Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-22
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.

Friday will be payday at the ncfelle
mill.
Yesterday was payday for the BE ssont
blast furnace and coal miners.
To-day is pay day ut tho H. 4 O. crr strops
and at all points on the B. 4 o., between
Grafton and Wheeling.
The Christmas Table" set by Hobbs,
Brockunier & Co, for the benefit Of their
employees, contains many beautiful sets u
glassware.
The Belmont forging department is run
ming in full blast, Notwithstanding the
nteliiqeneT's statement yesterday that
they had broken down.
The biggest run ever made ut the Rel
mont Blast furnace was made during the
Twenty-s,ur hours closing ut noon ycster-
day. There were ninety-four charges in
twenty-foar hours, fifty vi them being made
in twelve hours.
Connellssille region items from the Mt.
Pleasant JosTaaI Although cars are more
plentiful than they were some days ago,
yet there is still a marked scarcity. This
will be the condition all winter, no doubt
or until the individual cars contracted for
shall be built. The Connellsville Gas Coal
Company have completed and fired the
second block Of one hundred ovens.
~ i'vvV
tons of metal per week. IL run TO her full
capacity she will turn out 400 tons per
week. The John Pugh farm near Green's
burg has been purchased by Coulter and
Huff, and the coal will be opened out
soon. The price paid was $4,000. Fair
chance furnace made q tons Of iron one
day last week This was a big run for
furnace of its size. The usual run of this
furnace is from Is 10 ID tons per day. The
Messrs. Thaw 4 Co., OF Pittsburgh, have
begun on their shaft on the Rumbaugh
farm. A branch Of the Ioungwood road
will be run from Joseph Steele's TO the
point where the shaft will be sunk. The
coal lands in the neighborhood Of Jackson
Vile, this county, are being leased at a
rapid rate, the leaseholders agreeing To pay
$40 per acre in case they are able 10 accom-.
plish certain things inside Of . specified
time.
The agent of the English syndicate, Mr.
Sicklcs, who has recently made trip Of in
speCtion through the Hooking Valley, Ohio
region, has made n report Of his observa-
tions in which he says the Hooking Valley
coal region Is the bonanza ofOhio, and that
the Hooking Valley railroad IL certain TO
become the best piece Of railroad property in
America, if the same judicious management
IS retained. He reports that the company
will earn s. .OOO, 600 gross next year. II the
proposed plans for increasing the capacity OF
the road are carried out, and that the busi-
ness of the line is not likely Ia be dimin-
ished by competition, because no other
road that enters the coal fields is so well 10.
Gated for traffic and SO well provided with
terminal facilities. The completion Of the
Toledo and Detroit Air Limo hallway will
enable the Hooking Valley road to trans
port coal directly from the mines TO the
latter city under much more advantageous
conditions than those which now exist.
The English syndicate will inside OF two
weeks, place a corps Of engineers at work
surveying a route for the proposed Cincin'
natl, Shawnee and Wheeling railway. The
entire capital stock Of the Toledo and De
troit Air Line has been subscribed and ~
per cent paid in