The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-10
BE.LAIRE's BUSINESS GROWTH.
A Million OF Dollars OF Manufactured
Products Sold Per Year.

Balt,Ire Tribune.
Letany person acquainted with the bust.
ness Of Bellaire during the past ten years
compare the present volume OF trade with
that Of ten years ago, and he will discover
a wonderful improvement. The Belmont
Glass Works with q single furnace. the
Bellaire Nail Works without blast fur
mace and with little over half the present
number OF nail machines, and the National
Glass Works in very sickly condition,
were the principal manufacturing enter
prises. The mercantile business OF the
town was principally confined to halt a
dozen store rooms on Water street
(now called Union street), and the
whole business was in q precari-
ons and uncertain condition. The
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
WAS about completing its bridge over the
Ohio, and it was feared that when 1t was
finished the suspension OF the work Of
transferring freights by boat and rehand:
ling incident thereto, which had furnished
A large proportion Of the labor population
with employment, would very seriously
interfere with the prosperity OF the place.
II was about this time when the project
OF organizing the Bellaire Implement and
Machine Works Company was inauRu-
rated, and that movement, with the ad.
yertisiug It furnished, and the encourage.
ment Il afforded, was the commencement
OF the new era for Bellaire, and though 1t
proved losing affair TO many aud very
DISASTROUS to few enterprising men who
sought TO sustain II, II was, nevertheless, a
project that did more 10 give Bellaire the
start that has made her what she is
than any other movement ever organized
within her lLmits, and the great majority
of those who lost by thss enterprise have
been fully compensated by direct adVan-
tages derived thereirom. The three man
uIscturIng establishments OF 1870 have
been greatly increased in capacity, and
their number multiplied until more than
three times three manufacturing esta blish-
ments are now sending up their smoke,
and furnishing employment TO doub'
led population, and sending forth
into the markets Of the country more than
a hundred carlosds Of manufactured goods
every week. The store rooms upon Un-
ion street have been doubled in number,
and Belmont street, that was sub
stantiSlly without business then, has
double the number Of store rooms that
Union street has, and all are occupied and
allied with better stock than were to be
found In Bellaire ten years ago, II We 90,
cept one or two good establishments Of
that date. In the meantime new men
with fresh energy and capital
have been coming To- Bellasre,
developing and extending hei
trade, and while few fault finding grum'
blers within her own limits have been en-
gagged in belittling Bellaire aud her enter
prise and business, and the malicious
outside influences that are annoyed BY
her growth in population, wealth and bust
ness, seeks to divert attention from that
growth and development, the people o.
the surrounding neigh borhoods are begin.
ming 10 realize that Bellsire is 3 place o.
some importance, and are tavoring hel
with their trade. Our manufacturing es
Adjustments are realizing Ia return fol
their products q million dollars per year
gathered from all parts OF the country
and are distributing half OF that sum II
the payment Tor labor, that goes 10 pur
chase the produce Of the farmer and thu
goods OF the merchant, and II We only re
ALIKE In return the confidence and patron
age OF those who are benefited by the ex
penditure Of this vast sum, BellRire vii
have o grand future.