Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-04-15
GESERAL INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

Pay day at the l.aBele mill, yesterday.
Next Saturday is pay day at the River
side mill.
out nails rapidly.
The stock yard at the blast furnace is re-
Ceiying new floor.
All Of the East Wheeling mills and fac
tories are running full.
The average production of the gas works
for the week was 200, 900 cubic feet.
The mill men felt the relief of the cool,
after that intensely warm weather.
The new furnace at Quinnimont w. Va,
was lighted April ., and.Is doing well.
Wheeling and vicinity furnishes nearly
one third of the nails of the United States.
The demand of the top filters at the blast
furnaces will be settled one way or the
other to-day.
The Pottery is running to its fullest ca.
pacity this week, with more orders than
they can fill.
About twenty-five tons Of railroad iron
for narrow gauge roads is turned out at the
Riverside mill daily.
Bcneke. Hubach & Go. S furniture factory
is doing fine business this season, keep
ing all hands very busy.
The new fre-proof snap shed at Hobbs,
BroCkunier & Co.. S was finished this week
and is quite an ornament.
The Belmont blast furnace is running
very well this week, nothing of interest to
the public having transpired except what
has already been published.
The Norton Iron Works, Ashland Ky.
made AGA kegs of nails last week, and from
~ to 60 tons of iron daily, and shipped 50
tons OF pig iron.
The west end of Hobbs. Brockunier &
Co.'S warehouse is being built up very
rapidly; also the mould rooms on the south
end of the factory.
Frank Caldwells new works, in the old
Busby & Little building. are attracting
attention. The large, new building, in
addition to the old one, makes an extensive
shop.
George Metzner, machinist, who has
only been in this country two weeks, and
who has been working at the Riverside fac
tory, had portion OF two of his fingers
taken off at the factory few days ago.
The Riverside furniture factory has been
making very large shipments of furniture
TO Ohio and Pennsylvania, and are working
their men very steadily in their endeayor
to catch up with the orders that are pouring
in.
Superintendent Dillon, of the gas works,
has a device for cooling water that works
we'll. He runs pipe from the hydrant in
the bottom OF the large cistern tank, and
by the time il reaches the surface it is at a
temperature OF 45 degrees.
The Ashland, Ky, furnace made 405 tons
of good iron last week. Col. Putnam is
testing the phOsphor- bronze tuyeres, which
are said to last three times as long as iron
tuyeres, and the old metal, when worn out,
is worth 60 per cent, OF first cost
Johnny, little son of Michael HALEY, a
| workman at the Belmont mill, while play
ing. fell off the porch. breaking one bone
OF the right forearm in two places, Thurs
day afternoon. DIR. Campbell reduced the
fracture, and at this writing the little fell
low is getting along nicely.
The Riverside nail works is trying De
Linn's new movement on the self-feeders.
So far il has proved to be far superior to
the old movement as there is always some
thing getting out of order with the self
feeding machines obviated with this move
| ment, which simplifies it so that the nailers
can control the rods, etc, better.
-Four new pots were being placed at
Hobbs. Brockunier & Co.'S glass works
yesterday, and the old ones dumped out
The furnace which has been undergoing
repairs for some time past was finished
| early this week, and a fire built in it.
They will commence using it next week.
Yesterday they were having new wind
pipe put up around the above furnace.
1t is reported that Baltimore capitalists
have purchased 10000 acres of land in
West Virginia, which they propose to col.
| onige With Europeans II is also stated
that it is contemplated TO establish regu-
lar line OF steamers between some Euro.