A MONSTER STEEL FACTORY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1532, 14 April 1887, Page 3

A MONSTER STEEL FACTORY

The Pittsburg "Gazette" Btatea that i Andrew Carnegie and hlspartnem pay out more money m wagoß every month thin Krupp, tho oolebrated gun maker of Essen, Germany, disburses among hlo men. Krupp employs 10,000 men, and Carnegie's Pittsburgh mills are operated by 6,000 men. The difference m the aggregate of snlaries ia the difference between American and European pay. The monthly pay roll of the Pittsburg iron master is over half a million dollars. Eight of the Carnegio blast furnaces produce each day 1 500 tons of metal. For making a ton of any kind of metsl it r- quires four tons of material, consisting of ores, limestone, coko, and m mill metal cinder is vised, making for each day 6.000 tons of material handled. Estimating tin's immense amount at twenty tone, or 40,003 pounds, to a car, it wnild require the ÜBe of 3CO oar?. In addition t > this, the firm finishes eveiy djy at least 1 00'J tons, requiring fifty cars more. Bed Jea this, 150 tons of unfinished old iron and raw steel are handled at Thirty-third street. The liquid metal, 650 tons daily, handled at the steel rail mill is transferred ia what are called ladles. In making an estimate fully within bounds, it is safe to s?y tha* 375 card are r. quired every day to hauale the raw and finished material used by Carnegie's mill. Twelve engines, or one locomotive for every forty cars, each boing thirty feet long, added to the 375 care, would make & iraiu ef 12,380 foot, or more than two miles m length. For 300 days it rrould take 111,000 care This would make a train 3,330,000 feet long, which would reach over a distance of 630 miles— from Columbus, Ohio, to New Yoik. The plants owned by the Carnegies cover 200 Bc:e3 of ground, Up: n this there are laid and maintained thirty-five miles of traclis, and the firm own twenty two looomotivew