Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-25
YxpUsrRrAL NOTES.
The News OF the Men who Foil and
Labor.

The Top mill is running to its full ca
pacity.
Yesterday was pay day at the Belmont
blast furnace.
Wilson & Dunlevy's cooper shop resum-
ed work yesterday.
The Alickana works proprietors can't
tell whether they will be shut down.
II is said that q seven-foot vein of blum
nous coal has been found in Ross county,
Ohio.
Some of the nailers say that they are
willing to sign the scale Of 1878 for twenty
years.
The reports that a strike of the miners in
the Connellsville coke regionhad occurred,
is not correct.
The boilers in the Belmont mill will
only run single turn On and after to-day
until the 1st of June.
The Schmulbach Co. have received one of
their new beer elevators from Chicago,
which will be put up as soon as possible.
The forge department of the Riverside
mill was stopped at O'Clock last night,
which will throw about 300 men out Of en-
ployment.
Capt. Hildebrand's fishing club, which is
nrincipalIy composed of Riverside boilers
will leave the city for a three-month jaunt,
on Monday next.
Hobbs, Brockunier & Co.'S new mould
shop is now ready for the sheet iron roof,
and the west end of the warehouse is also
about completed.
A new coal mine for the new Standard
rolling mill at Martins Ferry, Ohio, is be-
ing opened under the direction OF o. NJ.
Davis, of Bridgeport.
About forty of the sixty coal diggers at
the Riverside coal bank were thrown out
of employment yesterday by the forge de-
partment shutting down last night.
The La Belle mill will begin making re-
pairs the first day of June, and will take
the old factory engine out and attach the
nail machines to the new machine.
The heaters at the lower Riverside mill
are on single turn, as they have nearly
enough nail plate ready to keep the nail
machines running until the LIST of June.
Mr.. w. Newt. Linch claims that the man.
ufacturers did not give the w~orkingmen
any chance to explain their reasons Tor
asking an advance at the meeting Tuesday
night.
The jefferson Iron Works Company are
to-day banking up their furnaces, n Will
shut down everything except the nail
works Immediately, and they will be shut
down in q few days.
Prospecting for coal in the vicinity OF
Pittsburg, Kansas, is being pursued with a
vigorous hand and with partial success.
Veins have been struck at a depth of 20 to
25 feet of from 2H to 81 feet in thickness,
The proposed new addition to Schmul.
bach's brewery was to have been finished
by the first OF June, but the wet weather
has detained the wOrkmen TO such an ex-
tent that if it is finished by the latter part
of August they will be doing very rapid
work.
Manager Roe, OF the Crescent mill, was
knocked down and kicked several times by
some men on Seventeenth between Jacob
and Wood streets, yesterday evening about
6 o'clock. The men were so quick Ill their
movements that he was unable to recognize
them.
A strike that has existed among the
miners and other employees OF the New
York and Ohio Coal Co, at Del Roy, Carroll
county, Ohio, has been amicably settled by
arbitration. An umpire was appointed
and after due consideration he awarded 10
cents per ton as the price for cutting coal.
Both parties acquieSced in the decision and
the mines are now running as usual.
The Massillon City Coal Mine was worked
out and abandoned last Thursday after
noon. Opened some seven years ago, it
has been one of the most productive mines
in this valley, the total output amounting
to $50, 900 tons OF coal Of a quality unsur-
rassed in Ohio. The friends Of Mr.. Charles
Gilman, who was injured IN the Pigeon
Run mine last October, will give him a ben
eft entertainment at Pigeon Run, Satur::
day evening, May q, 1882, consisting OF
dramas, farces, sketches, vocal and instru-
mental music. Mr.. l.. Stoehr, of Pittsburgh,
the senior member of the new glass works
firm, is now in the city, letting out the
contracts for building of the new shops.
Active operations will begin in u few days,
and will he pushed to completion as rap
idly as possible. -NGSsIioR Independent.
The Coal Trade .Touraai thus sums up the
coal situation last week: There is really
nothing new in the Cumberland district. II
is hardly worth continuing to give space to
the tonnage statement, except to show the
decrease hat is taking place, week by week.
The Mcyersdale district keeps up a tonnage
equal to half a million tons per annum, the
Broad Top equal to a quarter Of a million,
and all the Pennsylvania Railroad districts
send out more than their usual quota. The
Clearfield is running at the rate of three
million tons a year. and il is therefore no
reason for surprise that the cessa-
ton of operations along Georges Creek
does not cause an advance in the price Of
bituminOus coal. All the contracts that
have been made thus far are based upon
very low figures, and the Clearfield interest
is taking them. We hear OF prices deliv-
cred, which do not leave the operator much
if any margin, unless he is protected by the
railroad company. Beyond doubt there is
an increase in the consumption OF btu
minous coal, hat is growing year by year;
but with the several Pennsylvania dis
tricts, West Virginia, both on the b. & O..
and {. Il o. and Maryland. all producing,
there is not much opportunity for any
improvement in the price OF the commo-
dity.