Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-11-27
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observation-disclosures SaW-1aiU md
Sxh F'nctory-We visited this old established
concern yesterday, and with taking survey of
the place and listening to rehearsal of ancient
scenes and occurrences connected with the place,
were very pleasantly entertained for an hour or
50. II. d. & j. Il. Hubbard's Saw Mill, Sash
Factory and Lumber Yard, is located near the
Main street stone bridge, over Wheeling Creek
An establishment to be brief could not be
much better prepared to give satisfaction to
patrons, either as to workmanship, quality of
material, variety of style, or gcntlemanly and
honorable dealings. The saw mill yields from
million to one million and half feet annu-
ally-all pine logs from the Allegheny country
The Sash Factory yields from forty to sixty
thousand lights annually, and from five hundred
to eight hundred thousand lathe. They sell each
year from two to three hundred thousand feet
Of Allegheny manufactured lumber. The stock
always on hand comprises everything known to
the trade. The sash lumber is kiln-dred and
saved in the mill. This firm furnishes employ
tncnt to from twelve to sixteen men. The ia.
thcr of the present owners of the mill, who has
long since been gathered to his fathers, erected
the building thirty years ago and some eight or
ten years afterwards the sash factory was burnt
Both have been in constant operation since.
There many "reminiscences connected with
the spot where this mill now stands. A long
while ago, Mr.. George Whites grist mill stood
there, with one horse saw mill in connection
Many Of the older inhabitants uow living have
fresh remembrance of the dusty and age bent
form of the miller, as he devoted one ear and
one eye to the saw log and sound of the bur,
while one of each of those useful organs he di-
rectcd to the cry and sight of red skins about.
The ground in the vicinity of the MILL was
once occupied as a boat building yard, the
timber for which was whip sawed. f" A
number of boats were built there of various
kinds and it is related as TRUTH that about the
year 1912, a brig was built, which afterwards
found its way to Liverpool, and great time
was had in looking over the map of the United
States, to find port called Wheeling"
In 1929 the grist mill was destroyed by fire,
and the man who "tended" the machinery had
his clothes burnt up. Notwithstanding the
loss was at that time seriously felt and deplor-
ed the fact that the slender" was>compelled TO
travel about three quarters of mile in what
would have been model artistic rig but Cor q
single unmentionable garment, the latter end of
which fluttcrcd to the cold breeze like "a rag
and sign of dist ess, rs he streaked itby the
dwellings, ON his rapid way home created such
great merrimeut at the time that it is wildly re-
membered by maay of the eye witnesses
There is known TO exist excellent lumber
along the waters of Wheeling creek, which,
were it not for the Hemptield railroad bridges,
could be RATED to this city with profit. The
Mcssrs. Hubbard once despatched party ofmen
up the creek, to fall some oak trees for partic-
ular purpose The men succeeded admirably in
finding and preparing the desired timber, but
when they came to ''irive it, down to the mill
the trouble commenced. The logs did not float
well, but would assisted by swift current, at
taina sort of heavy, rolling velocity, when one
end would strike the bank and the trunkless
ash roll ten or fifteen feet out upon the shore
Various other expedients were adopted to con-
vey the timber down, but none of them proved
to be as "easy as rolling off log, but resulted
on the contrary, in great trouble, expense and a
final escape of good deal of the lumber into
tie Ohio river
Wetakepleasurc in recommending the estab-
liShment under consideration as well worthy OF
patronage.
Eslter Story--'rhc remains of Capt. Walter
Story, supervisor of engines in the 4th division
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, who was
killed at Glovcr's Gap, on Wednesday, by the