The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-09-22
BUSINESS NOTES.

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just about one half what was asked him
In the country for the same quality OF
goods, H0 had paid his way to the city
and back and earned days wages by
coming,
Nails can now be shipped from Wheel.
iug TO San Francisco, via rail and water,
for Of cents. They go to Philadelphia
for 81 cents and by sea around the Horn
for 40 cents. The rate BY rail Is 81 20.
The present price Of nails in San Fran.
cisco is 1925. The principal shippers
from hereaboutS are the Bellaire, River.
aide and Belmont mills.
There has been good deal Of .Alk
lately among our business people about
the prospec! Of the Hempaeld road being
finished 10 0snnellsyills. The road as it
nov exists has no illogical termination"
as the railroad men eIpressit. Asa mere
local road it ia mot nov and never was
worthy Of The attention Of The Baltimore
4 Ohio Cyupany. Why did they keep
their eyes on it for years il II was simply
to remain a, little 80 mile road, instead
Of becoming part Of through line? Its
manifest destiny is to penetrate the Con.
nellsVille coal zelda and open up larger
market here and at the West for the in.
comparable coke OF that region. The
TuscaraWas road is abouE=Io bring US
cheaper ore, and the Hemp6eld should be
prepared to bring US cheaper coke.
These two factors would put new
life into the iron business here.
Connellsville coke would absorb this
market. The increased consumption
would Of itself, give the HempGeld big
business. We have more than once
shown the immense amount Of money
paid the Baltimore & Ohio for freight by
one Of our furnaces.
The strails on the P. W. & Ky. road
were laid on Thursday morning at the
junction at SteubsnvilIe bridge. Captain
McLure informs na that the company
expect to lay three miles per week,
which rate will bring it to Wheeling
about the middle Of November.
Looking over the profile Of the road
yesterday We noticed that our WelI.burg
neighborsare locating the depot in. u very
undesirable place, viz: up at the north
east outskirt OF the town, instead OF i'm
mediatcly back Of the Hudson House,
where it would be easily accessible to
shippers and travellers. After 90 long
waiting for a railroad our nCighbors
should Try aud get the good Of the
cars.
Standing on the site of the proposed
p, W. & Ky. passenger depot at the head
OF our wharf. one can see what an appro.
PIRATE vis.a.vs a corresponding depot Of
the Tuscarawas road would he just across
the river on the Island. Plenty Of water
between the two roads at that point all |
the year round.
The Panhandle excursion 10 Chicago
had sixteen hundred passengers from
Columbus, the train having four sections,
in all thirty'tiVe passenger cars.-&eu.
btHri le Gosstte.
The editor Of the Pittsburgh Mlautac.
tursr has been visiting the Alabama ore
fields. lie igurCs that u ton of=iron
might be made at Birmingham Tor
sll 35. The freight to Louisville is 50. |
lie concludes his article as iollows:
'lf iron can be produced chea per in The
South than in any place in this country,
and as cheaply as Il can be produced In
England, If coal and iron ore are found
there together in iuexhsustible quaint.
ties, why should not manufactures OF all
kinds be built there, and why should not
these manufactures make goods for ex.
port TO Cuba, to Mexico, to Central and
South America, TO compete with the ex-
ports from New York or phiIadeIphiR.
or from the Old World? Is it only 4
wild flight Of the imagination TO suppose
that there may some day be Birmiug.
ham in Alabama which may rival Bir.
mingham in England? II seems US il
nothing is wanted TO accomplish this re.
suit but time, and the immigration Of
Northern men with Northern capital, or
it may be Englishmen with English ca pi.
tai, such As are now erecting an extensive
ironworks plant at South Pittsburgh,
Tenn, thirty miles from Chattanooga.