Directory of Iron and Steel Works of the United States and Canada (Volume 12) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894. Excerpt: ... heating furnaces, one 23J-mch slab train, one 3-high 21-inch nailplate train, and 154 nail machines; steel works made first blow January 21, 1886; product, steel nails and large flats; annual capacity, 350,000 kegs of nails. Fuel used, bituminous coal. Clapp-Grifhths plant idle. (Formerly operated by the Western Nail Company; later by the Belleville Steel Company.) Charles A. McNair, President; T. A. Meysenburg, Vice-President; B. 8. Adams, Secretary and Selling Agent; F. W. Oliver, Treasurer. Waukegan Works, Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Company, Waukegan, Lake county. Main office, Worcester, Mass.; Chicago office, 107-109 Lake st. Built in 1891; 4 coal and 2 regenerative gas heating furnaces and 4 trains of rolls; product, wire rods and wire; annual capacity, 90,000 gross tons. See Rolling Mills and Steel Worfo in Massachusetts. Western Tube Company, (formerly Haxtun Steam Heater Company, ) Kewanee, Henry county. Built in 1883 and put in operation in November, 1883; 2 single and 4 double busheling furnaces, one squeezer, 4 heating furnaces, 3 trains of rolls, (one 16-inch muck, one 3-high 16-inch roughing, and one 2-high 16-inch finishing, ) and one 5,000-pound hammer; product, skelp iron, used by the company in the manufacture of pipe; annual capacity, 35,000 gross tons. The company manufactures everything used in the construction of steam heating apparatus for all kinds of buildings. Fuel used, coal and oil. J. H. Pierce, President; J. C. Williams, Vice-President; A. M. Hewlett, Secretary and Treasurer; C. E. McCullough, Assistant Treasurer. Number of rolling mills and steel works in Illinois: 28. Of these 6 make Bessemer steel, 1 has a Clapp-Griffiths steel plant, 1 makes Robert-Bessemer steel, 5 have open-hearth steel plants and 1 openhearth steel p.