Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1895 — Mi Is Resuming Work and Erected. [ARTICLE]

Mi Is Resuming Work and Erected.

The Missouri furnaoa company of St. Louie, Missouri, ii completing extensive repairs to its furnace*, end will blow in one of its two ateoks the premat month. Foundry and Beseemer pig iron will be made. An application will be nude for e charter for the Shenango furnace company of Greenville, Pennsylvania, with a capital stock of $200,000. The oompsny will ereot a large blast furnace at Gresnvil e. The OonnellsvUle coke maker* are getting closer together, and expeot to have their organisation completed wlthiu e short time. All oontraots will have e labor olanse, providing for an increase of 2 cents e ton for ooko for every advanoe of 1 oent in mining 100 bushels of ooal. Demand fob Fobqe Ibon. The Standard oii company has given otice that hereafter it will not reooive or nee sheet steel in the construction of Its tanks, ours, pipes, eto. This will greatly inore •se the demand for form pig iron for puddling, as the Stenderdis e large consumer or iron for the purpose mentioned. I The starting up of many rolling mills equipped for the manufacture of muok bar. eoms of wbioh have been idle two or three yarn, has naturally oreated a big demand for forgo iron suitable for puddl ng purposes. Inquiries for iron for this purpose received in a single day recantly by a leading soother* company exceeded 20.000 tone. The Illinois steel oompany of C ioego haa leased for two years, with the option of pnrohase, the plant of the Corning steel oompany at Hammond, Indiana. It will run the mills to their fullest capacity fora the production of light sheets. The Westingbousc air-brake works at Wilmerdlng, Pennsylvania, are running with a larger foroe at present than for many months. The Keystone iron works of Bending, Pennsylvania, which have been Idle three years, resum' d operations Jnne 10, giving employment to 126 person', The Borne cotton tie oompany at West Borne, Georgia, i to resume work ut its mill and manufacture cotton ties. The mill has been closed two years. Beyfsrt's rolling mill at Gibrslter, Pa., which has been idle for two years, wilt resume work this month; this firm will employ 300 men. • No. 2, open-hearth furnaoe of the Pennsylvania steel oompany, at Steelton, Pa , having a capacity of fifteen tons, has resumed after an idleness which began in Ootobor, No. 1 furnaoe has also resumed.

Will Employ 200 Men. 'J he American steel easting oompany, which controls the Norristown steel company’s plant, has desidsd to resume work at that place This will give employment to al.out 200 men. The works have been idle over a year The oompany baa deelttied •■lividendof 34 per cent, to ita preferred stockholders; the oompany owns slants wt Jhurlow. Pittsburg, Sharon, ennsvlvauii; Alliance, Ohio; Byraonse, New York, and Norristown, Pa All are in bnt Byraonse and Norristown, and the increase in the volume of business justifies the opening of the latter. The Union steel and iron oompany, of Yonngstewn, Ohio, recently started up its puddling f urnaoes at Girard, that state, after having been idle for a long time The plant is now in operation in all departments. Ground has been broken for a new rod mill at Joliet, 111. The Sheffield coul, iron and steel oompany, with a capital of $750,000, composed of Pennsylvania and Tennessoe capitalists, has been organized at Sheffield, Alabama, and has acquired blast furnaces with a S' paoity of 450 tons a day, 70 000 acres of mineral lands f 300 ooks ovens at Jasper, Alabama, and the Gamble and Carbon valley coal mines, The Hyde Park, Pennsylvania, iron and steel company will soon pnt its mill in operation. A oompany has been formed at New Castle, Pennsylvania, for the manufacture of tubes for bicycles and boiler flues of steel drawn oold without welding. The capacity of the plant will be 4,000,000 feet of tubing yearly, and about 160 men men will be employed. Meobinery for the Valley steelworks at Alexandria, Indiana, has bean reoeived and the plant will be ready for operation soon. Employment will be famished for about 800 men.

At Gbanite City, 111, The immense steel works whioh the St Louis stamping company Is ereoting at Granite City, Illinois, are fast nearing completion. Two twenty-five-ton furnaces are almost completed, whioh, when running full, will have a oapacity of 100 tons per day bix additional furnaces are contemplated. The new tin-plate ylant of the La Belle iron works at Wheeling, W. Ya., was put in operation (last week. The new plant of the Ohio river sheet and tin-plate company at Remington station, Pennsylvania, has been completed. Operations will be begnn about July 15. It is expeoted that the plant of tne Frankfo t steel forge works at Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, will be completed and in operation by July 1. The plant will employ 50 to 100 men. Enoch Stanford, of Middletown, Indi a na. has closed a contract with t e Muskegon chamber oi commeroe of Muskegon, Michigan, to take the Mnakegon rolling mill eompany’s old plant andeoavert it into a tin-plate mill.

William Griffin ot Jr*it sharp, Pennsylvania, who *»■ one of the first to enter into the tin-plat* bnaineai, will eoon eommenoe the erection of e new plant at North Weabington, Pennsylvania. It will ooat $160,000 and employ about 300 men. Book in Steel Billets. The ateel billet industry la experiencing a boom. Prioes are at leaat $3.26 higher than they were three months ago, and all the mule have more work on hand than they oaa take oare of. At Pittsburg the «reat Carnogie company, whose mills are the largest steel billet eapaoity of any plant in the country are re using to book any orders for delivery earlier than July, and at many other plants in that elty the same state ot affairs prevails. The Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, tinplate mill has put on a number of extra men. The Atlanta steel and tin-plate company of Atlanta, Indiana, is running two hot mills and three oold mills with a third hot mill under oontraot Every department of the Homestead steel works was running double turn last week, with the sin Je exception of the ermor platepepartment. The Bteelton w rks of the Pennsylvania steel company are orowded with orders The demand for manufactur'd as well as steel bloems and slabs is very good,! an 1 all the departments are working full time. l'ha force of thelrondale tin-plate company of Middletown, Indiana, fa to be increased by about 260 men Two extra mills hart been started. Wages Advanced. Chicago (III.) pipe works, 2,300 men, 10 per oaat.; Lewiston (Me.) cotton mills, 7 peroent.; Allentiwn(Pa.) ironworks, 10 peroent.; Knoxville(Tenn.) ironworks, 10 per cent.; Utica, (N. T.) cotton mills, 10 peroent.; Oswego (N, T.) iron works, 10 per cent.: Bessemer (Ala.) iron mill, 7,500 men, 10 per oent.