The Iron Age 1881-09-01: Vol 28 Iss 9

A Review of the Hardware, Iron and Metal Trades. Published every Thursday Morning by DAVID WILLIAMS, No. 83 Reade Street, New York. Entered at the Post Office, New York, as Second-Class Matter. Vol. XXVIUI : No. 9. Vertical Rolls for Bending Boiler Plate. We show in the accompanyiug illustra- tion, for which we are indebted to Engineer- ing, the vertical rolls for bending boiler plate used at Palmer’s Shipbuilding and Iron Company’s Works at Jarrow-on-Tyne. The use of these vertical rolls suggested itself at Jarrow at a time when the firm had under consideration the question whether they should weld their boiler plates or (beiag manufactarers of their own iron) should roll them as long as possible. In dealing with excessively long plates by the ordinary bending rolls a difficulty was experienced from the necessity of supporting the plates, and it was then suggested by their Mr. Gibbs that vertical rolls should be employed, such rolls enabling the plates to rest on their edges on the ground during the process of bending, and thus simplifying the whole operation. In accordance with this sug- gestion, a set of vertical rolls was made for the Palmer Shipbuilding and Engi- neering Company by Messrs. Scriven, of Leeds, and these rolls have ever since been in uninterrupted operation. There are, as will be seen, three rolls, two of these being at a fixed distance apart, and geared together, while the position of the third roll is adjustable in the usual way, according to the degree of curvature given to the plate operated upon. The arrange- ment for adjusting the position of the third roll is clearly shown in our engraving. The two fixed rolls are geared together, not only at their ‘upper ends as shown, but also below the bed plate, which is level with the floor of the workshop. They are also geared below the floor level to a spur wheel ona short vertical shaft, which carries a bevel wheel at its upper end, this bevel wheel being geared into by a bevel pinion fixed on a continuation of the crank shaft of the small engine by which the machine is driven, this engine being fitted with reversing gear. In the case of the rolls at Jarrow this engine is not employed, the rolls being driven from the main line of shafting by open and crossed belts. In dealing with the enormous plates now used in marine boilers, the procedure at Jarrow is as follows: The plate having been planed on the edges and punched and the lap corners planed off, is moderately heated, and is then set in the rolls to acurve marked on the floor of the shop, the arrangement of rolls enabling this to be done with great facility and exactness. As the sheet plates are thus prepared, one ring is placed above the other, and the whole bolted ready to be transferred to the drill, after which it is taken to pieces and sent to the boiler-erect- ing shop to be finally riveted togetber. For riveting, Tweddell’s hydraulic riveter is largely used. It is now the general practice at Jarrow to construct their marine boilers of ordinary size with two plates only in each ring, and instead of making ordinary boilers three rings in length, they are now com- mencing to make them in two rings, the number of longitudinal butts being thus reduced to four instead of twelve, as for- merly, while apart from the connections with the ends, there is but one circumfer- ential seam. This is a most decided ad- vance, but without the vertical arrange- ment of bending rolls it would be almost im- practicable to deal with the enormous plates which the improved system of construction necessitates. These vertical bending rolls are now being adopted in nearly ail the large works making marine boilers, und the ar- rangement is such a useful one that the fact of its having originated at the Jarrow works is well worth putting on record. In going through this boiler shop the vis- itcr has a good opportunity of seeing the size to which marine boilers are now attain- ing, there being in progress some double ended boilers 16 feet 6 inches in diameter by 20 feet long, each ring being made of three plates only. These boilers are being made wholly of steel, and they are for a working pressure of 90 pounds per square inch; each boiler when finished will weigh u0 less than 80 tons, and the two boilers are expected to supply the steam required for indicating 3000-horse power. a AND TECHNICAL, SCIENTIFIC A German—Herr Friedrich Lauterborn, of Durlach—is bringing out AN IMPROVED METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ALUMINIUM. Hitherto the process of making that metal has been expensive, because sodium had to be employed in producing it. Herr Lauter- born proposes to extract the soluble fluoride of sodium from powdered cryolite by boil- ing it with water, and then to treat the residuum—fluor calcium—by mixing it with sulphide of calcium and exposing the mix- ture to a red heat. The result will bea mixture of sulphide of aluminium and fluor calcium. The aluminium is separated by the addition of iron and subsequent exposure to a red heat, the fluor calcium acting as a flux. The reduction of sulphide of aluminium by means of iron is not new, but it could not be used until now for the manufacture of the metal, because the preparation of sul- phide of aluminium required the action of disulphide of carbon upon pure alumina—a tedious and costly operation. It is stated that by an entirely new process AN IMPROVED HECTOGRAPH has been made. The principle upon which the process depends is this, that a superficial tanning of the gelatine, in the gelatine-gly- cerine pad, makes the surface, wherever tanned or rendered insoluble, capable of taking fatty inks, while the rest of the surface rejects it. In practice, then, ordinary nutgall ink, to which a little extra tannin and extract of logwood has been added, and to transfer the writing in the ordinary manner upon the hectographic sur- face. Wherever the writing appears the surface becomes tanned, and on now apply- ing a roller with printer’s ink, the written characters alone take the latter. The pad is to be inked after each impression. It is said that 300 to 400 sharp copies can be made upon dry paper. The only material necessary, besides the hectograph, is a slab or zinc plate for