must resume on billets. The pressure for bil- 
lets and sheet bars grows even stronger. 
tions of some consumers who buy their steel in the 
market have been interrupted by inability to get ma- 
nominally $24, and sold at 


The opera- 


terial. Bessemer billets 
that for next year, have brought $28 in the past week, 
prompt material being practically unobtainable. The 
changed condition is reflected in exports of nearly 17,- 
f billets and slabs in September, 1900, 
The pig iron mar- 


ooo tons < 


against only 50 tons lasi month. 
ket is firmer, with higher prices asked by some North- 
ern producers. Southern iron maintains the advance 
of a month ago and there is still some talk of a higher 
price, but such a step is hardly a probability. Forge 
iron in the Pittsburg market is higher, and $14.15 
has been paid. Foundry iron at Pittsburg and in 
the Valleys is stronger, and further sales of Bessemer 
are reported at $15.25, Valley furnace. In all mar 
kets foundry iron has been freely bought in the week, 
chiefly on contracts for the first half of 1902. The 
car famine as a curtailer of production is still an im 
portant factor. A new modern furnace at Chicago 
waits for coke to go in b'ast and several stacks have 
been banked for short intervals because of lack of 
fuel. The effect of the car situation is to pile up ton- 
nage against the future and to keep the iron trade 


from getting abreast of consumption. Incidentally it 


points to continued car and locomotive buying and 


bridge building—to activity in every industry that 
will be called upon to put the country’s transportation 
facilities in line with the needs of today. The future 
of prices of finished products does not clear up. The 
belief that increased production will bring a somewhat 
lower level next year is general, but there is nothing 
as yet on which to predicate a marked change. The 
wire and wire nail trades, in which: competition is 
strongest, show only a shade of reduction from top 
prices. Conditions in bars are somewhat easier, due 
in part to a lull in contracting and in part to increas- 
ing capacity. In sheared plates tonnage is scarce, but 
in universal and light plates demand is still strong. 
A number of large structural contracts were booked 
the past week, and both in bridges and buildings the 


outlook is exceptionally good. 


PITTSBURG. 


Orrice oF The /rem Trade Review, | 
429 PaRK BUILDING, Oct. 30.) 


Additional contracts for steel rails for delivery next year 
placed during the past week, including the order of the Penn 
sylvania Steel Co., fix the total tonnage now booked for next 
year at about 1,600,000 tons. Rumors are already being cir- 
culated about an advance in the price of standard sections 
owing to the heavy tonnage already closed, but it is extremely 
doubtful if any will be made. While it is true that some of 
the rail manufacturers have been urging an advance to take 
effect Jan. 1 the proposal, it is said, is being combated by the 
officials of the United States Steel Corporation. If prices 
should eventually be raised it will probably not be until all 
the large buyers have covered their requirements 

Further advances have been made during the week in the 
price of foundry irons, and both Bessemer and basic are com 
manding good prices for prompt shipment. While the week 
has been devoid of any very large sales, small buying continues 
and in many cases requirements are being covered throughout 
the first half of next year. 

In finished lines the condition of the plate market is re 
ported slightly improved, with considerable new business in 
view. Universal plates continue in much better demand than 
sheared plates, some mills. having practically no tonnag« 
of the latter on their books at the present time. The demand 
for structural material continues strong and mills cannot now 


While 


it has been reported in some quarters that the price of beams 


promise deliveries on assorted sizes before February 


would be advanced no step in this direction has been taken and 
prices will no doubt remain unchanged until the next annual 
meeting of the beam pool when prices for next year will be 
established 

remains practically 


The condition of the sheet market 


unchanged. Material for prompt shipment continues to com 
mand premiums, while the independent manufacturers ar 
asking 3.35c for No. 28 gauge for delivery in December. The 
\merican Sheet Steel Co., despite the fact that all its mills 
are being operated at their fullest capacity is unable to prom 
ise deliveries on new business in Jess than two months and the 
general situation is not much better than it was just after the 
strike was settled. 

While the demand for wire nails and wire praducts is 
good, there is much scrambling for business on the part of 
independent concerns and owing to the refusal of the American 
Steel & Wire Co. to make concessions considerable business 
is being closed by newcomers in this field. The American 
Steel & Wire Co. is probably meeting with more competition 
than any of the other constituent companies of the United 





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States Steel. Corporation, probably owing to the fact that it 
is the oldest of the iron and steel combinations. Consider- 
able competition will also soon be offered the National Tube 
Co. by a number of independent concerns, which will make the 
total number of outside mills about 15 scattered throughout the 
country. How this competition will be met will prove inter- 
esting, as it is already apparent. that the United States Steel 
Corporation will not consider the absorption of small com 
petitors for the purpose of limiting the field. While there is 
much competition in the sheet trade, owing to the large num 
ber of outside concerns, the American Sheet Steel Co. is not 
feeling their presence owing to the abnormal conditions exist- 
ing in the sheet trade. More business in the latter line is 
being offered than can well be taken care of, with the result 
that the mills of both the combine and the independents have 
all the business that they can take care of for three months to 
come. 

While a few plants are springing up in the tin plate trade, 
the competition offered the American Tin Plate Co. by inde- 
pendent mills amounts to very little. While the independent 
finishing mills are constantly increasing, the independent mills 
for producing raw materia! are by no means keeping pace, 
and the present scarcity of billets, sheet and tin bars will be 
still further exaggerated when the new independent plants now 
under construction and nearing completion are placed in 
operation. Bessemer billets for prompt delivery have sold in 
this market during the past. week at $28 and $28.25 per ton, 
while open-hearth -billets. have brought as high as $29 per 
ton. It is almost an impossibility to secure deliveries on tin 
and sheet bars before the first of the year. Thus the inde- 
pendent manufacturers who are dependent upon the open 
market. for their raw material, are facing a peculiar situation, 
a great demand for their finished material.and a very limited 
supply of raw material. 

Pic Iron.—Foundry iron has again advanced and No. 2 for 
delivery up to the first of the year is now quoted $15 and 
$15.25 per ton. For delivery during the first half of next 
year contracts are being closed at $14.75 to $15 per ton 
The sales during the week amount to about 10,000 tons. Sales 
of Bessemer iron amount to about 5,000 tons at $16, Pittsburg, 
although a few small sales for delivery in November have been 
made as high as $16.10 to $16.15. We also note the sale of 
2,000 tons of forge iron at $14.15 per ton. Basic is quoted at 
the same price as Bessemer, although it is probable that a 
round contract could be closed at $15.75, Pittsburg. We re 
vise quotations as follows: 


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Bessemer, Pittsbur callin - 








No. 1 Foundry........ 15 50 
No. 2 Foundry... 15 00 
No. 3 Found ry...........s0+-+- 14 25 
Gray Forge. Pittsburg..... Ds ve ‘ 14 15 
ios cna inl danetdieatensennnedeben vieipubtisentbune we. IS 00toO 15 25 
| EEE TE smepducenevecese cvceccene STG OO SEED 


SteeL..—-Steel for prompt shipment continues to command 
higher prices every day and sales during the past week of 
both open-hearth and Bessemer have been made at prices $1 
above those quoted last week. Bessemer billets have sold in 
small lots at $28 to $28.25 per ton while open-hearth billets 
have brought as high as $29 per ton. Rods are held at $32 
per ton. 

Ferro-MANGANESE.—For delivery next year, manganese, do 
mestic, 80 per cent is quoted at $53.50 per ton, delivered at 
buyer’s mill. Foreign manganese is being offered at $50 per 
ton. 

Spe.ter.—Demand for spelter continues: strong and prices 
advanced slightly during the week. We quote prime Western 
grades at 4.25c, Pittsburg. 

Muck Bar.—Demand is good and we note the sale of 300 
tons at $29.75 per ton 

SKELP.—Steel skelp continues scarce and both grooved and 
sheared is quoted at 1.90c. Iron skelp is held at 1.95¢ to 2c 

Rams AND Track MArtertat.—The additional rail tonnage 
placed during the week brings the total tonnage closed for 
next year’s delivery up to about 1,600,000 tons. Demand for 
track material is also good and large orders for spikes are 
also being placed. As is customary—the orders for splice bars 
accompany nearly all the rail orders. We make the following 
quotations: Standard sections, 50 pounds and over, in lots 
of 200 tons and over, $28; car lots and less than 200 tons, $30: 


THE IRON TRADE REVIEW 


October 31 1901 


less than car lots, $32; light rails, 8 pounds, $45: 12 pounds 
$38; 16 pounds, $35; 20 pounds, $34; 25 to 4o pounds. $32 
Track material: Spikes, 1.95¢ to 2c; track bolts, square heads, 
2.40c ;; hexagon heads, 2,55c; fish plates, 1.50c to 1.60c. : 

PLates.—The plate market is reported in a somewhat better 
condition, although the demand for sheared plates has not 
improved. Universal mill plates, owing to the large amount of 
building that is being carried on and projected is good. Quo- 
lank plate, %-inch thick 
and up to 100 inches in width, 1.60c at mill, Pittsburg; flange 
and boiler steel, 1.70c; marine, ordinary firebox, A. M. B.A 


tations are unchanged as follows 


specifications, 1.80c; still bottom steel, 1.80c; locomotive fire. 
box, not less than 2.10c; and it ranges in price to 3¢ Plates 
more than 100 inches wide, 5 cents extra 100 pounds, Plates 
3-16 of an inch in thickness, $1 extra; gauges Nos. 7 and g 
$3 extra; No. 9, $5 extra. These quotations are based on 
carload lots, with 5 cents extra a hundred pounds for less than 
carload lots. Terms, net cash in 30 days 

3arS.—Nearly all the manufacturers of steel bars are from 
two to three months behind on their deliveries and the market 
continues very strong. Demand for iron bars also continues 
strong at unchanged prices. We make the following quo- 
tations: Bessemer bars, 1.50c ; open-hearth, 1.60c ; plow beams 
and cultivator beams, 1.50c, net; channels, angles, zees and 
tees, Bessemer, under three inches, 1.60c; over 3 inches, 1.70¢, 
Common iron bars, 1.55c, Pittsburg; refined iron bars, 1.75¢ 
and upwards 

Pires AND Tuses.—Demand for pipes and tubes continues 
strong and all the mills of the National Tube Co. are being 
operated in full. Independent manufacturers continue to se- 
cure somewhat better prices than those quoted by the National 
lube Co. for ~rompt shipment, but for future delivery some 
Che National Tube 


Co. makes the following discounts to consumers in carload 


concessions have already been reported 


lots, Pittsburg: 
MERCHANT PIPE. 








Bik. Galvd. 
: Per cent. Per cent, 
OS Be BE ee OS Ci. OO Ti cccsctcincncetce<enneommrenes ; 61 rT) 
Bs OD BD BOR encnccceces cussusescccessteeccesesvecccsesses am 68% 56 
BOILER TUBES. 
Steel. 
? Per cent, 
r to 1% inches...... . 47% 
2% to 5 inches......... pontigiinsiees 65% 
1¥% to 24% and 6 to 13 inches 
- Per cent, 
OU delnntiécesedineaiina inictitaiia 43% 
4 OO” ee seunmeih cuban eemnbeqees ae ae 43 
2% to 13 inches....... ; ssinslbaadltadianintie wiativht 53 
CASING 
8. and §. 
; Per cent. 
Oe stnempe enmenhieuens siete wiaaniibian 
SE BB i ccecannes scecarsnsvecsscce siteneuseusesepecneneaqnes adie SW 
G35 OO BEDE EMGROR, pccceccescccccces cccnceees oonmmn panuanninve a 
Sueets.—Neither the American Sheet Steel Co. nor inde 


pendent manufacturers are in a position to make prompt de- 
liveries on all sizes of black sheets. The combine can make 


deliveries on only a few sizes in less than two months, while 


on certain sizes deliveries are not promised than ten weeks 
to three months. For delivery in December, in large lots, in- 
dependent manufacturers are asking 3.35¢c for No. 28 gauge. 
The demand for tin plate continues good. For spot shipment, 
tin plate 1S quoted it $4 50 per box For delivery the first 
quarter of next year, as predicted in our last issue, the Amer 
ican Tin Plate Co. has continued the present price of $4 per 
box. The following quotations to the trade are made by the 


American Sheet Steel Co., distributers: Blue annealed sheets, 


Nos. 10, 11 and 12, 2.40c; Nos. 14 and 15, 2.50c; Nos. 16 and 
17. 2.60c. One pass through cold rolls Nos. 18. 19, 20 and 
21, 2.50c; Nos. 22, 23 and 24, 280c; Nos. 25 and 26, 2.90c; No 
27, 3c; No. 28, 3.10c; No. 29, 3.25c; No. 30, 3.35c. On lots 
less than 500 bundles the American Sheet Steel Co. does 
not make shipments except through jobbers. Galvanized 
sheets are quoted at 70 and to off; galvanized sheets for spot 


shipment, at 65 and 5 off. Prices to jobbers are somewhat 


lower than the above. Independent manufacturers quote black 
sheets No. 28 gauge for future delivery at 3.35 
STRUCTURAL MATERIAI Although currently reported that 


the price of beams would be advanced, no steps have yet 
been taken in this direction and it is not probable that any 
change in prices will be made before the annual meeting of 
the beam association. New business continues to be closed 








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October 31. 190! 


and March, despite the fact that the 


- in February 
for delivery 1m : . 
at an end. We have been advised 


building season 1s nearly 
hat deliveries on assorted sizes cannot be made before Feb 
tha ‘ 


ary. We make the following quotations: Beams and chan 
ruary. . 
4 to 15 inches, 1.60¢ ; 18 to 24 inches, 1.70c; tees, 1.65c; 


nels, 
ees, 1.600; angles, from 3 to 6 inches, 1.60c; universal mill 
zees, 1.00C, , . 


plates, 1.60¢. 
Wire AND WIRE Narts.—A large amount of business contin 


ues to be placed with manufacturers of wire and wire nails 
Independent manufacturers continue to make concessions and 
are securing considerable business. Our quotations are un 
changed as follows: Single carloads of wire nails to jobbers, 
$2.30, Pittsburg; to retailers, $2.40; plain wire, carload lots, 
js quoted at $2.25 to jobbers and $2.35 to retailers; painted 
harb wire, $2.60 in carload lots to jobbers, and $2.70 to retail- 
ers; galvanized barb wire, $2 in carload lots to jobbers, and 
$3 to retailers. Cut nails are quoted at $2.05, Pittsburg, in 
carload lots, 2 per cent off in 10 days. 

MercHANT SteeL.—The shafting agreement has not yet been 
renewed although a movement to this effect is now on foot 
We make the following quotations: Turned, cold rolled and 
ground shafting is quoted at 60 per cent off for car lots 
and 55 per cent off for less than car lots; tire steel in carload 
lots and over, 1.60c; less than carload lots, 1.75c to 1.80c. Toe 
calk is sold at 1.70c, in large lots, and in small lots as high as 
185c. Tool steel is held at 7c and upwards, according to 
quantity. 

Otp MarertaL.—Old material for open-hearth purposes is in 
good demand and the market continues firm. Our quotations, 
gross tons, are as follows: Heavy melting stock, $15.75 to 
$16.25; low phosphorus melting stock, $17 to $17.50; steel 
rails, $16.75 to $17; busheling scrap, $13 to $14; No. 1 wrought, 
$17 to $17.25; iron rails, $21.50 to $22; cast borings, $7.50 to 
$7.75; 


Coxe.—For the week ending Saturday, Oct. 19, the produc- 


cast scrap, $13.50 to $14. 


tion of the Connellsville region amounted to about 232,000 
tons. Shipments are estimated at about 11,000 cars. Connells 
ville furnace coke is held at $2 and foundry at $2.25 to $2.50. 
Outside coke is held at 25 cents a ton less 


CHICAGO. 


OFrFice oF The /ron Trade Review, 
634 MONADNOCK BLOCK, Oct. 20 } 


No diminution is to be noticed in the consumption of iron 
and steel products in this territory, which continues greater 
than the productive capacity of the mills. Manufacturers and 
jobbers all report that they are loaded with business and 
deluged with requests for prompt shipment of material. The 
scarcity of cars still remains a harassing feature of this mar 
ket, much material being delayed for the want of transporta 
tion facilities. The past week has been an exceptionally good 
one in the buying of pig iron, both Northern and Southern 
sellers reporting heavy sales. Spot iron is in great demand, 
the aggregate tonnage of sales in carload lots being very 
large. Ten days ago a large car-wheel manufacturer bought 
about 20,000 tons of Northern iron, and has since placed ad 
ditional contracts for varying amounts. The largest single 
transaction during the past week was for 10,000 tons, while 
1,000-ton lots were fairly plentiful. The bulk of this heavy 
buying has been with Northern sellers, these having slightly 
the better of it in prices over Southern furnaces. The Iro 
quois Iron Co. has completed its second stack, but is delayed 
putting it in blast by the lack of fuel, arising from the scat 
city of cars. The blowing ir of this furnace will make no 
material change in the present local situation, as its capacity ts 
sold for several months ahead. Sales of bar iron have been 
large, principally to railroads and car builders, and there has 
been quite a good demand for steel bars for prompt ship 
ment. Railroads also continue heavy buyers of structural 
steel, rails and tracks supplies, the local interest reporting 
that its capacity on standard rails is taken up to the fall of 
1902. The Chicago. Rock | land & Pacific placed a contract 
last week with the American Bridge Co. for the erection of 
its new train shed \bout 7,500 tons of steel will be required 
in this structure Plates and scrap iron are about the only 
two materiais on which sales have been weak. Deliveries 
of the former can be made in two to three weeks. 

Pic Iron.—Ten days ago, a local car-wheel manufacturer 


THE IRON TRADE REVIEW 13 


placed contracts for about 20,000 tons of Northern iron, and 
has since supplemented this with several orders of varying 
amounts. The transactions during the past week have been 
numerous, including some very large sales, one .for 10,000 
tons, another for 2,500 tons, .and several 1,000-ton orders 
Northern furnaces continue to take the bulk of the business 
placed in this market. this being due to the lower price at 
which Northern iron is being offered. Iron for prompt de 
livery is in great demand, though it is impossible to fill all 
the orders offered, owing to the dearth of cars.. As it re 
mains, the aggregate tonnage of ‘car-load orders runs into 
large figures We quote as follows 

Lake Sup Charcoal...$17 50 to $18 oo Southern Coke No. 4,$13 65 to $13 90 
Local Coke Fdy. No.i 15 50 to 1600 Southern No.1 Soft... 15 15 to 15 40 
Local Coke Fdy. No.2 15 00 to 15 50 Southern No. 2 Soft... 1465 to 1490 
Local Coke Fdy. No 3 14 50 to 15 00 Southern Silveries..... 15 40 to 15 60 
LocalScotchFdy.No.1 1§ 50to 16 00 Jackson Co. Silveries 17 00 to 17 50 
LecalScotchFdy No.2 1500 to 15 50 OhioStrong Softeners 16 50 to 17 00 
LocalScotchFdy No.3 14 50 to 15 00 Alabama Car Wheel... 20 50 to 21 00 
Southern Coke No.1 15 15 to 15 40 Malleable Bessemer... 15 50 to 16 00 


Southern Coke No.2 1465 to 1490 Coke Bessemer.......... 17 soto 1850 
Southern Coke No. 3 14 15 to 14 40 





3ars.—There has been a decided improvement in the buy 
ing of bar iron over any preceding week since the price of 
1.70c, Chicago, was established. Railroads and car builders 
have been placing contracts quite freely, and other cOnsumers 
have come into the market during the past week to cover for 
their wants. Steel bars for prompt shipment are in great 
demand, and in a number of cases, premiums have been paid 
to secure satisfactory delivery. The organization of bar iron 
manufacturers west of Pittsburg is still in an embryo state, 
though the details are being arranged as rapidly as possible 
We quote steel bars for immediate shipment, 1.75¢ to 1.80c, 
Chicago, and iron 1.70c, Chicago. Out of store, steel and 
iron, 2c: on contracts for large lots and extended deliveries; 
steel, 1.65c, and iron, 1.70c. 

Sueets.—There is still a heavy movement of sheets from 
warehouse stocks, owing to the inability of consumers to get 
deliveries from the mills. Buying for future delivery has 
been heavy. We revise our quotations as follows: No. 27 
black, 3.90c to 4c, and galvanized, 65 per cent and § per cent 
from store. 

Bittets.—A few sales are reported, but all for small 
amounts. It is almost impossible to get billets, manufacturers 
consuming in their own mills all they can make. We quote 
Bessemer billets, $31 to $33, and open-hearth, $33 to $35. 

STRUCTURAL STEE! The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific 
has let a contract to the American Bridge Co. for the erec 
tion of its new train shed. About 7,500 tons of steel will be 
required in this structure. Bids for the depot have not been 
acted upon as yet. Outside of material for regular struc- 
tural purposes, there is a constant large demand from the 
railroads for bridge material. All the mills are stocked up 
with business, and are several months behind in deliveries 
Structural shops report orders on their books that will keep 


them working all winter. We quote mill shipments, carload 


lots. as follows Beams. 15 inches and under, 1.75c; 18 
inches and over, 1.85 ingles, 1.75¢ to 1.80c; plates, 1.75¢, 
base: tees, 1.80 ees 1.75¢C; small lots from store, La 
higher be ims al d channels trom store, 2c to Mc per pound 
higher 

Raits AND TRACK Suppiies.—Further orders for steel rails 


are reported, and a number of large contracts are still pend 
lhe local interest has its capacity taken for nine months 
of the ensuing year, and we are informed this is true also 
of mills in other parts of the country There is a correspond 
ingly heavy demand for angle bars, spikes and splice bar 

Mesabi range, which added to the Lone Jack mine on the 


and it is quite probable prices will be advanced on these ma 


terials in the near future Both the local mills are sold up 
on track supplies to the end of this year, and are contracting 
heavily for delivery in 1902. Our quotations follow Stand 
ird rails, $28; light sectior $31 to $33, according to size; 

of store, $40 XK $44 Splice bars. 1.60c to 1.70C ; spikes, 
1.90c to 2c: out of store, 2c; track bolts, hexagon nuts, 2.80c 

2.90c; out of store, 2.90c to 3c; square nuts, 2.65c to 2.75c; 
ut of store »—cc to 2.R5« 


MERCHANT STEE! Manutacturers are crowded with ot 
ders for the next four to six months that they are in some 
cases declining to make any prices in justice to the contracts 


already on their books. Our quotations for mill shipments, 











14 THE IRON TRADE REVIEW 


Chicago delivery, follow: Smooth finished tire steel, 1.90c 
to 2c; open-hearth spring steel, 2.50c to 2.75c; toe calk, 2.40c 
to 2.60c; sleigh shoe, 1.85c to 1.90c; cutter shoe, 2.40c to 2.60c ; 
ordinary tool steel, 6c to 7c; specials, 13¢ and upwards. Cold- 
rolled shafting, carload lots, 55 per cent; less than carload 
lots, 50 per cent. 

