The Iron Age 1883-09-20: Vol 32 Iss 12

883, he er wu tarde uae ltt The Iron Age A Review of the Hardware, Iron and Metal Trades. Published every Thursday Morning by Davin Wittams, No. 83 Reade Street, New York. Entered at the Post Office, New York, as Second-Class Matter. Vol. XXXII: No. 12. Increased Speed Factories. The speed of cotton machinery in Lowell is said to have been increased 30 per cent. within 12 or 15 years. If the city contained no more spindles in 1883 than in 1873, there- fore, the production of the mills would still be largely enhanced. In considering the eondition of various manufacturing interests this matter of higher speed and increased capacity of machinery is, says the Commer- cial Bulletin, often lost sight of, but is cer- tainly worthy of attention in seasons of over- production like the past six months. There are about 12,000,000 cotton spindles in the United States to-day, against 7,000,000 in 1870, but if the speed and capacity per spin- dle has increased even 25 per cent., the actual productive capacity of the mills has been more than doubled. And not only has the cotton manufacturing capacity of the United States been more than doubled since 1870, but a glance at the amount of cotton TT peppers el 4 | |! i | | | | | actually consumed by our mills shows an al- most equal increase. In the three years 1869, 1870 and 1871 there were consumed in the United States 3,219,000 bales of cotton, or an average of 1,073,000 bales per annum. For the 10 months from September 1, 1882, to. July 1, 1883, there have been taken for consumption by the spinners of this country 1,988,417 bales of cotton. Very moderate purchases during the next two months will bring the total up to 2,146,000 bales, or just twice as much cotton as was used in the United States in 1870. In the woolen manfacturing interest very | similar conditions are found to exist. A de- sire to diminish the cost of production has led to an increase in the speed of machinery, and an increase of the capacity of the mills in other directions. The loom which for- merly ran so or 60 picks per minute now runs 95, perhaps: and where 40-inch cards were used, many mills now have cards 60 inches in width and of proportionately increased diameters. And yet, in speaking of the number of sets of woolen machinery in the United States, we are accustomed to compare | the figures of 1883 with those of 1873 or | 1863, without paying attention to any in- | crease which has occurred in the size of the cards or capacity of the machinery during this period. The effect of lessening cost of production by means of increased speed and machinery of enhanced capacity is good. | | It |of Weimer blowing engines ; of Machinery in| The Blast Furnace of the Crozer Steel and [ron Company, at Roanoke, Va. Among other interesting papers read at the Roanoke (Va.) meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers was that of Mr. J. P. Witherow, of Pittsburgh, describ- ing the new blast furnace of the Crozer Steel and Iron Company, at Roanoke, Va. The furnace plant, as there stated, was built under contract by Messrs. Witherow & Gor- don, of Pittsburgh. The furnace is 70 feet high by 16 feet bosh ; tunnel-head, 12 feet 8 inches, and hearth 9 feet in diameter. The columns are 20 feet high above furnace level, below which they extend 2 feet. The shell is 23 feet diameter at bottom and I9 feet at top. The plate iron is % inch at bottom, and tapers to ¥ inch, the top ring being ;', inch. The furnace is provided with a double bell, 8 feet 4% inches external diameter and 4 feet 4 inch internal diameter, operated by a 32 x 63 inch air lift, and provided with safety-catch rods. The down-comer, which is surrounded with a spiral iron stairway, is 5 feet 6 inches external diameter and 4 feet 8 inches in the clear, at the bottom of which is placed a dust-catcher. The tuyeres, seven in number, and 7 inches in diameter, are placed 5 feet 6 inches above the hearth level, above which there are four circles of bosh- cooling plates, each plate being traversed with a1%-inch gas-pipe coil. The furnace is operated with three of the latest Whitwell fire-brick hot-blast stoves, 18 feet in diame- ter by 70 feet high, and each having over 24,000 square feet of heating surface. The products of combustion from these stoves are taken off by underground flues to an iron chimney, 160 feet high by 8 feet in the clear. This chimney also gives draft wa plant of 10 steel boilers, divided into five dis tinct batteries. Each boiler is 34 feet long, 46 inches in diameter and contains two 16- inch flues. Eight of these boilers, or four batteries, are expected to furnish an ample supply of steam for the whole furnace plant, leaving a battery of two boilers idle for re- pairs or cleaning. In the accompanying en- gravings of this plant it will be observed that an arched flue traverses the foundations, so as to communicate with the chimney for ad- ' ditional batteries of boilers, should a second furnace be added to the plant. The engine-house is 31x40 feet in the clear, and contains two of the newest style diameter of is in the interest of the consumers, and | steam cylinder, 42 inches ; blowing cylinder, therefore eminently altruistic in its tendency. | 84 inches ; and stroke, 4 feet. This type of , Fig. 1.