The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-01

IHPRovEHESTs AT TIE Two ESDs or
THE CITY.-The street railroad is now
laid a. far up Town as the Hospital and
the work Is still going forward. Some
heavy cutting down is being done near
the terminus Of the route at the Rolling
Mil. The whole street along there will
be graded down several feet. When the
track Ia laid, the Martinsville
ferry boat will make her land
ings ct the Mil, and the approach
e at the wharf will be Improved in or
der TO facilitate an easy connection
with the cars. Tie whole locality will
be reconstructed In harmony with the
new era up that way.
In this connection we cannot refrain
from adverIing to this condition Of the
street along by the hospital. 1t is an
ugly piece Of road for vehicles TO pass
over these times, and needs attention as
soon as possible. II will certainly not
improve by neglect.
When the street railroad Is finished
clear up to the Rolling Mill 1t will prove
q great convenience TO numbers of the
employees who work there but live
down this way. The most OF them are
tired enough when six O'Clock comes to
enjoy II ride, and they will be apt TO tax
the full accommodations of the road at
that honr. So, too, in going up in the
morning many OF them will want to
ride. And still better, the cars Will be
n great relief to many OF the hard work.
ing women up in that region on mar
ket mornings, who are accustomed to
tTudgs along for a mile under the
weight of heavy baskets. We are
duubly glad for their sakes that we
have such an institution AS the street
cars,
Aud speaking of the Rolling Mill, we
notice hat the enierprisiDg managers
of 1t are still pushing forward their i'm
proYements in aud around the already
mammoth concern. A coal car rail-
way is being built along the hill
and down across The road along the
west side OF the mill, with the idea OF
and consequent expense. IL Will soon
he in trim for operations, and
when finished will be another of
the substantial facts accomplished up
that way by Messrs. AchesOn, Bell &
Co. Few people who have not been on
the spot of late have any idea Of the
busy hive OF Industry that has been set
a2oiug on the site OF the old Missouri
Iron Works. That sncient locality Is a
live place now. Upwards OF four hum
dred men are employed in and about
the new mill. Eighty-two nail ma
chimes, to say nothing OF the more pom
derous machinery OF the concern, make
Fan unceas.nR sound OF thunderous
clatter" from "early morn till deWy
eve" The product OF all this noise aud
labor is some four thousand kegs per
week of those excellent nails for which
Wheeling Is already SO famous through
ont the West and South.
And speaking OF our nail product, we
observe that the new mills of MeSsrs.
DaWnV- NAnER % Co aR hi aVT
progress, and will probably be rendy to
take a hand in the Fall trade. When
finished, their concern will be one OF
the most connections and handsome
workshops in the city. We feel proud
of such Institutions increasing in our
midst. We want TO see them go on
until Wheeling becomes the great iron
centre OF the country.
The Benwood Works, too. we hear,
are thinking OF adding materially TO
their present immense property, in toe
way OF new machines. She now runs
between sixty and seventy. The La
Belle runs near the same number. we
believe, while the Belmont, the largest
OF all our mills, runs between eighty
and ninety. AT the La Belle we notice
a handsome Improvement, newly COM
pleted, In the shape of a large brick
stable, one OF the fastest structures OF
the kind in the city. II looks more like
a well-to-do house than stable. The
La Belle people always esteem Il a mat
Ter oil true economy in the long run toI
do things in first class style.
Thenew machine shop of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, at the lower
END OF town, Is progressing, but, as is
proTerbiRlly the case with large bodies,
II moves slowly AS yet. II will be |
concern of durable character, however,
when II is completed, and together with