P.ates.—Buying of this material has been light, and mills 
are rapidly catching up on orders. Delivery on new busi- 
ness can be promised in three weeks by the local manufac- 
turer. There have been a few transactions, but no orders of 
special note have been received. Our quotations follow: 
Tank steel, base, 14-inch, 1.75c; flange steel, I.90c to 2c; 
marine steel, 1.95c; firebox steel, ordinary, 2c to 2.10c; spe- 
cial, 2.25c and upwards. Tank steel from store, 2c to 2.20c; 
flange steel from store, 2.25c. 

MERCHANT Pipe AND. Borer Tuses.—The demand con- 
tinues fairly brisk, though the orders are all for small 
amounts, Mills are still about four weeks behind in deliv- 
eries. Our quotations follow: 


MERCHANT PIPE, RANDON LENGTHS, 





Black Galv. 
Per cent. Per cent. 
Ve to MH and 11 tO 12 IM... .cccerecccccsserccsesesescedeetenseeneeees 61 67 
* to to inches...... esialinmniialiadennidepaniininaniinisdataimmeabentinionts sey ai 68 55 
BOILER TUBES. 
Steel Iron 
Per cent. Per Cent. 
NI Tt nin sirnnimenanccnndentabandecmemieunuettpisssnanentesiunte 40 35 
LS ere sien ‘Gnedebte 45 4° 
BY UO S AM reeseerenerreeree 55 50 
SOR, BE TAI OT ence sec vsdcccnccvescn ccceqecccocccescce cecese pm ate 45 40 


Wire anp Wire Naus.—There is no falling off in the 
heavy business that has been transacted all the year around. 
The local interest has so many orders on its books that it ts 
unable to accumulate any stock. Prices on wire nails are 
being shaded to meet the competition of smaller manufac- 
turers, but only where attractive business is offered is this 
done. - We quote carloads of wire nails to jobbers, $2.40, Chi- 
cago; to retailers, $2.50; plain wire, carload lots to jobbers, 
$2.35; to retailers, $2.45; painted barb wire to jobbers, car- 
loads, $2.70; to retailers, $2.80; galvanized barb wire, carloads 
to jobbers, $3; to retailers, $3.10. 

Otp MATERIAL.—The market continues in a weakened state, 
and as a rule prices are declining. We quote as follows: 


Old Wheels ............... $15 08 to $15 50 
Heavy melting steel.. 1350 to 14 25 
Mixed country steel.. tosoto Ir co 


Old iron rails ........... $21 00 to $21 50 
Old steel rails, long... 18 00 to 1850 
Old steel rails, mixed 13 50to 14 50 
Relaying rails........... 24.00 to. 25 00 


The following are selling prices per net ton: 


No.1 R. R. wrought...$16 25 to $16 75 Trom axles............s00++ $21 50 to $21 50 
No.2 R. R. wrought... 13 50 to 13 75 Cast borings ............ 450to 500 
Dealers’ forge..........+ 1300to 1350 Wrought turnings.... 10 50 to 11 0° 
No. 1 busheling.......... 11 5010 1200 Iron axle turnings.... 1200 to 1250 





Heavy cast.... treo to 115¢ Steel axle turnings... 10 50to 11 50 





Railway malieabie.... 1200 te 12 50 Stove plates.............+. B50 to 900 
Country malleable..... 11reoto 11 50 Old iron splice bars... 1650 to 1675 
CLEVELAND 


Orrice or The /ren Trade eng 
1064 ROSE BUILDING, Oct. 30. 


Iron Ore.—The appearance on the lake market this week of 
large consignments of grain for shipment from Duluth to the 
east has brought about a further increase in the ore rate be 
tween Duluth and Ohio ports. Vessel room has been greatly 
eaten into during the last. few weeks by delays both at the 
coal and the ore docks on the lower lakes and the supply of 
boats, in consequence, is short at the head of the lakes. Since 
the grain rates have advanced to 3 cents out of Duluth some 
wild ore charters have been made at $1.10. The market seems 
to be firm at that figure, although the shippers have made 
several ineffectual efforts to bring about united action to 
withhold wild are from the market until the close of the con- 
tract season. Some of their number, however, have been 
forced to take wild boats to meet urgent demands for ore. 
But few wild cargoes are appearing from Marquette and Es- 
canaba, but it is quite certain that should such put in an 
appearance the rate would be based upon the head of the 
lakes. The vessel owners this week have also been urged 
by the large shippers to make better time with the contract 
boats and it is possible that some owners holding contracts 
will have to go on the market and bid for wild tonnage to 
help them out. 

Pic Iron.—Some of the furnaces are so well provided for 
in the: way of orders on the books that they are able to disre- 
gard the present market quotations and are asking an ad- 





October 31, 1901 


vance. The question of interest to buyers is whether this js 
simply anticipating the action of all producers later on.’ The 
sellers in question are now asking $14.50 in the valley for 
No. 2 foundry. This price has not affected the market as far 
as those furnaces are concerned which still have iron. These 
are still quoting $14, Valley furnace, but the amount of ma- 
terial for sale for delivery before the first of the year is 
not large. Southern foundry iron is still quoted at $1y Bir- 
mingham. Inquiries have come this week for basic ifton in 
good sized lots, some of which call for deliveries during the 
first half of next year. The United States Steel Corporation 
is not numbered among these prospective purchasers but ad- 
heres to the policy of ordering material by the month. Some 
contracts are under consideration on the basis of $15 for ba- 
sic. In the meantime some small orders have been taken lately 
at from $14.50 to $14.75 in the valley, the former quotation 
being on a sale of some sand iron. Not much is being done in 
Bessemer but the market is comparatively strong at the old 
price of $15.25 in the valley. No contracts with deliveries 
after the close of the year have made their appearance. We 
quote the market as follows: 


Bessemer ......... ....++-.-$16 00 
No. 1 Strong F’dry..... 1500 to 15 25 
No. 2 Strong F’dry..... 14 75 
No. 3 Foundry........... 1425 to 1450 


Valley Scotch No. 1.1.99 (° 85% 
Gray forge, Valley.... 132510 13 40 
LakeSuperior charc’l 17 00 to 17 50 

FintsHED Marteriat.—The price of billets is constantly 
increasing as the supply falls short. Some sales of 4x4 bil- 
lets have been made recently at $29 at mill and other small 
orders are reported to have been placed at $30. Sheet bars 
are even scarcer and a local plant has been compelled to close 
for want of material. The supply of small billets is taken up 
for some time to come and any quotation is merely nominal. 
Premiums would be paid willingly if any material was offered. 
The plate trade continues to be the one weak point in the 
market, although orders are showing up continually from the 
ship builders. The weakness is due in part to a failure to ob- 
tain specifications on contracts. This applies ‘principally to 
sheared plate, as universals and plates less than 3-16 inch are 
in good demand, with material hard to obtain. The buying of 
steel rails has not let up and the railroads are covering their 
needs steadily by good sized orders which are swelling the 
tonnage which the mills must deliver next year. The price 
holds at $28. The Ohio plant at Youngstown, recently on 
rails, is shut down for two weeks of repairs. It will resume 
on billets. Partly due to a lettting up in orders and partly to 
the increase in the producing capacity of the mills, deliveries 
are much easier to obtain now on bars and the market is 
favorable to the consumer. The prices do not change from 
1.55c, Pittsburg, on iron bars; 1.50c on Bessemer steel bars 
and 1.60c on open-hearth steel bars. The structural market 
continues strong with enough orders on the books now to in- 
sure a continuance of the present activity through the winter 
season which is ordinarily dull in the structural trade. The 
price on material sold now is the same as has been quoted of 
late, 1.70c. Sheets are in good demand with the orders in- 
creasingly in excess of the productive capacity of the mills 
employed. The prices hold as formerly quoted at: No. 12 
blue annealed from 2.35c to 2.40c; No. 16, 2.60c; 22-24, one 
pass through cold rolls, 2.80c; No. 27, 3c; No. 28, 3.10c. Some 
mills quote higher prices. 

Ovtp MatertaL.—The scrap trade is in splendid condition and 
a number of good orders have been placed. Prices are 
substantially unchanged and the market is represented by the 
following, all for gross tons: 


Old steel rails, rolling mill lengths 
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No. 1. railroad wrought............ 
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CINCINNATI. 


Oct. 29. 

Activity and continued strength in all departments of the 
iron trade keep up as in the past few weeks. Furnaces have 
been hampered both ways, deliveries of coke being back- 
ward on account of car shortage and shipments of pig iron 








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same reason. Inasmuch as the furnaces 
the additional burden of shortage of 


being slow for the 
are behind anyway, — 
cars lies on them heavily. | 

The demand for finished material continues heavy and de- 


liveries are not yet by any means satisfactory. Premiums 
above what the buyers would have thought of paying are 
being demanded for prompt delivery and are taken as a 
matter of course. The machinery builders are exceedingly 
busy and are promising March and some of them as far as 
June delivery. There have been a number of machinery 
handlers in the city during the past week, and they are all 
full of the same complaint that they are unable to get de- 
liveries on new orders short of the new year except it be 
on some odd sizes and types. 

There has been an advance in the prices for old iron rails 
of about $1 a ton and an advance of about $2 in old iron 
axles. A large deal in old steel rails is reported to have 
been made by a Cincinnati concern, the amount being given 
as 60,000 tons. The scrap market is considered a good ba- 
rometer of the possible trend in pig iron, and some of the 
handlers are predicting an advance if present conditions 
keep up. 

Pic Iron.—The largest pig iron order in the week was for 
6,000 tons of Southern foundry deliverable to an Ohio melter. 
There have been several lots of 1,000 tons and one of 2,000. 
These 1,000-ton orders have included everything on the list— 
Southern foundry grades, malleable, basic and Northern. 
The car shortage is cutting a serious figure in the business 
A number of the Southern furnaces are banked because of 
inability to get coke, and a Northern furnace, controlled by 
Cincinnati capital that has recently been completed, is un 
able to blow in for the same reason. Complaint to the coke 
producers brings the reply that they are far behind in de- 
liveries because of not enough cars, the Frick people citing 
as an example a shortage increasing at the rate of 200 cars 
a day. 

Deliveries on old contracts are running along somewhat be- 
hind promises made months ago, and would be so doing if the 
car shortage question were out of the way. Some orders 
for immediate delivery are being filled in a small way. So 
far a good deal under half of the demand for iron for the 
first half of the coming year is estimated to have been contract- 
ed for in this district and some sellers are of the opinion that if 
the present situation keeps up an advance is likely. There 
is no change to report in the prices of pig iron f. o. b. Cin- 
cinnati : 


Southern Fdy. No, 1..$14 00 to $14 25 Gray Forge 1225to 1250 
- ad 2. 1350t0 13975 Northern Fdy. No. 1_$15 50 to $15 75 
8 - 3. 1300toO 1325 : ~ 2.. Ig00to 15 25 
. 4. 1250to 1275 Charcoal C. W. iron... 1775 to 18 25 
So. Fdy. No 1 soft...... 1400 to 14 25 Malleable coke iron. 15s 0dto 15 25 


So Fdy. No. 2 solt..... 135010 1375 


FinisHeD MatertaL.—There has been no appreciable change 
in the market for finished material. Manufacturers of all 
lines are crowding the mills for delivery and are willing to 
pay almost any prices in order to get the goods. One local 
iron store sold an order to a New Hampshire concern this 
week, the material having been shipped from Pittsburg to 
Cincinnati, and now reshipped to the New England concern. 
The Eastern people expressed themselves glad to pay a good 
bonus and double freight 

Delivery by some of the independent mills is claimed to be 
a little better than it was, and the United States Steel Cor- 
poration is promising something better than two or three 
months ahead on stuff that has taken longer than that to get 
around to. There are no stocks to speak of; what may be 
found in moderate-sized lots here and there being picked up 
as was the case with the long shipment east above cited. 
Prices remain unchanged. Iron bars are 1.65¢ to 1.70c Cin 
cinnati; steel bars, 1.60c to 1.65c; angles, 2c; plates, 1.85c 
to 1.90c; sheets, No. 28, 3.35¢c to 3.40c; sheets, No. 12, blue 
annealed, 2.35c. 

Otp Materiat.—The market for scrap has been a little 
firmer during the past week. This is especially true of rails 
and axles and there have been reported several deals in old 
iron rails. As stated above one large purchase is reported 
to have been made by a Cincinnati firm during the week for 
60,000 tons of old steel rails. Delivery runs well into next 
year, at which time the railroads begin to replace their old 
track with the new rails that have been largely contracted 


THE IRON TRADE REVIEW 15 


for. All of the large scrap dealers quote rails up and there 
have been a good many smaller transactions. The demand 
for old iron axles has also been good and prices are higher 
on this material as well. Following are prices on old ma 
terial at Cincinnati: 


C06 Bod Wrens Bar cocccsninscssne teres cccniguhetinis -$ 14 75 to 15 00 
Cast Machine and Foundry.... ‘ ; 12 25 to 1275 
tS sutesotoquuien ; ia 20 00 to 20 50 
5 REET t ese nenmpenaneniaietit 14 75 to 15 25 
Old Short Lengths............ soctchainciall weit 13 75 to 14 oc 
Old Iron Axles 





21 00 to 22 oo 


Old Iron Car Wheeis................ shila idelle aiiieeennainceoneibaaiine Ee 
I ce i a aie puace 975 to tooo 
Loe. CO ee Cl 
Cntk RSE, WT Ce ccscsincttnsns seusdnciaeiiannt 550to 600 

Oct..29 


The past week has been one of continued activity and 
prices are as a consequence maintaining their firmness. The 
pressure in some departments is greater than in others, but 
on the whole satisfactory conditions prevail and it is generally 
conceded that there is but little chance for a change either 
way so far as this year is concerned. Little has been accom 
plished in establishing the value of next year’s deliveries, 
neither side showing any desire to determine prices beyond 
its immediate needs. There is no doubt that sellers would 
gladly continue today’s quotations for 1902 delivery if buyers 
were so inclined. 

Pic Iron.—From the satisfactory volume of trade it is 
apparent that stocks are carried at a low point by the major- 
itv of users. No trouble is experienced by sellers in obtain 
ing quoted prices, and favorite brands may be said to com 
mand a slight advance. Taking it altogether, the market 
shows great uniformity and appears to be satisfactory to all 
interests. The next few weeks are expected to fix values for 
the beginning of the year, and while a few producers hint at 
higher prices, they seem to be pleased to enter what business 
they can obtain at current quotations. Prices are practically 
unchanged since our last report and for Philadelphia and 
nearby points remain about as follows: No. 1 X foundry, 
$15.50 to $16; No. 2 X foundry, $15 to $15.50; No. 2 plain, 
$14.50 to $14.75; standard gray forge, $13.75 to $14; ordinary 
gray forge, $13.25 to $13.50; basic (chilled), $14 to $14.25. 

FINISHED MAarTerIaAL.—Structural material and sheets are 
the departments working under the greatest pressure and 
with but little prospect of being able to guarantee prompt de- 
livery for many weeks to come. In plates the bridge builders 
have helped to increase the demand, the. outlook in that di- 
rection being especially favorable. Bars show but little 
change, and while not extraordinarily active are meeting a 
fair demand which suffices to keep the mills busy. Prices, 
except where special conditions as to delivery are made, re- 
main about as follows for city and short distance deliveries: 
Plates, 24-inch and thicker, 1.75¢ to 1.80c; bars, iron or steel, 
1.624%4c to 1.70c; angles, 1.75¢ to 1.85c; beams and channels, 
1.75¢c to 1.85c. 

O_p MarertaL.—<An easier feeling prevails on account of 
larger offerings, which has in turn manifested itself in a 
slight disposition among consumers to hold off for lower 
prices, although it is the general impression that this indif- 
ference on the part of buyers cannot continue very long 
Bids and offers are about as follows for deliveries in buyers’ 
yards: Choice railroad scrap, $19 to $20; ordinary light 
scrap, $12.50 to $13.50; machinery cast, $13.75 to $14.25; 
heavy steel scrap, $17 to $17.50; old iron rails, $21 to $21.50; 
old steel rails, short lengths, $17 to $17.50; wrought turnings, 
$11.75 to $12.25; cast borings, $7.75 to $8.25; old car wheels, 
$16.50 to $17; old iron axles, $23 to $24; old steel axles, $20 
to $21. 





The Alabama Consolidated Coal & Iron Co. of Birmingham, 
Ala., has acquired possession of the Mary Lee coal property 
at Lewisburg, five miles from Birmingham. The company 
has had a majority interest in the property for two years, but 
there has been litigation and this is now ended, with the 
property free of all incumbrances. There are 3,000 acres 
of coal lands in the Mary Lee and adjoining properties under- 
laid by the Mary Lee and Black Creek seams. The mines 
now have a capacity of 500 tons a day. There are 130 coke 
ovens. The Alabama Consolidated Coal & Iron Co. now 
has 36,000 to 40,000 acres of coal lands and 595 modern coke 
ovens. Its total output of coal will now be about 500,000 tons 
a year and its production of coke 225,000 tons 











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GROWTH IN THE USE OF TERNE PLATES. 

It is an open secret that the poor grades of terne 
roofing plate put on the market a few years ago cre- 
ated a prejudice in the minds of many builders and 
architects against the material as a class. This was 
but a natural consequence of the entrance into the 
business of so many new manufacturers, coupled with 
the general demand for the cheapest material and the 
great difficulty in distinguishing a good plate from a 
poor one except by the unsatisfactory way of trying 
it on the roof. It is believed that of late there has 
been a tendency to return to the use of terne plate for 
roofing, owing to the putting on the market of more 
reliable brands and to the missionary work which has 
been done by a number of the older manufacturers. 
We are able to present a careful summary of the 
production of terne plate during the first half of this 
year as compared with the first half. of 1900, which 
more than bears out this assumption and shows that 
the use of this material for roofing has grown at a 
remarkable rate. 

Comparing the first half of last year with the first 
half of this, the increase in the production of terne 
plate in the United States was probably a little over 
95 per cent. The increase in the production of the 
better grades, or plates carrying a coating of, say, 10 
pounds and over per single box, was about 130 per 
cent, so that the production of the special brands more 
than doubled, while the production of plates carrying 
light coatings increased by something like 85 per cent. 
That the increased production is due primarily to the 
use of better plates, which give better service on roofs 
and are an advertisement for the use of terne roofing 
is shown by the fact that while in the first half of 1900 
the special grades made constituted, say, a little over 
25 per cent of the total terne plate production, in the 
first half of this year the proportion was over 30 per 
cent. 

The production of terne plate constitutes about one- 
eighth of the total tin and terne plate production of 





October 31, 1961 


the country at the present time. The great bulk of 
the production is, of course, coke bright plates, used 
for cans and other purposes where only the lightest 
coating is required, the production of coke plate being 
about 80 per cent of the total. The balance is made 
up of charcoal tin plates and terne plates. 





SEPTEMBER'S SHARP DROP IN EXPORTS. 

In connection with the statistics of iron and steel 
exports for August we pointed out a falling off of 
80,000 tons from the record of exports of the Same 
The falling off 
in September was greater, the total for pig iron and 


lines of products for August, Igoo. 


rolled products being 39,448 tons against 127,244 tons 
in September, 1900. These two months thus show a 
falling oft representing a rate of 1,000,000 tons a vear, 
though as a matter of fact there has been no single 
year of iron and steel exports at the rate of August 
and September exports of last year. 

The table below shows some sharp changes ; for ex- 
ample, from 41,802 tons to 2,161 tons of pig iron, from 
12,910 tons of bars to 1,442 tons, from 32,050 tons of 
rails to 17,442 tons, and from 16,628 tons of billets 
and sheet bars to 50 tons. Wire products, however, 
show an increase, as does also structural material: 


EXPORTS OF IRON AND STEEL FROM THE UNITED STATES. 
GROSS TONS 
September 9 Mos. end’g Sept. 


- 2 — en 














. 1g00 Igol. 1900. 1901. 
. £ Se ee snaanian 41,802 2,161 162,414 48,956 
NEE REE IR 6 452 1,153 36,988 10,672 
Bar Iron , 1,086 559 5,504 15,9 
Wire Rods 610 672 5,389 4, 
Steel Bars, 12,916 1,442 50,583 21,619 
Iron Rails.... 452 206 5,285 812 
fk eee 32,650 17,442 258,926 266,723 
Billets, Ingots and Blooms 16,628 50 47,246 27,103 
Hoop Band and Scroll Iron.... 483 5 13:9 1,015 
Iron Sheets and Plates... 482 363 6,732 5,681 
Steel Sheets and Pilates.......... 4,047 368 26,911 21,308 
Tin Plates, Terne Plates) 8 

and Taggers Tin............ j ‘ ‘ 3 416 
Structural Material.........,... 3,955 4,709 50,657 40,932 
REE TET 3,521 7,713 $9,069 61,525 
I a 741 471 8,522 8, 
. 2. =i Sees 963 1,97! 22,924 15, 
Other Nails, incl'd’g Tacks. 112 154 1,419 1,397 

UN Ainttiitsevninieeween , 127,244 39,448 780,361 551,869 


The value of all iron and steel exports, including 
machinery, in September was $7,499,706, against $10,- 
136,931 in September, 1900, when values were con- 
siderably below those of today. For the nine-month 
period ending with September, the totals were $76,- 
846,145 for this year and $97,311,140 for last year. 

