Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-11-16
MANUFACTURING NOTES.

MANUFACTURING NOTES.
AT the iron works OF Hewes & Phil
lips, Newark, N. j., one day recently,
nine and one-half tons OF iron were
melted in forty minutes. They run
Jour and one-half foot cupola and use
.Conneisville coke.
The Webb Tool Company is among
the more recent Pittsburgh organlza-
tons. II is devoted to the making OF
twist drills by machinery under Webb 9
patent. Works are being prepared IN
Beaver Falls; Mr.. y. b. Nichols OF this
city is President.
The electric light has been introduced
recently on a special train OF Pullman
cars OF the Brighton Railway Company,
England. Thirty-two Faure secondary
batteries were employed to operate a
dozen Swan lamps, and the lIlumIna-
ton was aaid to have been satisfactory.
The Pennsylvania Steel Works, near
Harrisburg, have in course OF erection
two SO.ton open hearth furnaces, two
blast furnaces, and merchant mill,
andlin addition, plant OF three S.ton
converters, though the Bessemer de-
partment has only been IN operation
two or three weeks.
The first line OF telegraph was erected
less than forty years ago, and at the
present time there are more than ,0OO,-
coo in operation. The United States
come first with 100000 miles, with the
immediate probability OF adding another
100000 miles: Germany comes next
with 100000 miles, and the great CHI
nese Empire last, with 1900 miles
The DAYTON, Ohio, Coal and Iron
Company, employing much English
capital, and having about $4,000 acres
OF land on the Cincinnati Southern rail-
road, 36 miles north OF Chattanooga, are
about TO make extensive Improvements
in their property, one OF the frat OF
which will be the erectisn III 80 coke
ovens, which number will he increased
as occasion may require. furnaces,
etc. will also be erected.
There has been more or less discus
sion lately concerning the cause OF the
bad, cowv flavor go often noticed in
milk. Que man thinks he "hss had it
tally demonstrated that the intense heat
causes isrment Of eIcretOry matter. and
al the same time 80 expands the tissues
that the favors are absorbed into the
milk, giving decided dung flavor It
seems 10 have been particularly rotlrea.
Die during the hot weather OF the past
season, and was one OF the bad things
10 contend against in some OF the cream
cries and cheese factories. The proba-
bilitv is that the bad water is the chief
il not the opl v cause OF the trouble
Fresh. running water became scarce
everywhere, and cattle were often
obliged to drink from standing, stagnant
pools to quench their thirst during tho
hot DAYS. This was often the case when
they were driven TO some place at morn
ing and night and given pure water.
All that the Cincinnati mills were
fighting for were Pittsburgh prices,
whatever thew may be; and whatever
the conference at Pittsburgh may agree
mon next June a5 the rates that shall
be paid at Pittsburgh will be, according
to tho agreement, the prices that will be
paid at Cincinnati. In other words, the
scale in the Pittsburgh district and the
Cincinnati district will he the same. We
presume that the Cincinnati workmen
and the Pittsburgh workmen will pre-
sent the same scale. Then, on the
other hand. We do not believe the Gin
ciunati workmen will prevail upon the
Pittsburgh workmen to advance the
scale. The scale will. 10 doubt, he one
that will suit the workmen, or, at least,
the one adopted by them, but there will
he no material advance over the present
one. We will venture the prediction
that boiling on 50 80 card will remain
at - 80, and other wage. now covered
by the scale will remain az they are
f,OH lgc.
\ Hampshire lamb, says the London
agricultural GC.Siir, il 4 living wonder,
an infant prodigy, a standing miracle,
Sold by the hundred, the best lots Will
fetch this season $50 apiece for the
butcher at mutton price. A lamb thirty
week. old, to weigh eighty pounds, has,
he it rememb' red, TO make two ana a
half pounds OF mutton every week since
the day on which it was born. Is there
! there another breed OF sheep that can do
! the same? Hampshire lambs seven
| months old have been let for one month
| at $500. One hundred ram lambs ave.
! ragged $50 at Font Hill short time since.
. The early maturity OF tue Hampshire
lambs is due to the use OF ram lsmbs, TO
careful breeding and liberal feeding.
Our butcher showed us two loins OF
mutton the other day, one from = down
and the other irOm cross bred. The
difference was very striking; the Cross
bred loin was covered with layer OF
one inch thick of fat, and the lean was
small in proportion; the down lOin was
much fuller OF lean flesh, and the uu-
slightly amt unpalatable layer OF lat was
absent.