—Plan, FURNACE PLANT TRON COMPANY, Thursda ry, S eptember blowing engine is among the foremost in the United States for strength, efficiency and durability, each engine having a maximum capacity of pumping 12,000 cubic feet of air per minute of piston displacement. The pumps are of the Cameron type, two for water supply, and two for filling boilers. The engine-house is roofed with a sway- bottomed water tank resting merely on the walls of the engine-house, without any other support, which is kept filled with water at all times, for the supply of the entire plant. It is 6 feet deep in the center, and the sur- face of the water is 42 feet 6 inches above the hearth level, or engine foundation. The casting-house is 138 x 50 feet, outside measurement, and the stock-house 75 x 150 feet. Both of these buildings are roofed with corrugated iron, as is also the hoist-tower and bridge connecting it with the furnace. The hoisting apparatus is of the Crane Brothers system, of Chicago, and the super structure is wrought-iron channel beams. This furnace has a cubical capacity of about gooo feet, and when worked up to its rea- a sonable output, under intelligent manage- ment, will have a pro- ducing capacity of | fully 100 tons per day, and can be worked up Showing General Arrangement ~l of Plant. STEEL AND VA. OF THE CROZER AT ROANOKE, to 1000 tons per week, if the manager so de- termine, on an ore containing 50 per cent. of metallic iron, with silica not exceeding 6 to 8 per cent., at a temperature of blast ranging from 1400° to 1600° F, Mr. Witherow submitted the following formule, which he uses in determining the capacity or output of a furnace ; also, in determining the size of its boiler, engine and draft-stack. He allows, for anthra- cite furnaces, 60 square feet of fire surface in boilers to produce a ton of iron in 24 hours: therefore, 6000 feet of fire surface will supply steam to make 100 tons of iron in 24hours. For coke furnaces he allows 40 square feet of heating surface for a ton of iron in 24 hours, or 4000 square feet for 100 tons of iron in 24 hours; and for charcoal furnaces he gives 30 square feet for a ton of iron in 24 hours, or 3000 square feet for 100 tons of iron in 24 hours, This is assuming that the heat of the blast will range from 1300° to 1500° F. By the same method he determines that 140 feet of air per minute of piston displace- ment will make a ton of iron in 24 hours with 50 per cent. ores, if not too highly silicious, at a temperature of blast above given; therefore, 14,000 feet per minute will make 100 tons of iron in 24 hours. For charcoal furnaces, on the same ores and at the same temperature, he calculates 110 feet per minute to make a ton of iron; therefore 11,000 feet per minute will make 100 tons of | iron in 24 hours. He assumes that the | the 20, ‘1883. chimney or smoke-stake must have a ca pacity of carrying off 15 tons of gas (or products of combustion) for every ton of iron the furnace is expected to make. In deciding on the amount of limestone ne cessary for a blast furnace (apart from the |analysis of the cinder), it is found a good approximate rule to make the amount of lime (i. e., the limestone less the car- bonic acid) equal to the sum of the amounts of silica in the limestone and fuel. If more lime is used, it is injurious to good furnace action. It also saturates the escaping gases with an excess of carbonic acid, which lessens their calorific power. A furnace works sluggishly on an excess of lime, and is apt to scaffold. Concerning the flowing in of the furnace, Mr. Witherow says: ‘ The filling was done by using some 15 cords of wood, on which was put about 15 tons of coke, and then the burden commenced by using 3000 pounds of coke, 1000 pounds of ore and 800 pounds of lime. This was continued by slightly in- creasing the ore and lime until the furnace was filled. On Monday evening, May 28, at 6 o'clock, the furnace was lighted by Miss Margaret Crozer, and the furnace given her name. At 1 o’olock p. m., the following day (Tuesday), the blast was applied, and the waste gases of the furnace descended the down-comer, traversed the large horizontal ores, 7 ' {TL \ | ——~" | blast-tube, flowed under the boilers and the Whitwell stoves, without the least explosion or even the faintest puff. ‘*There was a difference of opinion with re- gard to the introduction of fire into the gas flue some time before applying the blast. I maintain that a wood fire should be put in the flue, and I would be glad to submit this question to furnacemen. The operations of furnace went off satisfactorily. The hearth, however, was too cold for the recep tion of the ore. It would have been better, I think, to have put in from three to five cords of wood, just sufficient to thoroughly ignite the coke, then about 30 tons of coke, and commence with a burden of 3000 pounds of coke, 