Our iron and steel imports for September, exclud- 
ing iron ore, were valued at $1,847,384, against $1,- 
675,653 for September, 1900. The principal increase 
was in tin plates—from 12,547,058 pounds valued at 
$412,441 in September last year, to 19,074,639 pounds 
valued at $602,351. The iron ore imports last month 
were 115,618 tons valued at $197,795, against 69,995 
tons valued at $90,395 in September, 1900. 


Voting on the Threc-Year Tin Plate Agreement. 
(Special Telegram.) 

Pitrspurc, Oct. 30—The sub-lodges of the Amalgamated 
Association, comprising the tin plate workers of the mills of 
the American Tin Plate Co., are at present voting on the 
proposition of having the terms of settlement agreed upon on 
Sept. 14, continued for three years from that date, with the 
privilege of a discontinuance of the conditions with three 
months’ notice on either side, or the termination of the agree- 
ment at the end of the regular scale year in 1902. A number 
of the lodges have already sent in their votes and nearly all 
of them are in favor of continuing the agreement for a 
period of three years. It is altogether probable that the 
majority of the lodges will vote this way and if so the yearly 
wage settlements in the tin plate industry will cease until 
1904. The Amalgamated Association has until Dec. 14 to give 
its answer to the American Tin Plate Co. 











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October 31, 190! 


PROGRESS IN TREATMENT OF STEEL AT GOVERNMENT 
WORKS. 


(Special Corresp« yndence. ) 
WasHINcTON, Oct. 29 Che report of the Chief of Ordnance 
for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1901, was transmitted today 
to the Secretary of War. One of the most important recom 
mendations is found in the following: “The experience of the 
past two years would seem to call for some radical change 
in the making of contracts to relieve the office of the Secre- 
ary of War and the Ordnance Department of much time-con- 


t 
lence in some instances extending over years, 


suming correspon 
and to save time now 
and others interested in contracts and attorneys, promoters 


and others employed by contractors who have failed througn 
The contracts should be drawn to mean but one thing 


lost in hearings given to contractors 


cause. 
without a possibility of dodging it, viz., meet the obligation 
as to service or material to be furnished and in the time 
specified or pay the penalty—prompt cancellation of contract.” 

A number of machines are reported as urgently needed in 
the small gun shop at the Watervliet Arsenal. These are re 
} 


quired, it is stated, to prevent delay in the work as certain 


of the machines in use in this shop are now slow and have 


insufficient capacity. The cost of the modern machines. re 
quired is estimated at about $30,000. Concerning metallurgical 
operations at the Watervliet plant the report says: 

“A self-hardening steel, which is used by the Bethlehem 
Steel Co. for tools, made by the Taylor-White process, has 
been thoroughly examined and compared with steel of the 
same type from the Midvale Steel Co., and was found to 
present no advantages commensurate with the extra cost at- 
tendant upon its introduction into this establishment. The 
Midvale self-hardening steel, specially treated, has given very 
satisfactory results in the work at the arsenal, and this being 
the case it has been decided that there is no need of paying 
for the right to use the Llaylor-White process or erecting 
special appliances for the handling and treatment of this steel. 

“Consoles for 12-inch B. L, mortars have been cast of 
bronze at the foundry at the arsenal, and the operation has 
been attended with such success that this work will be under 
taken hereafter in the arsenal brass-foundry. This work has 
heretofore been done by private manufacturers.” 

At the Springfield Armory investigations as to treatment of 
steel have been pursued, as indicated in the following: 

“The best results were obtained in the treatment of barrel 
steel by carrying the rolled barrels, after the ends have been 
sawed off and they have been straightened under the die and 
drop, direct to the annealing box filled with lime, instead 
of first reheating, as was formerly done. Oil tempering of th« 
interior of the breech sections has been omitted, and the heat 
ing for brazing the front sight stud reduced. Difficulty has 
been experienced during the year in obtaining barrel steel of 
proper quality; although the steel met the requirements of 
elasticity and tenacity, it fell below the specifications for elon 
gation, and it is found that when the elongation falls below 
15 per cent, difhculty in working in the machines generally 
results. 

“Interesting experiments have been made to ascertain the 
best method of treatment for the steel used in the manufacture 
of guns. The results of the investigation have been to gradu- 
ally abandon some of the previous methods, which have been 
injurious to the metal, or at least of no value. A Le Chatelier 
pyrometer is used to enable the foreman to ascertain when 
the temperature of soo0° C. is reached, which temperature 
has been found best for the barrel when finished and ready for 
the lime annealing box.” 

It is noted that at the Watertown Arsenal the iron castings 
have been improved until they are on the whole satisfactory. 
“The brass castings have also been much improved. The 
Strength of these castings, although showing the usual vari- 
ableness of alloys as compared with that of simple metals, has 
maintained a fair and sufficient average. The chief difficulty 
has been the porosity of the metal, whether bronze, brass or 
other alloy, as indicated by serious leakage under water pres- 
sure. The brass or bronze parts of gun carriages intended to 
be proof against leakage, such as cylinder heads, counter 


recoil buffers and valves have given much trouble and reports 


THE IRON TRADE REVIEW 17 


indicate that but a small proportion of them have been sound. 
By an improvement in these castings it is now possible to 
produce valves which show no leaking under a water pressure 
of 5,000 pounds per square inch. An improvement has been 
made in the alloy of which the larger parts, cylinder heads, 
buffers, etc., are composed, using compression rather than 
forging. For this purpose simple dies were made in which the 
parts were compressed at a cherry-red under two or three 
blows of a steam hammer.. This operation has been found to 
render the castings impervious to water under high pressure, 
while the metal is tmproved in other respects, 

he operations of the testing department during the year 
have been highly important. “Tests on the endurance of steel 
bars to repeated alternate stresses of tension and compression 
have continued. One test bar continued unruptured after 
150,000,000 repetitions of 40,000 pounds per square inch. The 
long-timé tests are considered valuable in some classes of 
railway material. Railroad car axles are known to have 
continued in serviec after 190,000,000 rotations, the metal 
passing through a state of tension and compression at each 
rotation. Photographs and chemical analyses have been made 
of the different kinds of material which have been tested for 
their. mechanical properties 

“Material has been procured and is in course of prepara- 
tion for an exhaustive investigation into the properties of 
carbon and nickel steels, starting with the ingot. Concurrent 
physical tests will be made of the steels at different stages 
of heat and mechanical treatment, from the ingot to 
the finished bar. Two ingots have been ordered, alike in 
chemical composition, except that one has the additional ele 
ment nickel present in about 3% per cent. A bloom and some 
bars of 4% per cent nickel steel have also been provided for 
the investigation; 3% to 4% per cent of nickel appears to be 
generally accepted as the most beneficial quantity to intro- 
duce into the steel. In this investigation various steel manu- 
facturers have indicated a gratifying spirit of co-operation, and 
the ultimate results are likely to prove interesting and valu 


able.” 


Hartman Mfg. Co. Buys Cuyahoga Steel & Wire Co. 


Negotiations were closed this week by which the Hart 
1f New Castle, Pa., manufacturer of steel and 


man Mtg. Co 
wire specialties, acquired all the stock of the Cuyahoga Steel 
& Wire Co. of Cuyahoga Falls, O. The properties of the 
Cuyahoga Falls concern consist of a rod mill, wire mill and 
nail mill. The capital stock was $500,000. The new owners 
have already taken possession and it is stated have under 
way plans for the improvement and enlargement of the plant. 
lhe officers of the Hartman Mfg. Co, are F. A. Umsted, presi- 


dent and general manager, and Wm. L. Kiefer, secretary and 
treasurer. They will have similar offices in the Cuyahoga 
Falls company. The principal holder in the latter was E. A 


Henry, of Cuvahoga Falls, formerly of Pittsburg, his first 
enterprise at Cuyahoga Falls being the E. A. Henry Wire Co 
Ir. Henry will not be actively in business for a little time, 
but he is president of the Ohio Steel & Iron Specialty Co, of 
Cuyahoga Falls, which is now building a plant for the 
manufacture of specialties, including small angles and other 
shapes, staybolts, etc. Geo. W. Reid is vice-president of this 
company, L. H. Whitcomb, secretary, and H. B. Hamlin, 


treasurer. 


Bids will be opened at Washington at the Bureau of Sup- 
plies and Accounts of the Navy Department on Noy. 5 for 
furnishing for the Mare Island Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cal., 
miscellaneous supplies including 50 dozen steel wire foundry 
casting brushes, about 20,000 pounds of bar iron of various 
sizes, 7,000 pounds of bar steel for gun mount bolts, 13,000 
feet of wrought iron galvanized steam pipe, 3,800 feet of seam 
less brass pipe, and 700 sheets of steel, galvanized. 

Che 50,000 mark has been passed by the Pressed Steel Car 
Co. in the manufacture of pressed steel cars. This company’s 
output of cars up to the 24th of October aggregates 50,091 


enough to make a train of steel equipment over 300 miles long 





The Port Huron Engine & Thresher Co., Port Huron, 
Mich., is to be reorganized with a capital of $750,000. 











18 THE IRON TRADE REVIEW 


PRODUCTION OF STRUCTURAL STEEL IN 1900. 


The production of iron and steel structural shapes in the 
United States in r900 has been ascertained by the American 
Iron and Steel Association, and is published in the current is- 
sue of the Bulletin. These. statistics embrace the production 
of beams, beam girders, zee bars, tees, channels, angles, and 
other structural forms, but they do not include plate girders 
made from plates. Plates are provided for under other 
classifications, and under the general: statistics of plates are 
included all plates cut to specifications. Nearly all the struc- 
tural shapes and plates used for structural purposes are 
made of steel. The total production of structural shapes in 
1809 was 850,376 tons, and.in 1900 it was 815,161 tons. The 
total production of strictly structural forms in 1899 and 1900 
by States was as: follows: 


STATES.— Gross TONS 








1899 1900 

New England, New York, and New Jersey mania eatin 29,604 34 242 
i  cnsienatinbtidhsaséeseia ret daliiatiaibonaeds-civin bheilinthit 791,470 79712 
Kentucky and Alabama wea oie 304 ine tan 
See ee 20.9,1 12.344 
Colorado and California 3057 8,565 
ee el 3 850,376 815 161 


The decreased production of structural shapes in 1900 as 
compared with 1809 was 35,215 gross tons, or over 4 pet 
cent. Pennsylvania made over 93 per cent of the total pro 
duction in 1900, New Jersey over 4 per cent, and Ohio over 
1.5 per cent. No other States made 1 per cent 





Convention of the National Founders’ Association. 


The fifth annual convention of the National Founders’ As- 
sociation will be held at the Gilsey House, New York, on 
Wednesday, Nov. 13, and Thursday, Nov. 14. The choice 
of meeting place was submitted to a vote of the members, re- 
sulting in a large majority in favor of New York. In issuing 
the call President H. W. Hoyt says: 

“The field of operations in which the energies of our asso 
ciation are expended has grown so large that it is most im- 
portant for the members to assemble together, to carefully re 
view the work done by the officers and committees, and to 
outline a policy for the future. The year just closing has been 
the most notable in the brief history of the association, and 
there are today many matters pressing hard for your most 
earnest consideration. These subjects relate to every activity 
of the association, and have an important bearing upon its 
future usefulness. The National Founders’ Association is one 
of the most conspicuous organizations among the manufac 
turers of the world. It has demonstrated that its existence as 
an economic force in the industrial affairs of the nation is 
justified by the results it has achieved. Each member is ap 
pealed to upon the high ground of duty to meet his fellow 
members in convention, to the end that the best thoughts of all 
may find expresssion and the exalted aims of the association 
be thus promoted and finally accomplished. Nothing can con 
tribute to success more effectually than the inspiration of 
hearty co-operation.” 





The Spearman Furnace Sold. 
(Special. Telegram.) 

Pitrspurc, Oct. 30.—The Spearman Furnace, owned and 
operated by the Spearman Iron Co. of Sharpsville, Pa., has 
been purchased by the Shenango Furnace Co. of Sharpsville, 
of which W. P. Snyder & Co. of this city are the principal 
owners and the sales agents. The Spearman Furnace adjoins 
the two furnaces of the Shenango Furnace Co. and can be 
operated much more economically in connection with them 
than at present. It was built in 1895 and is 76x17 feet. It 
has four Whitwell stoves each 60x18 feet and has a capacity 
of about 72,000 tons per year. At present the furnace is be- 
ing operated on Bessemer iron. 





The New Jones & Laughlins Rail Mill. 
(Special Telegram. ) 
Pirrsspurc, Oct. 30—The new blooming mill and rai] mill 
that are being installed at the South Side plant of Jones & 





October 31, 1901 


Laughlins, Ltd., will be ready for operation about July 1; 1902. 
Owing to the heavy demand for rails for delivery next year 
the mill will be placed on rails immediately and its Operation 
will greatly aid the situation. The output will be about 1,000 
tons daily. As yet no orders for rails for next year’s de- 
livery have been taken and it is altogether prohable that the 
order books of the company will not be opened for this pur- 
pose until after the first of the year. 





PRODUCTION OF CUT NAILS IN 1900. 


The statistics of the production of iron and steel cut nails 
and cut spikes in the United States in 1900 have been com- 
piled by the American Iron and Steel Association They do 
not embrace railroad and other spikes made from bar iron, 
wire nails of any size, or machine-made horseshoe nails. Only 
The to- 
tal production of cut nails in 1900 was 1,573,404 kegs of 109 


spikes cut from plates are included with cut nails 


pounds each, against 1,904,340 kegs in 1800, a decrease of 
330,846 kegs, or over 17 per cent. In 1886 the maximum pro 
duction of 8,160,973 kegs was reached. In 10900 the produe- 
tion of wire nails exceeded the production of cut nails by 
5,846,254 
len States made cut 


5,660,485 kegs, in 1899 by 5,713,790 kegs, in 1808 by 
kegs, and in 1897 by 6,800,440 kegs 
nails in 1900, the same number as in 1899 lhe following ta- 
ble shows the production of iron and steel cut nails by States 
from 1897 to 1900, in kegs of 100 pounds lhe wire nail 
production for the same years is added to the table: 

















States—Kegs 1897 1898 1Sq9 1990 
Pennsylvania ................ 1,057,964 08,17 920,13 777.611 
ee seerepionn 411,96 392,' 03 86,215 261,216 
West V irginia, ‘Indiana... 299,203 184,942 8,006 469 
Massachusetts and N Jersey 142,021 27, 706 149,7.0 155,068 
IIIT cencihdeniicinidiies-minpeetmpepaas ; 34,00 a oo 
Maryland, Virginia, and Ky..... 164,465 {f ~!97? 235,209 193,230 
Missouri, Col., Wyo., and Cal €,750 12,0¢ 15,0€ 17,000 

















2,105,799 | 1,572,221 1,904.34 1,573,494 
5.997.245 415,475 7,015,130 7,233,979 


Total cut mails.,............... 
Total wire nails.............. 

















Grand total........ ..... 11,104 044 | 8,999,696 §,522.470 | 8,807,473 





The Wheeling district embraces the nail mills in Ohio and 
Marshall counties in West Virginia and in Belmont and Jef- 
ferson counties in Ohio here were 186,307 kegs of cut 
nails made in this district in 1900, against 178,006 kegs in 
1899, 282,908 kegs in 1898, 292,950 kegs in 1897, 305,881 kegs 
in 1896, 347,742 kegs in 1895, 416,320 kegs in 1804, 1,848,116 
kegs in 1887, and 1,858,551 kegs in 1886 \llegheny county, 


i] 


Pennsylvania, has not made any cut nails since 1890, but it is 


now a large producer of wire nails 





Obituary. 


J. E. Patterson, assistant superintendent of the 28 and 38- 
inch mills of the Homestead Steel Works of the Carnegie 
Steel Co., Homestead, Pa., was almost instantly killed while 
at work Saturday night, Oct. 26. While he was superintend- 
ing some repair work a heavy plank was permitted to fall, 
which struck him on the head. Deceased was 32 years old 
and had been employed at this plant for 12 years 

Edward C. Lewis, aged 75 years, president of the Farrell 
Foundry & Machine Co. of Waterbury, Conn., and promi- 
nently interested 26 other manufacturing concerns in Wa- 
terbury and Hartford, died Oct. 24. Mr. Lewis was the Re- 
publican nominee for Congress from the Second Connecticut 
District in 1886. 

Ledlie W. Young, for many years connected with Joshua 
Rhodes & Co., of Pittsburg, died at his home, on Thursday, 
Oct. 24, aged 30 years. He was ill but a few days with pnew- 
monia. For one of his years Mr. Young was well known 
to the iron and steel trade not only of Pittsburg and the im- 
mediate vicinity, but to the general Western trade. When 
the Cherry Valley furnace was acquired by the Rhodes inter- 
ests, Mr. Young was made treasurer of the company, and 
when the Fort Pitt Iron Co. was organized he was likewise 
elected treasurer. He is survived by his wife. 

Joseph E. Fales, retired member of the firm of Rice, Barton 
& Fales, Worcester, Mass., died at his home Oct. 21, at the age 


of OF years. 


so 


a 




















October 31, 190! 


THE SCHWARTZ MELTING AND REFINING FURNACE. 


The Schwartz melting and refining furnace, a furnace 
which in many of its features bears a strong resemblance 
to the various forms of converters, is being manufactured 
by the Hawley Down Draft Furnace Co., of Chicago. It is 
the invention of Edward H. Schwartz. For the past year 
extensive experiments have been carried on to determine 
what this furnace will do in handling different kinds of 
metals. 

The illustration showing a sectional view of this furnace 
gives a fair idea of its construction. Crude oil is used for 
fuel and enters through two tuyeres on the side of the fur- 
nace near the top, the oil being atomized by air. The tuyeres 
are so arranged as to give a rotary motion to the flame which 
is directly over the surface of the metal. A pressure of from 
one to two pounds is maintained on the air supply and in 
the experimental plant this is furnished by a No. % Root 
blower operated by electric motor and requiring from 3% to 
4-h. p. 

This furnace is not only intended to convert or refine metals 
but also to melt them. When making semi-steel the makers 
advocate the charging of the necessary amount of steel 
scrap directly into the furnace and heating this for about 


FIG {.—SIDE ELEVATION, SHOWING TILTING GEAR. 


26 minutes, when .it will be very near the melting point. 
the balance of the mixture is then taken from the cupola 
and poured on the top of the steel scrap and further heat 
applied for about 25 minutes, when the metal can be sampled 
and such additions as manganese, aluminum, etc., made. It is 
claimed that this furnace will make a very uniform semi-steel 
of greater strength than can be obtained when this is melted 
directly in the cupola. From test heats made it has been 
found that semi-steel can be melted in one and one-half 
hour’s time in this furnace. 

When used for making malleable iron the makers advocate 
the use of a certain amount of steel scrap, as in making semi 
steel, the balance of the mixture being melted in the cupola. 
As a higher temperature is required for malleable iron than for 
semi-steel, a longer time is required to accomplish this. We 
see no reason, however, why the steel scrap may not be 
omitted and the whole mixture melted in the cupola, and 
later converted in the furnace. Tests can readily be made 
from time to time and heat continue to be applied until the 
mixture is right 

It has been found that a ton of brass can be melted 
in this furnace with 25 gallons of fuel oil, and it is esti 





THE IRON TRADE REVIEW 19 


mated that. using a high grade brick for lining, the furnace 
will stand from 300 to 500 heats without relining. It is 
pointed out that this will result in considerable saving of 
crucibles and that no metal can be lost. 

Our half-tone illustration shows a furnace which has lately 
been installed at a Chicago foundry for melting brass. It is 
42 inches outside diameter and 30 inches inside. It has a 
capacity of 400 pounds per hour. 

The manufacturers’ agents in the introduction of the fur 
nace are Christopher Murphy & Co., Marquette Bldg., Chi 


cago. 





A New Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge. 

The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co 
recently placed into service its new double-track Scherzer 
rolling lift bridge across the Cuyahoga river at Cleveland. 
This bridge was designed by the Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge 
Co. of Chicago, and replaced a double-track swing bridge 
which was obstructive to navigation, and also frequently placed 
the very heavy passenger traffic crossing it at a serious disad- 
vantage. The bridge is used by the main lines of the C., C., 
Cc. & St. L., L. S. & M. S., Erie and other railroads and is 
the principal railroad bridge crossing the Cuyahoga river at 


43(( 


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4 
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FIG. 2.—FRONT ELEVATION, WITH AIR AND OIL INLETS IN SECTION, 


Cleveland. The first Scherzer rolling lift bridge constructed 
several years ago for the C., C., C. & St. L. Ry. across the 
Cuyahoga river at Cleveland proved so satisfactory that thie 
new one came as a result of its operation. Railroad traffic was 
constantly maintained upon the swing bridge during the con 
truction and erection of the Scherzer rolling lift bridge. 
Vessel traffic in the river was also maintained, as the new 
bridge was erected in the upright position, on the piers which 
support the bridge when completed, the trains being operated 
through the new bridge during erection. Upon the completion 
of the new bridge, the center of the old: bridge was re- 
moved, the new bridge was immediately closed into service 
and wthin 15 minutes, five passenger trains crossed the river 
on it. The work of preparing the designs and plans and the 
construction of the bridge, together with the removal of the 
old swing bridge, was under the immediate supervision of 
George W. Kittredge, chief engineer of the C., C.. C. & St 
L. Ry. The Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Co. furnished the 
plans and specifications and checked the shop plans for the 
superstructure of the new bridge and also furnished a con 
sulting supervision over its erection. The plans for the sub 


structure were prepared by the railroad company. 








