The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-05-01
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slsubenyine Letter in the Cleveland Herald.
Aisw days spent in the cities Of Pitts.
burgh, Steubenyille and Wheeling are
quite sufficient TO impress resident oil
Cleveland with the prosperity Of Lis ma
tive city as compared with any Of these
whose wealth Is almost wholly employed
in the production Of iron and coal, with
both Of which the market is now largely
overlooked. Among iron men, in par.
ticular, there seems the greatest string
ency in business affairs, and every en-
deayor 10 being made 10 revive this, in
many cases, most PROSTATE business.
But the market 10 oyerstocked already,
and an uncommon brisknessS in
the trade Is necessary 70 dispose
OF goods already on hand. To
relieve this the factories throughout the
country which were members Of "the as
sociaiion" resolved 10 close their works
for period Of three weeks. That time
has Just elapsed. And what success such
\ cessation OF business has achieved Is a
little hard to calculate, when the hund-
reds Of hands deprived Of their weekly
wages are taken into consideration.
Among glass manufacturers the same
state Of affairs exists, except that there Is
less unanimity, Of action, and one facto-
~ is at liberty to undersell its COMPETE
tors. The supply everywhere exceeds the
demand and the sales in st. Louis and
throughout the West are remarkably
small. This Is accounted for by the al.
most impassible condition Of the roads,
many towns in the Northwest being &C.
tualiy inaccessible. A commercial traye-
Ter writing from the center Of Indiana
tells Of town in that vicinity which has
had no communication with the outside
world all winter except by foot travel
across the fields, ,theroads remaining knee
deep in mud during the whole season.
@0ur warehouses are full, sales lighter
than they have been for several years,
and yet we are running full time" said
one Of the prominent glass manufactu-
rers Of steubenville. awe are unable to
stop, however," he continued, "for the
factories both at Rochester and Wheeling
would continue to run" "Why SO 7" !
asked. SIS It not TO their interest as well
as yours to work of the stock already on
hand n aye, but q year ago when We
were having trouble with strikers both
these factories brought hands from Bos.
ton and Brooklyn, and here they are
away from home and their employers
cannot turn them out OF work."
The town from which write is almost
entirely dependent upon the success Of
her iron and coal interests. These are
now, Of course, sadly depressed, and the
town is correspondingly liieless. Real
estate, appraised at the inflated price it
brought six years ago, Is drug on the
market at any figure, and the Sheriff
offers 1t for sale TO pay the taxes, only to
be refused. How long such state OF
affairs may last no one can say, but let
us hope that ere long this little city with
all the natural and many. artificial re.
quirements for happy, prosperous, and
thriving manufacturing center, may
reach the position she seems SO well
adapted to ill. There are many other
towns in the same condition as the one
Just cited and I have used steubenville as
an example, not as an exceptional case.
In Cleveland our manufacturing interests
are more diversified, and while We are
not without rolling mills and furnaces,
yet we have not felt the embarrassment
as other cities more entirely dependent
upon them. W. .. L.