Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-11-25
THE HUM OF INDUSTRY.
Manufacturing and Mining
Notes Pennsylvania and
NeighbOring States.

The Gaysport (Pa.) furnace has been
started up.
The Reading Terra Gotta works are
very busy.
AT the Middlesex rolling mill six fur
naces are being operated.
The business OF the cotton and wool
len mills of the east is improving.
Less leather was made in Pennsyl-
vania thus far this year than for five
years past.
Minneapolis, Mimi, is to have car
mandatory located there by Pitts
burgh parties.
Utica IN. " Steam Cotton Mills
Company is shipping large orders OF
goods to South America.
The Reading sheet iron mill will soon
20 into operation, and give employment
to go men and boys.
The Variety iron works ut Pittsburgh
are building fifty tanks To be used for
shipping oil to California.
J. VI. Jones 4 Co., of West Troy, y.
Y, have recently shipped twenty horse
ears to Minneapolis, MINI.
The manufacture of insulated tele-
graph wire has been commenced at the
National Tube Works, Mckeesport.
The Pennsylvania Steel Conoany, at
Baldwin, turned out in October 6,7l5
tons OF rails and 800 tons of other steel.
The Reading Hardware Company is
more actively engaged now than at any
previous period during the past year.
Smith, Sutton d Co., of Allegheny,
are putting in two steam hammers-One
ton and three and half tons respective
ly.
The leighton Bridge and Iron Works
at Rochester, New v, are running over
time, chiefly on orders from New
England.
The indianapolis Rolling Mill has the
contract for the rails for the new extern
sion OF the Havana, Rantoul and Easter
road.
The Ohio Falls Car Company, of JET
crsonville, Ind, has contract for 220
box cars for the Pekin, Lincoln and
Decatur road.
At the Beaver Falls cutlery works
large force is working ten hours Il day.
Myers IL Co. have put i'll Il 5O0-pOund
steam hammer.
J. Ferran Mann, of Bellefonte, has re-
ceived another order from Brazil for his
Red Man. axe. He has also sent
few goods to Mexico.
The coopers at Wilson & Dunlevy's
works, North Wheeling, who struck for
higher wages on the 9th, have gone to
work at the old prices.
The iron ore miners OF the Messrs.
Brooke, at the falls of French Creek,
Berks county, are run day and night to
meet the demands upon them.
The Cleveland Rolling Mill Company
are now employing $500 men. Ninety
days ago they had but 3.200-thus hay
ing increased their force 800.
The Dithridge Chimney Company,
limited, at Allegheny, have commenced
the erection of a new factory, it being
their purpose to enlarge their produc-
tive capacity.
The Lebanon Manufacturing Com
pany works are busy. On Wednesday
last the first lot of twenty-five cars, I'M
der the contract, were shipped to New
ark, y. J.
Monitor Furnace, Ironton, Ohio,
started again on the llth inst, and the
the Lawrence Mill is running sixteen
boiling furnaces and the guide, hoop
and bar mills.
The Furnace OF the Reading Iron Com
pany, which was out OF blast several
years. is in full operation, and turning
out pig metal at the rate OF about go
tons per week.
During the past forty-one weeks 1907
tons ui iron were made at the blast
furnace OF the Warwick Iron Comgany,
in Pottstown, being an average oil about
81 tons weekly.
The IIollidaysburg rolling mill and
nail factory are running day and night,
and the several foundries and machine
shops have all the orders they can fill for
some months.
At the Cambria Wire Works on the
Sth inst, there was production of 50,-
400 pounds No. Is rods in Il run OF eight
and half hours. This exceeds the AZ
grcgatc OF amy previous product.
The first blast furnace in Allegheny
county was built in 1859; two more We're
built in 1861, two in 1862, two ia 1860,
four in 1872, and one in 1877. Three
more will be erected between now and
next fall.
The frame work for the addition to the
Pnrtagr-strcct Wire Work OF Johnstown,
is going up Us rapidly Us Il large force of
skilled mechanics can push II forward,
and it will be ready for the roof before
the close OF the week.
The Enterprise Glass Works OF RAJ
VIENNA, Ohio, have been and are run
ming full force day and night, but not
withstanding this they are six weeks
behind on their orders, the demand Tor
lamp chimncys being something quite
unprecedented.
The Weld of iron at the blast furnace
of the Warwick Iron Company, Potts
town, for the week ending ut midnight
on saturday, was 3S6 tons This Is the
largest weeks work ever done at this
furnace. and the Weld has been cqualed
bv few other furnaces in Pennsylvania.
There are SOL ordinary single pud-
ding furnaces in the iron and steel
works in Pittsburgh and Allegheny
county. besides six Dank's puddlers and
five Sicmens pudding furnaces. In the
iron and steel works Of the whole Coun-
try there are 4,5l4 ordinary single pud-
ding furnaces.
Morgan. Williams & Co, at Alliance,
o.. have recently shipped steam ham
mcrs to Pittsburgh, 81. Louis and Johns
town. Pa. and have also completed sew
cral heavy shears, with blade Ill
inches long They are also building
some hydraulic cranes with ladies, etc,
and quantity OF other tools.
The status OF the iron works in
Wheeling and vicinity is as follows:
Top Mill. furnace running and turning
out seventy tons per day. nail factory
started on the llth. Ii Belle. running
as usual. Benwood. running full. Mar
tins Ferry I.aughlin's) Works, run
ming. Bcllairc, running. Belmont, run
ming full. Riverside, running steadily