The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-07-17
INDusrRIAL INrELLIGENCE.


News from the FACTORIES, hhiFohuss
Mines and workshops Of this Vicinity.
YESTERDAY was pay day at the Gas
Works.
To-Day will be pay day atthe Riverside
Iron Works. =.
II is likely that the La Belle Mill will
start up Monday.
A NEW blacksmith shop is being built at
the Belmont Mill.
The heaters Of the Riverside Mill are
working three-quarter turn.
The new furnace at the Central Glass
Works Is progressing favorably.
IT is thought that the Belmont blast
furnace will go into blast about August
first.
The State Tobacco Ware House at Bell.
aire has about rs hogsheads OF tobacco IN
at present.
TuE Top Mill has been running during
the past week, and will continue TO run
until further notice.
TIE Whitaker Iron Works are working
nearly full just Bnow, and Il the weather
was favoring would run full.
THE boilers OF the Belmont Mill go to
work Monday, the heaters Tuesday and
the nail factory Wednesday OF next week.
TIC Etna Foundry at Bellaire Is cast
ing a tlattening wheel for the Window
Glass Works there, which weighs S,2Oo
pounds.
TuE blast furnace at the Jefferson Iron
Works, Steubenville, shut down yester-
day. She will be newly lined before oper-
atoms are recommended.
The new rolling mill at Wellsville start.
ed up Thursday morning, aud. the town
has gone ints a jollitication over 1t. Sheet
iron was made yesterday.
TuR Globe Touring mills, an extensive
establishment built few years ago by
Butte & Dunlap, at Bellaire, has been
stopped since Monday, but will start in
full to-day.
THE carrying.out boys at the Etna
Glass Works, the new factory at Bellaire,
quit on Monday on account OF some black
sheep that we're at work, but rather than
lose their places returned to work.
TuE boys in Sam Elders soap factory
are out on strike. One OF the strikers
was induced TO go to work when the 9th
ers turned in and thrsshed him. They de-
mand an increase OF wages ranging from
fifty cents to one dollar per week.
TIE Buckeye Glass Works, at Martins
Ferry, after recess OF three weeks, which
has been spent in making necessary re-
pairs, will start up again next Monday.
This company has the satisfaction oil
knowing that the last years business
Welded profit OF thirty per cent, clear
profit, on their investment. A large
amount Of satisfactory orders for the COM
ing season are already on hand.
The city boiler works OF J. B. Barnhill
are now doing a large amount Of work,
He is building three new boilers to be used
in this city. One for Bodeier Bros, 20
feet long and 40 inches in diameter. and
one for the Goblet Company TO be used al
the Ohio works, 90 feet long, ~ inches In
diameter, also locomotive boiler for the
water works, 20 feet long, IS inches 10
diameter, with sixty three.inch tlues tonr'
teen feet long. Mr.. Barnhill reports work
plenty and says he has all he can do
Bellaire Tribune.
| BELLAIRE is taking rank among the cities
OF the State as one OF the iastest'growing
towns OF EhbttTH ohlos SAheo AS'S W.
population has all but doubled itself. Be
fore the present census returns are fully
completed and given to the world by tht
government, Bellaire will have more thar
doubled her population. This fall alont
will add from 1000 to 1900 to the returni
Iof the enumerators thisyear. The increased
CAPACITY Of the Goblet works is bringing
several new families to the city, as vii
also the extensive increase Of the Window
Glass Works, while the new Etna Works
have already broughtin the neignborhoot
OF forty families from Wheeling and othel
places, aud the New Union Works musl
bring more families because the idle men
Of this city are very few just now. The
increase that naturally follows these
workmen, Of grocerymen, saloon men anc
various other tradesmen will swell the
population of this city very near, ii mo-
quite, to 10000 before the end OF the yea
1880. -BeLluire IHiepeRdent.