The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-12-21

A"NLN9hU"''' Nec' To-
Editors in'e''Sen'e''.
THE hoCklNG VALLEY
OG a Tide down the valley oil Hooking
IN ono your correspondent was "ruck
WIN the marked chanSe since ms visit
hl'eeh years ago, o"lnS 10 Tue oeVeiop-
men, OIL me great coaI neiI' ana ore DeuS
@I ferry. ROCKING ana Athens counties.
mat section IL RAPIDLY becoming the lar
CAST IRON manufacturing district IN the
country, and vel! /; may be, II the claim
oil parties interested Is true that metal Il
made nj cost not exceeding twelve dol
lars per ton. Even IN the depressed con-
ditlon OF the trade several furnaces have
been built this year, and several are in
prospect Tor next year, besides the re-
moVal Of furnace rom eaCh oil Tue
nina u an,;ra ' r, %m" o ".o m,;j f.o "
49, "a 80, a., ,nn, aoai :, lii IS,
Tho T,;Nos "a, x oon w., ,o 0o ,an nnJ !, Ia
iivorsJ NJ CoInmbms n, c ,U Of " S;r cont,
nsr bn.beI Win sncb Cbsan fneI tho
the .S,ais Journq, this morningl becoming
the rival OF Pittsburgh in manufacturing
may not prove talk merely,
NOW p,rrrp.prrRa 1oors NOW
p,-r..-.I,,-.- -, 49,, IL. ,
,. HrSe5son, IGt' m"t EXHIBIT uiu .S
"iPro'T T,l III 'ne business par! o1 'ng
ao"m. Lhe nlI between Tue lahu'1S anu
"Isll'u ~" 10 SQUARES ol tlo court Iou:e
ae'S'.l, Wv s".ne ueso'I'e Tpi'eareIiee u
m". w. ~ ,S - - NV tJT, ..',Ie
rot pa ", WV S'l 80 n'I Io'I" 49,"
W.T.; ~" ~ ""' L .","s -, We n "a,
hoe boa9 hull, "9d nn;J ~. Tbo ". ' i'aa
hasn oons;%arnbio ri. - -, ;,,n.o "ao
,"sntin bn.in@s. ,o r%'% h a %p, ,Se
sye,,"s bn.irs,. r,n cor,ra,nI,,o, him.
ssIftbs, ,himm, ~, " MOI o, Snv , w"rso and
bonss The bn,:.om b,s bsan touched w
'''- 49,, 49,, 49,.
ooop rhcch'
In talking with half hundred OF the
leading business men, did no! meet
single croakeT, however, which speaks
volumes Tor the pluck OF the men OF enter
prise.
OIL.
The leading euterprisc here. Camden
Oil Refinery, il actively engaged, giving
employment to hundreds. The Camden
Company has purchased the Kraft re.
finery for $50 O0O. which has been man
aged bv Billy KRAFT, late Of Wheeling. Il
is understood the refinery is to be deaden.
si for the present. This il in co-opera.
ton with the Standard Oil COMPANY,
which il the lnrres, ,nonopoIy proba-
bly, in the Union. A number Of new
wells areworking in the White Oak sec.
ton, "a well "A regular operators out
mere CFlhe oil Is low, selling az TWO
uo!'nfs per o' i!,, Az 'lN' price II re- e.
I',reI 'ea' en- experience ANU c"P''a'
" ,1'Hs Prpa''
Mt. ''yi''' Tue "cG plI E'I'nen manager
" tue 'p'ca"'c WI NohPahE, N
iof'Iied your Correspondents 'hat MS
ConiPan! nag Jus! P'nt rs WEN
!y'Inlfsa G ,t +lnce II" i"fHlSto {.
Jsnd, maid in cs.L !, fye bnnJrsS and
ninety thousand rSjgOOOO). beside. An
accumulation o. one hundred and fifty
thousand d1ilsrI, on the original and
real c1pital Of sixty.two ,hou.and dol.
lars, Sr, Stiles i. working IN the com.
binalion among the leading producer. to
shut down until prices advance to nav.
ing point. He estimates that the country
i, losing annuslIy some thirty millions Of
dollar. tha. Europe would have to nav il
the production could DO properly rcgn.
lated. ANY regulation, however, outside
Of the natural law. of trade will prove
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