Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-11-03
THE WORLD or WOKK.
News Of the Mills, the Factories and the
Mines.

A anpealing box was cast at Sweeney q
Sons foundry yesterday for the Greek MILL
Nail machines are now in great demand
Any person having lot on hand could
dispose of them at good figure
Manager Smith of the Belmont blast
furnace will arrive here the tirst OF next
week and prepare the furnace fIr work.
The machinery for Capt Princes steam
boat is completed, but will not be removed
from Sweeney & Sons works until the hull
arrives from Harmer.
The coal works throughout the city, are
also doing big business, and there Is not
one of them but would hire another miner
or two.
The Roberts lodge No. 10, A. A. |. & 5.
W., will give their first grand ball Friday
evening, Dec s, at Turner Hall. ltpromlses
TO be grand affair.
Spence, Bags & Co. made a heavy ship
ment of stoves to points down the river
yesterday, and their foundry is doing a
good business.
The Bellaire Independent says: THE
Bellaire Nail Works declared FIVE per
cent. dividend yesterday. This makes %
per cent. in dividends in one year, a fact
that speaks loudly of the prosperity Of one
of our largest industrial establishments"
Chambers & Co.'S coal works at EN-
Grove, are doing big business, they are
unable to meet the demand for coal. There
is at present about twenty miners at work,
and as one of the firm remarked, we would
be glad to engage twenty more miners, as
there is plenty Of room for them 70 work
in the bank.
The Belmont blast furnace will start up
about the 18th of this month, though it can
not be stated positively as to the tins as
there are several serious drawbacks, one OF
which is they have not at present any
track laid to haul the cinders away, as the
grading of the p, w. & KY. extension has
destroyed their track. which, as soon as the
road is finished, will all be relaid by the
railroad company under their track.
Joseph Boswell. the nailers blacksmith,
at the Bellaire mill, and James Graham, a
mailer, are just now engaged in completing
new selffeeding nail machine. They have
had the second model made, and those who
have examined the new machine and had
its workings explained, think that MesSrS.
Boswell and Graham have struck mighty
good thing. Some of the nailers think that
the Gould machine is as good as can be got
ten, but there are others who believe there
is more merit in the new machine for the
reason of its simplicity. We wish these
gentlemen all the success their new ma.
chine merits, and hope that there's mil.
lions in it" for them.-Belldirc Iadependent.
Jackson, O.-All four of the stoneeoal
blast furnaces of this place-the Tropic,
Globe, Star and Huron-are in full blast,
making their usual average of metal. The
Huron is i'll financial trouble, and is now
operated by Mr.. f. P. Jones as receiver.
The coal trade has been quite brisk
throughout Jackson county this summer
and fall, and several new mines have been
opened out along the Ohio Southern Rail-
road between Jackson and Coalition into the
small. or three foot coal vein. There are
at present some thirty mines open in this
neighborhood. employing in each from
twenty to as high as one hundred miners.
The miners have received pretty fair work,
but there is some complaint for the past
few weeks of a scarcity of cars. The miners
receive SIS cents per ton for the small vein
coal, and 80 cents per ton for the shaft or
Wellston coal, and are governed by the
rules in force in the Hooking Valley.
Several wild rumors were in circulation
yesterday as to the vast improvements cou-
templated by the Belmont mill in their
factory, one of which was that about $50
new nail machines would be put up imme'
diately. The reporter fastened 10 the Of
fee OF said works, expecting to get de-
tailed statement of the proposed improve.
ments, but on stating his business to one
of the gentlemen in the office, he was in
formed that his visit was a failure as far as
getting any itemiZed statement of the i'm
provements, for nothing of the kind had
ever been preached in the meetings OF the
board of directors though it had been talked
of upon several occasions, but no decisive
steps were taken in the matter. The gen.
tlemen went on TO explain the reasons why
il would not be done in the near future.
First, that it would compel then to bald
an entire new structure, as they would
have TO have great many more boiling
and heating furnaces and new squeezer,
muck and sheet rolls, for the capacity of
the forge department did not any more
than supply the demand of the present
number of nail machines in use.
Wellston. o.: The Wellston, Milton and
Eliza stone coal blast furnaces 10 this
place are all in full blast, and under their
efficient managers and practical foundry
men are turning out good yield OF metal.
Each furnace company have a coal shaft
alongside of the furnace, from which the
furnace is supplied with fuel, and quite a
considerable amount OF coal is shipped to
market. About IS miners are employed in
each shaft. The WellSt-n Company has
two shafts, No. being exclusively a ship
ping mine, where about IS men are EN-.
ployed. In addition to these works within
q mile from town, are the Patterson slope.
the Flahart shaft, the Scott shaft, Thorn
hill shaft, and new shaft Of the Meadow
Ran Coal Company. In these mines many
men get employment The coal trade
has been fair, and quite a large
amount of coal has been shipped
The village Of Wellston il rapidly improv
ms both in business aud increased p0pula.
ton. A number OF neat and subStantiil
dwelling houses have been built this SIN.
mer and more are going up. The large
brick building built some years ago but not
completed, is now being finished. Several
fine stores occupy the first floor and the
upper stories are being fitted up as hotel
Mr.. Harvey Wells. the energetic manager
of the Eliza furnace, has about completed,
on an elevated spot, commanding fine
view OF the surrounding country, one Of
the handsomest dwellings in this part OF
the State. Business generally is good, aud
Wellston is destined to be an important
pointin the coal and iron industries Of the
State. Three different railroads now pass
through the place, giving shippers foe
facilities for getting to the different markets.
cS~Explicit directions for every use are
given with the Diamond Dyes. For dyeing