Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-14
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.

The Laughlin nail factory will be in OPP
Graf on by the first of next week.
Lead,ille has thirty-Siy furnaces, with
daily calacity of |, 900 tons; and ninety
five stamps of 200 tons daily capacity.
President Jarrett of the Amalgamated
Association, addressed u lodge of the order
in Chicago tn the tariff question, Saturday
night.
The Ftna mill continue to make some
heavy shipments of iron Ia the southern
markets. Orders are plenty and still
coming in.
Having just completed one dozen nail
machines for the Laughhn mill, the Me>nrS.
sweeney have just received another order
for twelve more machines.
The Bellairc independent says that over
eleven thousand kegs OF nails have been
cut in the furtory there within the last two
weeks. and that things about the mill are
fairly booming.
The engines OF the p K. Il. and other
line, leading into Pittsburgh have adopted
n new apparatus intended TO prevent sparks
and cinderS TO be thrown out in such great
quantities. and it is said to be Il perfect sue
cess.
Ry the giving way OF some brick work
ut the Belmont blast furnace Il few days
400 one end of a battery Of boilers began
10 sink, but the trouble was discovered and
repaired before any serious damage was
done.
Rarid progress toward completion is be-
iup made at the Wheeling Sugar Refinery,
and the heavy machinery Is being han
died and placed in position with dispatch
that does credit to the superintendent
Mr.. Dwight.
The two great sheets OF plate glass, each
Il. Ia l,tf nl =,
PHILADELPHIA in 1876 have been purchased
hy New York firm, and will soon be
placed in the front OF Il large retail store in
Broadway.
The buckeye Glass Works. at Martini
Ferry have made large shipments by the
river recently. in addition to the usual
heavy shipments by rail Indications for
the future continue good and the cStab-
Hshnent is running to its full capacity.
On Friday night the converting depart
mont Of the Brsscmcr steel mill OF the
Bethlehem Iron Company turned out IA
tons OF rails which is in excess OF anything
vet made at this work.. There were D
heats in twelve hours. or 10 heats i'll II
hours.
A new foundry will shortly be e>tab-
lishcd near NalcncienmeS, France, for the
construction of railway rolling StorN, &c,
and the Society dies USincs du Nord ct de
Est is commencing the building OF a new
steel works, to be worked by the ThomaS-
GilChrist process
A French patent aims 70 max" the en-
girc with the fc vest number of parts. The
cylinder and piston are both made Of only
two pieces bolted together in the middle,
the crank pin works in a block which slides
backward and forward in slot and the
valve is driven from the small crank.
The Royal Flint Glass Bottle Works OF
West Bridgcwater Pa, commenced making
glass about July 80, and have worked
steadily since, period OF about seventeen
weeks, without putting i'll pots or breaking
one, feat almost unparalleled i'll glass
manufacture. These pots were made by
the firm OF Tho,. Coffin X Co., oI Pitts
burgh.
A recent issue OF the Buil'ti" of the Iron
and Steel Association contains the follow
ing statement: The worlds production Of
pig iron in lSSl will exceed lS.OOO,O 600 gross
tons, and the worlds production OF steel i'll
the same year will undoubtedly reach .
600 900 gross tons. We arrive at these con-
illusions after thorough examination Of
all available statistics.