spreading out the printer’s ink, asmall printer’s roller with handle, and a roll of wood or paper or rubber for press- ing the paper against the pad. MM. Cailletet and Hautefeuille, the two eminent French scientists, have determined THE DENSITY OF LIQUID HYDROGEN, OYYGEN AND NITROGEN by liquefying these gases, mixed with car- | bonic anhydride and with nitrous oxide, and basing their calculations on the assump- tion that the mixed liquids are without action on one another. The density of liquid oxygen at— 23 degrees (pressure 300 atmospheres) was found to be 0.89 from experiments with carbonic anhydride, and 0.94 from experiments with nitrous oxide ; at o degrees the numbers obtained were 0.58 and 0.65 respectively. Liquid nitrogen at — 23 degrees gave numbers corresponding with the density 0.44, while at o degrees the density was 0.37. ‘The density of liquid hy- drogen was 0.033 at — 23 degrees, and 0.025 at o degrees. Dividing the atomic weights of the three elements by the densities at — 23 degrees, the atomic volume of oxygen is found to be 17; of nitrogen, 31.8, and of hydrogen, 30.3. Major Lauer, of the Austrian Engineers, has been testing A NEW METHOD FOR BLASTING WATER, at Krems, on the Danube. The chief fea- ture of Lauer’s system is to employ a hollow cylinder, like a gas pipe, and to place the | dynamite cartridge, not as hitherto in a hole bored into the rock to be blasted, but in the cylinder in question. The cartridge only touches the surface of the rock which it is desired to shatter. The explosion of the dynamite is effected by means of electricity, and the effect is said to be greater than with the usual cartridge in a hole bored in the| rock. The rock is shattered into fragments so small that a fair stream is able to wash | them away without help, whereas in the| case of gunpowder the rock is only split up | into blocks more or less large and trouble- | ROCKS UNDER it is | only necessary to have a perfectly level | | hectographic pad, to write the copy with | New York, Thursday, September 1, 1881. ‘some to remove. The Lauer system is calcu- lated to effect a saving of fully 40 per cent. as compared with the old system. It is stated that Messrs. W. H. Bailey & Co., of Salford, England, have just com pleted AN IMPROVEMENT OF THE ENGINE LEHMAN HOT-AIR which practically doubles its working power. The essential feature of the Lehman engine is in the difference of temperature produced at the opposite ends of the cylinder, an in- crease of cold at one end being quite as economical as an increase of heat at the other. In Messrs, Bailey’s improved engine, by an ingenious alteration of the water spaces at the cold end a more rapid conden- sation of the air has been effected, while a greater heating surface has been secured at the retort end. a rc Early Iron Making on the Tyne. Mr. I. Lowthian Bell gives the following sketch of the history of the iron industry on the Tyne: The cheapness of fuel ard the easy access to the Thames from the Tyne were the probable causes which induced Ambrose | Crowley, a citizen of London, to establish VERTICAL BOILER PLATE BENDING ROLLS. |ironworks in 1690 at Winlaton, near this town, where different articles, including nail rods made by the slitting mill, were manufactured. Iron was a very much scarcer metal for long after the days of Crowley than it is in our own times, late as 1740 the make of pig iron in the United Kingdom was only 17,350 tons, and it took a furnace a week in those days to run as much as a modern Middlesborough furnace does in two hours, So recently as the be- ginning of the present century, Swedish bars were imported into the Tyne and con- verted into slit-rods, so that itis not unlikely | process, by means of which phosphoriferous | polychromes. that Sweden also furnished the raw mate- ;rial for the Winlaton Works, founded in 1690. Before the early part of the eigh- teenth century every morsel of iron used in the arts was drawn under the hammer, To a certain John Hanbury is ascribed the in- vention at that time of rolling iron plates by | means of cylinders. This idea remained | without further application until 1783, when Cort patented the rolling of bars by the | means suggested by Hanbury. For a long | time, however, the process was confined to | making flat or square bars ; indeed, Mr. Jos. | Laycock, of Gosforth, remembers in his youth men working many a long day in forging squares into rounds, probably 30 years after the date of Cort’s invention, Mr. Bell re- members the late William Longridge in- |forming him of the elation of his firm at Bedington, when they succeeded in turning out a boiler plate weighing 2% cwt., and long after that day plates weighing 3 cwt., or more than 3 feet wide, were charged an extra price on account of the difficulty attending their manufacture. Now, plate rollers send out their iron in pieces weigh- ing about 11 cwt., wH&hout classifying them as extraordinary sizes, smelted on the Tyne, at Lemington, about the year 1812. ‘The late Mr. Clayton Atkin- son gave the particulars of the cost of man- ufacture in the year 1812, which amoufated to 105/6 per ton. Nearly 2% tons of coke were used in the operation, equal, all in- | cluded, to about 5 tons of raw coal, with a make of 49 tons per week from one furnace. Small rolling mills were erected at Leming- | ton, and by Hawks & Co., at Gateshead, for working up old scrap iron, and larger works were afterward built by Losh Wilson & Bell, in 1827, at Walker, where the pro- cess of puddling iron was first practiced on the banks of the Tyne. Probably no manu facture has, during the last so years, made greater advance in the direction of economy than has the iron trade. Previous to the introduction of the hot blast, and partly owing to a very wasteful mode of coking, as much as 10 tons of coal was occasionally consumed in Scotland for the production of aton of pig iron. Thirty years ago, when the first blast furnaces were built at Mid- dlesbrough, this rate of consumption had (been reduced to about 4 tons. After the lapse of a dozen years, by a gregt increase in the capacity of their furnaées, by the use of more highly heated air than that hitherto employed, and by the application Wie se ere TR SRE of the furnace gases to the steam boilers