The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-12-18
wnEr1Ixe nAxUHACrUREs.
Sotss by sAs PittsSsEEh Leader Corr

.Notel by the Pittaburgh Leader Cores.
y M pondent.
Benwood Is mining steady; Bellaire is
doing The same right along; La Belle is
among The steadiest Of the steady; Top
mill declares It is tired Of "fooling' and is
going to run as steady as the Riverside
even II they haven't q patent "pile."
/ A. representative nail man thinks 1--WE
are on the eve OF a better state Of affairs
generally than for years
Belmont mill is apparently in hard times
again:S They shut down Thursday, and
will only run three days per week till the
holidays. At the January election q
change In the directory Is spoken OF, but
no one seems able TO state what Belmont
will do after January stock taking Is over.
The Fulton paper mill Is getting out a
big order FOR "Leatheroid" washers FOL
railroad car axles. Heretofore these wash
en-yhich are used for retaining oil about
the Hummelshine, been made Of leather,
The "Leatheroid" folks have a big thing
and only a lack OF capital prevents theil
modest enterprise from being more widely
known. Their product is a peculiar kind
Of paper, treated with dilute sulphuriC
acid, in a secret process. This changes the
properties OF the paper 50 that 4 fabric
having the toughness Of gutta petrcha ant
the indestructi6ility OF that substance /:
the result.
The Wheeling Hinge Company ART
keeping 100 hands so busy that not one o
them has time for mischief. Half OF thes'
are boys who earn from forty cents to one
dollar per day, and the rest men who carr
from SI.25 TO 5 $50 per day OF ten hours
The Hinge Company now get out abou
200 dozen pair Of hinges per day, and !
takes twenty.four 10 make q hinge.
dozen, for the two hinges, like man and
wife, are considered one. These works ar
certainly a busy, busting, cheerful place
From the plate, which comes from
Painters big mills, Pittsburgh, to the pack
ing box, the hinge passes through seven
teen operations. Some Of these are effect
ed BY most ingenious machinery. Tn
ffriyeting machine, invented by Foreman
Dunning, can riyet 5000 pair OF hinges II
ten hours with one MAJ in charge. Thes'
hinges are OF the strap" 'T' and but
variety, and go to every State in the uniot
besidesto Canada. OF the nine similar es
Adjustments under control OF the "com
binalon," the Wheeling works are tn,
most extensive in the country. The mex
in extent is at Northeastern, Mass
The Riverside iron works are Just a
work on the "boss" run OF any simila
mill in the land. From July 5, 1878, up tc
last evening, at 10 O'Clock, the product o
the Riverside nail factory reachedthe enor
nous figure OF 1885, 900 kegs. All these ar
"rail" nails, and are the product OF ~
machines And OF all these myriads o
nails, not one key has been returned a
I below the standardof what q well.regnlat
ed, driyable nail ought TO be. And We
there isn't a bit OF stock left at the ware
house Of this mill. We can readily be
: lieye the Riverside manager when he say!
[ that for the past ten years he has no
known so general q demand Tor nails as a
the present. II might be added that n
enormous quantity OF rails Is on It's way Z
be converted into Riverside nails thi
winter, and that there doesn't seem to b.
, any chance for Riverside nallers or heat
ers 10 "loaf, this winter. The past TIVE
years, ending January !, 1879, are con
sidered the very worst that the trade hav'
seen, but our readers will be glad to agret
with our / Informant that "better time
have begun"