Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-09-20
, THE BUSINESS BOOM.
Local and General Industrial
Items.

FRoM 1873 to 1879, inclusive, the
United States coined 376,64l $50 pieces
of money, aggregating in value S4l9,O1l,-
3l3
The cotton operators OF .Lehigh, Eng
land, have struck against five per cent
reduction, and the masters threaten to
close the mills.
UNLESS a change for the better in the
print cloth market takes place, reduc-
ton in the wages of all classes OF opera
tives at Fall River is not improbable.
PATERSON IN. j. has fifty-fve silk
mills, twenty-six of them being engaged
in the manufacture of dress silk. An
other is in process OF erection.
The cotton operatives OF Padenham,
Lancashire, England have proposed to
form branch OF the National Emigra-
ton Association.
,ALARGE number of establishments in
ana about Pittsburgh that formerly used
lump coal for manufacturing purposes
now use nut coal, and many OF them
now use slack that formerly used nut
coal.
A New INDUsTRY-Frog Farming. A
Mr.. Soule, OF Elgin, ILL.,, is in his third
year of frogfarming, and his first crop Is
now being marketed. He has an acre
and quarter devoted to the frog indus
try.
THE chemical works, situated on the
other side OF the river, are running day
and night in order to accommodate their
customers with bone dust FERTILIZER
.Steubeariile Pres.
AN arrangement for water-wheels, to
avoid bevel gearing, is to put two 35-inch
turbines about two feet apart on one
horizontal shaft; the water is admitted
between them and passes outward.
ROAD locomotives are coming into
considerable use in France. One OF
twelve tons weight recently dragged
piece of artillery offorty-three tons from
Vincennes to the Point d'Austerlitz.
In making envelopes by hand, a single
person can produce in day only from
1000 to 5000, according to shape and
size. Machines are now building that
are expected to make 10000 to 100000
day each.
The woman blacksmith is verify IN
Mount Washington, near Pittsburgh:
she is of German descent, broad and
muscular. She handles the sledge with
wonderful skill, and is assistant to her
husband. She has young baby which
she rocks in the cradle with her foot
while she handles the hammer or blows
the bellows.
THE Springfield, Mass, gas company
decided to extend the Holly steam-heat-
ing service in that city, the experiments
last winter giving satisfaction. Only
out Of So stockholders opposed the pro
iect, and they did so on the ground that
it was not legitimate business ior the
gas company.
THE shops OF Detroit, Mich, are all
fairly busy, and orders increasing. Pat
tern-makers and mouldcrs are hard to
find, and machinistsand engineers are all
engaged at fair wages, very few mechanics
being out of employment in any branch
of trade.
tending from Pittsburgh to Washington,
Penn, a distance of over thirty-siX
miles, has discarded the telegraph in
struments for the telephone in the trans
action OF business, including the run
ming of trains. 1t is said whisper in
Washington can be heard in Pittsburgh.
Several Western railroads have also re-
sorted to the use of the telephone IN
stead OF telegraphic instruments.
A SURE sign of the soldity OF the busi-
ness boom is shown by efforts of the
government to get bids from iron manu-
facturers for certain work 1t requires to
be done. In nearly every instance the
bids were refused, as orders were so far
ahead. that the work could not be fur
nished in time. When We consider
what sure pay the government Is, the
rejection of its order is a powerful lndl-
cation of the assured continuance of the
present activity in every branch OF in
dustry.
AN important case to all manufacture
ers OF steel by the Bessemer process has
lust been brought before the United
States Commissioner OF Patents by
Jacob Reese of Pittsburg, who claims to
be the first inventor of certain method
misunderstanding Bessmer steel, which
is also claimed by Sidney q. Thomas OF
London, England. About a million
tons of Bessemer steel will be made IN
the United States this year, and the IN
vention in question will, it is asserted,
save from two to three dollars per ton
in the cost of manufacture. The ques-
ton to be decided is whether Mr..
Reese or Mr.. Thomas is entitled to
priority in the process.
THE Charlestown Free Press has this
significant item in its issue for this