and to the hot blast stoves, the north coun try ironmasters had further reduced this to something under two tons of coal, while the make per furnace had been increased from 140 to 500 tons per week. To a Middlesbrough firm, Messrs. Bolckow, Vaughan & Co., under the able guidance of Mr. E. Windsor Richards, the great iron industry of the present generation is indebted for its last act of amelioration. | This observation refers of course to the} successful application of the so-called basic iron, like that of Cleveland, is capable of being employed in the Bessemer converter. The rolling machinery of the firm just mentioned has kept pace with the other | improvements referred to, for out of one rail mill driven by two pairs of reversing engines, the invention of Mr. John Rams- bottom, and representing a power of 8000 horses, above 3600 tons of rails, in lengths of go feet, have been produced in one week, The manufacture of steel appears to have been carried on in the vicinity of Newcastle for upward of 300 years, first, it is believed by some Germans who settled at Shotley Bridge toward the close of the seventeenth | century. Notwithstanding the cheapness | of coal and the convenience of Newcastle | as a port for receiving Swedish iron and for | exporting the products, Newcastle never attained any eminence as a steel manufac- turing center. Nevertheless the house of Spencer has distingnished itself by the} quality of its products in crucible and other | varieties of steel, to which in recent years | they have added a large trade in steel made in the regenerating furnace of Siemens, Pig iron was first | Single Copies, Zen Cenzs. The Cable Steamer Paraday. The cable steamer Faraday, which is now employed in laying the second Atlantic eable from Cornwall, England, westward, has on board a thorough equipment for special work. | A correspondent writes : | As youknow, the Faraday, after the Great | Eastern, is one of the largest vessels afloat, being 305 feet long, 52 feet beam and 30 feet deep. She is so deep, in fact, that whenever she lies in the Thames they have todiga crad!e for her at Woolwich in the river bottom to float her. The wonderful speed with which she does her work is due to |the perfection of her equipments. She is fitted up with electric lights of two pat terns. Her deck is lighted with the new Siemens light, of the effects of which on the ocean, even Lefore it had attained its pres- | ent perfection, Mr. Laurence Oliphant gave you such a striking description after his voyage home in the Faraday three years ago Her main saloon is lighted with the Swann electric light. Thanks to this perfect illumina | tion, the men on board can work night and | day with equal ease, and such is the excellent adjustment of her machinery that it makes | little difference to her what the weather may be or the rolling of the sea. She has three | cable tanks—fore, aft and amidships—filling the whole width of the ship. These are of iron and are water tight, and they are so arranged that as fast as the cable 1s paid out water can be taken in as ballast to steady the ship. The cable is coiled into the bottom of the tanks from the inside to the outside It is paid out in reverse order from the out- side to the inside. The bight of the cable is brought up through a kind of cage called a crinoline, passed over a revolving wheel, carried along down a shoot astern about 30 feet in length, and then passed between three sets of superposed wheels, which act either as drags to retard or spurs to accelerate the paying out of the cable, acoording to circum- stances. Emerging from these, the cable is passed three times around an 8-foot drum, whence it goes to a dynamometer fixed about 30 feet further astern. From this it is carried over the stern of the vessel by a wheel so rigged as to pay the cable out at any angle. When the weather is very rough they take an extra bight in the cable from the drum and carry it forward about 100 feet through another triple set of wheels and another dynamometer. This prevents any sudden strain from snapping the cable. The drum acts as a brake and an automatic recorder, which gives the amount of strain on the cable as it passes over, and the strain can be so regulated as to secure a uniform slack not varying far from 5 per cent, a NE em — A recent communication to the French Academy of Sciences announces a new method of taking photographs in coior, which, although it is not a solution of the prime problem for photographers, how to produce nature in her own hues, is at least some mechanical approach to it. It is the invention of MM. Ch. Cros and J. Carpen- licr, and consists in taking three separate photographs of the red, yellow and blue tints, then combining them. Three negatives of the object are first taken, one through a screen of orange liquid, one through a screen of green liquid, and one through a screen of violet. The varying opacities and trans }parencies of these negatives indicate the relative qualities of red, yellow and biue | tints in the object. The proofs are taken ou plates of glass, coated with coagulated albumen, which has imbibed bichromate of ammonia. \ first photograph, is applied to one of these, and exposed for some minutes to a diffused light, so that the transparencies and opacities of the negative shall imprint themselves on the sensitive albumen. The proof plate is then plunged into a coloring bath, and in the parts protected by the opacities of the negative the coloring matter spreads and fixes itself. By repeating this operation with the three different negatives the three colors are combined on one glass plate, and a fair imitation of the original object is the result. Of course, for the image obtained through the green screen the coloring bath is red, for that through the orange screen blue, and that through the violet screen yellow. transparent negative, or Lhe same screens and pigments serve to reproduce all sorts of The screens hitherto used are glass vessels filled with solutions of chloride of cobalt, chromate of potash and sulphate of copper. When the electric light is used the screen is put before the lamp, so that the object will be illuminated by a monochromatic Mght and photographed in the ordinary way. The Birmingham correspondent of the Engineer writes as follows: American buy ers of hoops would seem to have made up their minds that English prices are likely to continue to rise makers annource this week that they are in r ceipt of commu- nications from United ers offering to take the whole of their next year’s output. But such offers meet with no acceptance. Although it is left with makers to name a reasonable price, they refuse to entertain the idea; for they are already sold as far forward as for the present they care to be. Prices remain at about £6. 