Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-04-19

across the creek, through the hill ana down
Johnathan's ravine to Main street.
George Gaudling. Top mill mailer. is
building residence on Market street, ABOVE
Seventh.
The Etna mill vas closed yesterday, on
account of the death Of one OF its OLD
hands.
A large shipment of iron for the South
was made on the Andes. yesterday, BY the
Etna mill.
Sam. Smith, a filler at the Belmont blast
furnace, left for Pittsburg to visit friends,
yesterday.
Wheeling machine is engaged on pat
emit device by which bicycles may be pro-
PEELED up hill.
The Wheeling nailers who have been at
work at Chattanooga, Tenn, passed up, on
the Emma Graham for Pittsburg yesterday.
David C. Strauss, a coal Upper at the Top
Mill. wrenched his back badly while at
work. Yesterday, which will cause him to
be off for some time.
A district meeting OF the Amalgamation
will be held in this city on Friday, April
%, TO consider the Wheeling scale. Each
lodge sends three delegates to these meet
ings
The Pittsburgh and Allegheny cabinet
makers have obtained an advance OF IS per
cent without any trouble. At the increased
price they can only make s. a day, and
have to furnish their own tools, so that no
one begrudgeS them their victory.
The new furnace at South Pittsburg is
giving perfect satisfaction. As it gradually
becomes heated its output is being in
creased. 1t reached IS tons on Thursday
and will be slowly increased until 1t
reaches s., its full capacity. The total out
put of the new furnaces at South Pitts
burg on Thursday was 125 tons.-Chatta-
nCOgs Times.
One of the deepest wells ever drilled for
oil purposes is the Tack Bros. well, formerly
of Pittsburgh, recently finished in Mill
stone township. Elk county, Pa. 1t was
drilled to a depth of 1900 feet and was dry.
The sands were found regularly, and the
second sand looked very encouraging, but
all hopes were abandoned when the third
sand was passed and no oil found.
Messrs. Joseph Doyle, boss roller at the
Belmont, and James Meechan, puddler at
the same mill, contemplate trip to "Ould
Ireland" this summer. II any persons want
to send word to friends in the counties OF
RoscOmmon on Tipperary, or if they wish
any relics, such as blaCkthorn or turf mug
gets, they can leave word with the above
gentlemen between now and June.
A Gore, O.. correspondent writes: The
iron business promises To be prosperous
this year the product of the furnaces being
largely increased over any preceding year.
The two large furnaces at FlOodwood will
be put in blast some time this fall which
will add 100 tons daily to the output of
iron to that region, The present yearly
output of the furnaces OF the new iron
AL f,,.1
gross tons. The Baird furnace is out OF
blast at present, undergoing repairs. MOxa-
ha.a is out for extensive repairs on her
machinery which will occasion stOppage
of six weeks.
special to the Youngstown Ncrs- Regis
Ter from Mineral Ridge coal district, says:
The miners held a meeting last night and
decided to continue work At ten cents re-
duction, but this morning, after catering
the mines, they reCOnsidertd their action,
and all came out, awaiting the action OF the
State Convention at Columbus, D., April
18th. The Church Hill miners have mott
fed the owners that an advance OF ten cents
will be asked after Monday next. All the
banks in this vicinity have chosen delegates
to the State Convention. The prospects are
rather gloomy for summer trade, the min
ers and iron workers both wanting ad
vanceS on falling market
In California good workman receives in
wages from $500 to s., 900 a year; occupies,
on an average, 100 feet of floor room, and
REQUIRES an investment of $1,000 or more.
The product of his work is from two to
three times as much as his wages. The
average value of machine tools required for
each workman is 500. Interest and de-
probation on this amount Will be $50 4
year. The proportion between the cost OF
tools and wages is nearly as ten to one. II
the efficiency of machine tools is increased
one-fourth the result is equal to proper
tionate reduction of wages, or from S2OO To
$3.50 year for each workman. One hun
bred dollars spent in judiCious tool inn
provement will amount to $40 year as all
investment, and may save 81 900 in wages.
1t is not the first cost of tools that enhances
the expense of production; it is extra labor
caused by the want of good tools.
The managers of the Southern roads car:
rying supplies and output OF furnaces hal
a conference with leading iron makers OF
the South at the Stanton House, Chatta-
noOga on April :. The result of the con.
ference was All agreement to nix freight
tariff on iron. coke, ore, etc, on sliding
scale. When iron j. low in the market,
freight rates will be very light. When
quotations are medium freights will be the
same. In case oil boom the rallrOauS au-
vance freightS accordingly. All this is
fixed upon an agreed basis, and the result
must be much greater certainty in pro.
duCers fixing prices OF materials and pro.
duct in the Chattanooga iron district. They
may know always, at least in ordinary
times, some months ahead just what their
freighting expenses will be. This we be
lieye, is an arrangement never before made
in this country in the interest of iron pro-
duCtion. II it is adhered to il cannot fail
to be favorable to the development OF south
ern iron manufacturing.
As an illustration of how the attention
OF the South has been turned to meChan-
ical matters of late years, as shown BY the
increase in inventions. the following table
has been compiled at the Patent Office
giving the number of patents during the
decade before the war and the first COM
plete decade after the war, leaving the fig
ures of the war decade out altogether: