The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-10-24
BUSINESS NOTES.

The RayennaN Ohio, lamp chimney fac
tory rs in operation, and the window,glass
factory will be started at once.
The Rochester, Pa, Tumbler Company
is building three new presses to add to
their already large number now in use.
It is stated that over 500 blast furnaces
and 8 So0o, pudding furnaces are nov, lying
idlein England, and that the list is daily
increasing.
The Jefferson Sewer Pipe and Terra
Gotta Works Of Connolly R. Donnahie, at
sloan's Station, Ohio, are in full operation,
with fair prospects.
The Journal Of Commerce, OF Chicago,
states that during the past week the hotel
arrivals in that city aggregated fourteen
thousand and general trade was booming
The Beaver Falls File Company found
It necessary to discharge thirty-tive or
forty hands last week. The works will
now run six days per week, eight hours
per day. q .lila.7 A- ..l-'f y -
Speaking OF the petroleum market, the
Pittsburgh Gastae Of yesterday says that
the outlook continues SO unfavorable for
an advance that some Of the tankers are
holding off in expectation Of being able to
fill at Soc per Dbl. q" ~
: The tanks, iron buildings, &C., now be-
ing erected at Huntington, w. Va, to fac
ilitate the shipment OF oil via the Ohio
-, a !, Il tbn az aoanaata and 0hia Rail-
road, are almost completed.
The nail mill at the works Of Jones &
Laughlin's American Iron Works has re.
sumed operations, alter suspension OF
some months The sheet mills are now
running three turns in twenty.four hours.
The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad
received about fifty new fat cars on satur-
day laft. =
A Pittsburgh paper says that the iron
men of Pennsylvania are congratulating
each other over the prospect that the pro-
longed depression Of their industry is pas
sing away. from every part OF Pennsyl-
Sania reports are coming in that the con-
sumption is increasing, and that busy
winter may be expected"
One Of the leading manufacturers OF
this city says the iron trade looks brighter
Mt this time than II has before for five
years. Orders are plenty and iron Is going
in. The prospects are good for steady
work ali winter. He thinks now is good
time to buy real estate youngstown (o.)
Register.
A St. Louis correspondent writes: Our
industrial and commercial interests con-
tinue fairly active. Stove foundries, water
pipe works, and architectural iron works,
are especially busy. In the line OF gener-
al merchandise and iron and metal sup.
plies for country trade the quantity sold
has largely exceeded that OF any former
season, but at low prices.
The heaters at the Pittsburgh Forge and
Iron Works, below Woods Run, Allie
eheny, refused to 80 to work yesterday
[mornine on account OF the issuing OF an
order requiring them to do greater
amounto Of work each day without an in.
crease OF pay Consequently the mill was
shut down Observation-Disclosures Eren'ns
Telegraph. =.
The Philadelphia North American, ir
comparing the report Of the Pittsburgh
Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway will
that Of the preceding year, says; "Th'
net earnings for 1877 were the heavies
ever known on the road by 20 per cent
and they were for the whole year 81 ,0S5,
$50. but,the surplus for the whole year wa
less than that for the past nine months, Of
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