1 to £6. 15/ at the works for ordinary sorts, though common sorts can be had as low as £0, the marked iron firms, however manding £8, Some States conpsuu » Ue- §2°50 a rear, Including Fostaga Ve = Bs DU we > - ~ we a = “Eh Stee = = 2 =~ >“ “eee. ~—_ = = _ —— = o- - 8 et a ~~ a Ba ” a _ TERE LS eee September 1, 1881, 0 ianiapsen factals. Bice, ere. FRetals. ANSO A L A | : ThePlume & Atwood PHILIP L MOEN, President a 4 Treasurer. CHAS. F. WASHBURN, Vice Prosident & aecretay BRASS & COPPER CO., sit. Company, WASHBURN & MOEN mney cele CO, Betadtiones 1831 : i OROseTeR, mass. No, 19 Cligt Str set, Pbelps Building, NEW YORK. MANUFACTURERS OF BRASS AND COPPER: Waterbury Brass Co, MANUFACTURERS OF SHEET and ROLL BRASS and WIRE, OAPITAL, - - $400,000. : eT Sheets, Bolts, Rods, Wire, &c. Sheet, Roll and Platers’ Brass. German vigor and Gilding Metal Seamless Brass & Copper CERMAN SILVER, Copper Rivets and Burs, Tubing. Copper, Brass and German Silver Wire, BRASS AND COPPER TUBING, Ansonia Corrugated Stove Platforms.! a, PURE COPPER WIRE | COPPER RIVETS & BURS, For Electrical Purposes, Bare and Covered. BRASS KE = 7 Phosphor Bronze Rods for Pumps, &c. | Door Rail, Brass — | PERCUSSION CAPS, ANSONIA Yr REFINED | POWDER FLASKS, ___INCOT COPPER Metallic Eyelets, Shot Pouches, Tape Measures, &e. ciiceaagtipiialigmeteitineiamatant ~ And small Brass Wares of every Description. ae Metal in Sheets or Shells a Specialty. PHELPS, DODGE & C0.) =a 5 Capewell Mfg. Co.’s Line of Sport- IMPORTERS OF ing Goods and Wood’s Paper Shot Shells. TIN PLATE, | pEPoTs: Mills At WATERBURY Eerosene Burners, Lamp Trimmings, &c.| Mm 18 Murray Street, New York. 13 Federal Street, Boston. 109 Lake Street, Chicago. Rolling Mill, Factories, THOMASTON, Ct.| WATERBURY, Ct. Bridgeport Brass Co., MANUFACTURERS OF Sheet and Roll Brass, MANUFACTURERS OF IRON and STEHEIL. wv IRE, ‘iecailaeaicis ofa rs ares sey Fencing, Patent Steel Wire Bale Ties. und Iron. vee lity, 8-16 in. MTERE C BORicik Ge rch a wise Wire. ae and Stone Ein pr to Pattern for partion ‘ular purposes, f f oe farnishna, aled, Bright, Polished. co _— ig selected stamps of Norway [ror vanized BSiraigntened and Cut to any ae hn Beech at nell ine Wire, Tetent Linen finish. On rivaled Neel Music | 296 Broadway, New York, , : : IN PLATE, Wire. Steel Wire for Springs, Needies asd Dit ar eel Wire n a eas ae | 189 Eddy St., Providence, R. 1. Conn, Brass & Copper Wire & Tubing,| Wire ouse 91 ci qaruawe Be ait Waraiiie Venere - ’ a German Silver Metal and Wire Copper and Iron Rivets. OILERS and CUSPADORES, { LAMPS and TRIMMINGS, LANTERNS and TRIMMINGS, | KEROSENE BURNERS, Clocks & Fly Fan Movements. | PLUMBERS’ MATERIALS. Particular attention paid to cutting out Blanks and manufacturing Metal Goods. MANUFACTORY, WAREHOUSE, Bridgeport, Conn. 19 Murray S8t., N. ¥. THOS. W. FITCH, Prest. t. and Treas. A. A. LASAR, Secy. Sheet Iron, Copper, Pig Tin, Wire, Zino, ue. Detroit Copper & Brass MANUFACTURERS OF COPPER AND BRASS. Rolling Mills, BRAZIERS’ AND SHEATHING COPPER, ’ scovi LL Mi FC CO ROLLED, SHEET & PLATERS' BRASS —_—-+— GERMAN OR NICKEL SILVER, BRASS, Wt HINGES, WIRE, CERMAN SILVER. Copper Rivets and Burrs, | COPPER BOTTOMS FOR TEA KETTLES AND BOILERS, | Cor. Larned & Fourth Sts., Detroit, Mich, | “NATIONAL WIRE AND LANTERN WORKS.” Warehouse, 45 Fulton And California Wire Works Ss treet, New x0 rk. Manufactory, Nos. 119 1199, 1208, 1203, 1205, 120%, 1209 and razr De Kalb Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y HOWARD & MORSE, MANUFACTURERS OF BRASS, COPPER & IRON WIRE CLOTH, Heavy Relies Cloth for Malt Kiln Floors. Wire Work and Guards. Alec, Hand and Railroad Lanterna ? "9 PHOTOGRAPHIC GOODS. -_+>- — BUTTONS, THE NEW HAVEN —-—" cron, | COPPER CO., Nursery Fender. ST. LOUIS, MO.. DEPOTS, FACTORIES, | = + terch ae Se : ects ton | 255 Pearl Street, New York. 2 183 Lake St. 100 Lahn he Cla New York Gy. | Manutactarers of and Dealers in id a Ka DICKERSON, aN USEN & CO, Braziers’ & Sheathing 7 i bi i Ba Plain Garden Arch. Tin Plate, Pig Tin: Sheet lron, Cooper, COPPER. a. eee a Me Tale No. 2 Semicircle, Wire, Zinc, Etc. rivets, | Holmes, Booth & Haydens, ——— esciecae 29 & 3) CUM St., cor, Fulton, Kettle Bottoms, Bolts, Circles, Rivets, ABRAM S, HEWITT, President. JAMES HALL, T DICKERSON & CO. Liverool, ss NEW YORK, Ingot Copper, Spelter, Solder, &e. Pyeng neat — : Wit, ERWETS, Vice Prostent, Sie Salt, treneecer. 49 Chambers St. 18 Federal St. TRENTON IRON COMPANY, ROME IRON WORKS, JOHN STARR, Brass, Gilding Metal, Cop- | Hardware & Metal Broker, per and German Silver | ANUFACTURERS’ AGENT, COPPER & BRASS RIVETS AND BURS. Representing in the Dominion of Canada several | American Manufacturers, is ready to accept Rome, New York. | further Agencies, Satisfactory references, A. C. NORTHROP, Waterbury, Conn., NOVELTIES IN BRASS AND OTHER METAL GOODS (INCORPORATED 1847), TRENTON, N. J.. Manufacturers of [IRON and STEELWIRE OF ALL GRADES, BRIGHT, ANNEALED, COPPERED, TINNED AND GALVANIZED: Iron and Steel Wire Rods; EXTRA QUALITIES OF BAR IRON AND RODS. Best Qualities of Gun-Screw and Charcoal Iron Wire; Crucible, Siemens-Martin and Bessemer Steel Wire. Wire Straightened and Cut to Lengths. Manufacturers of all kinds of Brass, Copper & German Silver, ROLLED AND IN SHEETS, BRASS & COPPER WIRE, Tubing, Copper Rivets & Burs. BRASS & IRON JACK CHAIN, DOOR RAIL. German Silver Spoons, SILVER PLATED FORKS & SPOONS, Kerosene Burners, &c. JOHN DAVOL & SONS, AND Halifax, Nova Scotia, New York Office, COOPER, HEWITT & CO., 17 Burling Sli Philadelphia Office, JOHN HEWITT, Agent. Horta Posts 0 St. FOR HARDWAKE TRADE. Wrought Lron and Brass Machine Screws; Turned, Hexagon, Round and Square Head Cap and Agents for Bet Screws; and Iron Safety and Jack