20 THE IRON TRADE REVIEW October 31, 1901 














: 
SUGGESTED AT THE SHOP. ington. A consulship does not change a political henchman 
into a judicious adviser in the foreign field, and it is wel] to 
BY F. 0. REMAN. keep that in mind, though there are some noteworthy exam 
Busiriess is very good at this writing and there is less need ples to prove that the position has been filled by useful and 
f to look abroad for an outlet for the goods that may at some conscientious servants of the State. 
distant date pile up as a consequence of a slackening demand Seow ao 
here. But it is a good plan to keep in touch with conditions A report comes to hand from France, Sept. 25, that js > 
over there and that is one of the reasons why I read the worth reading by those of us who are interested either jp 
} 
| 
' 
FIG. 2.—SCHWARTZ MELTING AND REFINING FURNACE IN POSITION FOR POURING 
consular reports: Hereafter I shall look over the consular high steam pressures or the fun that occasionally works into 
reports with less reliance upon their value as business sugges a government’ publication. The report follows 
tions to be followed implicitly and will apply exactly the same “There is a tendency among constructors to increase steam 
boiler pressure, in order to allow the use of smaller cylinders 
French locomotive boilers already carry from 16 to 18 kilo 
grams (35 to 39 pounds) ordinarily. My attention has been ' 
attracted to a company that is being formed with the object 
of manufacturing and introducing a new steam generator, | 
which will insure a pressure variable from 20 to 8o kilo 
grams (44 to 176 pounds) Chis powerful generator, con 
structed by M Serpollet, is made of cast steel, fused at 1,800 
C. Within, it is an arrangement of non-capillary tubes, and 
is in these that the instantaneous vaporization is effected ' 
without danger of escape, up to a pressure of 80 kilograms ' 
(176 pounds). The apparatus placed in the fire box consti 
tutes a sort of blower, allowing great facility to the fire draft : 
On account of its heavy construction, it offers ample resist 
ance to the pressure. It is claimed that it is not affected by 
immediate contact with the fire, and that capillary action is 
completely suppressed. By this apparatus, an absolutely new . 
departure is brought about in the generating of steam, and it } 
is contended that its application will be of incalculable value, 
either as a motor agent or in the employment of steam dried 
at hitherto unknown temperatures. Either coal, coke, or pe- : 
troleum may be used for fuei.” 
* * * 4 
It will be news to many mechanics that so low a pressure 
as 35 to 39 pounds is usually carried on French locomotives. 
FIG, 3 —-SCHWARTZ FURNACE IN POSITION FOR CHARGING. This is of course on the assumption that the consul at St ’ 
Etienne intends that his statement shall be understood as 35 
treatment to these messages that they would receive were they to 39 pounds to the square inch. This is information indeed 
not issued under the direction of the authorities at Wash- to those of us who have been under the impression that the 














FO rw se 











October 31, 190! 


boiler pressure there was somewhere between 150 and 200 
nds to the square inch. Perhaps there may be an error in 
pou 


the figures fr 
United States. 


om which the equivalents are calculated for thes 


sec oes 


Some little experienc: with metrical measurements in_ the 
x 2 

hop leads me to suggest that the figures-as sent out by the 
sno av. . ae . . 

nsul have been misapplied The kilogram is the common 
cons < 


it of weight in France as the pound is in use here; a kilo- 
un 
gram being a 
gineer would not be 
of the pressure on a 
t obviously makes a difference whether the pressure is ap 
1 { D4) 
plied to a square foot or a square inch 

s of this sort are. kilograms and centimeters, a weight 
case 


trifle more than two pounds, (2.204). An en 
likely to use either term in. speaking 


boiler unless he also gave the area, as 
The French units for 


f one kilogram to the square centimeter being equal to 14.22 
. 

pounds to the square inch. Thus the new steam generator 
would on this basis be destined to carry from 284.4 to 11378 


pounds to the square inch. 


a ae ae 


The labors of M. Serpollet are not unknown to American 
mechanics, and it is a generally understood fact that the 
hoilers built under his patents have been used since 1888 in 
France and elsewhere. As far back as 1896 a number of 
them had been applied to the street railroad system of Paris 
and in 1894 an automobile equipped with one of these boilers 
took ten passengers from Paris to Rouen. The principle of 
the generator is still the same although it has taken different 
forms. A thin stream of water is forced by means of a pump 
between the sides of flattened metal tubes, which have a very 
small interval or water spac: between them, the tubes having 
first been heated to the required temperature 

One of these adaptations has probably been brought to the 
attention of our consular representative abroad, and he has 
probably done the best he could with the material at hand, 
even if it is many years out of date 


British Steel Statistics for 1900. 

Statistics which have been collected from the manufacturers 
by the British Iron Trade Association show that the total 
make of ingots by the open-hearth process in the United 
Kingdom in the first half of 190r was 1,630,958 tons, which 
is a record figure, the next largest production having been 
1,624,823 tons in the first half of 1900. The total output of 
acid open-hearth steel ingots was 1,473,996 tons, while the 
output of basic ingots was 156,962 tons. 

The total output of Bessemer steel ingots in the United 
Kingdom in the first half of 1901, as ascertained by the British 
Iron Trade Association, was 791,925 tons, against 1,038,279 
tons in the first half of 1000 As, however, the make of 
sessemer steel ingots in the second half of 1900 was only 
706,735 tons, the make for the first half of 1901 was better 
than that of the immediately preceding six months 

The total quantity of Bessemer steel rails produced in the 
United Kingdom in the first half of 1901 was 308,575 tons 
which does not compare unfavorably with the total make of 
1900, when the production was 759,844 tons, nor with that of 
1898, when the production was 751,591 tons, but it is behind 
the rate of production in 1899, when the total rail output was 
838.148 tons. 

The Ashland Emery & Corundum Co. was recently in 
corporated in New Jersey with a capital of $3,000,000. The 
combine comprises the following companies: Ashland Mills 
Emery Co. of Perth Amboy, N. J.; Diamond Mills Emery 
Co. of Philadelphia; Jackson Mills Emery Co. of Easton, Pa 
Walpole Emery Mills of South Walpole, Mass 
Emery Mills of Chester, Mass., and the Levant Emery Co 


Hampden 


Che officers of the new combination are: Lewis R Spear 


president and treasurer; C. Albert Sandt, vice-president and 


general manager ; E. Ray Spears, secretary; directors, Charles 
R Flint, O. C. Barber, Lewis R. Speare, C. Albert Sandt, E 
Ray Spear and T. G. Atkinson. It is said that the output of 
the company will amount to 12,000 tons-of crushed imported 
emery Ore per annum, 5,000 tons of native ore and 2,000 tons 
of corundum. The company owns emery mines in Chester, 
Mass., and Peekskill on the Hudson. 


THE IRON TRADE REVIEW 21 


TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 





The increasing business of Manning,. Maxwell & Moore 
New York, has compelled the firm to compile two catalogues 
and the portly volume illustrating a complete line of railway, 
steamship, machinists, and contractors’ tools and supplies is 
ready for distribution Che pages number 1,056 and are 9%4x 
12% inches. A separate edition is issued for metal- and wood 
working machinery. It is out of the question to attempt any 
enumeration Of the multitude of tools comprised in this publi 
cation. It is carefully indexed and is adorned with half tones 
of the offices at New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburg and 
Boston 

lhe International Correspondence School, Scranton, Pa.. 
has issued a handsome: booklet in two colors, announcing that 
to the list of one hundred studies has been added French, Ger 
man and Spanish. The instruction is conducted almost en 
tirely by means of the phonograph and the specially prepared 
instruction papers The student receives the lesson from the 
pamphlet and the master record and subsequently recites into 
the machine. Only those who have struggled with the old 
methods of language instruction can fully realize the superi 
ority of the new. The circular asserts that the present en 
rollment of the schools exceeds 325,000. 

[he Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co., Chicago, has added 
catalogue No. 15 to their list of pamphlets pertaining to pneu 
matic appliances. The illustrations show the tools in opera 
tion on steamships, structural work, pressed steel cars, salt 
mines, boilers, ete. ‘Che company announces the award of a 
gold medal for pneumatic tools and a silver medal for the 
exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition 

A 126-page catalogue illustrates the varied assortmentymanu 
factured by the Russell, Burdsall & Ward Bolt & Nut Co 
Port Chester, N. Y. This company is the successor to Russell, 
Burdsall & Ward and the Port Chester Bolt & Nut Co. and 
therefore combines the experience of the two firms; the on« 
extending over 55 years and the other 19. Extensive altera 
tions are being made to the plant at Port Chester and the 
quality and quantity of the output is to be increased. 

Catalogue D, pneumatic tools, hammers, riveters and drills. 
contains a finely illustrated account of the productions of the 
Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Co., Cleveland. The tools are dk 
scribed in detail and there are many half tones showing the 
appliances at work on steel structures, dies, castings, boilers, 
etc. The firm manufactures air hoists, holders-on, and paint 
ing machines, in addition to those already mentioned. 

A neat 442x6 pamphlet tells the story of the Bellefon 
taine Bridge & Iron Co., Bellefontaine, O. Since its incor 
poration about eighteen months ago the firm has manufactured 
many bridges, and these are illustrated freely. In addition 
to a varied line of bridge work, the company undertakes iron 
and steel structural work in general, including steel as well 
as cast iron culverts. 

rhe catalogue of the Emerson Mfg. Co., Rochester, N. 
is standard size, 6x9, and submits a wide choice of drafting 
room furniture, drawing tables, blue print apparatus, cabi 
nets, etc. Among the useful devices is an automatic T square 
(often called a parallel ruler); this can be moved up and 
down the face of the drawing board, maintaining the sam« 
relative angle to the side of the board. When once adjusted 
it may be used at an angle or horizontally, permitting th« 
free use of the hands when the board is tilted, a method that 


s growing rapidly in favor 


Business Agent Ireland and other officials of the Interna 
tional Association of Machinists, now under an. injuction of 
the federal court against picketing the plant of the Allis 
Chalmers Co., have been served with notices of a suit for 
$10,000, filed by the Robert Tarrant Co. of Chicago. Tarrant 
charges the officials with having conspired to ruin his busi 
ness because his company filled orders for the Allis-Chalmers 
Co. when its plant was shut down by reason of the machinists 
strike The suit was threatened some time ago, but lay 
dormant until twelve blacksmiths and helpers of the Tarrant 
Co. struck rather than go to work for the Allis-Chalmers Co 
lhe suit will be heard Nov. 4 











22 THE IRON TRADE REVIEW 


THE SHOP BETTERMENT IDEA IN A MALLEABLE 


FOUNDRY. 


The plant of the Pratt & Letchworth Co., or the Buffalo 
Malleable Iron & Steel Works, is in the suburbs of Buffalo, 
near the Black Rock depot and within sight of the buildings 
of the Pan-American Exposition. The firm manufactures mal- 
leable iron and steel castings to meet the requirements of 
makers of agricultural implements, steam and electrical rail- 
ways, locomotive builders and manufacturers of electrical 
machinery. It is significant of the extent of the business to 
learn that the Pratt & Letchworth Co. supplies the motor 
boxes for the trolley car equipment manufactured by the 
English Electric Co. at Preston in the north of England. The 
Buffalo plant is located on 23 acres of land, with about 14 
acres under roof and employs approximately 600 men. There 
is a Canadian branch at Brantford, Ont., employing 200 
workmen. The business there is restricted to malleable iron 
castings for railroad and agricultural purposes, carriage and 
wagon hardware. 

This by way of introduction to an enterprise founded away 
back in 1848 and now encroaching with new buildings upon 
the remaining land. The successful management and exten- 
sion of a business of this kind involves no small amount 





October 31, 1901 


tinues in operation and contains some 750 volumes. These 
are in charge of the timekeeper and the books are loaned 
and returned at noon or after working hours at night. There 
is no fee attached to this privilege. 

For a number of years the firm has maintained a lunch 
room for the office force and it has seemed that this benefit 
in a form modified by the existing conditions of the foundry, 
could be extended to the molders. The plan proposed, and ” 
has passed beyond the range of experiment, was to furnish 
hot coffee and meat soup at a minimum cost. The old club 
room, in the rear of the library, was accordingly fitted Up as 
a kitchen and is shown, Fig. I, as it appears prior to twelve 
o'clock every working day. 
months and the equipment has been increased since the 
The smaller soup kettle seen at the extreme 


This has now been in use two 


first installation. 
rear in Fig. 1 proved of insufficient capacity and the larger 
one on the left has been purchased recently. The two women 
make the soup and coffee, cut up the bread and wash the 
dishes. They usually arrive about 9:30 a. m. and leave in the 
afternoon at 4:30. Helpers from each department of the plant 
are detailed to carry the cans of soup and coffee and the 
baskets of dishes and bread to the distributing stations from 
the kitchen. Two of these assistants are shown at work. 

Let me say here that there is nothing cheap about- the 





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of tact and skill and this ability to handle the affairs of such 
an organization judiciously is best told in the statement that 
the firm has had no strike since it was established. It was not 
the fortune of the writer to meet the executive head of the 
company, Mr..O. P. Letchworth, on a recent visit to the plant, 
and thus it was impossible to reach the personal views 
of the man of affairs most responsible for matters of policy. 
It is very evident, however, that the amicable relationship 
of the office and the foundry has been constant and cordial ; 
that such a condition has persisted explains the healthy prog- 
ress of this particular company and affords considerable en- 
couragement to those who urge and expect better working 
conveniences. 

A foundry presents a difficult problem for any general meth- 
od of shop betterment. The surroundings, the material and 
the work determine an amount of grime and an uneven tem- 
perature rarely combined in any other occupation. Some years 
ago a club was formed of the employes. A piano, a billiard 
table ‘and a pool table were obtained, and a library started 
for the help. The plant was probably too far from the 
homes of many of the workmen and the attendance at the 
rooms dwindled to a point where it ceased to make it worth 
while to maintain a man in charge evenings. The library con- 


ingredients used in the preparation of the food; the purchases 
of material are handled directly by the purchasing agent of 
the company and the item of meat alone amounts to some 50 
pounds daily. There is a frequent change of soups from day 
to day and on Friday a clam chowder, or some similar dish, is 
The dishes are of a light but strong granite ware 


and the other utensils are of homely and substantial type. 


served 


There is no apparent intention that the project shall bea 
remunerative one from a purely financial point of view, though 
there can be no doubt that warm, wholesome food is 
cellent fuel for the maintenance of a high working pressure 
and the undertaking must pay a certain percentage considered 
in this light. The firm assumes the cost of the cooking 
and distribution and it is counted that the material ‘will be 
practically met by the sum received from the employes. The 
charge made for a bowl of soup (about one pint) is 3 cemts, 
for a quarter of a loaf of bread 1 cent, for a cup of coffee 
1 cent. This is based upon the idea that the supply per man 
should not exceed 5 cents in all, and the items may be 
bought separately. Nothing is given out on a credit basis, 
however, the small individual transactions being on a cash 
system. Checks are issued for general convenience; these are 
round and are made of some composition, akin to celluloid, im 











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bout one inch in diameter, stamped on one side malleable molding and the malleable annealing departments are 
blanks ‘ nogram of the company. Red checks are marked illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, respectively. The cash, or the 
with ora ‘black ones Ic. Two-thirds of the men patronize checks, are handled at each station by a clerk, usually the 
ge and ost kitchen and it is reasonable to suppose that the assistant to the foreman of that department, and a couple of 
he ee the number in proportion to the discom- assistants serve the food to the men. The workmen line up 


winter will increase 


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FIG 2.—SERVING LUNCH IN MALLEABLE MOLDING DEPARTMENT, ONE OF NINE SERVING STATIONS. 


outside for lunch. The present in pairs carrying molding boards for trays. These boards 
patronage meets the self-supporting condition of which men- are made in quantities by the carpenters and their use for this 


tion has been made and barely covers the cost of the raw purpose is permitted. Fig: 2 shows a station where previous 
conditions allowed the service of the food through an opening 


fort attendant upon going 


material. 





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FIG. 4. SERVING LUNCH IN MALLEABLE ANNEALING DEPARTMENT, PRATT & LETCHWORTH WORKS 


"here are distributing stations provided in the plant in the n the wall from an inner room—the opening being closed until 
tollowing departments: the malleable molding, malleable an- ill was in readiness: In Fig. 3 the conditions are not so 
nealing, malleable machine shop, steel molding, steel ma- favorable and the arrangements are of a hastily contrived 
chine shop, malleable shipping, steel shipping, malleable core character. In either case the service is expeditious and on 


r - . . . . . . . . . . . 
oom and the steel core room. The distributing stations in the reaching the third of these distributing points, ten minutes 














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after twelve, it was found that the work had béen completed. 
The whole method of carrying out the plan is thoroughly 
practical and a complete success as far as it goes. To what 
an extent it is capable of improvement or modification is a 
matter for future experience to determine. It gives the men 
a benefit that they have been quick to appreciate and pay for 
as far as they were asked: For. this reason itis not a chari- 
table scheme to be resented by self-respecting workmen nor a 
burden to be borne by the employer from a purely altruistic 
motive. It belongs to.a class of shop arrangements that are 
conducive to frictionless management. me ae RA 





PERSONAL. 


For the first time since the contro! of the Cambria Steel 
Co. passed to the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., a party of rail- 
road and steel plant officials inspected the plant in an official 
capacity last week. Those in the. party were: President 
A. J. Cassatt, Directors A. J. Little, N. R. Shortlidge, A. M. 
Fox, W. H. Barnes, C. S. Patterson, -L. Godfrey and George 
Wood, . First Vice-President John P. Green, Second Vice- 
President Charles E. Pugh, Vice-President Theodore N. Ely, 
Secretary Lewis Neilson, Third Vice-President Joseph Wood, 
Chief Engineer W. H. Brown, General Manager J. M. Hutch- 
inson, General Superintendent J. M. Wallis, Real. Estate 
Agent John C. Wilson, Effingham B. Morris, a director tn 
both companies; President Powell Stackhouse of the Cam- 
bria. company and Frank I. Firth, president of the Erte & 
Western Railroad. 

President. Charles M. Schwab of the United States Steel 
Corporation -was presented with a handsome silver loving 
cup by his former business associates in the Carnegie Steel 
Co., at a banquet given at the offices of the Carnegie Steel 
Co., at Pittsburg, Saturday, Oct. 26. The cup is made of 
butler-finished solid silver and stands 14% inches from the 
base, which is wrought in the same metal and mounted on 
three legs. The decoration is in relief, the panel work 
typifying the three. principal features in. the making of 
iron and steel. From the base a burst of flame rises around 
the vessel. The principal panel is a replica of a rolling mill 
scene from a view of the 48-inch universal plate mill of the 
Homestead works, showing the roll tables and rolls with a 
slab passing through and the “screw-down” at his: post. 
This is encircled by a parted wreath of laurel, which is up- 
held by Mercury and Vulcan. The next panel shows a 
glimpse of one of the Duquesne furnaces and the adjoining 
hot blast stoves. This is also like the other panels wreathed 
in laurel. The third view is a good reproduction of the 
spectacular Bessemer converter in action, showing the lever 
operator manipulating the levers on the pulpit in the fore- 
ground, and two converters in the distant perspective blow- 
ing great shafts of flame upward. The letter “S,” flanked 
by palm branches and laurel, is raised on three small panels 
on the base. Three fire-spitting dragons form the handles 
of the cup. The inscription on the cup is in Roman capitals in 
relief encircling the brim and reads, “From the Operating 
Officials of the Carnegie Steel Company to Charles M. 
Schwab, as a Token of Their Affection and Regard, April 1, 
1901.” The date of the inscription indicates the time Mr. 
Schwab retired as president of the Carnegie Stee! Co. to be- 
come president of the United States Steel Corporation. 

James Gayley, vice-president of the United States Steel 
Corporation, together with D. M. Clemson of the Carnegie 
Steel Co. and’ D..G. Kerr, one of the officials of the same 
company, will make a tour of inspection of the ore proper- 
ties of the United States Steel Corporation. It will take 
about a month to make the trip. 

Frank Bloom has resigned as manager of the National Ma- 
chinery Co. of Tiffin, O., and will. be succeeded by J. H. 
Snyder. 

At a meeting of the board of directors of the American 
Tin Plate Co., held in New York last week, the resignations 
of D. G. Reid, president, and Warner Arms, second vice- 
president, were accepted. William T. Graham, formerly first 
vice-president, was elected to the presidency; Warner M. 
Leeds, formerly third vice-president, was elected as first vice- 
president, and Frank Dickerson, general sales agent, was 
made second vice-president. The office of third vice-president 


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( Jctober 31, 1901. 


was left vacant. E. G. Applegate, formerly of Pittsburg 
who has been an officer of the company since its formation 
remains secretary, and F. S. Wheeler remains treasurer. The 
resignation of Mr. Reid was made necessary by the duties of 
his position as a member of the executive committee of the 
United States Steel Corporation. Warner Arms wil] ten. 
doubtedly retire from further participation in the manage- 
ment of the American Tin Plate Co., and will return to his 
home at Niles, O. W. T. Graham, the new president of the 
company, was president of the Atna-Standard Iron & Steel 
Co. at Bridgeport, O. On the formation of the tin plate con- 
solidation the tin plate branch of the company was ab 
sorbed, and Mr. Graham was made second vice-president and 
placed in charge of the sales department. Later, on the res. 
ignation of W. B. Leeds as first vice-president, he was elected 
to that office. The new first vice-president, Warner | 
Leeds, was formerly third vice-president, being assistant to 
Warner Arms, who had charge of the operating department. 
He will now be the head of that department 

President Charles M. Schwab, of the United States Stee} 
Corporation, left Pittsburg this week on a tour of inspection 
of the plants of the National and Federal Steel Companies, 
He was accompanied by W. R. Walker and W. B. Dixon: 
President Graham of the American Tin Plate Co.; Presideat 
McMurtry of the American Sheet Steel Co., and President 
Palmer of the American Steel & Wire Co. At about the 
same time officials of the Carnegie Steel Co., American Steel 
floop Co. and the National Steel Co., left on a tour of in- 
spection of their various plants. The latter party consisted 
of W. E. Corey, president of the three companies; H. P, 
Bope, first vice-president; Thomas Morrison, superintendent 
of the Edgar Thomson Works; L. T. Brown, superintendent 
of the Carnegie city mills; P. T. Berg, chief engineer of the 
Homestead Works; Homer J.. Lindsey, assistant to the presi- 
dent; I. W. Jenks and Milton Coombs, of the American Steel 
Hoop Co. 

