The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-06

ing the office OF the Franklin Insufauce
Company, on the North side Of Monroe
street, between Main. and Market.
THE new shops of the baltimore a,
Ohio Railroad Company have been
commenced. We yesterday visited the
site OF these works. The cOmpanyhaVe
bought and are enclosing nine acres OF
ground at the south end of the CITY,
All OF this ground will be occupied by
buildings, and when finished, i will be
among the largest workshops owned
by the company. The new building
being at present erected is ono hundred
and ten feet long and seventy feet wide,
md will be used exclusively for build
% and repairing cars. The founda-
Va Is heavy stone work, and tho wall
.tsiSs be fifteen feet high. The Round
A1ouse will be one OF the largest in the
country, and will hold under its roof
thirty engines. In addition, they will
build machine shops for the several de-
partments appertafning TO the building
and repairing of engines. All these
buildings will be of the most permanent
character, and will be fire-prO0f. The
new shops will give employment to
about four hundred men. -
Tho present buildings are of tenn.
porary character, and will be removed.
Unattractive MS the present buildings are
from an outside view, they are al ex-
ample of the proverb that appearances
often deceive, and inside we found
them genuine hive of industry. Mr..
Harrison, the gentlemanly superfns
tendent of the works took us through
the different departments. Everything
under his systematic supervision moves
like ClOcS-WOrk, and although we never
saw place SO crowded with machinery,
there seemed to be- easy working room
for all the men. The machinery is all
of the most recent Improvement. and
all of American manufacture. We saw
machines that had not been three
months out OF the patent-ofIice, which
shows how quickly a really valuable
improvement is appreciated by the in
telligent mechanics of the present Clay,
AT the west end of the machine shop is
n room where two or three
men are employed upon nothing
but the making and repairing
the tools that are used in the shop.
Such is the perfect system of this de-
partment that not n tool can be lost or
broken or mislaid. by any workman
tendent. Mr.. Harrison showed us
some steel taps, the most perfect instru-
ments of the kind we ever saw. These
he informed us were made In Pitts
burgh, aud remarked that It is onlV a
few years since mOchiuists would not
have anything OF the kind in their shops
unless L was Of English manufacture,
and yet he said no better tools ofthe
clRsS were ever made in England or
any other country. He says that he
has often wondered that some of the
enterprise of our city has not been atJ-
piled TO this branch of iron manufnc-
ture, and expressed the opinion that
Wheeling would be us successful in
tho mnnufacture of articles of steel as
ham tn r.. -
nails and other iron fabrics. Mr., Har-
rison' Is man OfhOme procliVities, and
does not believe in expending money
out of the city for any thing that can
be made OF equal quality here. He
believes In building up home interests.
1nproOf of this he showed US his books
which show m average outlay of about
htteen thousand dollars per month, ex-
pended among the various mnnutac-
turing and other establishments of the
city outside of the amount expended in
the payment of WorlImen.- Their.neW
shops, with their greatly increased de.
nand, Will proportionably augment
their expenditures. "a : "a
The Company have been obliged to
send fourthonsand tons of old rails to
JohnstownS pennsylvania, to be re-
rolled, incnrring the expense of ship.
Inent both ways, which would have
been saved could the work have been
done In this city. The new works will
DO source OF revenue TO the city of MOI
lnconsiderable value, n Circumstance
which should secure a liberal policy,
notonly towards the company, but to.
wards all the new enterprises now
3prtngtng up in our midst.
The manufacturing interests of the |
city, whether In connection with the |
subject of this article.
u any of those In active operation. or |
hose In contemplation, are:the true ba-I
YES of tho rising prosperity OF the city.
As a cOmmerCiaI city we never can a.
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