Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-22
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
LOCAL, STATE AND GENERAL
How the Trade Winds BIOw-Notes from
the Counting House and
Workshop.

The railroads are still enjoying boom
in the freight and passenger traffic.
Two trains OF rolls are to be put in the
new mill of the Phoenix Iron Company,
at Phpnixvill, Pa.
A NEW iron mill is talked OF at Chester
that will give employment to a large
number Of hands.
THE Philadelphia North american says
large vessels are in demand for petro-
leum charters.
PARK, Lang & Company, of the Iron
City Tool Works, are filling an order for
shipment to Australia.
FINE hat factories in Adamstown, Pa,
are hard at work, producing eighty
dozen finished hats per week.
In some of the departments OF the
Pittsburgh Bridge Company, they are
making over time to keep up with
orders.
HOTEL keepers in Pittsburgh almost
universally report business excellent:
This is one of the best indications ofgood
times.
THE Akron, Ohio, Iron Company, are
crowded with orders Tor hot polished
shafting, a comparatively new article OF
manufacture.
The Reading Cotton Factory is again
in operation, about one-half OF the boys
who participated in the strike having re-
turned to work.
BUILDERS are exceedingly brisk at the
present time. Everybody is hurrying
up matters so as not to be caught by the
winter weather.
THE number OF hogs packed and salt
ed by Chicago packers from March lst
to date, is !, ,SSS 900, against l,S40,0 600 for
the corresponding period year ago.
A TYRONE correspondent OF the Al
toona Tribune says that the coal ira lie is
brisk on the branch roads thereabOuts,
six hundred cars being moved daily each
way from that point.
THE shipments of pig iron from Easton,
! Pa, for the last two weeks have been
exceedingly large. From the lst to the
18th of the present month, 1000 tons
| were SllpItu llOlll Nllt N'iNh'bi "hN
Keystone Furnaces to tide-water.
SOME idea of the enormous traffic on
| the main line of the PENNSYLVANIA road
may be obtained from the fact that
breakdown between New Florence and
/ Derry brought together twenty freight
trains, extending for ten miles along the
| road.
NJ ,,,,.,t IL b,,Il;,,,, ma otnriolc 10 yoinU
up all the time, and it is now twenty to
twenty-five per cent higher than on the
| first of the year. The plumber has
been prompt to take advantage OF the
rise, and now asks at least fourth more
for the plumbing OF a new house.
TIE large Penn ManuiacturingWorks,
at Lancaster, Pa, will soon be started.
| The production of the works will be a
| general run of bar iron and railroad sup
| plies, consisting of track bolts, spikes,
| fish plates, etc, and the blacksmith
| shops will be used for turning out full
line OF car forgings.
THE grain markets have just passed
! through a very excited week, during
which prices have reached higher
| point than at any time since the pres
ent bull speculation set in. The net
| advance in the past three months, or
since the deplorable condition of the
European harvests became known, has
been 35 per cent.
THE apple crop on the whole is better
! than the average. New England has
less than last year, but that was an ex-
ceptionally full Weld. Western New
York has fine crop. In Ohio there is
a full supply Of winter apples, but
Michigan will scarcely come up to the
average. These include the principal ap-
ple-growing sections of the country.
IT is pleasant to 90 about the Salt
Works OF Hartford and New Haven, and
see the smooth, steady moving OF busi-
ness in every department 1t shows a
management needed in many more OF
the enterprises OF our State. There is
no clashing OF capital and labor there;
except such Clashng as is necessitated
by the steady blows of business.-P.
| Pleasant Monitor.
THE Bessemer process for making
steel has received many improvements
at the hands of American superinten-
| dents and chemists, who are gradually
! emancipating the domestic manufacture
from all dependence upon foreign me-
| tails and ores. Ii is universally admit
| ted that in the United States this indus
| try has been brought TO higher state
| of perfection than it has attained in any
other country.-BOStOn Commercial Bui-
| letin
Now that the smoke of the great battle
has cleared away, people are beginning
/ to talk and think of something else than
| politics. A tour among the manufac-
/ tories the great hives OF industry OF the
city, developed fact patent TO any OBJ
! serving man, that never in the history OF
! GAINESVILLE has there been such an as
tive demand for the class OF goods, wares
and materials produced here, as now
| /dHCsriHe Courier.
The difficulties under which farmers
| in England. Scotland and Ireland labor
in the way of rent and taxation are IL
lustrated by some statements OF actual
fact published in the Mark Lane EJpress,
the London organ of agricultural inter-
ests. An owner OF 200 acres receives
s., 100 rent, and pays S5l5 land and in
come tax. The tenant pays: Rent,
3, 100; poor and highway rates, S4lO;
drainage rate, S3l5; income tax, 1872;
total tax SS77.52; total rent and tax paid
by owner and tenant, S2,97752, or at
the rate of SASS per acre per year.
LARGE as has Oeen the advance in iron
and manufactures OF iron to-day's prices
are still very far from approaching those
OF 1872. The best foundry pig iron is
quoted at the shipping ports at 81 per
ton to-day, against Sl7.62 in 1878, and
S4S S7l in 1872. New iron rails are
quoted at SiSG50 at tide water to-day
against S3S 30 in 1878; and SS5 in 1872.
Steel rails are now valued at S5OtG54;
against 81. 26 in 1878; and SIP in 1872.
Ordinary refined iron is now quoted at
SIS per ton OF :, ,240 pounds; against Si3
644 in 1878, and S95Gl 90 in the latter
pant OF 1862.
\ LITTLE girl. while out for her after
noon walk, saw pompus-looking man