Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-14
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.
Scraps of News Picked From the
= Work Shops.
Notes Of the Mills, Factories and Glass
Houses of Wheeling and Vicinity
News for the Workman
and lsSorer. !,
FACTS FROM FORGE AND FACTORY.

Pay dsy to-day.
The tack ia ctory is doing good business,
with plenty of orders.
There are eleven small gun metal pumps
at the glucose factory.
Yesterday 9s-foot Sheet OF iron was
rolled at the Belmont Who can beat itA8
The glucose factory has force of New
York men at work lining watts with sheet
lead.
can do in orders and are running steadily
along.
Next week the Ewing and Bill lantern
works will be running to its fullest ca
pacity.
Both the Riverside mills are running full
time and full capacity, except the cold ma
chimes.
The gas works splits up its white and col
ored labor, each of which 'shinnies on It's
own side"
The LaBelle Glass company of Bridge
port reports very fair trade and good run.
To-day is pay day.
The Belmont is running full time, with
plenty of orders ahead. The factory IS
short of cold feeders.
The threatened chill at the Belmont blast
furnace was averted without any loss, fur
ther than in time and production.
Bodley's wagon factory is running fall
time. with orders ahead. \ large ship
ment 10 the South will soon be made.
Norwalk raised $4,000 and secured the
W. & L. T. railroad shops, but shops viii
be needed here all the same.-Adriin's Fer
~ Hor,.
Hobbs, Brockunier & Co. are now run
ming two furnaces. the largest undergoing
repairs and off for two weeks. Orders are
plenty and booked ahead.
The wages of the employees of the Ben
wood furnace have been increased ten cents
per day, and the output OF metal has been
increased to 6S tons daily.
The North Wheeling Glass works are
running heavily and has not missed day
for the past eighteen months. Orders are
very good for the season. To-day is pay
day.
The Central Glass Works will to-day make
a heavy shipment TO Liepsic, in Germany.
The "nappy" is the principal article desir-
ed, which is used there as Il cut Hover
stand.
The business of the Steubcnyille pottery
in increasing so rapidly that the. company
have determined 10 increase the capital
$4,000, ard build two more kilns at
once.
The hinge factory is running full time
and the order book is crowded with orders.
The works are nc running heavily on
garden rakes for the spring trade. Pay
day will come next Monday.
The certificate of extension OF the Bell
aire, Beaver Valley and Shawnee railroad
l. T,l Go
road is to be extended from Bellaire across
the Ohio to Wheeling, where it makes
through connection for the East, and also
change of the western terminus from Shaw
nee TO Cincinnati. The capital stock IS in
creased from $500 900 10 5000, 0O0 and the
namcis changed TO the Wheeling and Gin
emmett Mineral Railroad Company. The
original incorporates are ]. ii. Sullivan,
Hiram Hastings, Henry Miller, James Rich,
Ebene2er Thompson, Seth Gordon; \. ID.
Gallaher, W. II. Atkinson and +. NJ. Akin
son.
The E.tna iron mill declared a dividend
of 10 per cent. out OF the earnings OF the
past six months with a large surplus
which will be used in enlarging and I'M
proving the works Intelligent business
management always pays, Two OF the
leading business men OF Bridgeport, w. w.
Holiday and r. L. Rhodes, during the last
few yegrs have turned their attention 10
manufacturing, and have built up the most
desirab manufacturing properties in the
yiCinitv-thc .Etna mill under the manage
ment Of Mr. Holloway, and the LaBelic
glass works under Mr.. Enthusiastically
Eerry NC1cS.
The manufacturers composing the West
Virginia Fire Brick Association held their
annual meeting nj the COlnpany's office.
New Cumberland, Tuesday afternoon, aud
elected the following board Of directors for
the ensuing year: James Porter, Charles
Freeman, i. J. Smith. Capt. John Porter,
Alex. Manypenny and ThOs. Anderson.
Officers: 3. J. Smith, President, c. y. Free
man, Secretary, and James NJ. Porter, Book
keeper. The company report an excellent
wears business, with fine prospects of
large Increase the coming year.
The Edgar Thomson Steel Works at
Brad6ocks has just finished renodeling its
furnaces, so as to use the basic process for
making steele from cindcr. The exclusive
right 10 this process was purchased for
$3.50, 900 cash some time ago by the Ameri-
can Bessmer Steel Association through
Andrew Carnegie, and is now put TO prac-
teal use for the first time in this country.
1t has been successfully worked in Eng.
land, and it has proved peculiarly adapted
o the phosphOric ores and others which
have before been considered of but little
value, on account of the difficulty in
working them. 1t is said that large guam
titles of cinder have been purchased by the
Edgar Thomson.-PRSJWgh Dispaich.