G. B. LeVan has been appointed superintendent of the Ha- 
selton, O., plant of the Republic Iron & Steel Co. He will 
assume his new duties on Nov. I. 

Andrew Walsh, master mechanic of the Bessemer plant of 
the Republic Iron & Steel Co., Youngstown, O., has tendered 
his resignation to take effect Nov. 1. 

William G. Backus has resigned as chief engineer of the 
Bessemer plant of the Republic Iron & Steel Co., Youngstown, 
Ohio. 

Frank Townsend, assistant superintendent of the electrical 
department of the Ohio plant of the National Steel Co., 
Youngstown, O., has resigned. He will be succeeded by Peter 
Brown. 

John Y. Brooks, formerly general superintendent of the 
Joliet, Ill., plant of the American Steel & Wire Co., and 
now connected with the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., was pre- 
sented with a diamond studded watch by his former employes 
at his home at Joliet, last week. 

K. Kimura, manager of the Yoshmahani colliery, Japan, 
arrived in Duluth last week for the purpose of inspecting 
the development of the ore mines of the Lake Superior re 
gions. 

Major L, T. Harper, superintendent of the plants of the 
American Steel Hoop Co. in the Pittsburg district, tendered 
his resignation last week and retired permanently from active 
business. Thirty years ago Major Harper entered the em- 
ploy of J. Painter & Sons and until last year was connected 
with this plant. Upon the formation of the American Steel 
Hoop Co. he was appointed superintendent of the Pittsburg 
plants. 

In our issue last week we erroneously stated that James 
W. Brown had been elected first vice-president of the Cru- 
cible Steel Co. of America. Mr. Brown has not been con- 
nected with the company for nearly a year and is now inter- 
ested in the construction of a new crucible steel plant at Colo- 
na, Pa. James H. Park is first vice-president and was re- 
elected at the recent annual meeting. 

Daniel McLaren, formerly president of the Addyston Pipe 
& Steel Co., and since its absorption by the cast iron pipe 
combine, manager of the Addyston plants, has resigned and 
will accept an important position with a northwestern railroad. 
His new work will take him to North Dakota. 








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The Eliza Furnaces of Jones & Laughlins, 
Ltd., at Pittsburg, Pa. 


The American Iron and Steel Works of Jones & Laughlins, 
Ltd., at Pittsburg, include plants on either side of the Mo 
nongahela River, but all within the city limits. Important 
changes have been made in these works in the past three years 
in line with the policy of this company to secure and maintain 
facilities affording the greatest economy in manufacture and 
putting it in a position to hold its ground against any possible 
competition. 

On April 1, 1900, Jones & Laughlins, Ltd., took over Laugh- 
lin & Co., capital stock $1,000,000, who owned and operated the 
Eliza blast furnaces. At the same time the reorganized com- 
pany increased its capital stock which had been $4,000,000 to 
$20,000,000, and acquired with Laughlin & Co. the latter’s 
holdings in the Pittsburg & Lake Angeline Iron Co., owning 
the Lake Angeline mine on the Marquette range, and in the 
Monongahela Connecting Railroad and some minor properties 
The improvement program of Jones & Laughlins, Ltd., has 
involved a large outlay, and has extended to nearly every de- 
partment of its plant. The reconstruction of-the Eliza fur- 
naces was begun in 1899. Besides the rebuilding of the orig 
inal three furnaces of this plant a fourth stack was added. 
and all were brought to modern size. The rebuilding of Soho 
Furnace gave five furnaces with a combined capacity of about 
2,500 tons of Bessemer and basic pig iron in 24 hours. The 


















































mill with a capacity of 450 tons. In May it started up a rod 
mill on which work had been in progress for about six months, 
this being its entrance into that field. In line with the purpose 
of making its operations practically self-contained, the com- 


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Bessemer plant on the South Side, with its two o-ton vessels. 
and the open-hearth plant of six 40-ton basic furnaces have 
increased their output in the last year and when a 200-ton 
Talbot furnace; now building, is completed, will require slightly 
more than the output of the company’s five furnaces. In 
April of this year the company put in operation a new beam 


pany acquired within the year important ore properties on the 
Mesabi range, which added to the Jack Pot mine on the 
Gogebic range and the Lake Angeline at Ishpeming, Mich., 
guaranteed it a full supply of ore for years to come. Ample 
coal and coke supply is assured through the ownership of the 
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26 THE IRON TRADE REVIEW 


ington county, Pa., in the fourth pool of the Monongahela 
River and about 100 acres of coal lands in Fayette county, Pa. 
There are 300 coke ovens in Fayette county, Pa., and to the 
840 coke ovens in Pittsburg there have been added 246 in the 
past year. Jones & Laughlins, Ltd., also own the capital stock 
of. the Blair Limestone Co., Ltd., operating extensive lime- 
stone quaries near Hollidaysburg, Pa. 

The output of Jones & Laughlins, Ltd., consists of pig iron, 
Bessemer, basic and acid open-hearth blooms and _ billets, 
beams, channels and other structural shapes, rails and fish 
plates, hoops and bands, light sheets to heavy plates, merchant 
bar, chains, bolts, rivets, railroad spikes, car-links and pins 
cold rolled shafting, cold rolled squares, rounds, angles and 
special shapes, pillow-blocks, hangers, pulleys, couplings of 
various kinds, etc. Their principal rolling mills, Bessemer and 
open-hearth plants, foundries, chain, rivet and shafting de- 
partments, and structural and machine shops are situated on 
the South Side. The.coke plant, blast furnaces and heavy 
plate mills are on the north side of the ‘river. 

A three-track steel bridge of the Monongahela Connecting 
Railroad is used exclusively in transferring molten metal 
to the Bessemer and -~- open-hearth works. The river 
at this point is over goo. ft. wide. The bridge is 1,090 ft. long; 
the largest span being 325 ft. centers. of piers. 

In this article we will describe only the Eliza Furnace de- 
partment, consisting of four up-to-date blast furnaces of the 
largest size and the necessary accompaniments. These fur- 
naces are situated on the right bank of the Monongahela 
River. The property has a frontage on the river of over 6,000 
ft. and railroad connections with the Baltimore & Ohio, Pitts 
burg & Western, and through the Monongahela Connecting 
Railroad with the Pittsburg & Lake Erie and Pennsylvania 
System. 

For the transportation of the ore the company uses. its own 
cars—pressed steel hopper cars of the most approved design. 
lo bring the coal from the river mines there are three pow 
erful steamboats. The company also owns over 130 coal 
barges, the larger part of them having a capacity of 550 tons 
each. The coal fleet has to supply the extensive South Side 
works as well as the Eliza and Soho Furnaces and coke 
works. The shipment of coal by river to all departments aver- 
ages about 125,000 tons per month. Coal is also received by 
rail. There are on the Eliza Furnace coke oven property the 
most modern appliances for the handling of coal and coke. 
The company has also in constant use 200 coke cars for the 
handling of stock in the yards. 


The Ore Yard. 


Besides the ore bin system, which is in constant service, it 
is necessary to have a storage for the winter’s supply, as well 
as for the intermittent shipments that are inseparable from 
railroad service. For these conditions the ore yard is pro- 
vided: : The surface covered is about 750 ft. by 330 ft. Over 
this nine tracks 700 ft. long are carried on steel columns about 
40 ft. above the surface of the yard. This height is reached 
by the same grade that leads to the Monongahela Connecting 
Railroad bridge. From the hopper bottom cars the ore is 
dropped with the minimum of labor. The yard has a capacity 
of 550,000 tons of ore. On the ground level, and at right 
angles to the elevated tracks are laid standard-gauge tracks 25 
ft. apart, on which run a number of locomotive steam shovels, 
product of the Industrial Iron Works of Bay City, Mich. 
Behind, or on. either side, are placed standard hopper cars, 
which are loaded at an average rate of three or four per hour. 
A 100,000-Ib. car has been loaded in 12 minutes. These cars 
are then run to the bins. During the entire season of ore 
shipments the bins are kept full, and the surplus only goes to 
the ore yard. The coke is brought directly from the ovens 
to the bins as required. An emergency coke pile of large 
dimensions is also kept on hand. 


The Bin System. 


Two rows of bins are provided in the stock house as shown 
on drawings. There are i28 bins in all. Each bin is about 16 
ft. square at top. The bottom slopes at about 45 degrees. The 
lower bins are used for ore, and the higher ones for coke and 
limestone. The framework is of massive structural steel, the 


October 31, 1901 


sides of }2-inch steel plates and the floor of maple plank, oq a 
backing of 4-inch oak plank. Rising from the outer row of 
columns of the bins are the posts of the stock house: a steel 
building which covers the entire bin system. The hoist-engine 
houses are located above the chords of the stock house, leaving 
clear head room for the locomotives handling the stock Cars. 
The surface under roof is 1,110 ft. by 4o ft. 

The bin doors are of the guillotine type, worked by direct 
action of a vertical air cylinder placed immediately above. 
Doors of both rows of bins face each other and open above a 
ground track running the entire length of the stock house. 
On this track are placed eight larry cars, two to each furnace. 
Chese receive the ore, coke, limestone, etc., from the bins and 
convey the charges to the skip cars or buckets, which in turn 
carry them to the top of the furnace. 

The larry cars consist of a truck with electric motors, and a 
hopper-Shaped body which is balanced on a multiple-lever 
scale. One larry, either of the two, supplies coke; the other 
receives the different kinds of ore, weighing each kind as it 
falls into the hopper. Ordinarily one larry works on the 
right and the other to the left of the skip, meeting alternate 
buckets so as to avoid waiting for each other. There are also 
three turntables and storage tracks for spare larries, Skip 
buckets are 5 ft. square inside in cross section. Two are 
used on each skip, counterbalancing each other. The angle of 
the skip is about 67 degrees from the horizontal. On two of 
the furnaces the skips are worked by electric motors of 150 
horsepower; the other two have Otis-Crane hoisting engines, 
cylinders 14x 16 inches. All the winding drums are 72 inches 
in diameter. 


Furnace Top Construction. 


An automatic charging apparatus is used at the tunnel-head. 
The skip buckets run on four wheels, the hind pair having 
double treads. At the proper height above the top platform 
the track rails are curved to a horizontal toward the furnace, 
so as to carry the mouth of the bucket over the upper hopper. 
Auxiliary rails catch the outer tread of the hind wheels and 
carry them further up the incline, thus automatically dumping 
the charge into the hopper below. This hopper is oblong, ex- 
tending in front of both buckets. Its center is located over 
the center of the furnace. Its lower end is closed by a small 
bell. The hopper rests on a hood, which in turn rests upon 
the ordinary large furnace hopper, the hood forming a seal for 
the gases, when the large bell is lowered to admit charge to 
furnace. Both bells are worked independently by steam cylin- 
ders which are controlled by the engineer in the hoist-engine 
house. The upper hopper is mounted on wheels for quick re- 
moval in case of repairs. A spring buffer is provided for the 
hind pair of bucket wheels at the highest point of the run. 


Features of the Stack and Stoves. 

Fig. 1 shows a sectional elevation through the bins, skip 
and furnace. The furnace shell rests on ten columns. There 
are 20 tuyeres of 6 inches diameter. Bronze cooling plates 
with cast iron boxes, in ten rows, protect the bosh walls. A 
cast iron hearth jacket, water cooled, surrounds the wall. The 
principal dimensions are given on the drawing, the height be- 
ing 100 ft., bosh diameter 22 ft., and diameter of hearth 14 ft. 6 
in. Two gas outlets leave the top of the furnace at 116 de- 
grees apart. These are elliptical in cross section, and extend 
horizontally in a radial line from shell. Each carries three ex- 
plosion doors 34 inches in diameter, one on the outer end and 
one on each side—six doors to each furnace. From the under 
side of each of these outlets a down-comer 73 inches in 
diameter starts downward at an angle with vertical line of the 
furnace of about 35 degrees 40 minutes, the two meeting about 
40 ft. below, and forming one main down-comer of 98 inches 
diameter of shell, which conveys the gases into the top of the 
dust-catcher. The latter is 21 ft. in diameter with center flue 
inlet, and side outlet for gas, and bell and hopper dust outlet. 

The foundations of the dust-catchers are made of such form 
and dimensions that a standard steel hopper car can be run 
under the bell, and the flue dust dropped directly into it. The 
gas flues to the stoves and boilers are also provided with dust 
pockets depending from the under side at convenient distances 
apart. These pockets are about 3 ft in diameter and have bell 
and hopper bottoms, from which hang hinged spouts that can 








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October 31, 190! 


be swung over a car and the dust loaded without handling 
There are four Cowper Kennedy stoves to each furnace 
The shells are 22 ft. in diameter by 108 ft. high to the top of 


the dome. They are supplied with cleaning and air doors, 


Spearman gas valves, and improved hot blast valves. Gas, air 
and cleaning doors have renewable seats and are as far as 
possible interchangeable in their parts. One stove chimney 
about 12 ft. diameter inside of lining, and 220 ft. high above 
foundations, is provided for eight stoves. Harbison & Walker 
fire brick are used in the linings of furnaces and stoves 


Hot Metal Arrangements. 


As will be seen in tl 
The entire cast is run under a skimmer, in cast 


e general plan, Fig. 13, no casting beds 


are provided 


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iron runners into the hot metal ladles. Each ladle, holding 20 
tons, is lined with fire brick and is mounted on a four-wheeled 
car. Each furnace is tapped every four hours. All the molten 
metal required at the South Side works is sent by way of the 
bridge and poured direct into the mixer at the Bessemer 
works. The Sunday output is sent to the pig machines. There 
are three of these, each capable of handling 1,000 tons of 
molten metal in 24 hours. The ladles are tipped by hydrauli 
orem one being stationed at each machine. The cranes are 
15 inches in diameter by 7 ft. 6 inches stroke. Their action is 





smooth, with a quick return of the ladlk [wo pairs of 


Wilson-Snyder duplex hydraulic pumps 14x15 x18 inches 
furnish power for the cranes 
The hot metal car is unique 


tation to its work Chere are but 


in its simplicity and in its adap 
four castings in the. car 
body beside the journal boxes and drawheads The sides are 
The ends are 


in one piece and are duplicates of one pattern 
The connecting 


alike, excepting that they are right and left 


surfaces. between the ends and sides are large, and being 


flanged and machine finished are permanently rigid and square 


Che couplers, also the wheels, axles, journal-boxes and fittings 


are all M. C. B. standard. The trunnions are placed 24 inches 


forward of the center of the ladles About the same distance 


back are attached two brackets, which also rest with the trun 











260 X 30 TRIPLE EXPANSION PUMPING ENGINE 


ons on the end pieces of the car lhe ladle is thus supported 
four points well apart, so that there is perfect safety from 
rocking or tipping the ladle on the car. The forward position 
of the trunnion produces a very short radius of arc 


traveled by the nose of the ladle in tipping, thus pouring the 
nearly in one spot in the runner, without splashing 


fall about six feet 


metal 
Chis is a decided gain, as the metal has 


at the beginning of the flow 


\ ladle hous 74x 130 ft. containing a 30-ton Morgan ele 


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28 THE IRON TRADE REVIEW 


machine. The skull-cracker is of structural steel and is a 
tripod. 75 ft. high to the center of the top sheave. A 6,000-Ib. 
ball can be dropped nearly 70 ft. A steel derrick capable of 
lifting the largest skull swings from a track to the center of 
the drop. 

Cinder Disposal. 

How to get rid of the cinder is a question that is worrying 
the owners of blast furnaces in the thickly settled districts 
where there are no longer low lands to fill up. At the Eliza 
plant each furnace is provided with a cinder pit 20 x 30x 24 
ft. deep. About. 10 ft. of water is kept in the pit, and into this 


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WITH SECTION THROUGH PUMP CHAMBER, 


the cinder is tapped, together with a flat stream of water. It 
is at once granulated and cooled, and can be lifted out as 
soon as the flush is over. A steel McMyler turn-table crane 


along side of the pit and within reach of a track. A number 


with clam-shell bucket holding 114 cubic yards is located 


of. Weimer cinder cars are also in service for filling around 
the works. 


Boiler and Engine Plants. 


Fifty-six Laughlin water tube boilers furnish steam for the 
furnace plant and shops, not including the coke plant. Boiler 





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heads are 9 ft. in diameter and are united by 1 

inches in diameter by 18 ft. long. These boilers ue wena 
350 horse-power each. They are fired with waste furnace 
gases, but provision is also made for coal firing. There ‘are 
two boiler houses, each containing 28 boilers. These are 
placed in a row, Io ft. center to center, heads of the two rows 
16 ft. 9 in. apart in the clear. They are fired by the inter 
ends between rows having one gas leg with two burners to 
each boiler. When coal is used it is deposited automatically at 
a convenient place in front of the boilers from an overhead 
Heyl & Patterson conveyor which lifts it from the cars and 
Each pair of boilers has Pi 
chimney 66 inches in diameter and 100 ft. in height. Steam 


distributes it to the boilers 


pressure of 140 pounds is carried on the boilers. All steam 
pipes are covered with H. L. Childs & Co.’s magnesia asbestos 
and sheet iron covering. 

There are several types of engines in service. The list is a¢ 
follows: One pair Allis horizontal engines 42 x 84 x 72 inches 
displacement 923.6 cubic feet per revolution; 1 Southwark 
vertical engine 42 x 84 x 60 ‘aches, displacement 384.8 cubic feet 
per revolution; 4 Allis vertical engines 40 x 79 x 60 inches, dis. 
placement 314 cubic feet per revolution; 1 Allis vertical engine 
42 x 79 x 60 inches, displacement 314 cubic feet per revolution: 
7 pairs of Allis vertical cross compound engines, 42 and & 
inches steam, 87 and 87 inches air, by 60-inch stroke, displace- 
All excepting the first 
two have Kennedy inlet valves 22 inches in diameter and 


ment 772.8 cubic feet per revolution 


Reynolds automatic outlet valves on the air cylinders. An 
elevation of the Allis cross-compound engines is shown in 
Fig. 10. 

Four 4,000-horsepower Cochrane heaters and purifiers are 
in service with the necessary complements of feed-pumps to 
supply the boilers. The exhaust steam from the pumps and 
air compressors is utilized in the heaters. The feed-pumps 
are Worthington and also Wilson-Snyder duplex tandem 
compound. Extra pumps are provided for washing out 
boilers; also high pressure pumps for forcing mud out of the 
tuyeres and cooling plates at the furnaces. A weighted ac- 
cumulator regulates the pressure in the boiler feed system 
Two Worthington jet condensers receive the exhaust steam 
from the blowing engines and dynamo engines. Steam inlets 
are 36 inches in diameter, water inlets 16 inches in diameter, 
tail pipes 18 inches in diameter. Each one is guaranteed to 
condense at the rate of 130,000 Ibs of steam per hour. Centri- 
fugal water pumps and air pumps assist the jet and keep up 
a constant and high rate of efficiency. 


Water Works and Equipment. 


The pump house for the water supply is located on the 
bank of the Monongahela River, one side being exposed to the 
river. The foundation rests on piles driven down about 54 ft 
below the yard level and 32 ft. below low water mark. The 
piles were sawed off at a level of 20 feet below low water 
On top of the piles rest six courses of 12 x 12-inch timber and 
a double floor, forming the bottom of the caisson in which the 
masonry is built. The outer walls are of heavy stone, dressed 
to a uniform thickness. The wells are of brick work, lined 
inside with vitrified brick, the space between the wells and the 
outer masonry being filled with concrete. About 26 ft. of 
masonry, etc., is built up from the timbers below to the top of 
the wells and base of the pumps. The floor of the pump house 
is 13 ft higher. The dimensions of the house above the floor 
are 124 ft. long by 31 ft. wide inside of walls. On the side 
nearest the river are built in eight wells, each 11 ft. long, 8 ft. 
wide and 26 ft. deep. About 10 ft. below low water intake 
pipes 30 inches in diameter connect the wells with the river. 
Each well has its own intake and sluice gate. The wells also 
communicate through 30-inch pipes in their walls with sluice 
gates. This arrangement makes it possible to clean out any 
one of the wells without interfering with the others. In the 
wells are placed in frames, double screens of No. 11 galvanized 
iron wire ™%-inch mesh The screens can conveniently be 
hoisted out and cleaned. 

In the pump house are placed two 6,000,000-gallon and two 
12,000,000-gallon triple expansion high duty pumping engines, 
of the crank and flywheel style. They were built by the 
Wilson-Snyder Manufacturing Co., of Pittsburg. The 6,000,- 
000-gallon engines have 14 inches high pressure steam cylin- 








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inches intermediate, and 36 inches low pressure, 


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minute or 204 ft. piston speed each pump delivers 12,000,000 either 
gallons in 24 hours pairs, etc 

All the pumping engines are of similar design. The [he four pumping engines discharge into a standpipe which 
plungers are single acting, outside packed. The valve gear is is 14 ft. inside diameter and 135 ft. high. It stands at one end 
of the Corliss type with valves located in the cylinder heads. of the pump house, on the river bank, and has foundations 


Che engines are self-sustained, supported by the valve cham- 


21-inch high pressure steam cylinders, 36 inches of the engines are connected together and two spiral stair- 
56 inches low pressure, steam cylinders; ways are provided. Each pump has two discharge nozzles. 


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similar to those of th ump. house Its massive base of 
F eanrat tands 4 ft. above high water: Dis 


masonry ard 
tributing pipes with cross-overs and cut-outs lead to all parts 
of the works 

Electric Plant and Machine Shop. 

There are three Westinghouse 200-kilowatt direct current 
220-volt generators, each directly. connected to a Dick and 
Church tandem compound condensing engine; cylinders 14 and 
25 inches by 18 inches, making 200 revolutions per minute; 
also an 8-panel switchboard equipped with the Westinghouse 
system. Beside the motors in service in all parts of the works 
there are 150 inclosed arc.lamps of 220 volts and 1,500 incan 
descent lamps of various candle power and of I10 volts 

The machine shop building is of structural steel and brick, 
100 x 75 ft. inside and 2™% stories high The lower floor is 
partitioned, having on one side the machine shop tools and on 
the other the boiler and pipe fitting shops. Up stairs are the 
carpenter’s and pattern-maker’s shops, tool room, sheet iron 
and tin shop, and rigger’s room. The. loft contains the paint 


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shop and storage for patterns and pattern lumber. The black 
smith shop is a steel building 60 x 54 feet. 

