The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-04-12
Industry and Iron Making on the
ChcSapCnkG Il Ohio railroad.

ncighbOrs, and therefore | have had but
little to write to You about. Things are
however looking better now, and in GER
tain branches Of business there IL u mark
ed activity. Lumber Is still both dull
and low In price. The coal mines on the
Kanawha have not been worked
more than half time this winter. The
csc. II, r., has been much hampercd by
the Ice in the Ohio; no logs were shipped
for months; and the incoming Of stran.
gers seems to have partially demOralized
the farmers, so that in some sections very
little grain was raised last year.
On the other hand, the people Of "lhe
COW countless" as the eloquent Milesian
Of Union, calls the men of the GrcCnbrier,
are looking forward to, ut least as good
fall beef market as they had last year,
and have bought up Ill the stock that they
can carry. Some men have bought all
the last years hay in Nicholas county,
80 that they may control the stock. 1t
isdcvouLly to be hoped that they wilInot
succeed Horses arC OUTFLOW.
The dearth of tobacco in Eastern Viz
ginia has had its due effect in quickening
the growers OF the line mountain tobacco
in Fayctte, Raleigh, &c. Men are pluck
ingup courage to do all they know in this
line, and tobacco men are giving them
substantial aid where necessary, You
know, Of course, that FayGtte county
always raised the highest priced tobacco
taken to Cincinnati. At Hinton the other
day saw sample which had been sold
at 50 cents all round, and very bright,
delicate tobacco il was. Sales OF 10000
and 10000 pounds had just been made.
A good deal Is doing In slaves. First
class New York pipes were worth about
$50 on the cars about three weeks ago.
Men arc getting them out and floating
considerable distances to the railroad.
As u rule, one does not find very Ilno
white Oak near tho railroad, but there IL
amy amount In the country.
4 gentleman who ships timber to rel
alive IN Now York, one Of the leading
men in the trade, has given out that he
is prepared to buy largely prime logs do.
liyered on the railroad. This Is good
news, M nothing hns been done in timber
for months.
The West End Furnace Mt Charleston i
progressing steadily. Let us hope that u
will tcst that nll.impOrtant question, al
irmed by 40 many statements, that kana.
wlla splint will make fine iron without
cooking and without mixture. To do that
will be better for the valley than an ocean
Of unripe md blOatcd statements.
Unless everybody lies, and nm no
ANALYST to nut such thing to the test, the
ureacnce OF black band ore in the Davis
creek region, and probably through to
Coal river, Is certain beyond any doubt IN a
6ne trorEdJte SiiuaiiOnj the pity Is that so
little IA done on Kanawha In proportion
Kanawha people don't take much stock
In the new sources Of wealth, as y seems
10 me the Kannwlla intelligence being as
narrow IA II is acute. They used 10 deny
Inc presence Of fine coal in Gahley
mountain, net 80 miles from their city,
until Prof. Austed crammcd his magniIi.
cent l. foot seam down their thrOalS nnd
silenced them. There seems to be u sort
of n notion in their mind that any min
eral discoveries beyond Knnawha Falls
are going to hurt them.
But tic fact Of the matter is, that What
ever comes Of KanAwha Micawbcrisml
and Kanawha splinL coal, the future Of
Charleston and the whole valley Il 1t
knows how to use it) il assured by what
hns been done on New river this " inter.
On Now river we have the soft bitlmlh0tlS
coais IL the lower series in some seven
or eight workable seams. Three mines,
Nuttallburg, Sewell and QninnimOnt are
working these GOALS; they. have been
working all winter up to their t!ill capa.G,-
ity, they have made coke and iron with
tic following result rs:
Nuttallburg has kept on shipping coke
IA we'll IA coal. ani unable to give you
ia analysis. Sewcll llas simply mined
and cokei It's coal for it's fnrnaceat Lory-
dale. east Of the Allegheny. Its analysis
il very similar to that Of Qunnlmont
coke, and is superior to the Conhelil:ville,
on the authority Al the ConnellsvIlle an,
nlysl, Sewell and Nutallburg have cooked
In tlle ground These three mines have
aealns from 3 feet 10 inches 10 . feet
thick, with no partings. The Qhinnlmoht
and Sewcll scans arc supposed 70 DC
Identical, The Nuttallburg Is thought to
be different one, about 200 feet higher
mn and lust below the cOnglOmerate.
tluinnimont has mined and shipped
coal, made coke and iron. ia coal
orders arc always In advance OF It's snip
nents. ma the increasing exigencies oil the
furnace prevent export. II il, however,
contemplated to open separate mine ana
coks nyens. m ptlrpose for the shipping
trade, M Ills soft coal il much called Tor
nsa house, steamboat and blnCksmi tn fuel.
The practical tests Of the coke III furnace
and cnpola lead to the belief that II Is
fully equal, II not sulerior, to Councils,
willie coke a. smelling material, but II
has not been placed on the market at
present, for the reason given above. Tho.
tlninnimonl furnace has capacity OF
about forty tons. II has been IN blast
some tWenty.iOuf weeks. Its results have
gradually improved, and, in spite Of the
drawbacks necessary to pioneer enter;
prise, where men and material are all
strange to each other, the cost has grad'
unlly been reduced Until iron Is now pro.
iluccl nj about $40 per ton.
The quality Of this iron Is all that
could bc desired. Fifty per cent Is
foundry iron. In twenty-five weeks run
they made only so tons Of notified iron,
and this was almost entirely owing to
accidents with the old machinery, which
was Mt first used, but has now been re-
placed. Col. Scott, Of lrontOn, o., who
took 500 tons Of II, stated to friend OF
mine that the quality oithis QninnimOnt
iron was most admirable, with this re.
markable characteristic, that it, excel
lcncc was equally marked in the foundry
anil the forge, and that he really could
no, say to which II was the better adapted.
The Qninnimont people have shipped
IRON to nearly every market between
baltimore, Pittsburgh, and Louisville,
andordcrs have been repeated. They have
always obtained top prices, ] presume
.h1, some Of your Wheeling men could
fell you abouiit,
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