Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-07-16
BUSINESS POINTS.
Notes From Manufacturing and
Trade Centres - The Outlook
for Business-What Labor and
CapitaI are Doing.

Capital are Doing.
ALE the furnaces hereabouts are run
ming full time.
The Philadelphia carpet factories arr
briskly employed.
PAINTER < Son are working on a 90,
| 600 ton order for cotton ties.
The exports Of petroleum for last
week were over million gallons.
ALL the iron and steel manufacturer:
about Pittsburg are full Of orders.
EVERY iron furnace, mill and shop il
Reading is now in full operation.
The Sable Iron Works, Tug & Co., are
being extensively repaired and improy'
ed.
Ir is stated the rolling mill in Holli.
daysburg will soon be put in operation
again.
The tin-plate manufacturers OF Eng
land have formed strong combination
to keep up prices.
TIE Philadelphia and Reading Rail
road are preparing to erect large Cal
shops at Pottsville.
A sHoE-PEG factory at Bradford is now
running at a capacity OF more than 2St
bushels of pegs per day.
IT makes little difference whether Eu'
rope pays for wheat in gold or bonds
It's all grist to Uncle Sans mill.
OVER one thousand wrenches are be-
ing manufactured daily at the wrench
works located at Girard, Erie, Pa.
The Reading Iron Company is soon to
erect a large tube mill, which will dou-
bic the present capacity OF the works.
MAKERS of agricultural implements
feel very much encouraged over the
prospect of good trade, both foreign and
domestic.
The employees at the Westinghouse
Airbrake Works are making thirteen
hours day, and have been for some
time past.
WITHIN the past two weeks there has
been an advance on manufactured iron
Of from one dollar and half to two dol
lars a ton.
In every branch of trade there is a
steady stiffening of prices. This is the
best evidence that could be asked OF the
revival of business.
A NUMBER of iron cars, intended for
service in mines in Arizona, have just
been completed at the Allegheny Car
Works, Pittsburgh.
TwENrY-oNE new railroads are project
ell in Ohio, this season, and the indica-
tons are that fifteen will be constructed.
Thirteen are narrow gauge.
THE Indianapolis (Ind.) Rolling Mill
Company are crowded with work, and
were obliged recently to decline filling
an order for 1000 tons OF rails.
THERE are rumOrs current at Tamaqua
that the extensive iron works at that
place have been leased by the Philadel-
phia and Reading Railroad Co.
A meeting of the National Association
of White Lead Manufacturers was held
at Saratoga last week, when prices were
advanced hall cent per pound.
ST. LOUIS reports the demand for cul-
tivators, reapers, threshers, etc, from
Texas and Arkansas rs being twice as
large as at the corresponding date OF last
year.
THE National Window Glass Associa-
ton met at Cleveland, Ohio, last week.
They reduced discounts eight per cent,
and resolved next year to run only nine
weeks instead OF ten.
The experiment of making Bessemer
pig iron out of the ores obtained from
some of the mines OF f. x G.. Brooke,
was tried at No. furnace, Birdsboro,
recently, the result proving highly sat
isfaCtory.
THE new company organized to sue
coed the old Lehigh Valley Iron Com
pany has been named the Coplay Iron
Company, limited. 1t is proposed to
begin work as soon as the necessary
preparations can be completed.
The large buildings being erected at
Titusville by the EameS Oil Fuel Pro
cess Company, for the manufacture OF
iron by petroleum as the only heating
power, are progressing rapidly, and
work will soon be commenced.
DURING the month OF May the imports
into the Uuited States that showed the
largest increase, as compared with the
same time last wear. were coffee, cheml-
Gals, hides, india rubber, dry goods oil
all kinds, hemp, jute, wool, iron and TN
plates.
A great scarcity of old rails isreported.
Some of the mills that have been RUM
ing on old rails, have been obliged to
buv pig iron and start up their pudding
furnaces. Old rails have advanced one
dollar and half and two dollars on the
ton.
DURING the past few months, and al
/ the present time especially, there are So
many indications of returning prosperity
/ i'm iron making and its associated indus
/ tries. and these indications are so gener'
al. that confidence in the future seems
To be warranted.-IrOR igs.
Is 1872 England produced 40, 900 tons
/ of Besscmer steel, and the United States
! 100 900 tons. Since then there has been
I a steady increase from year to year, but
the increase has been much more rapid
| i'm the United States than in England
/ and last year the total production III
| England was sos, 600 tons, and IN the
| United States 81, 900 tons.
The difficulties in the way OF opening
M an extensive trade between the UNI
ted States and Mexico are stated very
/ frankly BY two Mexican merchants who
have been visiting this country, anC
who belong to the firm which does tho
\ largest business in Northern Mexico
/ The principal difficulties are the SIX ant
eight months credits in vogue, the ab
sence of return trade from Mexico to thu
United States, and the extortions anC
frauds Of the custom house.
"Liesl Big Lies''
Not so fast, my friend; for II yor
would see the strong, healthy, bloom
ing men, women and children that hav'
been raised from beds OF sickness, suffer
ING and almost death, by the use oil hol
Bitters, you would say, Truth, glorl
| ons truth 4" See Truths in anothe