Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-12-11

lready reached fifty thousand dollars, a
howing an increase of at least twenty il
i've or thirty per cent on the aggregate d
BUSINESS of last year. The experience a
# one year has enabled the company i
o materially improve the quality ofIi
heir glass, and their fiattering success
las determined them to make their II
productive capacity commensurate {
With all possible demand. l.
THE BELLAIRE MANUFACTURING co. IS
Works are located on the bank of thel
river a short distance below the Rail-
road bridge. The institution was first
designed for the exclusive manufacture
Of agricultural machinery. The build
ings are very cOmmOdious, and well
to an extensive business. The
however, was one of limited
capital, and owing to heavy expenses
incident to the marketing of its pro-
ducts the Company failed and in 1872
the property passed into the hands Of ii
receiver. The present Company ac-
quired possession in June of the current
year, and consists of Anthony Sheets,
Isaac Booth, Harrison Butte, An
drew Smith and C. L. POOrman, with |
the last named gentleman as general
manager. This company represents a
capital of some three hundred thousand
dollars. The design continuing the
manufacture of agricultural iDple-
ments, and in addition have turned
their attention to general foundry and
machine work, for which they have
ample facilities. The season having
passed for active operations on agri-
cultural machinery when the company
took hold of the business, they have
nothing to report in that branch. They
expect, however, after the first of JAN
uary to resume operations in that line.
THE GAS wJKRs.
Our previous reiuarAs upon the in
dustries of Bellaire are strongly sugges-
tive of lights, and we need not wonder
that her people are greatly elated over
the recent completion Of their Gas
Works. We are only surprised that
they did not have regular jubilee and
invite US down to see It turned on: OF
course they justly regard this as their
crowning effort in home enterprise.
| The contractor for the erection of
these works is r. G.. Jordan, Esq, of
| Wheeling, who has of late years been
engaged in similar enterprises, having
built the works in Frostburg, Md,
Clarksburg, w. Va, Cadiz and Athens,
i Ohio, and several other towns, in all
of which he has been eminently sue
cessful. The Bellaire gas buildings are
Substantially built of brick and covered
with slate. There are 1900 feet of 6,
4 and 8 inch main pipe in the streets,
Il two benches of retorts, five retorts in
each bench, one McKenzie's Exhauster
fers, containing $40 feet lime surface
one shelf washer, one multitubulai
condenser of large Capacity, four puri.
(nearly double that of the Wheeling
gas wOrks;) a station meter, capacity
90, 600 feet; one balance valve governor
!, to regulate the pressure of the gas in
the street mains. The holder is forty
f by 16 feet, nearly q 900 feet capacity
) with supporting frames which are o
! wrought iron throughout. The washer
: condenser, station meter and governor
3 all have bypass valves, which arrange
c ment permits either apparatus to b
> cleaned or repaired without Obstructint
' the operations of the works.
The construction was commenced b!
e the contractor in July, and. although
: delayed six weeks in the reception o
s his castings, was completed in NOvem
: ber and the gas turned into the city oil
r the I'd of December. "The people tina
sat in darkness saw great light"
J, THE MARKET BOY AS A LINK IN TIL
r CHAIN THAT BINDS Us To BELLAIRE
l Our notice of trip to Bellaire woul,
r not be complete without few word
g in regard to the convenient and accom-
d modating little packet that has helpe'
r so materially to facilitate the inter
!, course between Wheeling and Bellaire
h The Market Boy may now be regards
It as a permanent institution and as n
= longer as an experiment. She make
II FOUR trips each way per day, and thu
e affords business people ample accom-
{ modatiOns for coming and going q
pleasure. We are glad to know tha
her freight and business has been sucl
as to encourage her owners to keep he
Z in the trade.