3000 pounds of ore and 1200 of lime, continuing this burden until the furnace was filled. Assoon as the blast went on, I would have charged 3000 of coke, and 4000 of ore and the same proportion of lime. I main tain this is the proper way of blowing in a furnace. The use of a large quantity of cord-wood, with a small proportion of fuel on the top, and the burdening of a small proportion of ore to fuel, is not good prac tice, because the wood rapidly consumes, allowing the space that it occupied to be re laced by coke and the furnace burden hen the small quantity of ore is brought very near the tuyeres before the blast goes on, and before the hearth is thoroughly heated ; consequently this ore has a tend ency to chill and settle in the bottom, if the furnace is not fortified by the Whitwell ! . still pursued. 84.50 a Year, Including Tostuye. Single Coptes, Zen Cents. stoves. Where asmaller quantity of wood and a larger proportion of coke is put on, with a greater burden, the hearth is filled with incandescent coke, and liquefaction is retarded until the hearth is in a condition to receive the iron and cinder. The regular process begins on a large scale, the hearth becomes filled with hot cinder, the process of combustion goes on steadily and the heat in the stoves is gradually increased, so that no matter how dark the cinder may be for the first day, which is most desirable, the heat will develop more rapidly than the burden can be increased. Within three days the temperature of the stoves must be reduced, or the cold blast put on, so as to keep down the heat, to prevent the iron becoming too gray or silvery. A furnace supported with super heated blast should, therefore, always be blown in ona reasonably heavy burden, and the manager should desire dark cinder for the first two days, and gradually increase his ore burden until he is statisfied that the proper proportions are on the furnace ‘*The Whitwell stoves are frequently blamed for the bad working of furnaces, and for unsatisfactory results in an economical point of view, when the whole trouble is in the management. The old practice of blowin in furnaces is still not unfrequently adopted —that is to say, a great excess of fuel and ieverything calculated to produce a very gray cinder, anda No.1 or No. 2 foundry iron at the start. This is not good practice. An excess of fuel is resorted to for the purpose of making the furnace very hot, and may be justified in cold-blast charcoal practice. Where the heat of the blast ranges from 500° to 800 with iron-pipe stoves (commencing at 100 or 200 ), there may also be some reason for continuiny the old practice. In modern practice, where the furnaces are supported with superheated blast, the fallacy of such a course has been demonstrated, and it is surprising to see it This course is often main- tained long after the furnace is in blast, and as the heat of the stoves augments in a greater ratio than the increase of burden, the carbonic oxide has little to do in the zone of combustion or the region of the tuyeres, and as the gaseous currents ascend in the furnace, they establish partial lique faction and cementation in the upper regions of the bosh, often continuing this action up the inwalls, causing scaffolding and bridg ing. With such a course, especially in a: thracite furnaces, the blast is bound to be a failure, as the removal of such obstructi is difficult and rarely effected. ‘“*T think that blast-furnace engineers should establish a system of running the fur nace by the temperature of the escaping gas« This temperature indicates the changes more quickly than the cinder or the iron. Othe: things being equal, the hotter the blast t cooler the top, and vice versa, and the in crease of temperature at the tunnel-head will sooner indicate to the manager a de | rangement in furnace action than anything else. As the temperature of the highe: zones increases, it will show that thers either an inadequate amount of ore and for the ascending gaseous currents and « bonic oxide to act upon, or it will show that the furnace is beginning to cement and fold, and prompt measures can be tak: remedy the difficulty. ‘* Postscript.—The amount of foundry weighed to-day (June 2) for yesterday put was 77 tons, which is the fifth da the furnace’s operations. The fuel is close to a pound of iron with a pound of coke, the furnace being under a burden of nearly 2 pounds of ore to 1 of coke, and the ore yielding over 59 per cent f metallic iron. [his indicates that within a few days this furnace may be makin; over 100 tons of iron per day, on a fuel consumption not exceeding a pound of cok: to a pound of iron.” More recent particulars concerning working of the furnace show that the vield is now from 80 to gotons per day, sometin reaching 100 tons, one-third found and two-thirds gray forge. The pig mad is marketed in the Cumberland Valley a at Harrisburg, Pa., in Baltimore, and nail mills on the Ohio River. Its quality over 2 Se The Plume&Atwood| — Mfg. Companvy, MANUFACTURERS OF PHILIP L. MOEN, CHARLES F ese ata SHEET and ROLL BRASS and WIRE, President & Treasurer. e President & Secretary. ames cee Benes fia | on ee ee ee Washburn & M Mfg, C BRASS AND COPPER Waterbury Brass G0.) German Sivor and Ging Meta Mike CAPITAL, $400,000. Copper Rivets and Burs, ee ndinde Sheets, Bolts, Rods, Wire, &c. Sheet, Roll and Platers’ Brass, Copper Electrical Wire, Pins, | ORCESTER M ASS. 