The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-03
nnMN THE RIVER.


Observations OF a Drummer
Along the shore Business at
Pomeroy-Looking In On u FEES.
uyaI-The Pretty Girls and
Their winning Ways-Whereis
"On the Wing"
STEAMER HUDSON,
PoMERoY BEND, May 80
Editor IntelllgsneG:
This morning Is fair. The sun shines
without a cloud 10 mar the sky, making
Just such weather as the farmers need to
ripen their luxuriant wheat fields. Ey.
erywhere I go the wonderful crops Of this
year (pre.eminently the wheat forms the
staple Of conversation. But little damage
has been done so far in this section by
the rust and fy, and the millers state that
wheat they expect to purchase at rs cents
per bushel at the opening, and hope 10
sell -four at 81 90 per barrel. A price
like that will take with the laboringman
whose wages are now very low. Many
people about Pomeroy and MiddlePort
are out Of employment and / was an
swered that II employment was offered at
90 cents per day many persons would
be glad to work at that price.
SALT, COAL AND IRON.
The chief industries Of this nelghbor-
hood are the salt, coal and iron trade in
The order | have named them, | made no
inquiry a. TO the exact number Of salt
furnaces in the Bend, but should sup
pose. there are al least twenty. Salt has
been sold for the last 8 months like nails
are to-day, below the cost Of production.
About a week since the producers mutu.
ally agreed to sell salt for 80 cents cash at
the works, an advance probably Of 10 to
is cents per barrel, and they r now
holding Il at that price. Yet / do not
suppose they are selling any. What a
week or month may develop mo fellah
can find out"
There are numerous coal mines here;
the most Of The coal going, l believe, to
the Cincinnati market. The diggers are
receiving about the same wages paid at
| Wheeling, while coal rates are q half
cent higher in price. The coal that 10
used in the furnace is known 4 5 "the run
Of the mine" and the diggers obtain for
| mining 1t one cent and q half per bushel.
There Is a nail mill at Clifton and a
Merchant mill at Pomeroy, both OF which
are comparatively small concerns, yet
they give, particularly the nail mill, m
| ployment to quite 4 number OF workmen.
The farmers, as a class, have been doing
we'll this last few years in this section,
90 the merchants state.
Business about the Bend is generally
dull. Many failures have occurred and
more are expected, the worst being that
Of R. R. Hudson, Of Middleport, Ohio. /
believe that his Indebtedness amounted to
$4,000; his assets not so much by con,
siderable.
There is but little building being done
at present.
| attended a strawberry festival last
night at Pomeroy, given by the German
Protestant Church there, and was aston
ished TO note what %triles. brought
when disposed Of on the lottery plan. A
lamp mat probable value 20 cents
brought Eve dollars, an ordinary quilt
and there were three quilts) fifty dollars,
etc., etc. The greatest good humor seem-
ed to prevail. There was a band in
attendance discoursing waltzing music,
and the young and old amused themsel.
yes not by dancing, yet by keeping step
As they went around the hall intent on
getting your loose change. All for the
good OF the church too. Twas amusing
10 note the countenances and listen to the
pleadings Of the pretty blue eyed German
girls, anxious 10 make their handiwork
bring fabulous prices when they we're
teasing in n charming way, TO have you
10 take one chance. How could a fellow
resist. Hope my..wife will not see this
article p
AN INQUIRY FOR "oN THE WING"
By the way what has become Of your
old time correspondent ION the Wing"
who formerly furnished you interesting
letters when en- route. Can you not give
us a letter OF his occasionally. Some
readers may be using a slang phase much
in vogue last night at the festival, 10
give US a rest" II so l will endeayor to
throw all the blame on you who asked
me for a letter, although perhaps you
might plead in extenuation that you did
not believe ! would grow 10 tedious.
The silver Question Developing