Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-29
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.

The new locomotive works OF the Ohio
Central are secured for BuCyrus.
The Akron Malleablc Iron Company has
been incorporated with capital OF 10000.
The Belmont was idle yesterday, owing
to the death OF Deputy-SheriIf John Refs
ter.
Albert Wells, OF the Riverside mill, yes
tcrday puta self-feeding nail machine III
operation.
The Belmont blast furnace is in full op-
Grafton, the engine having been put III
thorough order again.
The Akron Steam Forge Company has
obtained the corporate right to increase its
capital from $4,000 to 500 900.
The glass work room at the Pottery is
running Every other department is suS-
pended during the taking OF stock.
The property OF the Pennsylvania and
Virginia Coal and Iron Company, consist
ing of two furnaces and lands, have passed
into the hands of a receiver.
Over 100 new industrial establishments
are reported for Philadelphia in lSSl. I'M
provementS and additions to old houses are
almost without number.
The Iron City Bridge Works are pressed
with business They expect to start their
lower shops, at Charter, Pittsburgh and
Lake Erie Railroad about January 1st.
The Central Rolling Mill Company has
leased the Louisville Rolling Mill, Louis
Vile. and is prepared to fill orders for
sheets, plate, tank and merchant iron of all
descriptions.
The self-feeding nail machine of Mr. Geo.
Stein, at the Riverside mill last week cut
thirty-fiye kegs of four-pcnny nails. Ed
ward Stein, lad Of twelve years, attended
the machine.
The Chieftain Hay Rake Company, Can
ton, have received an order for a carload of
their Chieftain raGeS from Stockton, Cali
fornia. Their orders this year are three
thousand in excess of last year at this time.
Another new clay press will be put in at
the Pottery during the month of January.
Two presses willnOt be sufficient TO supply
the clay demanded for the factory. This is
is sign Of prosperity, as it evidences an
increase in the business of the Pottery OF At
least one-half since the present presses were
put in.
As soon as it was definitely decided that
the citizens of New Philadelphia Ohio, had
raised bonus OF S5OO to secure the loca-
ton of the Ward Iron Works there, Mr..
James Ward at once decided instead of re-
moving his works from Niles, which could
only be accomplished at great expense to
build an entirely new mill.
The new Laughlin mill at Martins Ferry
has begun work The factory proper is 2i2
by ~ feet, and contains l16 nail machines
when all are in place; 81 of these will he
entirely new ones, and the Others the old
ones Overhauled and reconstructed. The
forge building, 26O by 100 feet, has roof and
sides of corrugated iron. II will have 22
boiling furnaces; l. of these are already
completed.
The Chicago Locomotive Works Company
will proceed to erect their buildings. twelve
in number. as rapidly Us possible. the de-
sign being to commence operations about
June 1SS2. They will probably build resi-
dCnceS for their workmen similar to those
built by the Pullman Company. The site
selected is the hew suburban town of Gar
field. near Chicago.
The number of sales made by the Fair
banks Scale Works, At st. JohnSbury, Yer
mont. during the past twelve months, has
exceeded *. 600, or 5000 more sales than
were sold in 1880. The company have made
1900 hav scales and 400 iron frame railroad
track scales. The number OF postofhce
scales made under contract with the United
States Government the current year was
2,5O0 In the manufacture of a hundred
varieties of scales there have bean used the
past year 5,0OO tons of pig iron, 500 tons OF
bar iron, $4,000 pounds OF steel, 2o,OO
pounds of brass castings, and 100000 feet
OF lumber. The Fairbanks Scale Company
employs GOO men.