Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-17
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

Some of the stove filters at the Arlington
works were off yesterday.
Hoffman & Son have at last received and
stacked enough tan bark to run their
establishment for the next year.
All the glass houses throughout the city
report business very brisk, and, further,
that they can hardly meet their demands.
Sweeney & Sons foundry and machine
shop are kept very busy on the new ma
chinery fer the steamboats, that are being
built.
The only reduction made in Wilson q
Walkers mill was in the car axel depart
ment. 1t was cents per axel. The men
are satisfed.-Pitts. Telegraph,
The LaBelle mill was running nicely in
all departments yesterday and everybody
was much pleased with the way the new
engine made the nail machines run.
At the Bi.Centennial Trades display in
Philadelphia on the 18th inst, Kloman d
Co., of Pittsburgh, will exhibit one OF their
car motor springs, the largest ever made In
any country. .-.....'. ,.. .f.. 70.
The Belmont blast furnace is still idle,
and no prospects for it starting up for
some time. The company have not as yet
engaged any manager. Mr.. Raney resign
ing requires them to fill his position.
James Henderson, of Bellefonte, Pa, has
come forward as the inventor of the de-
phosphorizing processes claimed by Jacob
Reese, of Pittsburgh, and S. G. Thomas, of
England, and the Patent Office has declared
an interference.
Lindsay & McCutcheon are erecting 20
additional pudding furnaces, two heating
furnaces, squeezers and train OF rolls in
their mill on Rebecca street, Allegheny
City. This will make an aggregate Of 40
pudding furnaces at their mill.
An immense business is being done in
the axe factory at Belleville, Canada. Six
hundred axes are turned out daily and the
orders are coming in much faster than they
can be executed Mr.. Campbell is enlarg'
ing the capacity of the mandatory, which
is now the,largest in the Dominion.
The annual meeting of the United States
Charcoal IronwOrkers, it should not be for
gotten, is TO be held at Chattanooga, begin
ming on the 18th inst. A free excursion
has been rendered the Association through
Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia, and an
attractive programme has been arranged
for their entertainment there.
Yesterday three cars loaded with iron for
the new mill were received by the LaBelle
Company, and the contractors expect to
start putting the mill up this week. In a
3 conversation with one of the mill men yes
terday the reporter was informed that the
putting up of the new structure would not
stop the mill though it might check Ger.
tain portions of it for q few hours, but they
did not expect to stop the mill for one day.
The new mill will be so much broader and
higher that they will be able to.work while
it is being built.
! The TimmS Car Works, Columbus, Ohio,
were sold at auction last week, the highest
bidder and taker being Captain Sextus
Scott, who advanced 81 900 on his former
bid, making the total amount $4,000. He
will at once put the place in running order
and resume the business which was stop
ped at the time of the assignment last
spring. Captain Scott was the former
President OF the company. He does not
now represent that same corporation, and
it is not known who is at the back of him.
The price paid is considered fair enc by
the stockholders.
The Scottdale furnace of Everson, Ma
crum & Co., which has been idle for good
many weeks, is in superb order and is now
making more and better iron than at any
former period since it was built. Fifty tons
per day was considered its utmost yield in
past years, but in consequence Of the i'm.
provements lately made it now turns out
90 tons per day. The company are highly
satisfied with the performance of their mag
nifiCent blast works. The rolling mill we
found to be full of business, working night
and day to supply the orders which crowd
themt 10 the full extent of their capacity.
Sheet iron has been the product of the
mill during the past, but new additions are
being made so as to manufacture bar iron.
A splendid new battery of steel boilers is
being erected to give the necessary power
to work the rolls which will soon be intro
duced.
1t is understood that r. J. Anderson will
start up new steel mill, with DR.. Hostel.
ter as financial hacker. A company has
been formed under the firm name and title
of Anderson, DuPuy & Co., Mr.. DuPuy be-
ing o son-in-law of DR.. Hostetter. Mr..
David Shaw, late manager of the Siemens-
Anderson Works is also interested in the
new com pany, and will probably be the
manager of the works. The company have
secured property on the line of the Pitts.
burg and Lake Erie Railroad, at the mouth
of CHARTERS Creek, and operations will be
commenced at once. Within sixty days it
is expected to have the works in running
order. The capacity OF the new concern
will he 10000 tons of finished steel an
nually. 1t will be built after the most
approved style and will contain the latest
and most improved Siemens furnaces.
This is the latest regarding the "triplet'
works.