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Spang, Chalfant & Co., Etna Rolling Mills
| Name | Spang, Chalfant & Co., Etna Rolling Mills |
| Ortssitz | Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
| Ortsteil | Allegheny |
| Art des Unternehmens | Eisenwerks-Unternehmen |
| Anmerkungen | Ortssitz vmtl. Pittsburgh (wie das zugehörige Werk "Etna Rolling Mill"). Verwaltung in Allegheny, Sandusky Street. |
| Quellenangaben | [Ironworks of the United States (1876) 87] [Industries of Pittsburgh (1879) 84] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1828 |
Gründung durch H. S. Spang |
| 1837 |
C. F. Spang, James McAuley und Joseph Long übernehmen die Leitung des Unternehmens unter der Firma "Spang & Co." |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Betrieb von Eisenhüttenwerken |
1876 |
[Ironworks of the U.S. (1876)] |
1876 |
[Ironworks of the U.S. (1876)] |
Siehe betriebene Werke! |
| Zeit |
gesamt |
Arbeiter |
Angest. |
Lehrl. |
männl. |
weibl. |
Kommentar |
| 1879 |
450 |
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Gehalt je Monat: 20.00 bis 25.000 Dollar |
Zeit = 1: Zeitpunkt unbekannt
| Zeit |
Bezug |
Abfolge |
andere Firma |
Kommentar |
| 1876 |
Nebenwerk |
danach |
Etna Rolling Mill |
Stand: 1876 |
| ZEIT | 1879 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | No general description of the staple industries of Pittsburgh, however carefully compiled, or even reduced to a
statistical basis, could possibly give one, unfamiliar with this great workshop of America, any adequate idea of its real magiiitude, especially with relation to the manufacture of Iron. By a review of each establishment engaged in this enterprise only, can a reasonable conception be conveyed of the ponderous interests involved by the trade in this city, or material be furnished for a proper appreciation of the development, resources and capacities of this community. To
supply such information in detail is the object of this work, and in so doing the mills of Messrs. Spang, Chalfant & Co. are entitled to more than ordinary consideration. These works were established, originally, in 1828 by H. S. Spang, and are outranked in age by not more than one or two similar concerns in Western Pennsylvania or the entire West, and
may be catalogued in the same class with reference to size and importance. When first constructed, the mills, though
dependent on water power and employing not more than 50 operatives in all, were considered for that period remarkably extensive, and for nearly 10 years, under the original management, pursued a successful and useful career. In 1837
C. F. Spang, James McAuley and Joseph Long assumed control of tlie business under the style of Spang & Co., a title
which remained unchanged until 1858, though the last named partner was associated with the enterprise but 12 months.
The latter date marks the period when the existing firm, composed of Messrs. C. H. Spang, J. W. Chalfant, C. B. Herron and Geo. A. Chalfant, succeeded to the business, and from that time to the present the history of the enterprise is distinguished by a series of enlargements, improvements and a vast increase in production, as well as greater perfection in the methods employed and general results. The scope of manufacture has also been widely extended. Originally confined to the product of Merchant Bar and Blooms, the output of the mills now consists of Bar Iron, Nails, Boiler Plate and Wrought Iron, lap welded tubes for boilers and Steam Pipe. In this latter branch of manufacture the firm is the pioneer west of the Alleghenies, and was the first to engage in this department of the trade, obtaining from the outset a celebrity for work of this description that has been sedulously maintained and enhanced by the application of every modern appliance likeiy to increase the excellence of this product. The mills are located at Etna, a point about 5 miles above tlie city proper, on the North Side of the Allegheny River. In an article in the New York Times of March 27, 1877, upon the iron interests of Pittsburgh, considerable space is devoted to a description of these mills, from the fact that the fuel employed for all the operations, involved by the working of iron and machinery, consists of natural gas conveyed by a line of pipe 18 miles long from the oil regions in Butler County. In the adaptation of puddling and heating furnaces, and for the use of this gas, material changes were required, and obstacles to be overcome that taxed both the ingenuity and capital of the firm to no meagre extent. All difficulties, however, were finally removed, and, for the first time in the history of the iron industry, gas was used alone, without the adjunct of any other fuel, for the purpose of manufacturing iron successfully in every process to which it is subjected, requiring heat. The plant at Etna consists of two rolling mills and two pipe mills, in which are employed about 450 operatives, whose earnings average from 20.000 to 25.000 per month, nine batteries of boilers and ten steam engines being necessary for the supply of motive power, much of the machinery being of the heaviest construction. Part of the apparatus consists of 22 puddling furnaces, 9 heating furnaces, 6 trains of rolls, 22 nail and spike machines and other appliances, some of which belong exclusively to the firm under letters patent, especially such as pertain to the rapid and perfect construction of sockets and couplings for wrought iron pipes, the capacity of the mills being not less than 12.000 tons per annum. It is hardly necessary to say that the house of Spang, Chalfant & Co. occupies a position among its contemporaries devoid of blemish. The impetus given to the industries of this community by the capital and enterprise of the firm is not unrecognized, and the general consideration with which it is regarded is the natural outgrowth of a career, which for more than half a century has embodied the highest principles of commercial integrity and personal honor. |
| QUELLE | [Industries of Pittsburgh (1879) 84] |
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