CHESTER, - Delaware County PA History

22 CHESTER, PE~~gYLVANIA.
vania, three in Chicago, Illinois, three in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
and one in Denver, Colorado.
Thcy have a full corps of compctent engineers, and their
works are well equipped with the best modern machine tools,
and special applianccs, and hm'c tools and facilities for handling
thc work, enabling them to build the heaviest class of
machinery, and Corliss engines up to 3,000 horse-powcr.
TIDEWATER STEEL WORKS.
Another large concern is the Tidewater Steel \Vorks, whose
plant is located on the Delaware, and occupies about a dozen
acres of ground. The Company was incorporated in 1880,
with a paid-up capital of $250,000. The principal articles of
manuf.:lcture are steel rails, railroad fastenings, bar iron, angles,
and shapes, both iron and steel. In 1887 this Company made
steel rails from imported blooms, importing 40,905 tons, valued
at S1,175,000, upon which duties were paid at the Custom
House amounting to $300,990. The usual product of the mill
is manufactured from domestic raw material. \ Vhen running
to their full capacity, the works employ about 200 mcn. Owing
to the splendid wharf facilities the large ocean steamships
which bring the blooms are enabled to discharge their cargoes
directly at the works.
STANDAI{l> STEEL CASTIX(,
CO~II'AXY.
The Standard Steel Casting Company was incorporated in
1883 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The works are
located at Thurlow, Pennsylvania, on the Philadelphia, \Vilmington
& Baltimore Railroad, two miles south of Chester, Pennsylvania,
comprising several large buildings, open-hearth steel
plant, Siemen-Martin process, with a melting capacity of thirty
tons per day; foundry buildings for making moulds and castings,
also drying and annc11ing ovens, pattern shops, pattern
storehouses, machine shops, etc. They now employ 250 men
in the production of steel castings of countless different shapes,
for all kinds of machinery, locomotive, marine and stationary
engines; bridge materials and rolling mill castings; requisite
shapes for building ships of war and of commerce, such as