The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-03
Walks and Talks about Town,
Keystone Planning Mills.

At the corner OF Market and Madison
streets, at the north end Of the Seconc
Ward market, and opposite the Gran
House, stands the Keystone Planning
Mills of Armstrong, Coen d Co, deal
ers in dressed and undressed lumber
lath, shingles, misunderstanding, frames
doors, sash, blinds, mouldings, palingi
and boxes. This establishment is the
most extensive Of its kind in West Nir
ginia, and there are but few larger in
the West. The planning mill proper
covers an area of l62 feet square, while
counting the board yards, it occupies
about an acre and half
The machinery is Of the latest and
best kinds, and includes three planners
upright saws, tennuing machine, NOR
ticing machine, irregular moulder, sash
sticker, large moulder, ten circular saws,
and other labor saving machinery, the
whole driven by very beautiful slide
valve engine OF sixty-tve horse power.
One OF the most ingenius contrivances
we ever saw is a suction pipe Tor carry
ing off the shayings and dust from the
planning machines. 4 vacuum is Gre
ated and of course the air rushes in to
destroy ii. This creates a suck by
which the shavings are carried off and
deposited in a room adjacent TO the
engine room where they are burned.
A visit to the mill to see this wonderful
invention in operation will pay any
one.
The mill il perfect beehive OF IL
dustry. From fifty to eighty men are
employed, and all are busy at something
Here packing boxes, cigar boxes and
almost every other kind Of boxes are
being manufactured; there boards are
being planed, both sides at once. In
another apartment fence pallings are
being cut out with ornamented tops OF
very handsome design; yonder mould
ings for picture frames Of different
STYLES are being made on a machine
wonderful for its precision and rapidity.
Here again mouldings and other work
of most unique design is being prepared
for use on Bethany College building.
In another place the whirring OF turn
ing lathe is heard and we see the beauti-
full things the practiced eye, skilliul
hand and cultivated intellect can pro
duce. 1t makes one almost wish he too
was a professor Of the art of making
shavings to see this large number o.
workmen all at work producing some.
thing of utility or of beauty.
The firm consists of j. A. Armstrong,
Alexander Coen and 7. B. Armstrong,
all practical and skillful workmen
themselves, and employing none but
those eminent in their respective
branches. They turn out none but the
best work. and consequently are kept
busy. They furnish everything needed
to fit up a house, the doors, window
sash, mouldings, cornices, Venetian
blinds, door-frames, in fact everything
while their store counters are models OF
beauty, strength and durability.
To our readers who need anything
in Messrs. Armstrong, Coen X Co. E
line we recommend the keystone
Mills. If you leave your orders with
them you have the assurance that they
will give you the best material and best
work to be had anywhere.
They have bought the right TO man
u(acture one of the most useful inven-
tons, for farmers Of this century, J. J.
Orders Champion Grain Screen. No
matter how full OF cooked, cheat or dirt
wheat may be, this screen will seperate
them and leave You nothing but the
clean grain.