Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-09-25
BUSINESS POINTS.
Manufacturing and Trade Items
The Outlook of Business.


FIRE has been put in the Union Glass
Works, New Castle, Pa.
TIE freight war is said TO have cost
the Southwestern roads 81, 100000.
Four new furnaces are being erected
i'm the mill at Greenyllle, Pa.
The activity in the brick market is
uuprecedentrd even for the fall OF the
year.
TIE lumber business is reported to
have "brisked up very greatly within
the past month.
1t is thought that the Altoona car
works-uow being rcbullt-wIil be IN
operation by December l.
It's estimated that from $4,000 to o.
600 square miles Of the area OF Montana
is undcrlaid with coal.
Srcu cotton factories as have been es-
tabliShcl i'm Mississippi are yielding ~
per cent. ON the investment.
One New York firm advertised Mon
day for 500 cloak-mukcrs and 200 dress
makers. This looks like business.
TIE Chambers of Commerce OF Aus
traIia and New Zealand have expressed
a desire to secure a larger market Tor
wool in the United States.
The fearful loss OF good material in
volvrd in mining and preparing anthra-
cite. though greatly to be dcp,ored,
seems to be almost inevitable.
AMERICAN steel from Pittsburgh has
nearly shut up Orth's extensive English
agency, that has been the principal
source of supply for the New York
market.
TIE loss by the recent storm to the
sugar crop in Louisiana is estimated at
$1,000 hogshcads of sugar and 100000
barrels of molaSscS, worth in the aggIe-
gate over 100000.
THERE are indications that the con-
sumption Of WOODEN fabrics will be on an
immense scale this fall and ensuing
winter. and the mills will have all they
can TO to supply the demand.
We see evidences Of the bushes
boom having struck MoundSvllle.
All our citizens seem 10 be engaged IN
some kind of business, and persons gen
erauv seem to be buying goods more
extensively than for several years.
Commercial.
SILK manufacturing is soon to be
commenced in Philadelphia. The san
Quot silk Manufacturing Company Is
the name az a company that has made
application to court Tor charter OF IN
corporation.
\ YOUNGSTOWN firm are now develop
ING their camel coal mine near the city,
and are taking out some % tons daily
from a vein four feet thick-the output
being pure and Of the finest grade, equal
to the best English cannel coal,
An official report from India says:
Last wear ISIS India was unable to
compete with America in the export OF
wheat. American wheat being landed IN
England at SOS. a quarter, while Indian
could not bc supplied under 4OS.
The Boston Blower Company are con-
structing one of the largest blowers ever
made. for large iron concern in Ohio.
1t is nearly niue feet high; its Capacit
is about $4,000 cubic feet per minut
and il is TO blow twenty furnaces.
As late Is three months ago, there
were many who could not see how the
times were 20 improve. Because, don't
YOU see. there is nothing TO start it, or
If there is, should like to see where 1t
is to come from?" etc. But times have
grown better.
The Cleveland Herald has been pub
fishing a number OF interviews with
merchants and manufacturers, and the
universal expression is that the business
was never brighter, that II seems 10 be
on firm foundation, that collections are
good. and the outlook generally particu-
larly bright.
A PITTSBURGH gentleman travelling
through Columbia, on the Susquehanna
river. noticed five or six furnaces being
got ready for blowing in that have not
made iron since 1878. All furnaces that
can get ore and make iron at present
prices will doubtless be blown in as
soon as they can be prepared.-IH'eri-
can MANUFACTURER.
CALIFoRSIANs who live by mining
stocks are consoling themselves with the
idea thatthe conservative legislators will
have influence enough to modify or ex-
plain away the clauses in the new Con-