Chain; Gilt, Nickel Plated and Bronze Trimmings of all Brooklyn Brass & Copper Co., — —- rrr a cinds. from Sheet eo m, Steel or Brass on ; Estimates on patented articles, or any description of Sheet Metal work, respectfully solicited and ers in Ingot Copper, Spelter, Lead, Tin, promptly given. WORKS ROE B LI NC’ S Antimony, Solder & Old Metals, ne aes New York Office 100 John Street, New York. For Hoisting, Running & Standing Ropes, Ferries, &¢. PASSAIC ZINC C0. pris Aether Address, HAZARD MFG. CO.. Wilkesbarrs, Luzerne Co., Pa. | Pure Spelter |FELTEN & GUILLEAUME, Carlswerk, near Cologne, Germany. Cartridge Brass, Gas Fixtures, Bones] PATENT CRUCIBLE STEEL WIRE, AND ALL FINE WORK. For Mining and Plow Ropes, Hawsers and Bridge Cables. Also for SIEMENS-MARTIN AND BESSEMER STEEL WIRE, Galvanizers & Brass Founders. Flusseisen, Swedish and German Charcoal Wire. S, GALVANIZED "TELEGRAPH WIRE a 6 Siem, Gna | Aga of Charcoal and Swedish Iron and Steel, also with high conductivity, and in long lengths. * GALVANIZED STEEL WIRE, aT AND Warehouse TRENTON, N. J. THE JOHN A, EAU SONS CO, MANUFACTURERS OF WIRE ROPE) catvameeep |Lron and Steel lron, Steel ond Copper | Telegraph Wire, | | WIRE FOR FOR Hoisting Purposes of all | Market Wire, kinds, for Ferries, Stays, 'Miarket Wire, Fence Wire G W. Pr I & C a ’ Bridge Wire, Chain Wire, 0. en Iss 8 0., For Plain, Barb and Strand Fencing, 3, qend 7 rony Mvont, Stagies, &c. Annealed and Oiled Fencing Ship Rigging, Sash Cords, ‘ ir Lightning Rods, &c., &c. } Vineyard W Fi g. Buckle Wire, Spring Wire, Suspension Bridge Cables, Rivet Wire, &c., &c. GALVANIZED WIRE CLOTHES LINES. WIRE ROF:E OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. TELEGRAPH CABLES. Contractors to the German and Foreign governments, The oldest house in the braneh on the Con tinent. Velegrapb Address, CAKLSWERK, COLOGNE, General Agents for U. 8. and Canada, PERKINS & CHOATE, 23 Nassau St, N. Ys MANUFACTURERS OF BRODERICK Ge BASCOM, MANUFA( TURERS y IRON WIRE ROPE. 728 N. Main St, A. LESCHEN Ke SON, Manufacturers of Bright, cdanasae Annealed and Tin Plated. Also GUN SCREW WIRE Of all sizes straighte ned and eut to order The Schoenberg Metal Mfg. Co., | “ee eeesuemae te socuak, =. | Va ie is ls @ ef 7 Stereotype, Electrotype ind Babbitt Botele.” Importers of Mock Tin, Antimon Refiners of Lead. Spelter. &c. Highest price paid for. Old Metals and all kinds of Dross. 528 330 . Rast 20th Sireet, between Avenues A & "B. Saw OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 919 to 923 N. Main St., ST. LOUIS, Mo. Correspondence invited. A ‘a Largest Wp rices, Lists on ap Schene ALB MO ae livered on eine at ca i: As aaa A a TT a ea THE LRON AGE, CAF ¥ aK RAORIN | Hardware in Nee Zealand, . pow tulleiik tena ® now 1; 0. LINDEMANN Manoufacturers of ? es out the Americar E ides——Moastly Amet STEEL WIRE for all ourposes and STEEL SPRINGS of every description. can, such as the Winches A special correspondent of the Ir mmonger, ) i a Neer Sen e . : > - & CO By ah a aan writing from two points in New Zealand * PC ; & ) pol New Zealand, | o . ct ; re booms rea J : gives some information about the competi- Statistics of the American Lron Trad Manufacturers of all e if, tion of American and English hardware in in 1880. kinds of that colony which will be of interest to many of our readers. Writing from Dunedin he says: “‘In New Zealand the double-furrow plows are preferred. The usnal system is for large farmers (squatters) to employ their smaller neighbors, who do the work by contract at prices varying from 4,6 toG6/an acre. It is probable these prices will create some sur- Japanned, Brass & BY JAMES M. SWANK Tin Plated BIRD CAGES. CEU LEE VEE MELEE LELEEAAEALAELL AL LED PIE Concluded PRODUCTION OF IRON AND STEEL RAILS IN LL 1830 The production of rails of all kinds in the United States in 1880 far surpassed that of enn ( dit MISSLIS STLSSS SISA AAS GO 1) a prise in England \ man with three or] gn, previous year. It reached the enormous Catalogues furnished four horses will plow per day two and a half quantity of 1,461,837 net tons, or 1,305,212 to the trade. three acres, : He does not make much by gross tons. This is 31 per cent. more than ee ——— _— SS an, the operation, but it is better than keeping sae ’ er ae aired lantion 254 Pearl St., Market Steei Wire, Crinojine Wtre, tempered and covered. himself and his horses idle. Sulky slows a rs ea ae : as ene NEW YORK. Also Patent Tempered Steel Furniture Springs, constantly on hand. are becoming popular in the colony ; it is ar o 3 on 83 cea of ines '- 7 ati 1 re 934, 236 and 238 West 29th Street, - - - - ° NEW YORE, | Claimed for these that the work is more like ical The rail pro wi ‘ of 168 oa 3 ST aan ~ 7 - |digging. As the result of conversation with composed of 954 460 net tons of B ssem ; some of the leading importers of hardware I steel rails 493,762 tops of iron 1 Pe VA L f LO & ie ivi FG C O send you the following, which I give you in| ;3 6;< some. of open-heart 1 steel r Ub s eB | good faith and ‘‘ without prejudice,” as the | ¢5¢a] “production of S880 was 348,564 ne lawyers say: Putnam’s horseshoe nails, | tong more*than that of 1879; that of Bess packed in 25-pound boxes, have the market. The Stirchley Company have sent out sample shipments ; of these the complaint is that they are clipped instead of forged, and there- fore do not realize as high a price as Put nam’s; in this part of the world hoofs are very hard in the summer, which nailmakers should bear in mind. Nettlefold’s carriage and tire bolts are reported not yet up to American, but importers believe they soon will be. English pumps, it is stated, do not work so evenly as American, and are no cheaper. Wire nails come from the Contin- ent, and I am asked why. American lightn ing hay-knives cut twice as fast as those of Sorby, Lyndon, or Tyzack, at about the same prices. Screw-wrenches, hitherto sup- plied by C. Johnson & Co., costing 4/3 dozen, are superseded by those of A. C. Coes & Co. at 1/10; at the same price it is believed the former would not be preferred. Bull holders from America, costing 4/7 dozen have taken the place of Messrs Timmins’ make at 37/9. In brass goods Birmingham is almost su- preme; lamps formerly imported largely from United States are now