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Is, ELL PORK, } IRON AND BRASS RIVETS, Studs, Pins, Screws, &c., PHILADELPHIA OFFICE: 523 Arch St. SAM'L A. SAGUE, General Manager ANDREWS, Secretary. OF EVERY DESCRIPTION | INCORPORATED 1876. F. Mig. Co., Goods. Award and Medal for Notseless Stee! 1876, Piiris 15758, ana Melbourne 1551. Limited, 162 & 164 West 27th Street New York. & SCHWERTE IRON AND STEEL WIRE WORKS, AT sCcCHWERTE, THE IRON AGH. very satisfactory. The ores used were mainly from the Upland mines of the company, near Blue Ridge Station of the Norfolk and West- ern Railroad, to miles from the furnace, and from the Houston mines of the company, near Houston Station of Shenandoah Valley Rail- road, 15 miles from the furnace. These hmonite ores yielded from 40 to 46 per cent., averaging over 44, in the operations of the furnace. Some limonite ores of the same kind were obtained from the Vesuvius mines, on Shenandoah Valley Railroad, in Rockbridge County, and some specular ores from the Upland mines. The company, we understand, are now using some ore from the mines of the Rorer Iron Company, near Roanoke. The limestone used is dolomite from quarries near Blue Ridge Station of Norfolk and Western Railroad, and near the furnace, and a very pure limestone from quarries on Shenandoah Valley Railroad, near Buchanan. Owing to the delay in get- ting the coke ovens at Pocahuntas, in the Flat-tup coal region of the Virginias, on the Norfolk and Western Railroad, Furnace Plant of the Crozer Steel and Iron C Horizontal Se this furnace began with Connellsville, coke ; but now the supply enables it to about two-thirds of Flat-top and one and it will soon use The consumption has iron tion, Pa., use third of Connellsvilie, Flat-top exclusively. averaged about 1.4 tons to the ton of made. The principal office of the Crozer Steel and Iron Company is at Upland, Pa, not far from Philadelphia. Its officers are : Samuel A. Crozer, president; W. H. H Robinson, treasurer; Francis E. Weston, secretary, and D. F. Houston, who resides at the furnace, general manager a The Industries of Leeds, Mr. E. W. Lightner, in a letter to the Pittsburgh Dispatch, says : In its industrial characteristics Leeds re sembles Pittsburgh, looked at superficially, more than any city I have visited on this side of the Atlantic. It has its forests of chimneys ; it has its shroud of smoke ; it has its soot showers and general dinginess. The great industries of Leeds are woolen factories. The city has a population of 309,000. The streets are excellently paved with block stone. The pavements are kept so clean that no Pittsburgher can drive ove! them and think of his native city without a blush of shame. The municipal debt is over £2,000,000, or $10,000,000, but for this it has these fine pavements; splendid public build ings; a beautiful park that has cost about £150,000; a plentiful supply of water brought 15 miles from the Washburn River which is comparatively free from sewage slaughter-houses and factory contamination ; the gas works of two formerly companies which the city purchased 13 years ayo for £800, and several fine bridyes which have for some years been free of toll You will observe that there has been a differ nt { colipeting OO; ence somewhere between the manayeme public affairs in Pittsburgh and in Leeds rhe latter place has a large debt, it is true but it now has all necessary public propertic in fine condition, and can make repairs and reduce the debt without burdensome taxa tion, The rates are much lower than in and the cost of water and ga ym parison Pittsburgh, trivial by c 1000 ¢ ibic Gas costs about 4 cents per feet The measured by Siemens and Adamson’s me and is furnished for trades pury« per 1000 gallons Leeds is not looked upon means a model municipality in England, but its government assuredly grows admirab by comparison with that f some Ameri cities No city ivilized ti wate! s le se8 at Ou as being by any il juite Ll) it | held at in opera- | publican form of gov: | fous reaches the altitude of hansom cabs, and block stone or concrete pavements, clean kept as a Dutch floor. ‘lhe city has good schools, churches and theaters. In politics it is Radical. When Mr. Gladstone made his famous contest in Midlothian, the Radicals of Leeds, fearing he would be beaten in that district, where no other Liberal would have had a vhost of a chance, put him up as one of their candidates and elected him by a larve majority. As he was also elected by the Midlothian constituency, a new election was Leeds, and Mr. Herbert Gladstone, son of the Premier, was chosen, and My Herbert Gladstone is a Radical of the Radicals, Almost invariably there are there are laryve The Ce the Radical majorities where numbers of workingmen the champions of moneyed great corporations and great land mserva tives are power, ot owners, and of the unrepresentative body known as the House of Lords. A mere Liberal is a sort of Conservative in disguise The Britain for rhtment re hope of Creat a more re poses in the —f ia. 2 Le of Furnace maoitudinal and siyetne | Radicals, whoare both aggressive and pro- yressive At considerable expenditure of time and patience | have succeeded in getting what I believe to be the most correct statement of prices paid to all kinds of workmen and women that bas been presented to the public with reference to this region, the great man ufacturing district of England, and which govern generally in the United Kingdom. 