A mold foundry 160x 70 ft. of structural work and brick 
is used mainly. in casting molds for the Bessemer and open 
hearth works of the South Side. -Molten metal taken directly 
from the furnaces in the hot metal cars is used, the pouring 
and handling of ladles, flasks, molds, etc., being done by a 25 
ton Morgan traveling crane which covers the entire floor of 
the foundry. Core ovens with large removable steel cover 
doors are placed beneath the floor level, thus permitting of 
the utilization of the entire floor space. 

In the yard a 10-ton locomotive crane, built by the Bay City 
Industrial Works, has proved to be a very profitable tool in 
the unloading and handling of machinery, castings, etc. The 
locomotive service is performed by the Monongahela Connect 
ing Railroad Co., which also takes care of all tracks and keeps 
all standard cars in repair. 

A handsome two-story office. building in Pompeiian brick, 
containing 11 rooms and all modern conveniences, and a two 
story store room and thoroughly equipped laboratory are 
located at the main entrance to the works. 





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October 31, 1901 


F. C. Roberts & Co., of Philadelphia, were the Consulting 
engineers in the construction of the plant. The principal 
officers of the Eliza Furnace department are as follows 
Messler, general superintendent; P. Gilday. 
assistant general superintendent ; William I. Mann, chief engi. 
neer; William Smith, master mechanic; Thomas L. Owen 
chief clerk; N. C. Neems, superintendent of coke department: 
E. P. Douglass, superintendent of general labor; Z. Webb, 
chief chemist; John Hutchinson, superintendent of mold 


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foundry; Robert Turner, chief electrician 


No. 1 furnace of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co, at 
Birmingham, Ala., which has been practically rebuilt. wae 
blown in last week. The capacity of the furnace was in- 
creased to about 175 tons daily. No. 3 furnace at North 
Birmingham, which was recently rebuilt, is working ad- 
mirably. No. 4 at North Birmingham, which is also being 
rebuilt, will go into blast the latter part of November, No 


2 furnace, which was blown out several days ago, will also 


De rari eek 


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be rebuilt, and will be ready to blow in shortly after the 
first of the year. With these improvements these furnaces 
will have a daily capacity of about 700 tor 


[he Fred M. Prescott Steam Pump Co., Milwaukee, Wis. 
has just completed a new storage and office bu Iding 

Superintendent Samuel McDonald of the Bessemer plant 
of the Republic Iron & Steel C Youngstown, O., an 
it the new 18-inch and 26-inch billet 


mills which are being erected will not be in readiness for 
February 


nounced last week 


operation in conjunction with the steel plant bef 


Samuel S. Perley, proprietor of the Coquillard wagon 
works of South Bend, Ind., filed a petition for a receiver 
for the Bissell Plow Co., also of South Bend, last week. 


Westervelt has been allowed an exor- 
bitant salary as president and treasurer of the company, 
also alleged that notes 


He alleges that E & 


umounting to $20,000 a year It is 
have been given to Westervelt for unpaid salary already 


aggregating $15,000, carrying interest at 8 per cent 






































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INDUSTRIAL SUMMARY. 


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and we will put you in communication with our 





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advertisers at once.) 


New Buyers in the Market and Some of their Wants :— 

The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co. of Pittsburg and the 
United States Aluminum Co. of the same place were granted 
Pennsylvania charters last week. The first named com 
pany has been capitalized at $10,000, while the latter has a 
capitalization of $25,000. The two concerns are allied to the 
Pittsburg Reduction Co. and controlled by the same in 
terests. 

The Colburn Machine Tool Co. of Franklin, Pa., has been 
incorporated with $300,000 capital. Charles Miller, John A 
Wiley, J. S. Coffin, A. F. Miller, 1. W. Colburn, John A, 
Wilson, H. J. Colburn, H. W. Breckenridge and E. P. 
Breckenridge are the incorporators. 

The Powell & Turner Truck Co. of Troy, N. Y., has been 
incorporated with $50,000 capital to manufacture railroad 
machinery, electrical equipment, ete. John Collins, J. P 
3owe, James F. McKeown, Harry Stanley, C. W. Powell 
and J. M. Turner are the incorporators. 

The Holthoff Machinery Co. of Cudahy, Wis., has been 
incorporated with $600,000 capital to manufacture mining 
machinery and equipment. W. D. Gray, H. C. Holthoff and 
B. T. Lengarder are the incorporators. 

The Shattuck Adding Machine Co. of Minneapolis, Minn 
has been incorporated with $50,000 capital. F. E. Kenaston, 
W. S. Nott, C. M. Amsden, C. S. Gould, W. P. Shattuck 
and A. C. Paul are the incorporators. 

Che Peninsular Tool Manufacturing Co. of Detroit, Mich., 
has been incorporated with $25,000 capital. N. F. Roadhouse, 
C. L. Burr, L. G. Rakeshaw, A. L. Bresler, E. A. Bresles 
and G. Rakeshaw, incorporators. 

The Page Machine Co. of New York City has been incor 
porated with $125,00 capital. Jesse Richards, C. L. A. Bras 
seur and Frank Ryall are the incorporators. 

fhe Hanks Foundry Co. of Atlanta, Ga., has been incor- 
porated with 12,000 capital to conduct a general foundry 
business. J. D. Hanks, M. Z. Whitehead, W. W. Smith, A. 
Hil. Rogers and E. Brown are the incorporators 

[he capital stock of the LaBelle Iron Works of Wheel- 
ing, W. Va., has been increased from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 
fhe increased capital will be used in the erection of a tube 
plant at Steubenville, O. 

lhe Ashland Iron & Milling Co. of Ashland, Ky., has 
been incorporated with 600,000 capital. John JT. Hager ts 
one of the chief incorporators 

Che Woodcock Can Co. of Chicago, Ll, has been incor 
porated with $3,500 capital for the purpose of manufacturing 
tinware and tin cans. J. T. Woodcock, C. P. Woodcock and 
J. W. Ghiselin are the incorporators. 

(he Bennett Siphon Furnace Co. of Detroit, Mich., has 
been incorporated with $100,000 capital 

lhe Lake Erie Boiler Compound Co. of Buffalo, N. Y., has 
been incorporated with $75,000 for the purpose of manufac 


turing a boiler compound for the prevention of the forma 


tion of scale in boilers. James Powers, C. P. Barnwell anJ 
E. C. Schwingel are the incorporators. 

O. A. Billings and William C. Post of Brooklyn, and Ar 
thur L. Davis of New York have incorporated the Empire 
Bridge Co. of Horseheads, Chemung county, at Albany with 
a capital stock of $1,000,000 

\ charter of incorporation has been obtained at Trenton 
for the Charles Creighton Foundry Co.; capital, $100,000 
he incorporators are: J. H. Kugler, Paul W. Ryder and 
Edward S. Chambless, of Jersey City. The same names ap 
pear as the incorporators of the Willoughby-Owen Co., a 
recent New Jersey corporation organized with a capital stock 
of $150,000 for the manufacture of vehicles. 

Che Lees Machine Works, recently incorporated, will make 
a specialty of chair machinery; will also manufacture boilers, 
engines, saw-mills, etc.; J. E. Delker, secretary, Owens 
boro, Ky. 

W. P. Biddle, Knoxville, Tenn., is in the market for a 10 
h. p. upright boiler and 6-h. p. engine. 

The Battery Machinery Co., Rome, Ga., is in the market 
for a new or second-hand lathe eight feet between centers, 


THE IRON TRADE REVIEW 35 


20-inch swing; drill press to swing 34 inches, and a medium 
size shaping machine. 

The Robinson Mfg. Co., H. C. Robinson, general manager, 
Muncy, Pa., is in the market for a second-hand cupola of 
about seven tons capacity per hour, machine shop and black- 
smith shop equipment 


Fires and Accidents :- 

Shortly after being blown .in last week, No. 1 furnace of 
the Carrie group of the Carnegie Steel Co. at Rankin, Pa. 
was badly wrecked by a terrific explosion. It was caused by 
an unusually rapid accumulation of gases which the blast 
was unable to drive off. The top of the furnace was badly 
wrecked; much of the wreckage falling on the power plant 
also put that department out of service. The dust catcher 
also .suffered severely, the steel plates being ripped for a 
considerable distance. Four men received severe but not 
fatal injuries. 

E. M. Lang & Co.’s solder manufacturing plant at East 
port, Me., was destroyed by fire last week, involving a loss 
of $3,500. The factory building was. burned to the ground, 
and the machinery destroyed, but it is believed that only a 
small portion of the stock on hand was damaged 
The plant of the Illinois Steel Boiler Works, 713 and 
15 Carroll avenue, Chicago, was destroyed by fire Oct. 28, 
entailing a loss of $10,000. 

lhe repair shops of the Lehigh & New England Railroad. 
at Pen Argyl, Pa., with three locomotives and other ma- 


chinery, have been destroyed by fire. Loss. $15,000, partly 
insured 

The storage house of the Chester plant of the American 
Tin Plate Co. at Chester. W. Va., was destroved by fire last 
week The loss is estimated at $3,000 : 


New Construction :— 

The N. S. Sherman Machinery Co., Oklahoma City, Okla., 
are in the market for a cupola, with base only, to line up 36 
or 38 inches inside; electric motor to operate a No. 5 Stur 
tevant blower ; a jib crane of 2 tons capacity, 12 feet mast and 
a radius of 30 feet; crane ladle of 1 ton capacity; two small 
ladles of 200 pounds capacity and one.elevator of about 1,500 
pounds capacity for hoisting iron to the charging door of 
the furnace. These are intended for the new foundry, which 
comprises a 50x 100-foot main building cupola house, core 
room, core ovens and storage room, all to be of brick and 
stone at an estimated cost of $18,000. 

Che works of the Southern Car & Foundry Co. at Gadsden, 
\la., will be reopened, and by the middle of November are 
expected to be in full operation. 

The Alan Wood Co: of Conshohocken, Pa., will erect an 
open-hearth steel plant on a site just outside of the town 


in which the present plant is located, to consist of five so 


Che cement department of the Brier Hill Iron & Coal Co 
of Youngstown, O., will spend $40,000 in the erection of a 


brick plant at Brier Hill, with a capacity of 20,000 brick a 


day lhe brick will be manufactured from blast furnace 
slag 

he contract for the additions to the plant of the Cleve 
land Wire Spring Co., Cleveland, has been awarded to Skeel 
Bros 

\ partnership has been formed by John, Samuel and Wil 
liam McCloskey. under the name of McCloskey Bros., at Cat 
sauqua, Pa. The firm will conduct the business of the Cat 
asauqua Boiler Works and manufacture boilers, tanks, stacks 
gas apparatus and all kinds of wrought iron plate work. 

‘he Interstate Foundry Co., Cleveland. has secured a site 


for the new building to be erected in the spring. It has a 
210-foot piece of land on Tod street and cost $16,000 
The National-Acme Mfg. Co 


contract for the construction of the plant to D. & G. Griese, 


Cleveland, has awarded the 


Cleveland. The Wellman-Seaver Engineering Co. were the 
engineers 

It is said that the Port Huron Malleable Iron Co. is to 
be organized at Port Huron, Mich., with a capital of $60,000 
for the purpose of erecting a large plant in that city 

The New York Kerosene Engine Co. of New York has 
purchased a tract of land at College Point, L. I. The price 











36 THE IRON TRADE REVIEW 


paid is’ said to have been $5,000. The company contemplates 
establishing its.plant here, which is at present located. at 
130th street, New York 

The Marinette Iron Works Mfg. Co., Marinette, Wis., re 
port that they have made no arrangements to move the plant 
to Toledo, O. Press. of business may later compel them to 
seek a new location, probably in the natural gas fields of 
Pennsylvania 

The National Elastic Nut Co., Milwaukee, Wis., has_re- 
cently increased. the plant, adding a new engine and ‘several 
machines. 

A new plant will be erected in Cleveland for the manufac- 
ture of the typewriter, controlled by the recently organized 
Kauffman Typewriter Co. ‘She machine is the invention of 
William Kauffman of Canton. The company is now nego 
tiating for a site and expects to-have a factory with 100 men 
at work in the spring. 

The recently organized Hardwick Machine Works, Dailas, 
Texas, is erecting a foundry and machine shop and will deal 
in engines, pumps, tools and: belting 

A site has already been selected at New Castle, Pa., for 
the erection of the new plant of the recently. incorporated 
New Castle Forge & Bolt Co. © Plans for the plant are already 
being prepared. 

A foundry has been. added to the plans of the Hartley 
Boiler Works, Montgomery, Ala. This will be 110 x 44 feet 
with a. two-story pattern shop. The equipment has been in 
creased by the addition of a hydraulic riveter, a set of 16 
foot rolls, a 12-ton traveling crane, new punching and shear 
ing machinery. _ Thirty-eight tanks,. ranging from 5,000 gal- 
lons to 5,000 barrels, have been built this year for the South 
ern Oil Co., Savannah, Ga., and 11 more are under way at the 
present time, with a general assortment of similar work. 

The Stirling Co., Barberton, O., last week broke ground 
for five new buildtngs, each 150 feet lone and 65 feet wide 
These additions will practically double the size of its boiler 
manufacturing plant. 

The Duncannon Iron Co., Duncannon, Pa., will build a mill, 
260 feet long, for the manufacture of finished bar iron. 

The blast furnace recently operated by the Minerva Pig 
Iron Co., at Milwaukee, Wis., is being rapidly reconstructed, 
and it is intended to make the equipment one of the best in 
the country. The work will probably be completed by Feb 
ruary. Fhe owners are J..M. and W. A. Thomas. A water 
frontage of 400 feet has been secured for the ore docks and 
these will have improved hoists and rigging 

The American Bicycle Co. is receiving bids for extensive 
additions to the Toledo, O., plant. The plans call for a four 
story brick addition, 40x 1:56 feet, to the manufacturing 
building, and a -four-story brick foundry, 50x 130 feet. 


The Pittsburg District :— 

The R. D. Nuttall Co. of Pittsburg has placed orders dur 
ing the past week for new machinery and equipment to cost 
about $100,000. The output of the plant will be practically 
doubled by the addition.of- new gear cutting machinery and 
a-new department .is to be added for the cutting of small 
gears. A new gas engine of 125-h, p. will also be installed 
\t the present time the plant is operating night and day, and 
déspite the already large daily output the accumulation of 
orders is much larger than at any time in the history of the 
plant. 

The plant of the Atlantic Tube Co. located near Beaver 
Falls, Pa., was sold at public auction by order of the court 
at Allegheny, last week. The price was $50,000, and it is 
understood that it has been bought in by the bond holders, 
with a view of resuming operations as the Pittsburg Seamless 
lube Co. The plant will be considerably enlarged for the 
manufacture of boiler tubing and heavy casing. The Atlan- 
tic Tube Co. was organized about three years ago for the 
manufacture of bicycle tubing.. The bicycle craze, however, 
being on the wane the demand for tubing dropped off at a 
tremendous rate, and as the equipment of the plant for the 
manufacture of boiler tubing was not very large sufficient 
business could not be done to keép the plant out of debt 
The original capitalization was $600,000 he. cost of the 
plant was about $300,000 

Dravo, Doyle & Co., merchant engineers, with offices in 
the Lewis Building, Pittsburg, Pa., have purchased the entire 





October 31. yor 


equipment of two power plants of the Cincinnati Gas & Elec. 
tric Co. of Cincinnati, O. The machinery includes 10 com. 
pound Corliss engines, 10 compound Buckeye engines, sey. 
eral automatic engines, generators, tubular boilers, etc 

James M. Bailey, president of Philips, Nimick & Co., em- 
phatically denies the report that the company has sold its 
Sligo Mill property on the South Side to the Pennsylvania 
Railroad. It was reported that the property had been sold to 
the railroad company for the purpose of carrying out great 
improvements already decided upon. 

The first meeting of the Westmoreland Steel Co., recently 
incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000 was held -in 
Pittsburg last week. It was decided to purchase the plant of 
the Westmoreland Steel Co. at Greensburg, Pa., though this 
was only a matter of form. The stockholders also decided to 
issue $200,000 worth of bonds, which have been subscribed fo) 
already by Eastern capitalists. The present 24-pot crucible 
plant will be increased to 1 48-pot plant immediately. The 
erection of finishing mills, as stated in our last issue, was 
also ratified. Emanuel Kaufman was elected president and 


general manager ot the new company 


General Industrial Notes:— 


No. 2 furnace of the Andrews & Hitchcock Iron Co, at 
Hubbard, near Youngstown, O., was blown in last week. 
It had been out some time undergoing extensive repairs. 
The stack was put on foundry iron, while No. 1 has been 
put on Bessemer. With the blowing in of this furnace only 
one stack in the Mahoning Valley remains out, that of the 
Brier Hill Iron and Coal Co., which is undergoing extensive 
repairs 

Judge Coxe, in the United States Circuit Court at New 
York, last week dismissed the suit of James P. Witherow 
against the Carnegie Steel Co. of Pittsburg, for want of 
‘urisdiction This suit was brought by Witherow last April 
for the infringement of two patents granted to him in 188s, 
which the Carnegie company is alleged to have infringed up- 
on since June 4, 1889, in the use of the Jones mixer. The 
Carnegie company. on the other hand, alleges that the mixer 
in use at its plants is the patent of Capt. William R. Jones. 
Mr. Witherow asked for an accounting, demanding a royalty 
of $1 per ton on all steel made by this process since 1886. 

Work on the erection of the new foundry for the Mueller 
Mig. Co., Decatur, Ill, was commenced last week Che 
building will be 45x 155 feet 

Contracts were let last week for the buildings ot the re 
cently incorporated Edge Tool & Casting Co., at Parkersburg, 
W. Va 

\ six-inch plate from the Bethlehem Steel Works, South 
sethlehem, Pa., representing group No. 1 of the armor for 
the new battleship Ohio, was tested at Indian Head proving 
grounds last week he test proved most satisfactory, and 
as a result a lot of 400 tons of Kruppized armor will be a 
cepted by the government 

he coking plant of the American Steel Hoop Co., at Coke 
ville, Pa., will resume operations this week It has been 
idie for many months 

The William Tod Co., Youngstown, O., has been awarded 
the contract for the installation of a new engine for the 
Wellsville, O., plant of the American Sheet Steel Co 

The Lebanon Boiler Works, Lebanon, Pa., has received 
a contract from the American Iron & Steel Mfg. Co. for four 
horizontal tubular boilers: the boilers are to be 20 feet long 
and 62 inches in diameter Among recent contracts is one 
from Philadelphia for three 200-h. p. boilers and another for 
two 100-h. p. boilers from Wilmington, Del 

The director of architecture of the Paris Exposition has 
sent the Standard Paint Co. of New York a certificate testi 
fying to the wearing qualities of ruberoid floor-cloth used in 
the building of administration at the Exposition. This prod 
uct is adapted to use on floors of offices, stores, warehouses, 
factories, etc The same company received a special medal 
on the novelty of its exhibit, in addition to those awarded 
for the quality of its product 

The Shenango Furnace of the National Steel Co., New 
Castle, Pa., is hereafter to be known as the McKinley Fur- 


nace 




















October 31, 1901 THE IRON TRADE REVIEW 37 


The COCHRANE HEATER 


Forms an admirable receptacle for the condensation from heating coils for 
all high pressure drips such as steam jackets, re-heating receiver, high 
pressure piping drains, etc. In the COCHRANE Heater they mingle with 
the fresh boiler feed-water, and are pumped to the boilers without loss of 
heat or water. With a closed heater a drip tank, with a special pump and 
other apparatus likely to get out of order, is needed. 

Do you wonder why we have so many second orders from our 


* COCHRANES ? ” 
Ask for Catalogue “ 11-H.”’ 
HARRISON SAPETY BOILER WORKS, 
Clearfield & 17th Sts., + = * PHILADELPHIA, PA. 

















Unsolicited letters from 
first-class shops prove 
this. Copies of these are 
yours for the asking. 






We build 


LATHES 


Te : | 
X Lire" | oes | EXCLUSIVELY. 


SCHUMACHER & BOYE, CINCINNATI, O., U. S. A. 







































. > Feed Water Heater. 7 AAAARAAA 
a Feed Water Heaters 
: Cut herewith illustrates Stilwell's latest design. 
? Made entirely of cast iron. Saves fuel and filters the ‘ 


feed water for steam boilers. Use only exhaust steam. ; 


BOILER FEED PUMPS 


Single, Duplex and Triplex. 
AIR COMPRESSORS 


Jet - Condensers -Surface 








IF INTERESTED ADDRESS 


The Stilwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co., oivron*onto, US". ers hel 


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Let them learn how others turn out work. 


Keep Your Men Posted ! Give them a chance to keep informed. 


THE FOUNDRY publishes from month to month a history of what is taking place in the foundry busi- 
ness. It shows new methods and new appliances 

THE FOUNDRY believes that those who are making castings today are interested more in what has been accom- 
plished than what it is possible to do, therefore its columns are kept free from too theoretical problems, and actual 
practice instead is illustrated. 
The following are the -ontents of a recent issue of The Foundry : 





















Trade Outlook. Anthracite Coal as Cupola Fuel. T. F. Stimpson. 
A Modern Foundry. Illustrated. Delano Pulley Molding Machine. Illustrated. 
Convention of A. F. A. Among the Foundries. 

Kranks’ Korner. Air Furnace Metal. 

A Cneek Without Bars or Ga gers. Illustrated. Richard Barnett. Chimmie Powers’ Answers 

Repeat Castings. Illustrated. George Buchanan, |} Cast Iron Car Wheels: William Fawcett. 
Name Plates. Edmund S.S try. Cast Iron Notes. W. J. Keep. 

Newten Cupola. Illustrated. Cone Pulley Pattern. E. Kemmerle 

Sly Water Mill Illustrated. Newton Disaster. A.C. Miller. 