procured from England, the burners being superior ; but some importers are getting the heads from Birmingham and stands from America ; the better styles being the more saleable. Gil- pin’s bits, nicely packed, suit the market and keep it. Hammers have been shown me of Stowe’s make, costing 13/6, superior mer steel rails was 270,496 net tons, or per cent., more; that of iron rails was 73,002 tons, or 18 per cent., more; and that of open-hearth steel rails was 446 tons, or 49 per cent., more. The Be mer steel rail production here given inclu 36,868 net tons of rails rolled by iron ro)! iug mills mainly from imported bloom The quantity of Bessemer steel rails rolled in 1880 by the Bessemer steel makers them selves was 917,592 net tons. The production of street rails in 1 1 included in the total preduction for the yea and amounted to 16,894 net tons, of w! 8055 tons were Bessemer and open-heart steel rails, and the remainder were iro rails. The production of street rails in tho seven preceding years was as follows: 1873, 9430 net tons; 1874, 6739 tons, of which 1000 tons were Bessemer steel; 1875, 16,340 tons, of which 2308 tons were Bessem steel ; 1876, 13,086 tons, of whieh 3563 ton were Bessemer steel; 1877, 7015 tons, of which 1269 tons were Bessemer steel ; 1878, 9229 tons, ef which 1710 tons were Besse mer and open-hearth steel ; 1879, 8646 tons, of which 5813 tons were Bessemer and open hearth steel. The production of iron and steel rails this country since the beginning of the ma ufacture of Bessemer steel rails has been follows, in net tons: Office and Works, STANYMERORD, CONN. Salesrooms, * 63 Chambers Street, New York, 36 Pearl Street, Boston, SO7 Market Street, Philadelphia. G4 Lake Street, Chicago. This Advertisement is Changed Kvery Week. BROWN & BROTHERS, 81 Chambers St., N. Y. Waterbury, Conn. Manufacturers of BRASS, COPPER AND GERMAN SILVER, dn Sheets, Rolls, Rods, Wire, Tubing, Rivets and Burs, Etc. ALSO, _ Seamless Brass & Copper Tubing. PATENTED SEAMLESS BRASS AND COPPER HOUSE BOILERS, warranted to stand 200 Ibs. GAUTIER STEEL DEPARTMENT OF THE CAMBRIA IRON COD. in style and finish to those of Atkins & Son A. pressure and guaranteed against vacuum. ? at 17/. The trade for picks is returning to 33 England, but axes, I need hardly mention 4 = ' PATENTED SPRING TEMPERED SHANK, = Te » ’ J >| Years. [* Iron Rails, Bessemer! Tota SILVEK-PLATED, FLAT TABLE WARE, in rich JOHNSTO WwW N - ee ne eee ae Fi all kinds. Steel Rails es . J Se i . =D com [They are considered somewhat awkward, ei GERMAN SILVER SPOONS AND FORKS. PEN N, and do not meet with a ready sale. Import- | 1367... 459.558 2,550 a6, PHILIP E. CHAPIN, Gen’! Sup’t. ers who have read the letter of Messrs. | 1868.. sree 490089 7,225 sof Mawhood in your issue of February 1g are, | *:°9 *} 583,036 9,950 : S i ? he 37 cece 86,000 0 20, POPE, COLE & Co. after their past experience, somewhat in- aan. : a 33. . 975.7 credulous. If English makers are really in | 1372. 905.930 94,07 : ; & position to compete they would be wise to | '873- | 768,062 309,015 | 590,07 . 3 . > 1874 | §84.469 144.9044 | 729.4! send out specimens with lowest prices. Par- | 25. : $01,649 anatee | San.es ticular attention should be paid to the han- | 1876 | 467,268 412,461 879,629 dies and to the packing. Disston’s saws wary w= "| 338540 432,109 764,709 meet with a limited sale. Ames’s shovel | {;7.° pga! ae 883 oes ae may be stated to monopolize the market ; } :880.....! 13,615 493.762 954.460 | 1.461.837 5 ul report says that English makers admit they | ~~~ : - Included in the eolumun of iron rails are a few tons of crucible steel rails and stee! headed rails, which it has not been thought necessary to classify separately. No crucible rails have been made since 1874, and but few tons in that or in any preceding year The production of both the classes of rails mentioned was as follows in 1873 and 1874 1873, 26,377 net tons; 1874, 17,181 tons. The production of steel-headed rails in t last six years has been as follows: 1875, Io, cannot produce at the same prices. Where prices are given it may be considered that the American are recent, the-English some time back. Being generally old stock, the prices are the cost here, including all charges into store. Iron and steel being cheaper in England than in America, how is it that in articles made from these metals the trade is so largely with the latter country? This is 1 question frequently asked. Under another cover I send you the prices current of a | No. 57 South Gay St., BALTIMORE, MD., Have always on hand and for sale INGOT COPPER, Also Cakes, of unequaled purity and toughness. OULDING SAND, Albany Sand a Specialty. IRON ROOF CRESTING. Y., made all the steel headed rails that o made in 1879 and 1880, using ‘‘ silicon to; Hon. Joseph Nimmo, Jr., Chief of tho Bureau of Statistics, states that in the vear which ended December 31, 1880, there were about 65,c00 net tons of steel blooms in ported into the United States. They were valued at $1,708,100. The production of 1880, large as it was will be exceeded in 1881. Not only does t! heavy demand for rails continue, but t facilities for their manufacture are b largely increased. The new works of th Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Compan ited, at Homestead, which were starts March -g of this year, are maki: The Bessemer steel works of the ( Coal and Iron Company and the m works of the North Chicago Rol! WEATHER VANES, leading New York export firm for January | 436 net tons; 1876, 12,791 tons; 1877, 5844 : Tower Ornaments, &. and April. It will be observed there are|tons; 1878, 2288 tons ; 1879, go31 t / Alen considerable variations. 