1 attach much importance to these figures, be cause they fairly serve to show what work ing people earn in all this country. In some localities a few workmen having special skill or employed at labor which makes extraordinary demand upon higher wages, and I have not included pud dlers, refiners and pl ite they invariably make fortably, though their les ates may suffer greatly from the iron industry very rarely fu regular employment. I know hi of newspapers detest a kk ny array of fiyure an muscle get I jlers, because enough to live con s fortune ASSOC! lack of work rhishibhh ite WwW IADApers but I hope these will be endured, and that my autocratic friend, the proof-reader, will treat them with his most distinguis} ! sideration In the department of woolen cloth ma facturing workmen receive the following wayes for a week consisting of >h the minimum and maximun price Peer dtay givenin English shillings: Card cleane: to 2 rag grinder 25 to 3 spinners to 3 loom tuners and designers t weavers, 15 to 2 other workmen averay from I5 to 23 women seavers and card tillers, g to 12 The better class of sk vyorkmen amony the th finishers, such a cloth-pressers aud stulf-pressers ike from 30 to thers from 22 to 2 ind the labor ing dyers trom 1 to 2 rirst-Class ta rs make f m ft i ‘ I “TT Soon la I “ fir cla fro. s i f 1o6tol ek rs 1 d n wal Las! i Worgitr pt ‘ 4 f ‘ " ma 1 tl i paid ‘ ‘ i ‘ re ‘ 4 i by half and tl X A hing aking al ss SA l chil aad j i» % a nee These are given t t men and men wil nave Iachines at tl homes and are tient Slo} 1 best suits, made to order, are, of course 1 singly, and they are made entirely by hand In the department of iron suufactur boiler makers receive Platers, 4 Se = a Geese. >. li lll st: cia. ts 4 THE IRON AGE. September 20, 1883. OGDEN & WALLACE, ‘Marshall Lefferts & Co., oO X F oO R D Ww. D. woop & 0s! = 85, 87, 89 & 91 Elm St., New York. 90 Beekman St., New Fork Otty, lron and Steel MANUFACTURERS OF IRON AND NAIL CO.., | orreraneinonieein noe | Galvanized Sheet Iron, c ut Nail S ¥ , Agents for Park Brother & Co.'s Best B , Best Refined 1 Oo om. BLACK DIAMOND STEEL. Galvanized Wire Telegraph and Fence; wae AND | on hand, s of Cast and Machinery Steel constantly | | Galvanized Malaise Cah ata S fe | K = S . 3 a = 528 > . CORRUGATED SHEET IRON | — | F J. 8. SCRANTON, Sales Agent, PATIEN' For Roofing, &c., Galvanized, Plain or Painted ay Rest Charcoal, Best Refined and Common 81, 83 and 85 Washington Street, Planished Sheet Iron. NEW YORK. 24 & 26 Broadway, 77 & 79 New St. SHEET IRON. — rx 4 Patented March r4th, 1865 ; Avril 8th, 1873 ; NEW YORK CITY. Plate and Tank Iron. JOHN W. QUINCY g C0. ag Sept. oth, 1873 ; Oct. 6th, 1874 : Jan. 11, 1876, STEEL TOE CALKS. 1, C H No, 1 Flange, Best Flange a fully equal in all respects to the “PICKS” of all kinds | sce Yiange Fire Box, Circles 98 William St., New York, re Senses Anthracite, Charcoal, Scotch and| IMPORTED RUSSIA IRON, a en eee ; ESOPUS ° HORSE SHOE IRON, iron Work Gibvantsed or Tinned to Order. English Pig iron. and at a much less price. BEAMS, ANCLES, Price list MERCHANT RO “ani | Cut Nails, ingot Copper, Tin, Lend, mal al i. : eae ee ROME M ; <n ‘tals Generally y all the prineip Tees, Channels, Sheets, Plates, UME M'nome,n.t |, HARRISON&GILLOON METAL DEALERS) steex erates, adatom In the Large Cities throughout ® ’ | RON & STEE L. Bar Iron, Bands and Fine Hoops. ,, (PON AND METAL DEALERS. | THE UNITED STATES, Cut Nails and Spikes, Plate and Sheet scrolls, Ovals, Half Ovals, Half Rounds, ry onand NEW YORK. Aud'ns thee Olek Iron, all descriptions, Horse Shoe Lron. Sarre. Caereee ig @ : £ —— or lied uality of Iron brande puddiled ball nave on hand, and offer fcr sale. the following : urgh A B & E L B > os queed by hammer. Orders may be sent to the Millor Scotch and American Pig Iron, Wrought, Cast and ] 1 1 Water treet P RGH P q Pa ’ e959 McPeet, tee Nate our Agent, at ‘39 John taal 4 ry Scrap ries a. Car Whee Ne. Asies ed Heavy S ' ITTSBU ' A. * ’ ° a $u5 WATER ST, | NEW YORK. FOX & DRUMMOND, a “ISYRACUSE MALLEABLE WHEELING “ULSTER” IRON, BURDEN’S IRON WORKS, N A | Lo ‘““CATASAUQUA” IRON, RAILWAY | ALLENTOWN SHAFTING, ah SYRACUSE, N. Y. p 1 erence HORSE SHOES Laughlin Nail Co., ROLLING MIL L| s |Mower and Reaper Castings REFINED IRON, JUNCTION IRON CO. , Band, Hoo » Eero Dand J Angle Iron. Cast, Spring, a