Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-06-29
INDUSTRIAL MATTERS.
wheeling Mill Notes and the workers
Generally.

No change in the situation.
The Wheeling mills are still sleeping
giants.
The Whitaker steel mill still pursues the
even tenor OF its way.
The pottery will shut down for two
weeks for repairs. next Saturday.
We were mistaken about Vim. II. wal
lace. ESQ, taking charge OF the LaBeiIe
class works mold shop. 1t was Mr. Chas.
H. Ballingcr, of New York.
The Ashland. Ky, independent, OF Satur'
day: The Norton Iron Works shipped ,ooO
keys of nails last week. The mill is smut
down this week to make repairs TO the iur
mace and machinery; they expect to be rum
ming again next week.
The Ashland furnace made 1913 tons oil
iron last week, in ga days. The barges
Fleetwood and Bostona, the hulls oil the
old steamers of that name, a-e unloaulnE
ore, this week, which they brought from
the Iron mountain for mixing with Men IA,
tuckv ore. They are shipping iron TO NIL
orders as fast as made; only three OF loui
tons of iron are III the yard.
Tho IrOnton. Ohio. Register: The iron
and steel mill started up last Monday, and
is now running full, the proprietOrs agree
ING TO nav according to the new scale. 80,
two or three mills are now on. The Bel:
font continues idle with no prospects oil
starting. Belfont furnace will bank up,
the latter part OF this week. Lawrence
mill is working full both in town and at
their mines.
The Chattanooga Times advice to the
workmen and manufacturers OF the South:
Milk the COW while Pttsburg holds her
by the horns and the Northwest by the
tail. There are less causes for strike mere
than in any of the huddled hives OF North
ern production. and we believe both work
men and employers are better disposed 10,
ward a compromise II differences shouiu
arise than are the same classes III the
North"
Ohio's coal fields, according to the State
Mining Inspector, occupy nearly one'thlrd
the area of the State, and along the ONO
river. from Bellaire to POmeroy, attain a
thickness of 600 feet, divided into twenty
or more separate and distinct beds. The
steadiest of the beds is the Pittsburgh vein
the next in steadineSs, so developments
would appear to indicate, is the great
vein" Of the Hooking valley. The least re-
liable coal, though one of the most valuable
as regards quality and adaptability to va
rious uses, is the "block coal of the Ma
honing valley. This coal is mined exten.
siyely near Youngstown, Massillon and
Akron. and to sonic extent in Jackson
county.
\ recent Birmingham, Ala, paper says
Notwithstanding the labor troubles in the
North and West, among the iron men,
everything in and around Birmingham is
progressing satisfactorily. The rolling
mill, two furnaces and several machine
shops and foundries in this city are run
ming smoothly along. The furnaces employ
hands I'm
$50 tons of raw materi al per day; the roll
ing mill work three hundred hands
and turns out loo tons finished material
per month. 1t is understood that the roll
ing mill men will take no q. t.pn in regard
to the strike until they il Ne received in
StruCtionS from headquarters. There is at
present no prospect of strike here, and
the situation remains unchanged. All the
coal mines are being worked with full
force. and other industries in this section
are progressing without disturbance.
Pittsburgh has had, on a larger scale,
Wheelings trouble with her water works.
The Iron .iqc says The do.nOthing, hap
py-go.luCky policy of the city of Pittsburgh
regarding its water works is laid bare III
this last provision. BY the terms of the
contract for the construction OF the water
works the mechanical engineer was made
the arDlter IN case OF dispute between the
city and the contractor 1t happens that
the mechanical engineer was the inventor
of the engines, and the absurd condition
exists OF man the principle OF whose en-
CINE is in question being made an arbiter.
He has been retained in his position for
years, solely, it is believed, because the
city has been afraid 10 let him 60, fearing
that they would have to pay the claims OF
the contractor against the city unless
man whose interests were at stake were re-
tanned as arbiter.
The wide applicability OF the basic Besse-
mer process is discussed this week through
out the chief centers The committee of
ironmasters in Staiiordshire who are con-
Quoting the experiments with the common
irons of that district have had a preliminary
blow in BcSsemer converter which,
under Mr.. Thomas superintendent, has
received a basic lining, and they express
themselves very gratitied with the result.
Iren which on the average sells at 31S. sd.
TO J0s, and in which a con siderable ingredi-
ent is mill and forge furnace Cindcr was
melted and supplied to the converter from
a cupola. From the resultant ingot a bar
OF steel was rolled one inch broad by a half
inch thick. This bar was then tested cold.
Placed under 4 powerful slelge hammer il
was doubled up; and il laughed at the OPP
Grafton. 1t was afterward broken and
afterwards bent in the weld. Still the re-
sronse was smile; there was no indication
of fraCture.-Engiih Cor. american MorW-
fUrJITTf.