Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-20


The pottery is running full capacity this
week.
The Top mills running double turn, and
will start their blast furnace up in few
days.
Anton Reymann is busily engaged in
building his new ice houses on the east
side Of the creek.
The rail mill at the upper Riverside mill
is turning out large quantities OF rails,
which are Immediately shipped Oh.
Schmulbach & Co.'sne addition TO their
brewery is fast being completed the work
ingmen are busily engaged in fitting up the
interior.
Several cars loaded with material for the
new structure at the La Belle mill were un-
loaded yesterday. The building will be
started about the first of next week.
The coal merchants in the citys have
nearly as many miners as they can nicely
work at present, but still few miners
could get employment at any OF the banks.
Hamilton Burtt's friends in this city
will be glad to know that he has been
elected to the West Virginia Legislature.
We congratulate him on his success
Pittsburgh Labor Tribune.
The sugar refinery is still undergoing re-
pairs. This works will hardly start up agar
until about the middle Of next month, as
the proprietors will not buy any corn until
the prices will justify them in so doing.
The coal trade throughout this section OF
the country has been increasing steadlly
for some time. and at the present writing
the banks are unable to meet the demand.
Coal miners are in great demand.
Steam was raised at the Belmont blast
furnace Yesterday for the purpose OF test
ing the "hot blasts" and from general ap-
pearance it can be safely stated that it will
Be but a short time before this blast fur
mace is running full force.
FEosrBURe, Nd, October l7.-There are
but three or four mines in this vicinity
that are doing full time at present. All the
other banks are very slack. 1t IS an unu-
sual feature, noticeable at this time OF the
year, that our mines are so slack.
Chambers & Co., of Elm Grove, are at
present working twenty mines, and the
reporter was informed by one Of the firm
that they could work twenty more mines
nicely, as they had immense coal contracts
to fill and needed the extra miners. This
is about the average cry OF all the coal oanK
owners outside of the city.
In the Pittsburgh districts matters show
no special features. The scarcity OF cars is
keenly felt both in the coke and coal in
dustries. River pits are working pretty
full and the river trade is very dull, coal
selling at Cincinnati at ~ cents, against
10 cents year ago to-day. everything
quiet and peaceable in al the pits.
Large tracts of coal in Peters and Union
townships are being purchased by Pitts
burgh railroad men. This is not rumor;
we speak from the record. The latest sale
was that of Goals underlying the farms of
BENJAMIN Taylor and Benjamin Lyle, Of
Union township, to Col. Lawrence, of Pitts
burgb, who represents the syndicate. The
coal under more than twenty farms is be-
ing surveyed and conveyed to this party in
bona fide sale absolute.-H0Rroe Republican.
BUcHrEL, O., October 19.-Mining affairs
remain about as already reported. The
different mines here have had a fair weeks
work, but not full time. The furnace con-
tinues in blast The Happy Hollow mines
run full last week. The new mines up at
Maury Run are about ready to commence
shipping. The Helen furnace at Orbison
is still in blast, doing well. The strike Of
the men at the Floodwood works, last week,
for their money, has ended, the company
paying off two months wages, and the men
all resumiBg work again.
LOGAN, O., October lS.-The coal business
throughout the Hooking Valley is not quite
so brisk as during last month, but still
there are many long trains OF coal passing
through here daily. The furnaces are not
doing as well as is the custom. The Vino
ma is out for repairs, as is also the Lee, at
The Bessie, at Straitsville, is out
for want of water. The Xxx aud one stack
~, Il, ~ hou oil nd
the New York, at the same place, IS in
charge of the sheriff. The BuChtel, Helen,
Crofts, Gore, Baird and one stack of the
Fanny are all blowing and doing well.
CHAPMAN, O., October 1S.-Steadiness
around the various mines has prevailed in
this locality for some time. Some mines
have run good and others had broken time.
The Mountain" has Stacked off this week
to three and a half days. John Watts, a
driver there, had leg broken in the mines
on Tuesday last. ''Shriver' has half holt
day occasionally. The "Sippo" is on full
time, and no mistake. Ground Hog" and
Oak Hilp' are doing as we'll as can be ex-
pected. George Phillips, we'll known here
as mine boss, and several others have re-
opened the old Willow" slope, and are
doing brisk business. The election passed
off very quietly.
HoUTzpALE, Pa, October l9.-When the
road up Beech creek is in working order, in
with this region, thousands
upon thousands of coke ovens will be put
into blast, and the under vein OF coal,
which is now OF as little value as the earth
which covers il, will become as profitable
for this purpose as the + vein is for steam
The coke business, which has
been enlarged in this region by the dis
in freight, in favor OF Con.
nellsville, will then be raised, and our coke
will 60 into the eastern cities at so greatly
4 reduced rate, over all competitors, as to
the entire market; aud the con-
sumption of this article alone, to say moth
ing of the coal, is simply enormous.
Witman's foundry stopped Friday and
of last week, for repairs of the
cupola and engine. Through some misun-
Outstanding or dissatisfaction on the part
Of somebody, the force did not go to work
on Monday, as expected, but the foundry
is in full blast this morning. The Hoe &
Tool Works are filling an order for $50
picks with eyes opened. They are to be
finished by the Michigan firm that has or
dered them. The works are running fail,
with orders ahead They are putting ina
new tool hammer, which makes the fifth
one in the establishment. The three Whit
we'll sloves at Belfont furnaces will each
he within five feet as high as the furnace
stack. 1t will take half million brick to
them after the iron work is up
hCnton Register.
SrEUBENvILLE, 0.-The miners OF the JEFF
ferSon Iron Company's shafts, having come
to an agreement with their employers, went
to work on the morning of the 10th. receiv-
ing 2k cents per buShel for the run OF the
mine, which is all they asked for. The
Bustard miners also commenced work, they
having received what they were standing
out for, 80 cents per ton for clean coal. The
miners at the Averick shaft are still out,
no advance being made from either party.
Some time ago the company wanted the
men 20 work by the ton. This
they refused to do, and | suppose the
remain the same. The miners,
1T least their representatives, agreed at
meeting they held to make levy of 81 per
man to support them while out of work.
The High shaft is still running steady,
with good prospects for the winter; also
The Allicanna shaft is running steady with
rood prospects. The company at the latter
shaft are sinking deeper down in search of
good fire clay, believing that the same
Iuality of fire clay exists here as in Toronto
Dr. Cumberland. They are now down about
g feet, having passed through ayein of coal
; feet thick; also bed of fire clay beneath
The coal of 3 feet, at sdepth of % feet. tits
thought that they will reach good quality
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