Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-27
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.
New Works Going Into Opera
Notwithstanding Outlook In
All branches.

All Branches.
THE peach trade is booming.
THE wooden mill at Erie is running day
and night.
The transportation OF wheat over the
different roads continues heavy.
THE Cincinnati rolling mills report
prices firm and orders plenty.
Work on the new iron works and roll
ing mill at Beaver Falls will be begun in
a few days.
TUE wool market, quiet for several
weeks, is picking up, and bids ialr TO
boom again.
THE Shovel Works Of III. NJ. Myers *
Co. of Beaver Falls, are shipping about
5000 shovels per week.
Tux Pittsburgh Hinge Company are
shipping large quantities of barbed fence
wire to the Western States.
Tux PENNSYLVANIA Railroad carried
1850 tons of coal and coke during the
second week of the present month.
THE new freight tarifwhich went into
effect Yesterday represents an advance
Nll -Nu " Nv HNA NNAANs AANAAA eAAN
rates last spring.
The Curry mine on the MenOminic
range has been sold, conditonally, to
John Cultivate, OF Cleveland, Ohio, for
a consideration Of SIS, 600.
THE receipts Of grain in Pittsburgh
last week were larger than Tor any other
week Tor more than two years. This Is
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suffering interest which seems 10 be
picking up.
The English railroads show a decrease
in their earnings for 1879, as compared
with the preceding year, of E662, 100,
equal 10 3.l5 per cent. The United
States roads show an increase OF s9i2,-
500 or 500 per cent.
To-Day Is named by the proprietOrs
Of the Beaver Falls Steel works as the
time for making experiments with the
sherman process for producing steel.
Mr.. Larned, of Boston, is experimenting
the experiments.
THE NIingo Furnace will be ready to
blow in between the LIST and 10th OF
next month. IL is being thoroughly
overhauled, and will, we trust, start on
a career of great prosperity when the
fires are lit this time.
APPLICATION will be made Sept. LIST
for a charter Of incorporation Tor the
Allentown Nail and Iron Company, for
the manufacture OF nails, iron or steel,
or both, i'm any merchantable form, with
a capital stock OF S25O,OOO.
MoRE than one-half OF the glass used
i'm the United States is produced IN
Pittsburgh, where over 5000 hands are
employed in making 1t; l2,llO tons OF
soda ash were used in the business dur
ing last wear, and the value OF the
glassware amounted TO nearly SOOO,-
900.
TIE Steubenville Herald SAYS the Pitts
buryh Forge Company have taken W.
J. Uammond'S lease of the Alikanna
Works. near that city. They will
manufacture muck iron, their own wor Ks
not having sufficient capacity To supply
the present demand.
4 Chicago report says: The trade
Of the city has gradually improved, the
attendance of buyers has steadily in
creased. and merchants report the fall
trade good Tor so early in the season and
predict heavy business in the course OF
the next two weeks Stocks are in eX-
cellrnt shape, and are marked at the
lowest price that will admit of a prof.
il.
TIE town OF East Palestine, Ohio, Is
about to have a yellow ware pottery OF
two kilnS, and will employ twenty-five
or thirty hands. Another OF the same
kind and about the same size at Leeto-
mia. few miles from East Palestine, is
said 10 be- doing well. Excellent clay is
found i'm abundance in the immediate
vicinity OF both towns.
ADVANCE sheets OF the report COM
piled bv the Board OF Trade of Cmcin-
natl for the year ending April l, 1879,
show that OF all kinds there are 5,l12
manufacturing establishments i'm that
city. with an invested capital OF 81, 3O9,-
2l5.the number OF hands employed o.
rs. and the value OF the product, Sl3S,-
125. l65. In forty years the manuiac-
lures have increased almost ten fold.
Tlrr Marquette Mining Journal states
that party having a commission Tor
the purchase of ;, 200 tons has found 1t
utterly impossible On secure that am
cunt. The production of the mines for
the season is all sold up-a fact which,
i'm the view Of the rSe in lake treights,
j. likely To operate 20 the disadvantage
Of some miners, whose profits are liable
IN he almost wholly absorbed by vessel