Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-04-08
The Ice Trade.

Happy is the dealer who has his houses full
of good ice, for the price has been about
trebled. The crop was about failure
everywhere, even on the chilly Hudson or
on the arctic Kennebec. Some little ice
was gathered about here, but not nearly
enough to supply the demand, anu II must
be imported.
OF course, the price has gone up. Hotel
men who paid, last year, y TO 30 cents per
hundred for amounts over 300 pounds, Will
this year have TO pay 60 to 20 cents. In
this proportion, family consumers Will
have an advanced price to pay, and toward
the middle of the season, cent ana halt
a pound.
There are no indications, as yet, of an adj
vance in cobblers, cocktails and lemonade,
which is one consolation.
Pay day at the La Belle next Friday
PAY day nj the Riverside mill to-day.
IiIe lUp InIlI Is Iuniiins i"ii al c'rl! ue-
partment.
Pay day at the Belmont mill to-day, and
at the blast furnace next Wednesday,
The up river miners seem determined to
stand out for their demand ford cents.
The whitc-wash artist is getting in his
harvest now, with the painter and paper
hanger.
The walls of the new Mendel furniture
factory are rising rapidly, and will soon be
ready for the bricks.
The Belmont blast furnace has been max
ing very large runs this week, and every
thing is moving nicely.
The Riverside nail works are running in
full force this week and getting out great
quantities of iron and nails.
A new annealing furnace was started at
the Tack factory yesterday. 1t will be two
or three weeks before itgoes on.
The Sugar refinery has all the needed
machinery in good running order, now to
run steady and at its fullest capacity.
The Whitaker Iron Works Company has
bought the Carter coal field which embraces
the mine now operated by Mckinley.
The Southern floods have made timber
boom. Bodley Bros, of this city, have all
they can do, making timber carriages.
Cox & Morrison have partially moved
into the Tack factory boiler yard. They
will be running full by Monday or Tues
day.
The Junction Iron Company at Mingo
sent an order to Sweeney Is Son yesterday
to make two sets OF large size nail plate
shears.
The new addition on the south end OF the
Belmont blacksmith shop will be COM
pletcd this coming week. The roof will be
finished to-day.
The building outlook is a little better,
builders beginning to believe the present
prices will be maintained and no use OF
longer holding of.
At the b. Il 0. railroad shops a new
engine. No. 373, was finished yesterday,
and will make a trial trip to-day. The above
is 10 wheel freight engine.
At Hobbs, Brockunier & Co.'S glass
works the men and boys were hard at work
turning out glassware, but were complain
ing about the hot weather.
Sweeney & Son have bought the vacant
lots which lie south OF their foundry and
front on Chapline street. They will use
the ground at present as yard.
At the La Belle mill our reporter found
that good and skilled laborers were very
scarce as a good portion of those employed
were off on account OF sickness.
Young Dan Cady had the thumb and Sec
ond finger of his lett hand badly hurt at
the Tack factory, yesterday. The thumb
was taken off and the finger lacerated.
That portion of Hobbs, Brockunier Coos
warehouse, which was burnt at the fire, was
being torn down, yesterday, and will be
replaced Immediately by brick structure.
A large cylinder weighing 10000 pounds
was cast by Sweeney & Son yesterday. The
shaft for the Standard mill will be COM
pleted next week. 1t will weigh over seven
tens.
The Amalgamated Association will prob.
ably hold their annual picnic at Beaver
this year. The date has not been fixed.
1t is said that the speech making feature
will be omitted.
The Pottery is running in its fullest
capacity. Nothing OF interest has trans.
pired there this week. The wOrkmen are
making plenty of money and are very
happy booking set.
The Riverside furniture factory was
making very large shipment Of furniture
yesterday. The cabinet makers we're off
on account of itbeing Good Friday. All Of
them will resume work to-day.
There will be a great many labor meet
incs in the next six weeks, as the members
OF the Amalgamated Association, in vari-
Gus departments, must have their scales
ready TO submit before June /.
VIM. Hildebrand, a nail feeder at the
Belmont nail works, had cut this week up
TO Friday at noon, Is kegs of one inch
barrel nails, which they claim is the largest
four and one-half days work in this city.
The sugar refinery will start up to-day,
provided the men from New York who
understand running the vacuum pumps
arrive as per contract. Should they get
started to-day the batch will be run of
Monday evening in the shape Of molasses.
A dispatch from Canton says the big
strike Of the safe makers has at last been
settled, and this morning the works started
up, all the men going to work. The fol-
lowing is the agreement effected: The
men TO 60 to work at the old pricesa7d IN.