Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-30
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Local and General Business In
Hfnatinns
licatiOnS.

CLAREsBURa ships 100000 worth OF
small produce annually.
THERE is prospect that the Clifton
nail mill will again start mp.
EASTERN rolling mills have advanced
the base price OF bar iron to ! 2-lO cents
per pound for delivery from stock.
THE b. x O. Railroad Company is
erecting new warehouse at Harper 5
Ferry, ON the site OF the oldante-beifum
freight depot.
THE Pioneer Barrel Company, located
on Elk river, within the city limits oil
Charleston. is working from seventy
five 10 one hundred men, and turn out
about five hundred barrels per day.
The Bellaire nail mill anil blast fur-
mace are in fun operation once more.
They were compelled to go 10 work
sooner than they had expected, so great
was the demand for their products. The
iron made by the furnace sold for hye
dollars per ton more than II had sold
for during the depression. ...g ...
WHAT is considered a very remarka-
ble run has been made by the National
glass works of MesSrs. Rodaier Bro &, at
Bellmre. For eighteen weeks they have
been running steadily, making an un-
usual amount of glassware, and have
not i'm that time broken a single pot, or
had what they term a pot setting.
The owners OF the Kanawha Touring
mill. Charleston, kanawha county, are
overhauling and repairing the old ma
chinery of this valuable mill. The
building will receive a coat OF paint
which will improve the appearance and
enhance the value OF the property very
much.
The Smith Bridge Company, OF Tole-
do. O., since July lst has taken orders
for tiity-Six iron and combination
bridges. OF these, thirty-one are forthe
extension of the Cleveland, TIscarawas
Valley and Wheeling Road to this city,
and the rest are highway bridges Tor
counties and towns in Ohio and In
diana.
ABOUT 1000 new ovens are being
built i'm the coke regions Of PennSvl-
Yania. As Yet, says the .igl6ricdll- -udtH-
facinrr, no increased demand outruns
the present production of 10000 tons q
week; but from various quarters in
quiries are coming i'm which afford safe
presumption OF an immediate want OF
larger supplies. These new wants are
irOm new and enlarged works, and from
others where anthracite is being super
seeded by coke. Prices now range from
Sl.20 To Sl.2O per ton 1000 pounds on
board cars at the ovens.
The London hOImouy2r announces
that u Sheffield firm, with one hundred
workmen, engaged in the manufacture
OF razOrs. are about tO transfer their
whole business to this country, and
thus secure an American market with
out the payment OF tariff duties. The
grindstones are 10 be brought from Eng
land, as well as the water which is used
for hardening the raZOrS, rs, II lS SAID,
the water of this country Is unsuitable
for that purpose. The firm have had
constructed large tubs, in which water
for hardening purposes Is To be- carried
This water is presumed to have some
mineral properties which give 1t spe-
cial value. II is not stated how the sup
ply is to be kept mp.
TmE Belaire Trib,mS saws: "Quite a
number Of new buildings are now being
put up i'm the city. otto Baker, on
Gravel Hill, has erected a frame dwell
mg. Fred. Schnidcr has added another
story 10 his dwelling ON Noble street, in
the Fourth ward. Louis Long is erect
iug a new dwelling in Germantown, IN
the Fourth ward. The framework Of
the new Turner's Hall is about compile
tel, and the roof will be put on this
week. The first story OF the new sort
ing and packing room 0i the Goblet
Works is up, and the foundation Tor
their new warehouse completed. These
buildings have been but recently COM
mrnced, and there is decided looking
up in this direction in Bellalre.'
MouSDSyrLLE should feel proud of her
manufacturing establishments, and the
quality and quantity of work which they
turn out. The rolling mill iS filling
large orders for cotton ties, and has on
hand an order iur two hundred tons oi
iron for the Webster Wagon Company.
This establishment is doing large bus
mess, shipping from six to hundred
wagons every week, and We are in
formed by Secretary Brown that they
are Sellinga great many To the local
trade i'm this and other counties OF
this State. We are glad to see our peo-
pie patrOnizing home institutions. tits
the only way 10 build up worthy enter
priseS I'm our midst. In a contest be-
tween the Webster wagon of this place
and the StudebaCker wagon OF Indiana,
at kokomo, Indiana. the Webster wagon
was loaded with 32l $50 bushels OF
wheat ION hay rack and drawn two
squares without stopping or breaking
the wagon; this sounds almost fabulous,
but such is the statement ofthe kOkomo
papers This is certainly a big card for
the Webster wagon.-R'porisr.
The Buffalo Commercial idrrti&r has
the following information about the
Weston AMI Clarksburg railroad in this
state: This road is now completed
from the Baltimore and Ohio at Clarks-
burg. West Virginia, southwark 10 Jane
Lew, Is miles, leaving only seven miles
ni track To finish il Ia Weston. Ii fol-
lows the valleys oi the Lost creek,
Hacker creek and the West Fork OF the
Nouongahpla. and has two heavy
GRADES. one oi l32 feet and one of l+2
irct to the mile. Ii passes through
some very good country and follows
nearly the main line OF road used for
tine traffic OF large section of country
now without q railroad Weston Will
be- the terminus Tor q time, but It Is
intended % build southwark - miles TO
G,euville, i'm Gllmer county, a. soon aS
possible. There Is talk, also, ot u line
from Clarksburg To connect with the
Pittsburgh Southern. The road is OF
three foot gauge, laid with thirty pound
rails. and has two engines from I'll. h.
Porter x Co, OF Pittsburgh, and two
passenger and several freight ears from
Billmeyer X Small