Borsodi Levéltári Évkönyv 3. (Miskolc, 1980)
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DATATO THE HISTORY OF BORSOD-MISKOLC STEAM MILL, 1864-1947 Mrs. Péter Seres The study gives information based on archival documents to be found here on the history of the share company for Borsod-Miskolc Steam Mill launched in Miskolc in 1864. With no aim at the complete history of the company the author presents the progress of the mill in broad lines in close connection with the development of Hungarian milling industry. In a separate chapter she deals with the formation of the company and with the articles of association on the basis of which it functioned. She informs about some financial data characteristic of the rising phase of its development which had lasted to the turn of the century and also touches upon the regional expansion of the milling company and the incorporation of smaller mills in Northern Hungary. As an important phase, she deals with the merger of Borsod-Miskolc Steam Mill Share Company and Debrecen Steam Mill Share Company, its financial and marketing backround, and the implementation of the merger. The history of the joint company is already that of decline and besides the causes of depression the study reveals its financial indications as well. Finally there are some data published in the study concerning manpower and social politics at the company and the part mill-workers played in labour movement. A HISTORY OF CEMENT AND LIMESTONE WORKS IN HEJŐCSABA, 1890-1976 Béla Lénárt The Bükk Mountains offer industrial raw materials abundantly among which one of the most important is limestone. Basing on this mine-treasure, a contractor living in Miskolc, Adolf Weiskopf opened his quarry in Tapolca in 1890. For the transport of limestone a narrow-gauge light radway was established soon. Basing on the favourable tendency of the market for budding materials, Weiskopf decided to build a lime-kiln. This plan, however, had been carried out by the legal successor of the quarry and light railway, the Hungarian Coal-Mine Share Company. In 1911 the above company bought all the rights of ownership and lease, then in 1914 put a Hofmann’s ring lime-kiln into operation near the No.2. watchman’s house of Hungarian Railways. The budding operations of tenement houses near the limestone quarry and works, those of the works establishments were begun and they had been completed by the end of World War I. Till its nationalization in 1948 the company made its industrial base for budding materials consisting of three units (quarry, light radway, limestone-works) run practically with these fittings. Continuous production was interrupted by three big crises: the hard economic situation after World War I, the depression of 1929—33, the years following World War II. The decisive change in the life of the works is Hejőcsaba began in 1948 following its nationalization. Anew quarry was opened in Nagykőmázsa in 1950 and the old one in Várhegy was simultaneously closed down. To meet the demand for cement in Northern Hungary a plant capable of producing cement of order 150 was set up in the first five years’ plan as a temporary solution, but this plant was not able to come up to the preliminary expectations. A final solution was reached when Hejőcsaba Cement and Limestone Works had been budt up by 1953. The yearly capacity of the factory with a 292
