The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-03-04
MILL ITEMS

We learn from gentleman VINO Is
largely interested in the nail business
that the prospect for good trade aiter
April lst was never better than now
The present great depression IS largely
attributable to the unprecedentedly oso
roads especially in the West. In that
section locomotion on the county roads,
except on horseback, is impossible, ana
az a matter of course no one carries any
more goods than he can possibly heip.
1t is stated that even in the city oil lndl-
annapolis it is impossible to haul baggage
from the hotels to the railroad depots ef-
cept by means OF wheelbsrrows. In this
connection it is worth while to quote an
extract from letter received In
Wheeling from Taunton, Massachusetts,
written by gentleman connected
with ore of the large locomotive estab-
lishments of that city. Hessys: NV lthin
the last four weeks, orders have reached
US to An extent requiring an increase oil
our force from two hundred hands, the
number employed month since, to eight
hundred, now IN the shops"
We hope the predictions as to great
increase in the demand for our nsila may
prove to be not only true, but more than
realized. We have been told by some oil
the nail feeders that revival OF business
would bring considerable relief to some
of them, as in certain cases the retail gro
GERS have been compelled to. stop trust.
ing them, and while we are not prepared
from our information to say their faml.
lies are suffering, yet q return OF good
times would make many more cheerlul
faces than at present exist.
Saturday was pay day at the Riverside.
The little mill will resume this morning,
and the large one next Monday, pro-
yided, we understand, the orders justify
RI, and from all indications there seems
TO be no doubt such will be the case.
The forge and plate mill will also COM
mence operations at the same time. The
former, however, will only continue Tor
the present TO run three days per week.
We are requested to say, and we take
pleasure in complying, that the report
circulated by certain parties TO the effect
that the Belmont furnace men went on
"ismboree" after the last payday, Is un-
true. From what we know OF these gen.
tlemen, We are confident they are not al
ficted with these habits. Col. Lagorce
speaks in high praise OF his "boys," and
saws he cannot wish for better workmen.
Though the Colonel does not wear the
Murphy colors, he takes personal 10
terest in the faithful men who work with
him in promoting the interests of the
company, and his pride in his profession
prompts him to employ men, who are
credit to the able management OF the es-
tsblishment.
The boilers at the Top mill went to
work this morning at four o'clock. The
heaters will 60 on about eleven o'clock
10 day, and the factory, or part of it, will
resume IN the morning.
An accident happened on the La Belle
tramway on Saturday, by which forty
eight kegs of nails were preclPltated into
the river, where they now remain. The
men who were in charge OF the truck be-
ing anxious to make good time pushed II
too rapidly, and when it was hitched to
the wire rope at the hosting engine, the
momentum was so great that the cable
was parted, and the car shot down the IN
cline plane and into the river like, so the
men said, streak of lightning 1t IL
supposed the property will be recovered