The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-11-28
INDUSTRIAL NEWS.
The Fact. that Tell what Business Pros.
poets Are.

poets Are.
Freight on pig iron from 1ronton to
Pittsburgh Is 81 80 n ton.
The Cambria Company, at Johnstown,
Pa, give employment TO over. 6,0OO men,
and have large orders for work ahead.
Wells, French & Co., Chicago, have an
order for 500 grain cars from the Chicago,
Burlington aud Quincy road,
W. ]. Hammond has reopened his mills
near Steubenville, and is engaged on an
order for iron for the Pennsylvania road.
The sheet mill Of Bradley, Refs { Co., at
New Castle, Pa, started up on Tuesday
last, and there is rejoicing among the citi'
zens thereat.
John Armstrong has bought in the But
falo Furnace and its lands Is, 900 acresl for
Sll, l62 60. The furnace was sold on fore
closure Of mortgage.
Messrs. Russell & Co., OF Massillon,
started up last week with 275 men. They
made and sold last year between 100 and
500 threshers and $50 portable engines.
The Terre Haute Gassas says that "busi-
ness at the Wabash Rolling Mills Is very
flourishing. It was never better, and they
are being driven to their fullest capacity"
Arms, Bell & Co., manufacturers Of bolts,
nuts, screws, &C., at Youngstown, Ohio,
have been so crowded with orders that
they are putting up large addition to
their mill.
The Port Henry New York; iron inter
est has taken buoyant turn, the Cedar
Point Iron Company having received
contract for all the Bessemer pig that they
can produce in their furnace from now till
next June. sl-
The bar-mill OF the railroad company's
iron works at Cumberland have started up
under the management OF the new Super
intendent, Mr.. VIM. Robinson. Between
thirty and forty men will be employed.
The total steel made in 1875 would lay
22,ll6 miles OF railway track, allowing 20
pounds to the foot OF rail. The present rate
OF production would put steel rails upon all
the railways in the world in less than ten
years.
Springfield Repnblie: The Beacon reports
the return OF brisk times in Youngstown,
Niles, GAINESVILLE and Mansfield. Put
Springfield, with two immense factories
Just completed, and all the old ones run
ming on full time, on the list.
From Cleveland comes the report OF a
successful smoke burning furnace, the in
vention Of DR.. S. &. Clark. One OF these
furnaces Is now in successful operation in
Newburg, at the Cleveland Street Casting
Works, who claim the saving Of coal over
the old setting to be 40per cent.
For the first time since 1874 the four
rolling mills at Niles, Ohio, are running,
and with good prospects OF work during
the winter. The proprietors report trade
better than it has been for several years,
and are in hopes that the worst is past, and
that we are on the road to prosperity once
more.
1t is said the Enterprise Fire Clay Com
pany terra cotta),' at Leetona, Ohio, have
been compelled to return orders to the
amount OF several thousand dollars un-
The tool, pottery, terra Gotta,
and cement works, at the same place, are
to their full capacity. This looks
like prosperous times are again on us.
During the past week or ten days, we
learn from the Warren Chronicle, the oil
business in West Mecca, Trumbnll county,
has run up to fever heat, and old residents
say that ut no previous time has there
been as strong indications OF return OF
the exciting days OF 1850. Oil men Of
large capital from Pennsylvania have come
over, with first class rigs, leased land, and
put in their drills.