Construction and Management fCupolas. Thos, D. West. Foundry Practice. Ed. B. Gilmour. 

What Will Make Iron Wear? W. Osborne. Hardening Copper. 

Good Thing for Bench Molders. Illustrated. Trials ofa Foundry Foreman, C. Vickers. 
Why Foundries Lack Competent Foremen. Wm. H. King, What the Molder Has to Do. L. C. Jewett. 






Give the men in your foundry this much information every month, and will they not be able to do their work 


better? They will, and you should see that they get 7he Foundry regularly 
J ’ s ; d / J R Bidg., 
It costs but A DOLLAR A YEAR, and lots of firms subscribe for their men, The Fou nd ry, CLEVELAND, 0. 















38 THE IRON TRADE REVIEW 








** CATALOGUE 


ne 











METAL PLANING MACHINE 


See poms NEW and SECOND HAND MACHINE TOOLS READY FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY. 


WRITE FOR PRICES AND PARTICULARS. 


U. BAIRD MACHINERY CO., Pittsburg, Pa. 











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October 31, 1901 








IRON CASTINGS, MACHINERY a» FORGINGS 








T= GEO. B. SENNETT CO., *°'on?"™ 


ROLLING MILL, BLAST FURNACE WORK 
and GENERAL MACHINERY. 


Correspondence Solicited, and Estimates Promptly Furnished on all 


kinds of Machinery, Castings and Forgings. 





Double the 
grip of smooth” 
faced pulley. 


Guaranteed & 
satisfaction Be 

35 
or no sale. 





MILTON F. WILLIAMS & C0. 


ST. LOUIS, MO. 











Sheet Shears, 





Min Ml Mem, : 


Ram 5: aes Bi pe: 


a Aa A! in trade Hal i Sivckod tee 
POWER TRANSMISSION ENGINEERING 


illostrated with | installations. Other articles of interest to the up to date factory 
elem in Sey cee sample copy Free by applying to i oe . 


THE DODGE. wascahetod isha CO, ENGINEERS FounDERS He 5 cnet 
| BRANCHES ~ BOSTON:.NEW YORK «CHICAGO. CINCINNATI ATLANTA LONDON,ENG. 





Pittsburgh Shear Hnife and 


Squaring Shears, Machine Co., 


Shear Knives. 


PITTSBURGH, PA. 


Your inquiries are solicited. 








YOU GAN LEARN HOW 


to avoid the expense and loss in- 
m cident to the use of the forged 








will investigate | 
the Armstrong 
system of insert 

ed cutters of self- 
hardening steel 
for Turning, 
Planing Boring, 
and Cutting off 
metals. 

Keep posted. 

Write for Catalogue 


Armstrong Bros. 
Tool Co., 
*TheTool Holder People 
Curcaeo, Tur, U.S.A. eee 








CLEVELAND PNEUMATIC TOOLS 


For CHIPPING, CALKING, BEADING OR RIVETING 
are not equalled by any in existence. 
They combine with the utmost degree of rapidity, 
efficiency and durability, unusual lightness and portability. 
CLEVELAND Pneumatic Tools are guaranteed against 
repairs for one year. 


THE CLEVELAND PNEUMATIC TOOL CO. 
74 FRANKFORT ST., CLEVELAND, 0. 






















































October $I, igo! 


THE IRON TRADE REVIEW 39 


R.D. WOOD @ CO., 


400 Chestnut Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 





a —_—————w- - —_—-— 


HYDRAULIC RIVETERS, Fixed and Portable. 


PUNCHES, SHEARS, CRANES, 
PRESSES AND LIFTS. 


Hydraulic Valves. we 


Cast Iron Pipe. 


MATHEWS FIRE HYDRANTS. 


Riveter with 


Compound Hanger. Gate Valves. 


) 
: 





A644 


ll i eh i 


Quick Work 
Good Work 


ELASTIC ROTARY BLOW 
RIVETING MACHINE 


Strikes 3,000 blows per minute. . . . 
For riveting Hardware, Bicycle Chains, 
Agricultural Implements, Mechanics’ 
Tools, ie. wc cece ccccccce 


MANUFACTURED BY 


F. B. Shuster Co. 


NEW HAVEN, CONN. 


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FORBES 
PATENT 
DIE STOCK 


and one man can with ease cut off and 
thread 12-inch pipe. 
Smaller Sizes Proportionately Easy. 
Send for Catalogue. 


The Curtis & Curtis Co. 


37 Carden St., BRIDCEPORT, CONN. 








No. 56 Hand Machine. 
Range 244-6in. R. H. 


















































ELEVATORS 


AND 


CONVEYORS 


FOR 
Slag, Ore, SKelp, Bar 
Iron, Coal, 
Ashes, Pig Iron, etc. 


POWEK TRANSMISSION 


aS \ LINK-BELT 
at MACHINERY CO. 
CHICAGO, 
Philadelphia: Link-Belt Engineering Co. 








Ie 





Valve Indicator Posts. Pumping Engines. Producer Gas Plants. 


Water, Gas and 


Steamfitters’ Tools 


ARMSTRONG 
Adjustable 
Stocks and Dies. 





Vises (hinged), Improved 
Wrenches, Pipe Cutters, 
Clamp Dogs, etc. Im- 
proved Pipe Threading and 
Cutting-off Machines. . . 
Hand or power. . .« 





Our No. 0 machine is de- 
signed for threading the 
. smaller sizes of pipe— 
No. 0 Threading Machine, Power Attachment. or brass—also te. 


She ARMSTRONG MFG. CO., 
Bridgeport, Conn. 


ST 


When you write to firms 
who advertise in our col« 
umnmns, please mention 
the fact that you took 
their address from our 
paper. They will thank 
you for it. 


STM MTU ce 


McKIM SEAMLESS COPPER FERRULES 








Made of pure Lake Superior Copper—double annealed—true to 


gauge. The Best is Always the Cheapest.” THE McKIM 
GASKET is also the best Gasket You should know about these 
good things. 82 Send for Catalogue 


MicCORD AND COMPANY, 


1478 Old Colony Bidg , Chicago. 1905 American Surety Bidg., New York 
SOSSSSSHOSSSSHSSSSSSSSHSSOSSSSSSSOSSOSE 


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THE IRON TRADE REVIEW October 31, 1907 





NO EXPERIMENT. 


Nuttall Cut and Planed Gears are no experi: 






ment. They are an absolute necessity when full 






production capacity is required. Have an assured 


longer life than a cast tooth gear and require 





minimum power to operate. 


R. D. Nuttall Company 
PITTSBURG, PA. 














CEAR CUTTING. 


Spur Cears, 
Bevel and Mitre Cears, 
Worm Cears, 
Spiral Gears, 
Internal Gears. 
% to se inches diameter. 
48 Diametral to 2 inch Circular pitch. 


F. H. BULTMAN & CO., 
100-108 Canal St., CLEVELAND, O. 


aga CAS AND 
, CASOLINE 
ENCINES 


} Cheap and conveni- 

ent power for any 

y service. 

Write for catalog 21. 

» Columbus 

Machine Co., 
COLUMBUS, O. 


Machinery eee Wire 


By Compression or Cold Swaging. 
Especially adapted to Pointing 
Wire Rods and Wire for Drawing. 
Por machines or information, 
address 


Ss. W. COODYEAR, 


Waterbury, Conn. 

















A large and growing circulation among 
machine shop and foundry firms has 
THE IRON TRADE REVIEW. 





Engineers, 
Founders and Machinists. 





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Steam Engines, Shafting, 
Hangers, Pulleys, Sprockets 
Wheels, Chains, Eto., Ete, 
ail kind and csen’ Searing af 
Steam Power Plants complete. 





720 Hast Pearl Street., 
CINCINNATI, 0. 








Jenkins ’96 Packing. 


Pronounced by steam users throughout the world 
the best joint packing manufactured. Expensive? 
Not at all, as it weighs 30 per cent less than many other 














Complete Wire and 
Rod Mitts. 
Engines for Rolling 
Mitls and 
Electric Railways. 


Waste Heat Boilers. 


—='G. A. MULLINS, 


226 La Salle Street, 
as CHICAGO, 





a? Ou Up tan oo LNG 


gine. 




















Hamilton Corliss Engines. 

Engines for ROLLING MILLS, 
ELECTRIC RAILWAYS and 
ELECTRIC LIGHT. 


ENGINES OF ALL SIZES AND FOR 
ALL PURPOSES. 


46 South Canal St., Chicago. 
39 and 41 Cortlandt St., New York. 
Laclede Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. 


C. C. Moore & Co., San Francisco, Cal. 














October 31, 190! THE IRON TRADE REVIEW 41 


The Van Dorn @ Dutton Co., 


General Machinists and Engineers, 


Manufacturers of 


Cut Gears 


and 


Pinions. 


Spur Gears, Spiral Gears, Bevel 
Gears, Worms and Racks. 


C }GEAR CUTTING 


OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS. 





Teeth Planed in Bevel Gears Theoretically 
Correct by Latest Improved Machinery. 


Material — —e “Write for Estimates CLEVELAND, O. 





EVERY THING. 


“> TACKS, SAND, ROC K, ORES 
RED HOT IRE + MOL TON 


Builders of 


53 > 6, (0) dh 


WE [ONVEYELEVATE 


| AND SALT 


CORLISS 
ENGINES. 


PUMPING, BLOWING AND HOISTING ENGINES. 
General Offices: O15 ( er. 1 el. er Home Ins. Bldg. 


CONVEYORS 
ELEVATORS 


MADE BY 


C.0.BARTLETT & CO. 


CLEVELAND. O. 




















M. ALLER, President. 


Southwark Foundry & Machine Co: 


PHILADELPHIA PA. WM, B. FRANKLIN, Vice-President. 


Porter-Allen Automatic Engines. F. B. ALLEN, Second Vice-President. 
Blowing Engines, Centrifugal Pumps, 2. teenie beeumen tania 
Weiss Counter-Current Condensers. ; 


The Wilham Tod Go, 


YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO, 
The PORTER-HAMILTON ENCINE. 


















‘ ONN A“ ; 
Voy cog A, 


| BURWELL & BRIGGS, General Agents, 32 and 33 
Clark Bidg., 208 Superior St., Cleveland, O. 








C. A. BURWELL, Chief Inspector, 32 and 33 Clark 
Bldg., 208 Superior St., Cleveland, O. 

| J. B. WOLCOTT, Special Agent, 32 and 33 Clark 
Bidg., 208 Superior St., Cleveland, O. 








Reversing Engines, Blowing Hegines, Converters, Hydraulic and a 
special heavy machinery for the iron and steel trades, Advertising in The lron Trade 


Park Building, PITTSBURG, - - Seward S. Babbitt. | Review pays. 























THE IRON TRADE REVIEW October"31, 190% 





JEFFREY 


COAL and COKE 


CRUSHERS 





Elevating, Conveying, Coal Handling, 
Coal Mining, Screening and Coal Wash- 
ing Machinery. 

SEND FOR CATALOGUES. 


THE JEFFREY MFG. CO., 
COLUMBUS, OHIO. 
New York. Denver. 


"NORTHERN ENGINEERING WORKS CRANES. | 


No. 6 Chene St., DETROIT, MICH. 


Cleveland Agents: C. E. STAMP & CO., 
New England Bidg. 


Our designs of Traveling Cranes 
for Steel Plants, Foundries or Ma- 
chine Shops, etc., are not surpassed. 

Modern improvements and solid, 
simple and efficient mechanism, 
place them in front. 

Write us giving requirements. 


§ tect RIC*STEAM: HAND> 
C RAN NES 


eFor HANDLING LLLAL A? DRE 


THE BROWN HOISTING MACHINERY CO. Works, Cleveland, 0, 
NEW YORK. 26 Cortlandt Street. LONDON, 49 Victoria Street, S. W. 











5 Motor Electric Traveling Crane. 





+ HIGH «SPEEDS- 









The Exeter Machine Works, 
PITTSTON, PA. NEW YORK OFFICE: 


CLEVELAND OFFICE : 15 CORTLANDT ST. 
707 NEW ENGLAND BUILDING. Manufacturers of 














QXQOQ®O®OMSG®OHOOOG®OGMO’G®VGODOOOO® 


Overhead 


-Tramrail Systems 
ARE CREAT LABOR 


© AND TIME SAVERS. - 
*) (*) 
© THE KIND which we make are © 
(‘*®) . + . (e 
@ especially adapted for use in © 
@ 

® FOUNDRIES, 

® MILLS AND SHOPS. 

e . . 

© Which is the better plan, to have 
~ laborers stumbling over. each other ; 
e trying to carry a ladle or heavy piece ‘ 


® of material around the shop or han- 
dle it with one of our tramrails in half 
the time and: with half the number of 
men ? 

We can tell you all about it if you 
) will write us for our new illustrated 
) catalogue. 


3 J. W. Moyer & Co. 
5 1730 Howard St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 


® NEW YORK OFFICE: 730 Park Row Bldg. 
Soooe DOQDOOODOOODOOQODOQDOODODODOO Se 


OX 0 0) HOY) ©) @) oe) 0) 0) 0) OKO) OXON OKO) OKO) OY OXG) OO) OXON OVOKON 


Hoisting Engines Elevators and Conveyors 
For Contractors and Mines. For Power Houses, Coal Yards and Mines, 


joan ON 


Ontos 
CLEVELAND 0. 





























LOCOMOTIVE 
CRANES 


IN CAPACITIES 


THREE TO FIFTY TONS 


INDUSTRIAL WORKS. 


BAY CITY, MICH. 




















HYDE WAT 


Best for Utilizing Waste He 


THE ONLY BOILERS WITH PERFECT CIRCULATION. 


HYDE BROS & CO., PITTSBURCH, PA. 


ER TUBE SAFETY BOILERS. 


at from Heating Furnaces, Puddling Furnaces, Blast Furnaces. 











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iron ore, blast furnaces, 
rolling mill, foundry and 
machine shop interests. 
It pays to advertise in it. 


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October 31, IQOr 


STEEL CONSTRUCTION 


IN ALL BRANCHES ———— 





BUILDINGS DESIGNED AND ERECTED 
In all parts of the world 








and bmg Blast Furnaces and Steel Works 
Seovenes Cupolas, Ladies and Converters 
Boilers, Tanks and Heavy Plate Work 


RITER-CONLEY MFG. CO. 


PITTSBURG, PA. 








THE RETORT COKE OVEN CO. 


Engineers and Contractors for 
RETORT COKE OVENS 


With or without recovery of by- 
products ot ot ot of os of 


JOHN F. WILCOX, General Manager and Chief Engineer 
General Offices: New England Bidg., CLEVELAND, 0. 


THE CHASE MACHINE Co. 
itt ELM STREET, CLEVELAND, Oo. 
Hoisting, Car Hauling, Docking and Automatic 
Towing Engines. Builders of the well known 
WOOTTERS CAS AND CASOLINE ENCINES. 








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JULIAN KENNEDY, ENGINEER 
PITTSBURG, PA. 


ee 


LE 


MACHINERY FOR THE ECONOMICAL 


PRODUCTION & IRON 48° STEEL 


em 


CONSULTATION AND EXPERT WORK IN 


GENERAL ENGINEERING PRACTICE 


CABLE ADDRESS “ENGINEER PITTSBURG” 
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CONSULTING ENGINEERS 





| 
| Blast Furnaces, Bessemer and Open 


§ Hearth Steel Works, Continuous | 

| Mills, Hoop Mills, Merchant Mills, f) 
q fs | Automatic Mill Tables, Labor Saving Ms 
4 Ay 


Devices relating to Rolling Mills, 
Steam and Hydraulic Machinery. 


| 


Ferguson Bldg., PITTSBURG, PA. 














S.V. HUBER & CO. | 





Duff's Patent Water Seal fias Producer 


OVER 2,200 IN SUCCESSFUL OPERATION, 


INVESTIGATION SOLICITED. 
THE DUFF PATENTS CO., °°%;692.Empire Bidg.. 


Long Distance Telephene, 1898 Pgh. 





THE IRON TRADE REVIEW 43 


ROLLING MILL 
ENGINEERS. 





Continuous Mills for the economical production of 
Small Billets, Bars, Rods, Hoops and 
Cotton Tie. 





WIRE DRAWINC MACHINERY. 





Morgan Construction Co., 
WORCESTER, MASS. 


ALEX. LAUGHLAN & CO, 


ENGINEERS AND gg 












702-706 LEWIS BLOCK :: PITTSBURG, PA. 





WALTER KENNEDY 


CONTRACTING AND 
CONSULTING ENGINEER 


611 Penn Ave., PITTSBURG, PA. 
Long Distance "Phone 3174. 


TNE WELLMAN-SEAVER ENGINEERING C0. 


CONSULTING AND CONTRACTING ENGINEERS 


New England Bidg. Cable Address 
CLEVELAND, 0., U. S. A. “ WELLSEA” CLEVELAND 














Steel Works, Rolling Mills, Metallurgical Furnaces, Manu- 
facturing Buildings, Machinery for the most eco- 
nomical handling of all kinds of material. 

Sole manufacturers of FORTER WATER SEALED RE. 
VERSING VALVES and FRASER-TALBOT 
MECHANICAL GAS PRODUCERS. 


LONDON OFFICE: 47 VICTORIA STREET, WESTMINSTER 




















IRON cITY ENCINEERING COMPANY 


Successors to Feasenden A Ridinger 
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS AND MANUFACTURER®’ AGENTS 


| 





Electric Light and Power installations Ge snerators, Motors, Arc 
Lamps, Engines and Boilers, Electric Sup yplie Bell ’Phone L. D. 


Court 1599.P.&A,. 'Phone Maine 1374, 410 Penn Ave., Pittsburg, Pa, 





/EDWARD E. ERI IKSON, PITTSBURG, PAS 
Regenerative Gas Furnaces and Water Seal Gas Producers. 


Produces Gas under Tubular Boilers, saving 
20 per cent in fuel. 88° NO SMOKE. 





DAVID LAMOND 
Contracting Engineer 


FERGUSON BLOOK, PITTSBURG, PA, 
Blast Purnace Gennseuasal 
AGENT FOR C. H. FOOTE PATENT 2 AND 4 PASS FIRE BRICK STOVE 











Steel Works and Rolling 
Mill Engineers 


sf 


Garrett- Cromwell Engineering Co. 


New England Building ::: 2%: CLEVELAND, 0. 
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44 THE IRON TRADE REVIEW October 31, 1901 









NEWARK, 

OHIO, 
Hydraulic Fittings, 

Oil Well Specialties, 


Castings Made True to 
Pattern and Uniform. 


sol 









Newark Iron & Steel Co., 


Open Hearth 
Steel Castings, 

Forge Steel, 

High Pressure and 


LONG DISTANCE ’PHONE 


358. 


Orders Solicited. 
Promptness and Rea- 
sonable Prices 
Our Motto. 



































3 
HIGH GRADE GRAY IRON AND SEAI-| | Why D t 
vce a ama | on Ou 
For Hydraulic Presses and other high USE THE 
pressure work. 
66 
SALAMANDER IRON FOR SALE”’ Columns of 
— sees —_— pomeness to ee 
re test three times greater tha - . 
arygrayiron. The Iron Trade Review 
Electrical Castings of Guaranteed etic Power 
BROKEN - cesreaa prac yin and get rid of alot of your old machinery and material 
. - that you have on hand: You can sell it if you willdo so, 
Davis & Ludwig Foundry Co. anditwon’tcost much... ......-..-.. 
240-256 Root Street, - CHICAGO, ILL. The Iron Trade Review, Cleveland, Chicago, Pittsburg 














Did You Ever s« coy BRASS Fmsms J. J. RYAN & CO 
THE FOUNDRY INISHERS Us Us ' 
o ow TOR Prey oryrt es-742 West Monroe St., Chicago. 


THE FOUNDRY, Clevelana, o. | Best Bronze, Babbitt Metals, Brass and AlumINUM or Siett Sotice 


MALLEABLE 
uormcn,” CASTINGS. 


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i 

















Covert Mrc. Co., | Mostrictly Chemically Pure Acids and Aqua Ammonia, 


West Troy, N. Y. ESPECIALLY ADAPTED TO LABORATORY WORK. 


MANUFACTURED BY 


it y 
YANKEE” SNAPS] ff THE omasentti chemicaL company, 


Made in Styles and Sizes. STOCKS AT 
For Sale by Jobbers at Manfrs. Prices. Tremley, N. }., New York Office, 63-65 Wall Street. é 
e) c St. Louis, Mo, Cincinnati, O. Milwaukee, Wis. St. Paul, Minn. 
COVERT MFG. CO., West Troy, Y. Y., U.S.A. Beaver Palls, Pa. East Chicago, Ind. Birmingham, Ala. 








Philadelphia, Pa.: Wm. M. Wilson's Sons, 225 Dock Street. 
Baltimore, Md.: James Thurston, 210 Buchanan’s Wharf. 
Chicago, Ill.; James H. Rhodes & Co., 42-44 Michigan Ave. 

















TINDEL-MORRIS COMPANY, §TEEL FORGINGS 


Eddystone, Pa. 
Chicago Office, A. M. Castle & Co., 54 8. Canal St. Boston Office, Harring- Railroad, Marine and Machine. All Shapes. Heavy 
ton, Robinson & Co., 272 Franklin St. Shafting. In the rough, rough turned or finished. 


if YOU MELT IRO You should read “METHODS OF CHEMICAL 
ANALYSIS AND FOUNDRY CHEMISTRY,” 
by Frank L. Crobaugh. Chemistry is now playing an important part in the determination of mixtures 


for castings, and for your own protection you should at least have a speaking acquaintance with this 
subject. A dollar and a half secures you this book, postpaid. 


THE IRON TRADE REVIEW, Cleveland, 0. 



































October 31, 1901 THE IRON TRADE REVIEW 45 


Patterns for Castings. 


We are now located in our new 
- eamnenanictes 9 building, No. 970 Hamilton 
PAT 7 Street, where all orders and 
CLEVELAND, correspondence will receive 
OHIO. our prompt attention. 