AT c R i A ss | ” and Carriage Irons a Joist Yearly Capacity Duis ath ee : —— ee ialty. TELEPHONE CALL, * NASSAU, 379 6s WALL STREET, Burden Best '3 Spec 600 000 KEG — oe Ww. B. BURNS, Proprietor, j §, A. R. WHITNEY & CO., cc Te MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN JAMES WILLIAMSON & CO.. ¢. W. LEAVITT, a IT Fe <> RI e| SCOTCH AND AMERICAN lron NEW AND SECOND-HAND Warehouses; § 26: 98 and 60 Hudson St., Rails and Railway Equipment ee 97 Thomas St. | iad i G i He O N, PIG and BAR IRON, OLD RAILS and SCRAP. * a 5 . } S: NAHSONDALE IRON’ WORKS, Merchant tron. | St., New York . Ri pothehnaa oe 3 — 97 Chambers Street. New York, erchant Iron. | No. 63 Wall St., New York. _ Agent for oo SESE HSS. ro omnes come : Boiler Rivets. | ‘r‘w:"Sesur a co., ~|KETSTONE ROLLING MILL Limited s ) an oiler an jirder Pie ‘ULS TER IRON WORKS Railway Supplies and Equipment. acti =. . NAILS CO., Wire Nails. Ne. 67 Liberty St.. NEW YORK. B DY WINE | oile es. BRANDYWINE ROLLING MILL. Boiler Plates. | 90 Broadway, New York. The Burden Iron Company Agents NASHUA IRON AND STEEL CO.! Ir =e E> INT Manager Sales Dep't, A. M. BYERS & ©O., Wrought Iron Pipe. ufacturers of CARNEGIE BROS. & CU, Limited, Wrought | STEEL LOCOMOTIVE TYRES, HOMOGENEOUS Iron Beams, Channels and Shapes. STEEL BOILER PLATES, IRON ARDS TEEL AXLES, Bessemer Steel Shafting, P : Troy, N.Y. GRADE Fits, Fasten WOES © — Pittsburgh, - oe cat ee es roe Pol 6 Tuckerman, Mulligan & Co Ys — ___IRON AND STEEL LOCOMOTIVF FORGINGS. made for erecting Iron Structures of every descrip- | —— lem cetan pone een |HEATHFIELD, EYRE & CO. | Bonnell. on aplication a ‘now afi CARMICHAEL & EMMENS EGLESTON BROS. & CO.., 158 Leadenhall Street, LONDON, ENGLAND, on Botsford 7 C0. 130, 132 & 134 Cedar St., New York, and | Noss, 23, as" 7 West Lalke St., Chicago, ll | 166 South Street, yew yorK city, |!RON, TIN PLATE AND METAL BORDEN & LOY ELL, IRON AND STEEL BOILER PLATE. 267 Front Street, iN ; MERCHANTS. - Iron, Nails & Spikes, BUR D EN’ Ss Scrap Iron, Old Rails, Pig Iron, &c., &c., quoted = Commission Merchants, ss" neces wn | tonaon es __xounasrown, ono, cociimeies”seit Al, IB, & S. (clencarNock an CARNBROE SCOTCH PIG IRON 70 & 71 West St., | Beams ‘Monies Tees Rivets. _&e. ND L, N. LOVELL, vi CITSBURGH TOOL C 0.. . tor spot delivery, and for prompt or forward shipments to New York, Boston, Philadelphia, cA GREENE { — NEW YORK. choc : ULSTER BAR TRON, Baltimore or New Orleans. For sale by Agents for the sale of ALKER & CROMLISH, aah akan anes aie iin Manel JAMES LEE & CO., Sole Agents for the United States. Fall River lron Co.’s Nails, Twist Drills, Reamers, Taps and) Also Best Grades of 72 Pine Street, NEW YORK. MACHINISTS’ SPECIAL TOOLS, | 4 & Cog Rofd \ron,Common Iron, &c 101 Milk Street, BOSTON, MASS. 170 Washington Street, CHICAGO. Bands, Hoops & Rods, | Machine, Car and Bridze pelea, et and Cap| Eng. LeBEEC H BU R G_ Ink IRON WORK ss AND | crews, Bbouer hivets ec —————— LIGHT MACHINE FORGING» A SPECIALTY. | KIRKPATRIC Serden Winks Gunetel Cle uae Tr FRANK L |FROMENT, 7 ist ICK & CO., FACTORY : Ee Wi eS re esTt Cumberland Coals. | Gos er North & Irwin Avenue 2, Allegheny, Pa. | Ong es NEW YORK Refined Cold Rolled, Show Card, Stamping, Tea Tray, ron SO ; . = | AGENT FOR AND — NATURAL GAS USED AS FUEL. WILLIAM H. WALLACE P CO. I VOUGHT & WILLIAMS, Be STE ~__—s- | OF FIOB, No, 143 First Ave,, Pitteburgh, Pa. WORKS, Lecohburg, Po r DEALERS IN Maidencreek tron Ce. - EL a CHA RIL. Es HRUBBARD, IRON M K RCH AN TS Horse Shoes and Horse Nails, Tire, still Water Co. bs = ett & Band ir | “SHERIDAN,” “ LEESPORT,” Spring, Toe Calk, Machinery and - ~ om: * —ee -| “MT. LAUREL” & “hates BRANDS PIG IRON Cor, Albany & Washington Sts, | Tool Steel, Bolts, Rasps, Files, | Ww. Ss. MIDDLETON, | “CHARCOAL” PIG IRON, “MAIDEN CRFEK" and “NEW RIVER MINERAL” BRANDS NEW YORK CITY. Drilling Machines, &c. Wa. H. Wattace, Wx. Bisrnam,| 288 Greenwich St., New York. Broker’ in Machinery & lrON | FAVORITE BRANDS OF SCOTCH PIG IN STOCK AND TO ARRIVE Agent for Old Car Wheels, Best Brands. 46 CU™ Street, New York City. ~ ronsrens cniSien & puuvenzen, JAMES VW. ROSS, The best te market IMPORTER OF AND FURNACE AGENT FOR nes — W.S. MIDDLETON, 52 John St.,N. ¥ The ah vee represents Preston's Patent Braided Cable Wire Fence Rail, factured by the SC 0 T C 4 A N D A M E R | C A N p | G | RO N, Th ut represer r n atent Brai able Wir nc ail, manufactur y B. FEF. J UDSON . weeLey CABLE MFG CO., Hornellsville, N. Y. We alsc manufacture extensively MANUFACTURERS AGENT OF four different sizes Wire Clothes Lines, Send for Circulars and Price Lists importer of and Dealer tn Bar Iron, Car Wheels, Axles, Ruils and Railroad Supplies. Chamberlatn, Coxe & mlttar, Western Agents, 89 Lake St., ( hicageo, Ill, SCOTCH AND AMERICAN SOLE AGENT <=> PASSAIC ROLLING MILL CO, q Pig Iron, WHITAKER IRON COMPANY, Manufacture and have always in stock OF WHEELING, W. VA., MANUFACTURERS OF SHEET IRON, TANK AND FIRE _ ROLLED IRON BEAMS, Wrought & Cast Scrap Iron, BED . ‘> _ 36 DEARBORN §& TRE ET CHICACO. > Channels, Angles, Tees, Merchant