The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-12-24
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Ine WA'eFs euss enAo'Os 'nem - nAui up
COKE OF ore WIN peF'eeslAoIi'y' anu ue'
P0''' e''nsp ''O'O 70 'n0 s'AUN u 1"e'f
'afnA0s' tnsy are mus Won nAeu u
command favorable terms from 'nS now
Foaa' ana no dOuOt 'hey "'''S''r' Oh VITA
g'oa on'F from 'ne '0mpan"
speaking o. 'neSe lso'lt'le' OF Tue Top
MIL reminds u' Of the TACT mat nearly
M our iurhaoes are putting themselves
IN shape 70 COMMAND 0e''ef =, .eFns In !he
way OF telSn' On lu '., Inc neIir' n
FuFna's, ana a' sou 'ne Nl'eFSue' 'he Del
mont sna Top @ial nave all put up In
Cl'nes' anu arc all prepared 10 supply
themselves WIN coke Dy river al, lnoeeo'
inc Two former nave been DONG LOT some
time past The BsnWood people have
oeen meo'tannE Inc same sep hence 1t
Is NOT surprising 10 near sns1 tue OleVe-
lana q fisnoureh Company are oon1em'
plating reduction IN tue pFlco aiIeF the
iat Of January we lear 1nat 'ney may
nave deiayed ra'her long 4aefe Is sSld
70 DC a saving OF a cent per Ooshel In
0onneiisViiie COKE Dy river winch Is
equivalent In iron making 10 say ~ cents
per Ton, OF Ia a furnace producing 90
toni, 10 Sz4 oV per Jay Han this saw
ing Isl olg object Tor any furnace Even
SlS per day would DO SS4 per week, or
AS8s per aunun-S per cent on S72'9VV
while twice the amount Is equal oil
course, to IL per cent.
Crossing ever the ferry = an inStitu'
ton that Is cotntng money Tor Capt
4nglsbtlEht q Cove stopped moment
to look in on our old friend Mr.. I. a.
CulbertSon, who recently bought the
Foundry oil CuIbert'on, Wiley & Co, and
is once more going 1t alone In the world
and we leafnedlrom him that he has Just
received an order Tor a lot oil hot blast
pipe from the Bellaire furnace, asPecles
oil WORK That ne lsprepafsa 10 DO In good
shape and on short notice ana reasonable
terms. 1t VIII DC remembered 'hat this
foundry made all the heavy castings
Tor Inc Belmont furnace and Tor the
Etna g ONO City mills In connection
with spence's machine works, some oil the
heaVlst and best WORK ever put IN place
hsreaooul was turned outa Mr. CnIbert'
sons works.
Passing on up TO the furnace belonging
20 me benWood Company we found our
friends MoCahAn and Arm'srongsaIl pre-
sidins over ln destinieS, the former as
FOUNDER and the latter as Secretary and
weigh Master AS they expressed 1t,
the furnace Is doing splendid these days
making from 80 to 30 tons OF number one
open gray iron. The BenWood Furnace
70 one oil the Institutions oil Martins
Ferry that have not been upset by the
panic but that have pursued the even
tenor OF their way as in ante'panic days,
giving work to a number OF people and
keeping up sign Of life and activity
about the depot. But Tor this happy fact
the upper town would looked very dead
Tor good while past, owing to the
collapse Of Inc steel WORKS and the
stopping OF the Nail Mill The piles OF
ore coke and Limestone around the inr'
mace represent agreat deal oil hauling BY
cars ana wagons and great many dollars
paia out Tor raw material and labor A
barge OF ore from 81 Louis was unload
inSst the wharf oil the Company while we
were at the turnance on satuFday-Ot the
so,caileo crawford ore-s rival TO the
Ss'eOFa'ed Iron Mountain ore-'an ore that
SaS come ln,O extensive u'e nefesooH.s
uuf,nS Tue last lew years. 4h,s ore ~
s'eu "a MIXTURE aioH0 W''n Tue tl'n
epeouiaf sno Magnetic ores Oh Lake su-
pstiOf, ana q small per cent o. lll0indeF'
''pFoauce a very STRONG nail 'Fon'
nu' II was not our purpose IN setting
ous On aa excursion 10 TF''s ABOUT luF-
haeeS' Az mat We >, nave 'a'a on tnS'
SUBJECT Is purely "ino'dsntar as our
friend ThoB, HofnbrO0k would say, We