The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-31
LABOR, TRADES FTNaNCE AND BuSl
EESS GENERALLY.

have orders for $1,000 kegs otnails.
Or the iorty-six rolling mills in Ohio,
thirty.two are now in full operation.
TIE Lucy blast furnaces, Of Pittsburgh,
are now receiving cargo ofspanish ore.
THE first iron works in this country is
believed 10 have been established at FALL
ing Greek, Virginia, in 1920. ~
THE Columbus rolling mill has been
Idle Tor about five weeks, the alleged cause
being a lack Of old rails to re.roll. ~
TIM Pittsburgh cOmmerrialsays thatnail
manufacturers have hard work to keep
anywhere now even with their'ordcrs.
TIE Copper manufacturer Association
ofthe United States has advanced the.
price OF sheet copper two cents aponnd.
TITE Erie car works are enlarging their
capacity TO sixteen finished cars per day.
This makes them the largest works in the
country.
TuE Pittsburgh Manufacturer OF 'yester-
day quotes Bessemer pig at S45 cash, mill
red short 81 and S43 cash, mill neutral
$40 and IL.
THE total output OF iron ore from the
iron districts OF Lake. Superior during the
year 1870 was l,4l4,lS2 tons, valued at
S6,42S,6S9 so.
The card for bar iron was advanced yes
terday to 4 cts. at Pittsburgh. This makes
the price OF boiling in Pittsburgh 81 Iand
81 50in Wheeling.
ALI the mills in Youngstown are on fun
blast, aud tho prospects so bright that
everybody you meet particularly iron
workers, are jubilant.
TnE tackers in Chess, Smyth & Co.'s
mill were on Saturday agreeably surprised
to find that they had received voluntary
advance Of twenty per cent.
TIE creameries in Iowa are paying 81 10
TO 81 20 per hundred pounds for milk this
winter. That IL more than 80 per cent
higher than that paid in the summer.
The Enterprise Lock Works, ut Erie,
have booked orders since January |, 1850,
for nearly 6,0O0 dozen jail locks, a large
portion OF which are to fill export orders.
THR ne.6blic iron ore mine, OF Lake
Superior, expects to mine 1850 900 tons next
season, but have applications for 10000
tons. They have fixed the price at $l9 SO
per ton.
WEsr VtRaIEIA wool was quoted highest
on the list in the Philadelphia market q
few days ago, when 1t reached 30 cents per
pound. Let our wool growers make note
Of this. 100
Tue Iron Mountain Company areselling
their next years product Of ore at SIS per
q.
ton, and it is supposed that they will keep
alittle back to sell at SIS 10 outsiders!
Very little OF it will come 10 Wheeling.
The year 1870, as regards the iron trade
and its allied industries, was in many re.
spects the most eventual, and attended
with changes OF greater direct aud re-
latiye importance than OF It's predecessors.
The open winter is serious dlsadVan-
tage to the ice.galhering industry on the
Hudson river. In ordinsrysOasonsa at this
time Of year there are usually employed
there 10000 men, 1000 boys, 500 horses,
and 100 steam engines, and $4,000 are
paid out daily in wages.
TuR B. 4 O. Railroad Company sus-
pected some OF It's employesof being in
collision with certaincoal company agents
TO dsfraud the company, and'diViding the
difference. Investigation showed that the
company had been robbed Of about Sl25,-
200. Prominent citizens oil Piedmont are
said to be implicated.
Tur Association oiNIachinery Moulders
of Allegheny county has made a demand
ioran advance OF fifteen per cent, and no.
t;Fed the EMPLOYERS that a decision would
he expected BY Monday, February 2. The
wages at present are from Sl2 10 SlB per
wesk. and the increase, II allowed, will
makethe wages from SIS SO TO SIS 40,
Arthe Pittsburgh Forge and Iron Com
nany's works ali departments are on
famble turn. The lower mills OF Lewis,
flIivOr 4 Phillips are also on double. Al
Sba Snnerior iron and steel mills the pud-
Jiers started on the 10th singletnrn, alter
Isinv idle six days fertile want oil coal.
The Tail and plate millsareon single turn
also Inc bar mill on splice bars from old
rails. The firm pays every Saturday at
the latter works.
TuE american Manufacturer publishes
table Of statistics upon which itcommenis:
Sshowing that the only time In the past
thirty.six years during which iron mas
Sasn above $40 per tom was six years and |
o,svan months Of the ten years between
Sovember, 1903, and September, 1915.
which included the time Of the war and
he era Of initiation. We think the moral
~ these tables is obvious; Il is, Beware
II inTty dSilar pigiron. II isgenerally an
infant 81 Short lie. :"
yltR report Of the Ohio penitentlary
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