Bars, Riveted Work, 0 L D M E T A L S e GARRY IRON HROoOoFinae CoMPrany Forgings, Eye Bars, &-. PATERSON, N. J. & $50 Waterss} = MEW YORK. || kootne in the wong. Manu IRON ORE PAINT = $5 South St., 1 kinds of p sehr AND CEMENT. Roem 45, Astor House, New York, IRON ROOFING f - 152-158 MERWIN STREET, CLEVELAND, 0 Pee ager ae ee a /Manhattan Rolling Mill vero w Sang ty . ava. , Send for Circular and P: ice Fire-Proof Doors, Shutters,&c J Liat No. 9. . J. LEONARD, ———————————— 445 t0 451 West St 177 4179 Bak St. HE JERSEY CITY GALVANIZING Co.. Hot Pressed Nuts, Bolts, Washers, &e, wT eat CALVANIZED MATERIAL OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. DOVER IRON CO.S | M4 Oo nt A E S H Oo E | R Oo N, Galvanized Sheet Iron— mest ey im, Best Nefined, Common. Galvanized Round Square Band 4 Toe Calk Steel, EeaQIZ Aste TAS VTS, | eS. All Sizes All Gaugee 9 of Corruganon and Boiler B J Socket B DANIEL F. COONEY, % “rrasane Ol el race aws, 0c el olts, &c. 88 Washington St., N. ¥. from Sizes BOILER PLAT-S AND SHEET IRON, of Sheets. LAP-W ELOED BOILER FLUES, tif to 5 inches. FULLER BROTHERS & CO. #2202 e ohn ” Agenc for Gla-gow, In o., Jo “L, Bailey & C Pine ir n Wo L bano . “Kol ing Milis, Chester Corrugated Sheet tron a Specialty, Galvanised, Black and Painted. [rom Corrugated for the Trade 89 © ; ich S : : ‘ : Pive an a. Tube co Albany & 7 in n and Stee >t estimates furnished or application. 13% Greenwich Street, New York. paved Botien Rivets; Homogeneous Steel, ' WORKS, GREEN AND BAY STREETS, JERSEY CITY, N.J. OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE, 98 JOHN STREET, NEW YOR* B ller at sd Fire Box Pilates wi i I ee rT hk Wo September 20, 1883. Siemens’ Regenerative GAS FURNACE. RICHMOND & POTTS, PHILADELPHIA, PA. HENRY LEVIS & CO., Manufacturers’ Agents For Iron and Steel Rails, Car Wheels, Boiler and Sheet Iron and General Railway ee Old Rails, Axles, and Wheels bought and sold. 934 8. ath 8t., Philadelphia 119 8. Fourth St. Cambria Iron and Steel Works. The Cambria Iron Co., having acquired the entire ownership of the WIRE AND STEEL MILLS Of the GAUTIER STEEL CO., Limited, will con- The Cambria Iron Co., having enjoyed a reputation for more than a} quarter of a century for fair dealing and excel- ience of its manufactures, has now a capacity of (50,000 Tons of Iron & Steel Rails | And most approved patented Wagon and Carriage Teeth, Agricul- chast Steel, Piow Steel, | Springs, Rake Teeth and Harrow | tural Implement Steel and Railway Fastenings. | ALL KINDS OF WIRE, | Well-known for superior quality of material and excellence of workmanship. Address CAMBRIA IRON COMPANY, | 4 arcs 218 South Fourth Street, Philadelphia, GAUTIER STEEL DEPARTMENT, or at Works, Johnstown, Pa.., Poiuip EK. “naprn, Gen’l = t, Johnstown. or l.enox Snuth, Selling Age t, 46 Pine St., | New York Warehouse, 1oq Reade St. New Yo York. Philadelphia Ware house, 523 Arch St. THE PHCENIX IRON CO., 410 Walnut Street, PHILADELPHIA. Manufacturers of Wrought Iron Beams, Deck Beams, Channels, Angle & Tee Bars, STRAIGHT AND CURVED TO TEMPLATE, Largely used in the construction of Iron Vessels, Buildings and Bridges. WROUCHT IRON ROOF TRUSSES, CIRDERS & JOISTS, and all kinds of Iron Framing used in the construction of Fire Proof Buildings, PATENT WROUGHT [IRON COLUMNS, WELDLESS EYE BARS, and built up shapes for Iron Bridges, REFINED BAR, SHAFTING, and every variety of SHAPK IRON made to order. Plans and Specifications furnished. Address DAVID REEVES, President. NEW YORK AGENTS, MILLIKEN & SMITH, 95 Liberty Street. BOSTON AGENTS, FRED. A. HOUDLETTE & CO., 19 Batterymarch St. ALAN WOOD & CoO., MANUFACTURERS OF Patent Planished, Galvanised, Common, Best Refined, Cleaned and Charceal Bloom PLATE ch SHEET IRON. No. 519 Arch 8St., Philadelphia, Pa. rders solicited especially for Corrugated, Gasholder, Pan and Elbow, Water Pipe, Smoke Stack, wn ond Boat Iron ; "Tan, Sta ‘ank and Boat Iron ; Last, Stamping, Ferruie, Locomotive Headlight and Jacket Iron, Ferruie, Locomotive Headlight and Jacket Iron. iaheinaen lron, Steel & Nail Works, 920 North Delaware Ave., - PHILADELPHIA, Manufacturers of the ANVIL BRAND REFINED MERCHANT BAR IRON. | Also, the James Rowland & Co. Kensineton Hg” sain cut from | their Refined Anvil stock. Also, Plow and Cultivator Steel; Skelp 4 a specialty; also Rounds, Squares, Flats, Bands and Hoop i mien ——————BENCOYD COYD IRON WORKS. A.c&c PP. ROBERTS c& CO., MANUFACTURERS OF BEAMS, CHANNELS, DECK BEAMS, ANGLES, TEES, PLATES, MERCHANT BAR. SHAFTING AND ROLLED OR HAMMERED AXLES OF IRON OR STEEL. Office, No, 26 8. Fourth St., Philadelphia. Agents for the sale of Glamorgan Pig Iron. J. WW. PASSON co CO., DEALERS IN MOULDING SAND, 1021 North Delaware Avenue, PHILADELPHIA, PA., MANUFACTURERS LEAD FACING, RIDDLES, STEEL BRUSHES. CHARCOAL FACING, ANTHRACITE FACING, SOAPSTONE, X MINERAL, XX MINERAL, IXL FACING, ALLENTOWN ROLLING MILL COMPANY, Manufacturers of Rails, Bars, Axles, Shafting, Fish Bars (Plain and Angle), alien! Rivets, Bolts and Nuts; &c. Bridges and Turn Tables. seneral Office, 237 South Tt Third