Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-07-23
ELM GROVE RAILROAD.
BUSINESS POINTS.

Notes From Manufacturing and
Trade Centres The Outlook
for Business-What Labor and
Capital are Doing.
THE nailers at the BenwOod Mill ex-
pected to resume work yesterday.
The Bellaire Nail Works have shut
down two weeks for repairs.
The rollingmill in Hollidaysburg, Pa,
will soon be put in operation again.
The East Liverpool pOtteries have
built twelve additional kilns this year.
ANOTHER ten-pot furnace is to be
started soon in the Buckeye Glass works,
Martins Ferry.
Tue Steubenville Furnace and Iron
Company's property is advertised to be
sold.
TIE Mason Machine Works, OF Taun-
ton, Mass, have received an order for
thirty Campbell presses.
THERE is a shoe peg factory in Brad
ford county which turns ut 200 bushels
OF pegs every ten hours.
THE increase of cotton export at New
York this year is So per cent. over that
OF the same period last year.
Ara meeting at Saratoga last week the
manufacturers of white lead advanced
prices hall cent per pound.
Work is so brisk at the Bethlehem,
Pa, rolling mills that the men are COM
PEELED to work Sunday nights.
TIE Ohio Valley Iron Works, at
Moundsyille, have resumed operations
after three weeks stoppage for repairs.
The Northampton Cutlery Company
are putting a new l25 horsepower en-
CINE into their works at Bay State, Mass.
THE Allentown rolling mill has COM
menced operations again after short
suspension, caused by strike amOug
the puddlers.
FoUR furnaces, two sheet mills, one
nail factory, glass works, three toundrles
and several machine shops, are now in
full blast in New Castle, Pa.
MEssRs. INNEs 4 PLYMPToN, OF Oil
CITY, have shipped three large engines
10 Russia with improvements TO suit the
work i'm the Russian oil fields.
SAVANNAH has Just shipped to Liver
pool the largest cargo of rOsin exer eX-
ported from this country. 1t contained
1850 barrels, which are valued at nearly
$4,000.
Work on the new plate rolls at the
rolling mill at Cumberland, Md, is be-
ing pushed rapidly forward, and work
in that department will be resumed to-
day.
THE employees OF the Pennsylvania
Iron Works, at Danville, were notified
on Saturday that their wages would be
advanced, dating from July l. The
price now paid for pudding is - per
ton.
THE aggregate exports OF petroleum
oil this wear are one hundred and
twentv-one millions. against fOrty-eight
millions OF gallons last year. over
million gallons are daily exported from
New York.
THE British Trdis Journal says: "The
United States are, in the opinion OF
many who are qualified To judge, fast
rising ut our expense, and will probably
M no very distant day be the leading
country i'm the commerce of the world"
THERE is a great demand for tirst-claSS
machiniSts, and, as the busy season has
hardly begun vet in this trade, 1t Is an
ticipated that there will be an advance
i'm wages in the early fall. In fact IN
this vicinity all classes of steady work
men are in demand.
MEssRs. John WYLTE & SoN are going
10 commence the manufacture of genu-
inc china at East Liverpool, Ohio.
They have for three years been making
ironStone china. They propose at once
erecting three-stOry brick addition to
their pottery, in size 60 by 80 feet.
THE sharon Eaglg SAYS: The iron
interests of the ShenagO Valley have not
been in amore prosperous condition Tor
many years than at the present time.
The quantity of iron made from our
choice black coal commands the highest
price in the market, and there Is an ac-
tive demand for all that the mills are
ble 10 make.
Il. G.. SCIIMERrZ * Co. are now erect
Ing at BelleycrnOn, up the Monongahela,
four new furnaces each for four pots
capacity. These in addition to the one
ten pot furnace will make in all twenty
six pots. The firm is also building two
large hattening houses. When complet-
ell in all their details these glass factor
les will be the most extensive in the
Worli.
TuE .lmsricdp Manufacturer publishes
statistics for the first six months OF 1919
of the receipts Of ore, pig iron, billets
and scrap at Pittsburgh, with a compare
son of the corresponding months OF 1878.
The figures show an increase in ore re-
cciptS, over tue six months OF 1873, OF
1902 tons, in receipts of pig iron an in
crease of ~, "a tons, and OF blooms and
billets of ., 734 tons, adecidedlv healthy
increase.
THE exports OF petroleum from Phila-
delphia show steady increase every
week. The total for last week was near
IN half as much rs for the whole of last
month. and almost rs much rs for the
month of June, 1878, being 3,l56, l57
GALLONS, which were shipped by sixteen
different vessels to Venice, Bremen,
Stcttin, Trieste, Genoa, Antwerp, Dant-
zig. Exmouth, LeghOrn, NewtahrwaSSer,
Rotterdam and McSSina.
The culture of the grape vine IN ONO
has been decreasing OF late years, In
1870 800 900 gallons of wine were made
i'm that State, and in 1873 only 0OO,OOO.
I'm California. however, there has been
a steady increase, and the business Is
now ON better footing that formerly.
Some of the Southern States possess pc
culiar advantages for wine making.
North Carolina is the home of many OF
/ ,ur rhOirpSt varieties of cranes.