1880, 12,730 tons _The Elmira Iron and ; j Writing from Wellington, he says: ‘‘I]|Steel Rolling Mill Company, at Elmira, N have gone into the question of English and Ameriegan goods here again, and am told by the best houses in the trade that the actual state of affairs is about as appended: Elec- tro-plated cruets—American, such as Reed & Barton’s, at $2.25 to $4, are preferred. Axes, hatchets—American niakes, say, Col- lins, Hunt, Sharp, Simmons, Weed, Hurd, &c., have the trade. Adzes, whether rail road, square-head, ship carpenters’, spur- head, coopers’, or otherwis¢ —English makes have the preference, and, all things consid ered, are found the best. Picks for railway or mining uses—United States makers have the bulk of the business, except adze-eye picks and mattocks, in which lines English firms, especially Messrs. Parkes, are regain ing ground formerly lost. Shovels—Ameri- van preferred, and have best sale. Spades Wrought Iron Fence, For Residences, Court Houses, Cemetery Lots, &c. IRON SHUTTERS, WINDOW GUARDS, Balcony Railing, &c. Parties wanting work in this line will be furnished illustrated catalogue and price list upon application. Manufactured by E.T. Barnum’s Iron and Wire Works, Shovels, Riddles, Brushes, &c. WHITEHEAD BROS, WM. WHITEHEAD, Treas., AMERICAN FACING CO. are FIRE SAND AND CLAYS. J. A. EMERICK. HOWARD EVANS. MN === 1056 & 1076 Beach Street, vas PHILADELPHIA, —Englis se reely oes—Trade | Company robably manufacture 1 Detroit Mich ee English sell most freely. Hoes—Trade|Company will proba if re, ee ; - mae = MAN FRS’ FOUNDRY FACINGS, runs about two-thirds English and — third | before the close of the year. Near And Dealers in and shippers of all descriptions American. Forks, rakes, &c.—A Ameri the other Bessemer steel works a unt er can, some of the garden rakes being of |ing their capacity for the manufa : MOLDING SANDS d F d S lj steel, Scythes—Mostly English. Hammers | rails, and the effect of their enlarg : Manufacturer of an oun ry Uf i ies. and other carpenters’ tools—Largely Eng- | ity will be noticeable before the yea: : lish. Chisels (firmer)—Trade about equally | Iron-rail mills were actively emy Cajentes Shane, Steer Satay a —————————————________ en divided. Augers—English, chiefly Messrs. ] ng the first half of the year, and ~ ie and Japanned Gilpin’s, have the market. Braces and bits] cases were running on steel ra ro 2 | nn —Americans have quite cut out the English. | imported blooms, or from blooms fw 4 HHH BIRD CAGES Ser rd sre s l irs k "eg Euglial hy domestic steal kers R rew-drivers and drawing knives suglish | by dom ! | maker . a j Established 1810. makes have the market, the American [he following table will show . r ; ; ages sort being designated| mately the consumption of ra , sted for ex- goods of thes rts 4 ( , _cptvabea ny mere rubbish—Saws of all kinds—Disston’s untry from 1367 in 3 port shipments, ‘‘Great American-tooth saw” sells best > 7lace Rules—English;: Messrs. Rabone’s make ‘ - ome Eeaee have recovered the market. Levels—Amer a3 Im aw TORE. g é y ican are considered best. l'ry-squares, iene ot e anes inds—English goods have the 7 a3 Largest variety in patterns and unsurpassed in planes of all kind “Eng lish go i ive tl si - : low prices, New Illustrated Catalogues and Price market entirely. Grindstone hangings- . a I Ants on appleation. as All American. Saw sets—English (Winn’s) ~ P . have the market Wrenches—American | , - § h j § d C preferred, Rim and mortise locks—Ameri- | 18 ‘ 2 C enectady Molding an 0. Manufacturers, Importers and Dealers in ean sell best, and are recommended by the 1869 local architects Horse nails—Putnam’s | (2°) i ALBANY AND SCHENECTADY 00D AND REGULAR SIZES have an increasing sale. Belting and bands | 3872 os eee MOLDING SA NI —English goods are recovering the trade, | 73 0717 | 99 dclivered on cars or boats at low rates. | All erades the American belts being too soft. Pruning | | + s f ; guaranteed. All orders will receive prompt atten- ghears—Henry’s sell best for sheep’s hoofs. | 1372 t Address, J. G. GREENE, Sec., x mere— large trade, abcut equal. | 1877 4 22 Wall St., SouENECTADY, N. Y. Can openers A larg rele, a L eq +877 G. S. Vegper, Pres; J. G. GREENE, Sec. and Treas. * Sad irons and charcoal iron—English made - i i fe r Black and Galvanized Sheet Iron, Metals, Wire, Copper, by Messrs. Salter and Mesers 1 — C. | 1880 4 ‘ The Morris Sash Lock Mfg. Co., Stamped Ware, Registers, &c. Clarke, are prefer red, and both have beaten of the Americans. Elliptic carriage springs— The figures of approxima eet English preferred. Axles—A!most ex lu- | for 1880 are too high, alt 1oux The Morsis fash Leck, : = —|sively American, Carriage an 1 tire bolts~-] years we think they are substan American sell best, because the nuts are/In 1880 we imported 132,459 better fitted. Hand pumps—American have | iron rails and 153,230 tons ¢ the market. Rubber hose—English. Scales} ef which are counted in the approxi and weighing machines—English (Messrs.{consumptien of the year. But there re Pat. Combined sash Lift & Lock, WOOD, JENNISON & CO.,_ Pat, Self-Locking Shutter Bar, nan uildere? Hardware. Manufacturers of SHAFTING, PULLEYS AND HANGERS—A Specialty, 116 oo 216 no sTeenT, CneMMAT oHi0, U. &, A,| Also, Wood’s Patent Bolt Threading Machine. aiampaaean Sides. ~~ 7.“ “Sei. —™= \ = rr ome ' ‘ Xvron. Xvon. NEW YORK. NEW YORK. JGDEN & WALLACE, A. B. Warner & Son, JOHN W. QUINCY & CO., $5, 87,89 & ¥1 Elm St., New York. IRON MERCHANTS, t ron an d Stee 28 & 29 West and 52 Washington Sts. Of every description kept in stock. _ BOILER PLATE, Agents for Park Brother & Co.'s BLACK DIAMOND STEEL.) ®etier Tubes, Angie, Tee & Girder tren, | Boller and Tank Rivets. Sole Agents for the celebrated -|“Kureka,” ?P IERSON & 00. “Wawasset,” Lukens, 24 Broadway, New York City. Iron & Steel, "™ ssa, eo ms — sizes of Cast and Machinery Steel constantly Brands of Iron. Alsoal: descriptions of Plate, Sheet, Lead. and Gasometer Iron. Special attention to Locomotive Iron. _Fire Bes Iron 4 specialty. COMMON & REFINED IRON, Hoops, Rods, Scrolls, Bands, Ovals, ores Shoe Irc ualfty of Iron branded J.G. All pudd Horse Shoe, Nail Rods, duced by hammer. Orders may be sent to the Bill or Steel. &c to J. O. CARPENTER, our Agent, at 59 Jo ’ ° Street, » New York. Orders promptly filled from stock. ABEEL BROTHERS, Established 1765 by ABEEL & BYVANCKE, lron Merchants, 190 South Street and 365 Water, N. Y. ULSTERIRON A full assortment of all sizés constantly on hand. Several Choice Lots No. 1 SCRAP IRON, In Yard, New York, FOR SALE BY FOX & DRUMMOND, GS Wall Street, NEW YORK. Refined Iron, -Horse-Shoe Iron, Common Iron, Band, Hoop and Scroll Iron, Sheet Iron, ilorway Nail Rods, Norway Shapes, Cast, Spring and;Tire Steel, etc. 90 Beekman 8t., New York City, A. R. WHITNEY, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER. LR ON] (alvanized