St., Philadelphia, _Works at Allentown, Pa. SHENANDOAH IRON, LUMBER, MINING & MFG. CO., MANUFACTURERS OF SUPERIOR CORE PIG IRON FROM NEUTRAL HEMATITE ORES. Also CHARCOAL PIG IRON AND BLOOMS FROM SAME ORES. Works at MILNES, PAGE CO., VA Treasurer's Office, 132 WALNUT 8ST., PHILADELPHIA. ITSTICR COX, IR, & OO... Rales Agents’ 224 South 4th &t., Philadelphia. LOCUMOTIVE AND CAR-WHEEL WIRES Manufactured from the celebrated OTIS STEEL BRAND gg STANDARD Z Quality and efficiency fully guaranteed. Prices as low as any of the same quality. We manpfacture Heavy and Light Forgings, Driving and Car Axles, Crank Pins, Piston Rods, &c Sheik bat hy A " . | Werks at LEWISTON, VA. 220 S. 4th St., Philadeiphia, Pa. Office: THE LROMN. AGH. tinue to produce all their spec ialties, such as Mer- | Scrap lron, Metals and Machinery, JUSTICE COX, Jr. CHARLES K. BARNS. JUSTICE COX, JR, & CO., AGENTS FOR CONEWAGO, MONTGOMERY AND SHENANDOAH Foundry & Forge Pig Iron. CARBON ROLLING MILL CO., Limited, Best Quality Muck Bar. CATASAUQUA MFG. CO.’S Bar, Angie, Skelp and Sheet Iron. Shenandoah (Va.) Best Charcoal Blooms, No, 224 So, PONTE Boss PHILA 4 DELPHI4. BLAKEY & WALBAUM, 206 S. Fourth St., PHILADELPHIA, 55 & 57 Pine Street, New York, GENERAL MERCHANDISE BROKERS SPECIALTIES, NEW AND OLD RAILS, BLOOMS, BESSEMER PIG, Spiegeleisen Iron Ores AND RAILROAD SUPPLIES GENERALLY. Sole Agents for the United States for The North Lonsdale Iron and Steel Co., Limited. Edward J. Etting, TRON BROKER axnp COMMISSION MERCHANT, 22:3 8S. Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. Pig, Bar and Railroad Iron. OLD RAILS, SCRAP, &o. Agent for the MOUNT SAVAGE FIRE BRICK, The Allentown Iron Co. and the Greenwood Rolling Mill. STORAGE WHARF AND YARD DELAWARE AVENUE ABOVE CALLOWHILL STRERT, connected by track with railroad. Cash advances made on Iron. Established 1837. A. PURVES & SON, Dealers in CHICKIES, Cor. South and Penn Sts., Philadelphia, Offer for sale, in lots to suit, Red or Yellow Heavy | Serap Brass ; ingot Brass, best qualities, Ingot Gun Metal made strictly from O14 Cannon; 38 eam Pumps, | Shafting Pulleys,&c. Machinery and Tools vari us descriptions. C ash paid for Scrap [roa and Metals Isaac V. LLoyp. Jas. G. LINDSAY. LLOYD & LINDSAY, No. 328 Walnut St., PHILADELPHIA, Brokers and General Dealers in Iron and Steel, Railway Kquipments and Supplies, Bar, Plate and Sheet Iron, Pig Iron, Rails and Fastenings, Muck Bars, Bessemer Pig Iron, brand “* YLVERS TON,” Blooms, rory aa Wrought Iron Pipe, &c. Malleable Pig Iron, brand ** UY, WH. M."" _ Florida Yellow Pine, careo lots. ee N. B. ALLEN & CO.’S DINAS FIRE J. 0. RICHARDSON, — No. 232 Dock St., Philadelphia, DEALER IN Pig Iron, Merchant Bar tron and tron Ores. Ethelbert Watts, IRON BROKER AND pours. SION MERCHANT, JEROME KEELEY & CO. 206 Walnut Place, Philadelphia, SELLING AGENTS FOR CHARCOAL and ANTHRACITE BLOOMS, PIG IRON, BAh IRON, SHEET IRON, STEEL and IRON RAILS. IRON CLAD STEEL RAILS and BARS, and HEMATITE IRON ORES FIRE BRIC K, COAL Rails, Scrap Iron &c. of Iron and Coal properties. E, H. Wilson. A. Kaiser. J. B. M. Hirons, E. H. WILSON & CO., 230 South Third Street, Philadelphia. No. 326 Walnut St., Philadelphia. ———— a oe i Pig, Muck and Bar Iron, Scrap, Et. } IRON AND STEEL. __Also, COKE AND IRON ORES. Correspondence solicited. G. A. HEBERTON. 8. FRANK SHARPLES. HEBERTON & CO., Selling Agents and Commission Merchants For the sale of Pig, Bloom, Plate, Bar, Scrap, Galvanised Black, Sheet, Pips and Railroad’ | IRON. No. 220 So. 3d 8t., Phi Charcoal Bloom and Pig a sped iafty. e Langhorne Wister, Rodman Wister, a By M. Shimer. 8.2 & Co, L. & R. WISTER & CO., IRON BROKERS. Scrap Iron a Specialty. Agents for the Clearfiela me ¢ fiela Fire Brick Co.'s EDMUND D. SMITH 147 So. 4th St., Philadelphia, BROKER FOR THE SALE OF ALL GRADES FOREIGN & DOMESTIC IRON ORES, Spiegeleisen, Pig Iron and Structural Iron. J. W. HOFFMAN & CO., IRON COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 4208 South Fourth St., Philadelphia, SELLING AGENTS, | IRON CO, Plates and Muck Bars ; } Te L eal), eniens-M e e - | No. 930 South 4th 8t., Philadelphia. | Sten) ‘Universal and Sheaed Plates gn Hearth) ANDOVER PIG IRON, | 58s FOR BEST MILL PRODUCTS. Andover Chill Iron for Carwheels, co. Each pig marked exact chill depth (4% inch to 7 inch), A. Whitney & Son’s standard test. " F. A. ComLy, Treas. J. WESLEY PULLMAN, Agent. 407 Walnut St., PHILA DEL PHIA. | MORRIS, WHEELER & Co., IRON, STEEL & NAILS. WAREHOUSE and OFFICES, | SALES OFFICES, 16th & Market Sts., 400 Chestnut St., PHILA., PA. PHILA., PA. New York Address, 14 CLIFF 8ST. J. J. MOHR, Sole Agent for Sheridan, Leesport, Temple, Millcreek and Mt. Laurel BESSEMER, FOUNDRY AND FORGE | REUBEN HAINES, CHEMIiIsT, 738 Sansom S&St., Philadelphia. Analysis of Ores of [ron and other Metals, Pig Iron and Steel. Assay of Gold and Silver Water Analysis for Manuf’ing and Household Use. Danville Nail and Mfg. Co. NAILS. DANVILLE, PA. WILLIAMS, WHITE & CO. MOLINE, ILLINOIS. MANUFACTURERS OF DROP HAMMERS Ores. | | | | } | | 816 Richmond St., - - - . SHOVELS, | TH