Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-18

Armstrong, Coen & Co., are at present
building two fine residences for parties
living up at Beech Eott0m.
Ar Sweeney's, Twelfth street machine
shop, they are using the new engine, and
have concluded to do with away with the
old one.
Riverside factory, left for Chicago Sunday,
be having accepted position there as
clinch mailer.
Business in the furniture line is much
brisker this week than for some months.
Orders now are coming in very rapid y,
and they will soon be running their fullest
capacity.
The Is Belle Forge engine viii undergo
slight repairs this week. 1t will not stop
the mill, but the men Will go 70 work an
hour sooner this morning and quit work
that much earlier in the eyening, so as to
allow the repairs TO be made.
One of the mules used by the Riverside
Mil Company to haul coal from the bank
20 the nail factory, took q balky spell at the
intersection of Chapline and Twenty-hfsh
streets Yesterday afternoon, which attracted
ouiie q crowd, and also detained the street
cars nearly half an hour.
The workmen at the Belmont blast fur
mace were busily engaged yesterday in I'LL
ing up the furnace with coke. A large
that the furnace was going 70 start, and so
circulated 1t through the city, but this was
not the case. The furnace had burnt near
Nv out, and the company were compelled to
place more coke in it to keep the fire up.
YESTERDAY afternoon the mill were not
running with full force, as portion OF the
workmen belonging to the K. OF 7. knocked
off at dinner time, and as they held such
positions as boilers and nailers, OF course.
their helpers had also to stop. Still! the
balance Of the workmen continued roll cut
the iron and nails. AS a general thing
Yesterday those working about the forge
department complained greatly about the
intense heat.
The manufacture of iron pans at Annoy,
China, large industry, is in the hands OF
\ houses-a monopoly. The sale of iron
pans in China is said to be enormous, and
the export of the same from Annoy, princi;
pally to the Straits Settlements, increased
| from 1,242,639 pounds in 1880 to Az, S6t
pounds in 1881. 1t was ascertained tnal
| the pans could be manufactured at Annoy,
sbipped abroad, and sold for one-half the
| price charged by the monop0lists, ana two
men. an Englishman and German, started
| fOundries at Annoy with that fact as basis
| of their intended competition. The local
| authorities, however, took q furious
stand't against the invasion Of the foreign.
ers. and Pekiu officials have under eonsid-
Grafton request from Annoy to prevent the
prosecution OF the enterprise by foreigners,
| so surely calculated to reduce the Chinese
monopolists to the necessity of paying their
llaborers European starvation day wages
| Exchange
| dustry of Fayette and Westmoreland coun-
| ties, and one of the most wonderful in the
| State of Pennsylvania, is suffering greatly
| at present on account of the insufficient
| supply of cars provided by the Pennsylvania
and Baltimore and Ohio Railroads, which
| now control the coke shipments. Enormous
| as is the production in these two counties, it
would be greatly increased were 1t possible
to obtain transportation, but capitalists are
| not going to invest their money in erecting
new ovens when it is impossible for them
| TO get enough cars to carry to the market
their present output. There are nearly one
| thousand cars of coke manufactured per day
| in the region and not more than one-hat
that amount can be shipped simply because
cars cannot be obtained. Now that the long
strike is at an end and all the mills and fur
naces are in operation, coke is in great de-
mand, and the works have orders for all the
| coke they can make; more than one.half OF
it has to be stacked on the yard. Take for
instance Colonel ]. NJ. Schoonmaker's bust
ness He ships from Norwood, Jlmtown,
Redstone Sterling, Buckeye, Alice and Star
works, and his shipments will average about
IT'S cars. We are Informed by Captain J. s.
Shoemaker, who has charge of his broth
er's interest in the above works, that all last
week they were unable to get from the rail-
roads, but from fifty to twenty cars per
day, when they should have received rs,
which with TIE sixty individuals, would
have made the IFS. The II. G. Frick Coke
Company and all other coke producers
Gent individual cars, are experiencing the
| same trouble as that in the above described
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