These sacks are used principally for flour and by wholesale grocers for packing purposes. To brand these sacks in the various designs and styles are employed three cylinder power presses of the latest improvement which are kept running constantly. W. B. Shaeffer, the Superintendent of the sack department, is an experienced engraver of wood and a practical job printer who supervises all work turned out, which is conceded to be equal, if not superior, to any in the market. The trade of this concern is not confined to its own State, but reaches all over the country, particularly in the Western States. It is safe to say that at least two-thirds of the sacks of the character used by wholesale merchants in Wheeling are the product of this mill.
Natural gas is used in all departments of the mill.
In this connection it will not be out of place to say that the proprietor, Mr. S. George, has done more to build up Wellsburg than any other citizen located there. In the gloomy panic days of 1874-8 he ercted the Hudson House, the largest and finest building in the town, which derives its name from the late Rev. T. H. Hudson, who was one the pioneer ministers at the Methodist Conference of the Pittsburgh district. Nor does Mr. George's enterprise stop here. There has never been anything projected or undertaken that had a tendency to entrance Wellsburg's interests that Mr. George was not among the first to take hold, and it has always been the case that when he exerted a helping hand the work was successful. During the period between that date and 1876 several changes in the name of the firm occurred, but the mill was operated all the same.