Sheet Iron, Our specialty is in Ist and 2d Qualities. struction of Fire- Used in the Con- struction of Fire-Proof Buildings, dges, &c. " for Carnegie Bros. & Co., Limited, Pittsburgh, a., Wrought ‘Tron Beams and Channel Iron, Bay State Iron Co., Boston, Mass., Boiler Plate and Tank Iron. ee & Co., Boston, Mass., Homogeneous eel Plates and Compressed Steel Galvanized Wire, Telegraph and Fence ; Galvanized Hoop and Bana Iron, Galvanized Rod and Bar Iron, —— Nails, Galvanized Chain, Galvanized Iron “CORRUGATED SHEET IRON For Roofing, &c., Galvanized, Plain or Painted. SHEET IRON. Plate and Tank Iron, pOM AS RE%2, GEES | Mane Bost Manes BOILER IRON Stamped and Guaranteed. All descriptions of Iron Work Galvanized or Tinned to order. P rice list ¢ and quotations | sent } ues application. JAMES WILLIAMSON & CO., SCOTCH AND AMERICAN PIG IRON, No. 69 Wall St., New York. Shafting. Plates Rolled to 100 Inehes. Plans and estimates furnished, and contracts made for Iron Structures of every descrip- tion. Books co ng cuts of all Iron made sent Neation b} mail. " Bampl le eoes at office. Please address és Hudson Street, New York. BORDEN & LOVELL, Commission Merchants 70 & 7i West St., ha ethos 3 New York. Agents for the sale of Fall River lron Co.’s Nails, Bands, Hoops & Rods. AND Borden Mining Company’s Cumberland Coals. WILLIAM H. WALLACE & CO., IRON MERCHANTS Cor, Albany & Washington Sts., NEW YORK CITY. ULSTER IRON WORKS. 90 Broadway, New York. Tuckerman, Mulligan &Co CARMICHAEL & EMMENS 130, 132 & 134 Cedar St., New York. DEALERS IN IRON AND STEEL BOILER PLATE. Lap-Welded Boiler Tubes, &c., &c Agent fo or Otis’ eeled wated Com Steel Boller Plates, The ville Ire », Pott stown Iron Co., a. HH. Wats ack. Wa. BISPHAM. | I, aurel Ro sling Mills wan i Union Tube Works ; Wrought _ Iron Beams, Angles ; Tees, Rivets, &c. ——— B. F. JUDSON, HUGH W. ADAMS & C0., Importer of and Dealer in IMPORTERS OF SCOTCH AND AMERICAN RWPige Iron, Wrought & Cast Scrap Iron, OLD METALS. Agents for American Charcoal and Anthracite Furnaces, 56 Pine Street, New York, Hucu W. ADAMS 283 & 235 South St.,} DANIEL F, COONEY, SCRAP IRON, STEEL, (Late of and suc as. H. —— - Co. THE IRON AGH. ‘ a Pennocks, Bar a Bands and Fine Hoops. Scrolls, Ovals, Half Ovals, Half Rounds. omagen & nd on. Also from Charcoal Pig a Uperior ed bat MARSHALL LEFFERTS & CO., Best Charcoal, Best Refined and Common SCOTCH AND ENGLISH IRONS,| sree, AND IRON RAILS, SWEDISH a DANIELL L, Coss. | America, or f.o nh Koglish porta. DANIEL W. RICHARDS & CO., 457 & 459 Water St.,| NEW YORK. FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC September 1, 1881, Kron. Evo. PITTSBURGH. “| s PT'TPSBURGH. W. D. WOOD & COs tron. NEW YORK $e 98 William Street, New York. Anthracite & Charcoal Pig Irons, Wrought Scrap, Cut Nails, Copper, BLOCK TIN, LEAD, SPELTER, ANTIMONY, NICKEL, &c. HARRISON & GILLOON IRON AND METAL DEALERS, 558, 560, 562 WATER 8T., and 902, 304, 86 CHERRY 8T., NEW YORK, have on ~e and Offer for sale, the Sohewns' Scotch and American Pig Iron, Wrought, Cast and achinery Scrap Iron, Car-Wheels, Axles and Heavy ro e Iron "hanes ke. ‘old Copper, Cotnpontcon Brass, mus | OXF ORD IRON CO., (B. G. CLARKE, Receiver,) Cut Nails AND SPIKES. J. 8S. SCRANTON, Sales Agent, 81, 83 and 85 Washington Street, NEW YORK. BURDEN’S HORSE SHOES. “Burden Best” lron fr sla, fg- + Lm SNOW SHOES Fay ROADSTER PATTERN, —S = PATENT Planished Sheet Iron. In the Large cities throughout THE UNITED STATES. And at their Office, Ill Water Street, PITTSBURGH, PA, Cc. BANE, OLD RAILS, SCRAP IRON, STEEL, PIC IRON, BLOOMS, AND ORE. PITTSBURGH, PA. From Selected Stock, Hammered under Steam Hammer, Port Oram, Morris County, New Jersey. Patented March 1tgh 1865; April 8th, 1873 ; Guaranteed fully oquatinalirespocte tothe | — Fvtra Quality Homogeneous Steal IMPORTED RUSSIA IRON, cae ror sare, |BOILER PLATE by all the principal Cut Nails and Spikes, Plate and Sheet lron, all descriptions, KEYSTONE ROLLING MILL. WILLIAMS, LONG & McDOWELL I Ro N; Pittsburgh, ~ - "Pa. Per me, aceccce| Tron, Nails & Spikes, UNION STORAGE CO, Storage and wague Warrants PORT ORAM MANUFACTURING C0. Manufacturers of Correspondence relative to establishment of yards at furnaces solicited. Sept. 9th, 1878; Uct. 6th, 1874; Jam. 11, 1876. STEEL TOE CA LKS. and at a much less price. ae e TA L D & A LE eS STEEL PLATES, all descriptions. 'SHOENBERGER & CO., Pia Manufacturers of Bonnell, Botsford & Co., mena YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO. _ PIG, THON, BLOOMS, IxGOTS, Scrap & Pig Iron Blooms General Office, PITTSBURGH, PA. Mat- TN. Pens | | Soe The Burden ron Company/ Sable fron and Nail Works. “ULSTER —— seniiaws ZUG & CO., H. B. & S. Bar Iron. Also Best Grades of American & English- Refined Iron. All aises and shapes in stock. EGLESTON BROS, & CO., 267 Front. St, | NEW YORK CITY, Glengarnock and Carnbroe SCOTCH PIG IRON. For spot delivery and for prompt or forward shipments to New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baitimore or New Orleans. For sale in lots to suit by JAMES LEE & co., Sole Agents for the United States, 72 Pine Street, New York. . BATES & DESPARD, 117 Pearl St., New York, P. O. Box 764, Importers of Manufacturers of the Celebrated SableNails Office and Works, PITTSBURGH, PA. __ LEECH BURG IRON WORKEKS. KIRKPATRICK & CO,, Manufacturers of all grades of FINE SHEET IRONS, (Refined, Cold Rolled, Show Card, Stamping, Tea Tray, Polished, Shovel, Ferrule Iron, &c.) NATURAL GAS USED AS FUEL. OFFICE, No, 143 First Ave., SOS Pa. WORKS, Leechburg, P4 W.S. MIDDLETON, | MARCHA! | MARSHALL IRON CO., 1! Broker in Machinery & Iron Manufacturers of { Best Charcoal Bloom, Best Refined & Commor BARS, STEEL AND PIG IRON. SCRAP IRON an OLD RAILS c. f. and i. to RAILS AND METALS, SS Was Dinekon Bt. Yards = oO S8t BOILER 4 li ya SHEET snon, DanieL W. Ricmarps Mee, , 4 Mangin St., NEW YORK. Agent for LAP-WEIl - : Mort ON B. Sirs. Boiler Rivets, Angie & T Iron, S ut Nails & Spikes. | - : ~ FORSTER’S CRUSHER & PULVERIZER, SH E E i IRON. Agency for Glasgow Iron « Bt sting x neh Yoh Co, PA S SA | C R O LLI NG M 1! LL. CO., The best in market. , | Office and Mills tr W.S. MIDDLETON, 52 John St., N. ¥. . ’ Newport, Delaware. ix in 2 Works ° Le anon oa Albany & Ie - & Steel C« Ss