(UTS Steel Castings, Feces 
ATURE Estimates given on notices AAA 











OA? he) et) ee ee 
TROPENAS aoe 
U. 8. COVERNMENT. 
STEEL PROCESS ied dad 
Elastic Limit 34374. Tens. Strength 67722. 


a , Elongation 33,36. Reduct. of Area 46, 4”. 
With one 2-Ton Converter, makes Castings from | 02, to 10,000 lbs, Sone Cold 108 Deavece an EE 


Sole Agents: POWELL & COLNE, new Yor« 11 PLANTS IN U. S. AND CANADA. 








MONONGAHELA IRON & STEEL CO., 


Manufacturers of 


Charcoal Bar Iron CARTER BRANDS Charcoal Iron Chain 


ALL. SIZES. 
United States Government 8 ifications Guaranteed, PITTSBURGH, PA, 


The Champion Rivet Co., FORGINGS 


CLEVELAND, O., U. S. A. 
Pig Iron-Coal-Coke 


Vi PILLING & CRANE 
IC or PHILADELPHIA OFFICE Lewis Block 
Bo il and Girard Bldg PITTSBURG 
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. Structural | The Elastic Nut Track-Bolt 
Rivets 














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GOVERNMENT WORK A SPECIALTY. 








makes the best and cheapest rail-fastening. 


NUTS NEVER WORK LOOSE. Requires 
- CLEVELAND RIVET FORGING co. no nut-lock. Our Blastic Self-Locking 
> Steel Nut always stays, and is superior for 
: use on Cars, Track, Bridges, Machinery 
, Eo, AG L iD A fe 5 | R LN D etc. Write us for prices on Sq. and Nex. 
= 4 . a. Nats, (Blastic or Common) Machine Bolts, 

j Track Bolts, Rivets, etc. 


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fi. C. FRICK 
COKE CO., 


Post Office, 
PITTSBURG, PA. 


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Producers of 
Connellsville Coke 
Only. 


“FRICK 
COKE” 


For Blast Furnaces and Foundries; also 
Crushed Connellsville Coke (substitute for 
Anthracite Coal) for manufacturing and 
domestic purposes. 


13,500 Ovens. 


Daily Capacity 30,000 tons of Coke. 


Mines and Ovens in the Connellsville Coke 
Region, Pennsylvania. 


Direct connection with all the railroads 
entering the region. 


Quotations, Freight Rates, Pamphlets giv- 
ing full information promptly fur- 
nished on application. 


OF INTEREST 10 
Manufacturers 


Write for copy of pamphlet 
just issued by the 


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COMPANY 


giving reliable informa- 
tion concerning nearly 
200 desirable locations for 
industries, and entitled 


INDUSTRIAL SITES 
IN TEN STATES 


Address CEO. C. POWER, 
Segustrial Commissioner, Illinois Central Railroad 
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Exclusive Sales Agents: 
Diamond K. Brazil, 
Indiana Block. 


FOUNDRY 
COKE 


Agents: 
General Hocking Fuel Co., 


O'GARA. 
KING 
& CO. 


810-820 Old Colony Bidg., 
CHICAGO. 


Exclusive Agents for Roaring Creek 
& Belington Railroad Co. of West 
Virginia. Randolph Smokeless Coal 


Youghiogheny, 
Piedmont, 
Cumberland, 
Blossburg. 


SMITHING 
COAL 





Connellsville, 
Stonega 
and 
Pocahontas 
72 Hour Coke. 














i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i ts 


BESSEMER COKE COMPANY 


Manufacturers of 


CONNELLSVILLE COKE, 


Furnace, Foundry and Crushed Coke. 


MINES AND OVENS IN CONNELLSVILLE REGION, 


Direct connections with al! railroads entering the region. 





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Offices: - * Lewis Block, PITTSBURCH, PA, 
CAPACITY, 75 CARS DAILY. INDIVIDUAL CARS. 
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THE BASSETT-PRESLEY COMPANY, 
IRON @ STEEL. 


CLEVELAND, OHIO. 
Try our celebrated CROWN IRON-—3-8 in. to 2 in. carried in stock. 








Basic Open Hearth Steel Billets, 
Blooms and Slabs, 


Guaranteed Analysis for Rolling Mill and Forging Purposes. 


A. M. Crane Manufacturers of the Simplex 
& m Car and Track Jacks, and dealers 
Co nia in Pig Iron, Steel and Iron 
Bars, Springs and Wire. 








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L. & R. WISTER & CO., 672 Bullitt Building, Philadelphia, Penna. 
Sale Agents for Dunbar Furnace Company, Foundry, Forge and Basic Pig Iron, Semet-Solvey and 
Beehive Coke, Coal ; Saxton Furnace Co., Foundry and Forge Pig Iron; Consolidated Iron & Steel 
Company, Bar Iron, Band and Hoop Iron; American Sheet Iron Company, Sheet Iron and Black 
Piate for Tinning. B8@ Buyers and Selicrs of all kinds of Iron and Steel Scrap . 


BRANCH OFFICE: 8381 Fourth Ave, PITTSBURG, PA. 














We know the quality of every material which enters into Colonial Paint, because 


we manufacture all, even making our own oil. Try Colonial Paint on any exposed 


The Colonial Paint & Varnish Co., Cleveland. 





iron work and notice how much longer it lasts than other kinds 
Made Especially for Hammering 
TOOL STEEL. 


Fitted 7 ith’ oar Leapeceed P ist on Valve. 
HAM M ERS Samuel Trethewey & Co., Ltd. 


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We ManuractTure ano Enecr 


‘STEEL FRAME MILL BUILDINGS 


in all parts of the United States. 

IRON and STEEL TANKS for Liquids or Gases. 

} ; GERM PROOF WATER FILTERS, 10 gal. to 10,000 gal. capacity per hour. 

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(Established 1802.) 
PITTSBURCH, - «= « PA. 





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a> Mining Uses. 
Speciat SCREENS FoR Coat and Coxe 
THE HENDRICK MFC. CO., Ltd., 


Bar snd Carbondatlc, Pa. 
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In every shop or 
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where a grinding 





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Carborundum 


Who builds the best Mine Pump? § mney. 


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MILWAUKEE, WIS. 





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_ THE MEEHAN BOILER & CONSTRUCTION CO., Lowellville, Ohio, Niagara Falls, X. ¥. 
| MANUFACTURERS OF 
WATER TUBE BOILERS, BLAST FURNACES, PIPES, TANKS AND 
PLATE IRON WORK OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 


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Lidgerwood 
Hoisting Engines 


Are Built to Gauge on the Duplicate 
Part System, Quick Delivery 
Assured, 


STANDARD for Quality and Duty. 


OVER 17,500 IN USE. 
Steam and Electric Hoists. 


LIDGERWOOD MFG. 
COMPANY, 


96 Liberty St., New York. 


Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, 
Pittsburg, Atlanta, 
Philadelphia, 
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For the busy man, the Solid Belt Dressing is 
& great convenience. We do not recommend 
it quite so highly as our Paste Dressing, but it is 
possibly superior to anything of the kind in the 


market. 
SAMPLE SIZE FREE. 


JOSEPH DIXON CRUCIBLE CO., 
JERSEY CITY, N. J. 

















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aEEL_Towens i TO on Cova. EH" 
OHIO. 
DRAUGHT STACKS, BLAST FURNACES AND HEAVY PLATE 2 
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AGAINST RUST, 

A SAFEGUARD 
AGAINST FIRE. 
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Graphite Paint. 


It protects metallic surfaces 
against rust ; safeguards wooden 
ones against fire. 











It fills the pores of either, obviat- 
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moisture and the chemical proper- 
ties of smoke-laden atmospheres. 


Because it has propérties simu- 
lating asbestos,it resists the action 
of fire—is a slow burner. 

| Comes in six shades of color. 


A sample can if you send your 
address. 


Wisconsin Craphite 
Company, 
413 Market St., PITTSBURG, PA. 








EXCLUSIVELY, FOR ALL PURPOSES 





A. Garrison Foundry Co., 
PITTSBURG, PA. 


MANUFACTURERS OF 


SAND and CHILLED ROLLS, 
and ROLLING MILL CASTINGS 


of every description. 














The George A. Hogg Iron & Steel Foundry Co., 





PITTSBURG, PA. 





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Adad and Corliss Rolling Mill —y Rolling Mill Machinery, Sand and Chilled Rol 
Freeman Furnace Charger, etc. 





Frank-Kneeland 
Machine Co. 


54th St., PITTSBURG, PA. 


CHILLED, SAND 
Rolls. 


in =6 AND STEEL 
=/ ROLLING MILL MACHINERY. 











Canton Roll & Machine Company, Canton, Ohio. 


MANUFACTURERS OF 


Chilled, Sand and Semi-Steel Rolls. 


Rolling Mill and Tin Plate Machinery. 


HEAVY CASTINCS OF ESTIMATES FURNISHED 
EVERY DESCRIPTION. FOR COMPLETE PLANTS. 






























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BEST MANUFACTURING CO., Pittsburg, Pa. 


GULATING 
REGU 
GULLAND| REDUCING 


Heston Blowoff 


VALVES 


High Pressure PIPING 


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SAND »X2 CHILLED 


Manufacturers of 
TIN, SHEET AND BAR MILL PLANTS. 
Blast furnace work. Steel ‘work. Hydraulic machinery. General castings of every descripti 








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| Gray Iron Castings to order. 


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MANU FACTU 
All kinds of soft, fine, medium and heavy 
Boiler, 
Heater and Architectural Iron Castings 
a specialty. 
Send for Prices and Estimates. 


CORNING, NEW YORK. 


ALLEN, 


RER OF 














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honestly made and always of good value; 
wherever exhibited, invariably carry off the 
highest honors. Specify “LUNKENHEIMER” 
make and order from your dealer. Write for 
catalogue of superior brass and iron valves, 
whistles, injectors, lubricators, oil pumps, o11 
and grease cups, etc. All goods tested and 
inspected, and warranted to satisfy. 


The Lunkenheimer Co., 
CINCINNATI, O., U. S.A. 


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The question really is, Can you afford 

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Le Chateller’s 


|PYROM ETER 


For measuring temperatures between 
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the Highest Authorities. 


Successfully used in establishments 
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Iron and Steel, Malieable Iron. 


Also by Boiler Inspectors, Schools and Colle 
for hardening and annealing steel in roll foundries, 
etc 


VULCAN MFC. CO., Ltd., 
Pittsburg, Pa. 


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ADE MARK 


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Also manufacture wagon skeins 





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MOUNT SAVAGE FIRE BRICK) 
UNION MINING COL "oN 


ESTABLISHED 1841. 















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60,000 PER DAY: 18,000,000 PER YEAR. Moant Savage Fire Br ick, 
The First Manufactory of Its Kind in the United States, GOVERNMENT STANDARD. 











Home Office and Works: MOUNT SAVAGE, Allegany Coanty, Maryland, 


Branch Offices: No.1 Broadway, NEW YORK, N. Y.; Land Title Bldg., Broad & Chestnut Sts., PHILADELPHIA, PA.: Park Building 
PITTSBURGH, PA.; Stowe, Fuller & Co., 249 Arcade, CLEVELAND, O.; N, A. Williams Co., 219 E. Washington St., CHICAGO. ILL. 
































Seven works in two states on 











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Highest S dard ainable. hree competi unk lines. . 
A third ofa Sentury of eat Gus anentbvel etn tion daily Established 1864. 
cessful experience. capacity 
CAPITAL STOCK 
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912-914 Park Building. Bolivar, Pa. 


High Grade Fire Brick 


FOR ALL PURPOSES. 





























SCIOTO 
FIRE BRICK 
COMPANY, 
Sciotoville, - Ohio. 









Special Attention Given to the Furnace 
and Foundry and Coke Trade. 
















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a MANUFACTURERS OF ¥ SPECIAL BRICK | } 
Furnace, Mill & Special : For Open Hearth and Bessemer Steel Casting. : 

Shape Fire Brick. | SHAPES " 

Office, 508-509 Cuyahoga Bldg. : Of all kinds made to order. : 
CLEVELAND, O. r sae Mepiatian Ox Pace cate and ae ail quote ential 

prices. 
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EVENS & HOWARD FIRE BRICK CO., St. Louis, U.S.A. seats denice mani iete, 

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OAK HILL, OHIO, 


Manufacturers of the celebrated 


0. K. Crown, O. K. and A brands of Fire Brick. 


Close attention given to special shapes and sizes. Prompt ser- 
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“Metbods of Chem- 
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By FRANK L. CROBAUGH., 


Chemistry is now playing an important 
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Steel, Savage Mountain, Holmes 


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FACINGS, 
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Importers and Refiners of 


GRAPHITE, 
CEYLON 
PLUIBAGO 
For all Purposes. Send for latest Catalog. 


No Orders Too Large for Our Capacity. 
None Too Small for Our Best Attention. 


THE HILL & GRIFFITH CO. 


CINCINNATI, OHIO, U. S. A. 





FOR GREAT TENSILE STRENGTH, ELASTICITY 


| iar we lina 
AND ELONGATION, COUPLED WITH UN. 


USUAL NON-CORROSIVE QUALITIES, 


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PHILADELPHIA, PA. 


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Steel Castings from 100 to 75,000 Ibs 








“OTIS” FIRE BOX PLATES A SPECIALTY, 
Flange Plates, Ship Plates, Tank Plates, Steel Car Axles 
and Forgings of all Kinds. 


Head Office and Works, CLEVELAND, OHIO, 





Agencies: NEW YORK, 97 Cedar St. 
ST. LOUIS, 615 N. Fourth St. WASHINCTON, Kellogg Bldg. 
MONTREAL, Homer Taylor, 183 St. James $ 
SAN FRANCISCO, John Woodlock, ienise First St. 








Brands: 


SALINA, 
8. c., 
EBTKA. 
Manufacturers of FIRE BRICK. 
Phone 1131. 


Office Rooms 27-28 Stevenson Bidg., Pittsburg, 
s41 Sixth Avenue, Pa. 














“Royal tar” and “Scioto Star” | 
High Grade FIRE BRICK. 


Best for Rolling Mills, 
Blast Furnaces, Foundries. 
etc. High grade Plastic and 
Flint Clays for all refractory | 
purposes at favorable prices. 


The Scioto STAR Fire 
Brick Works, | 


PORTSMOUTR, 
OHIO. 


Send for 
Catalogue. 


Established 
3871. 


Inco tated 
176. 


Mark your tools with a Steel Stamp 
* . &.S RCO RRARAA 
i4 PROSPECT ST. 















Send fer Price- ‘ist No. 12. 





Cleveland Union Station. 





We are today making 
patterns for con- 
cerns which are 

most ably and shrewd- 
ly managed. 

Many of the so- 

called ‘‘ Trusts” 

find it economical 

to have their pat- 

terns made by us. 

Keep down expenses— 
Don’t be buncoed 


THE COBEILLE PATTERN CoO., 
Cleveland, Ohio. 





THE “CLEARFIELD” FIRE BRICK 


MANUFACTURED BY 


The Clearfield Fire Brick Co., Limited, 


Office and Works at Room 418 Ferguson Bidg., 
CLEARFIELD PA. PITTSBURG, PA., John Richardson, Agent, 











Jos. Soisson Fire Brick Co., conaeiiscitit pa. 


Manufacturers of High Grade Fire and Silica Brick for 
all Purposes. COKE OVEN BRICK A SPECIALTY. 2 








MILLETT’S PATENT 
Portable Core Oven. 


All complete and ready to put the fire in 
No one who makes small cores can afford to be without it. 


DOUBLE DOORS, | 


One closing the oven when the other is open. 


SAVES FUEL. SAVES TIME. 


Send for Circular. 


Millett Core Oven Co,, Brightwood, Mass. 


The ovens can be seen in the sample rooms of the S, 
Obermayer Co., either in Cincinnati or Chicago, and in 








the show rooms of J. W. Paxson & Co., Philadelphia. 
English Agents, J. W. Jackman & Co., 39 Victoria St., 
London, S. W. 
































ennsylvania Lines 


Foot of Bank Street. 


TrIcKET Orrices at Union Station, Euclid Av. and 
foodland Av. Stations. 
New City Ticket Office, No.1 Euclid Av., Cor. Public Sq. 
ROUGH TRAINS RUN AS FOLLOWS BY CENTRAL TIME 
*Daily. tDaily except Sunday. 











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or drilling deep test holes in ANY formation—gravel, bqulsesp and 
rock. Pn 4,6, 8or the Sustiner drills at size in rock, and 
Produ at the Su ce Eve n 

Tests for gold lead zine, Surface &) joryehi 1S Fou nde to 
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complete 

Write for full information and catalogue. 


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BEAVER FALLS PA., Us. 











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Akron, Columbus, & Cin........ ‘8:10am  *s:g0 pm 


Indianapolis & St. Louis...... *S:1oam  *s5:50 pm 
Millersburg & Columbus...... fi:2zopm  fispm 
Col., Cin., Ind., & St. Louis... *7:20 pm 7:30am 








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STITCHED COTTON DUCK BELTING, 


Especially adapted for Main Drivers, Saw Mills, Cotton Gins, Cotton 
Presses, and for all places where beits are subjected to moisture or 
atmospheric changes. the :-GANDY.’’ stands paramount, 

For further information, prices, etc., write 


THE CANDY BELTINC CO., Baltimore, Md. 























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M. A. Hanna 
& Co., 


Iron Ore, Pig Iron 
and Coal. 


Inspected ae I ron 


That's strong—that’s 

fluid—that’s uniform 

—that’s soft. 
CLINTON 
HECTOR 


Originated and made 
only by us. Write or 
wire for prices. 


“ian | CLINTON IRON & STEEL CO. 


CLEVELAND, OHIO. FURMACES Ano oemenac ornices. 


TOD, STAMBAUGH & CO. 
IRON ORES. 


206 Perry-Payne Building, - - CLEVELAND, 0. 








! .’ 
PIG IRON. Fed Ryo or pig. > Ssh 
HICKMAN, WILLIAMS & CO., Exclusive Agents. 


The Rookery, CHICAGO. American National Bank Bidg., LOUISVILLE. 
Tel. Harrison 1113, 








PicKkands, Brown @ Co., 


PIG IRON, IRON ORE AND FRICK COKE. 
CHICAGO. 











Rhate. Bartow @ Ge.. | 
IRON ORE and PIG IRON. 


515°516 Perry-Payne Blidg., CLEVELAND, O. 








OGLEBAY, NORTON & CO., +: Lake Superior Iron Ores. 


AGENTS 


THE SPANISH-AMERICAN IRON CO., Santiago, Cuba. 
CLEVELAND. +« + = PHILADELPHIA. 





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JEROME KEELEY & CO. 


Established 18609. 
421 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 


Pig Iron, Iron Ores and Coke. 


Consulting Engineers in Me irg@y Blooms, Muck Bars, 








Alabama Consolidated Coal & Iron Co., 


BIRMINCHAM, ALA. 


Manufacturers of the Celebrated Brands of Foundry Iron: 
This iron is specially adapted to thin, strong castings 


ALSO 


Miners and Shippers of HIGH CRADE STEAM COAL 


AND 


Makers of the Well-known “‘ STANDARD" FOUNDRY COKE. 
Selling Agents for the North and West. 


MATTHEW ADDY & CO., Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburg, Philn- 
delphia, New York. 


MOBILE COAL Co., Agents for Coal and Coke in Mobile territory. { 
Near 











‘NH OOnTLANO STREET 







AMYVILLE-YOUGHIOGHENY GAS COAL CO. | 
Operating the Celebrated “‘Amyville’’ Mines on Yougteeane’ River, ( 
B. & O. = =~ bw — Katie’’ Mines at Bridgeville { 

& St. L. Ry. (Pan Handle). ‘ 

PITTSBURG & YOUGHIOGHENY GAs, STEAM & DOMESTIC — { 
General Offices: Iron Exchange Bldg. - PITTSBURG ( 














CABEEN & CO., 


Real Estate Trust Bullding, PHILADELPHIA. 


STEEL BILLETS AND SLABS, BOTH BESSEMER AND ores HEARTH, 
PIG IRON, MANUFACTURED STEEL, & 


Lenmmeninael 












CRERAR, CLINCH & CO.,, 


The Rookery, CHICAGO, 
Pig Iron, Iron Ore, Coal and Coke. 








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Ss J. H. DIMMICK @ CO. 
Pig Iron, Steel and Coke. 


DREXEL BLDG. PHILADELPHIA, PA. 


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PODS 


McKEEFREY & CO.. 
Pig Iron, Coal & Coke. 


LEETONIA, OHIO. 
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We make PIG IRON. 


Foundry, Malleable, Bessemer. 
LET US QUOTE YOU PRICES. 


The Columbus Iron & Steel Co., 


COLUMBUS, Oro. 


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LANE SUPERIOR CONSOLIDATED IRON MINES, 
Higb Grade Missabe Ores. 


Adams, Ainslie, Duluth, Hibbing, Hartley, Linwood 
and Pillsbury Mines. 


; OGLEBAY, NORTON & CO., Sales Agents, CLEVELAND, OHIO. § 


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PIG IRON. 
SPEARMAN IRON COMPANY, Sharpsville, Pa. 


Inspected Foundry Irons. 
Softness, Strength, Fluidity, Uniformity. 


AMERICAN SCOTCH BRAND UNEQUALED. 


HENDERSON & TRAGO, Agents, Cleveland, 0. 











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THE IRON TRADE REVIEW October 31, 1901 


54 


Ghe VULCANUS FORGING C0.,.  ™“opern 


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CLEVELAND, O. | FOUNDRY PRACTICE, 


DEALING WITH THE 
Green-sand, Dry-sand and Loam 
Molding Processes; the Materi. 
als used; also Detailed Descrip- 
tions of the Machinery and other 
| Appliances Employed. 

With Practical Examples and Rules, 
| By JOHN SHARP. 


Upset Rods, English Engineering and Foundry Manager, 








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| practice in his particular art. In addition the 
author has endeavored to make the best use of 
Good Boo ks to M4 ave. the more important matter and illustrations in. 
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which the publishers have decided not to reissue. 
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