Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-19

The Top mill Is running ~ iul CaPaoiy
| in all branches.
The Top mill blast furnace will be started
| up in about week.
/ The Riverside was busily engaged ship
| ping nails yesterday.
Saturday is pay day at the Riverside, Bel
| mont and Top mills.
The North Wheeling glass work are doing
| q very fine business, with plenty OF orders
ahead.
| The Riverside nail factory was running
| full force Yesterday, it being the first day
since they started that il has been on full
The reporter was unable to learn whether
| the mill owners had succeeded in effectinH
a way of getting coke to the city cheaper
than heretofore.
The miners pick and tool factories al
| Martins Ferry, which have been idle the
| past week for want Of iron, will resume
operations this week,
James Fleming moulder at Sweeney a
\ Sons foundry, is the oldest meulder in the
| CITY, having come here in 1882 Though 9
very old man, he still does . very good
| dsy'swork.
! H.! About SOC, 900 cans of corn have been put
up at the Elgin, ILL.,, canning establish
ment This concludes the business for the
| yesr. Two years sgo over l,OOO,VO0 cans
| were prepared for the market
The Pittsburgh Steel Casting Company
| have recently made series OF tests and
| carbon determinations OF their refined
| Ressemer steel, in order TO show the uni
formity which may be obtained In its
| manufacture.
Yesterday young Slator, nail feeder at
the Top mill, met with very painful acct'
,yn.Lr ha In,
got the forefnger of his left hand caught
between the headed lever and the bed plate,
which crushed the member of. Medical
attention WIS Immediately called and the
wound dressed.
The new cotton mills at Aurora, Ill, are
now being built and intend to be in oPs-
rationsby July, 1893, The O., B. q O. X X
| Co have run q switch along the whole
front of he company's grounds, which
will greatly facilitate the putting the brick
and lumber upon the company's grounds
for their building.
A. Northrop & Co, of this city, are filling
large order for their cap seam iron roofing
from Gregg & Co., founders, Trumanso1rg,
n. Y, and also one from Frick q Co.,
Waynesboro, who have used large amount
Of tins roofing. They are also: putting up
an iron ceiling in the banking office OF
hcllOu " DOho.
Graham & Farmerie have a contract for
cutting sc, 900 feet Of timber from the Pitts
burgh and Western; also 1000 feet con-
tract from the Penn Bridge Works at
Beaver Falls. The new stack at the FUR
mace is 100 feet high at the clear. AT the
top il sways six inches from the perpen-
dicular, and it takes a little more than
ordinary nerve to accomplish the ascent
Sdrpsburg Herald.
A needle mandatory has been establish
ed in Brooklyn, and is the only one In the
country, all needles hitherto having come
from Europe. They are to be made by
machinery, which will be the first attempt
of the kind. The manufacture has been
entirely by hand and requires many opera
tons; the conversion Of the wire into rough
needles requires twenty, the tempering and
annealing nine, polishing five, which are
repeated seven or eight times, and sorting
five. The Brooklyn enterprise WILL, II Is
to be hoped, prove success.
August Hardenstein, manager OF the boil
ing department OF the Bellaire rolling mill
boarded Panhandle No. 10, at Mingo this
morning, mistaking it for the Bellaire
train on the G. & p. road. Discovering his
error after the train had started he jumped
of, alighting where there was a heavy I'll,
and rolling down he sustained fracture OF
the left thigh. He was taken care OF by
friends, and when the c. d P. train came
along was placed on it and taken home
Mr.. Hardenstein is a German of about 50
years of age.-SeubenriLte Gazette.
An upholstering material invented by
Washington G. Benedict, Orange Park, Fla,
is made in the following manner: Pine
fbers are stripped from the trees and i'm
Immediately arranged on racks in the wilt
,.ah oil ltfKhf 10 rn-
fully excluded. so as to prevent the fbers
from turning brown. They are left here
for one or two weeks, after which they are
spun into rope, and the rops hung into
dark room to complete the drying and set
its curl, 1t is then picked apart and is
ready for use. The inventor claims that
the aroma of the leaves preserved by his
process possesses valuable medicinal quail
ties.
Mr.. Albert Scott, the oil man, informs
US that he completed yesterday and put in
successful operation a water well at Coulter
& Huff's slope, east of town, producing 400
barrels a day. Mr.. Scott will commence
another we'll at the Alice mines tomorrow.
He also informs us that the projected water
works we'll, for the purpose of furnishing
our town with watsS, will be commenced
within very shoe time. He says he does
not know whetheFhe will get the contract
or not, but that he will put in his bid, and
il awarded the contract will put down the
we'll at the contract price and get water il
he has to go clear through TO China. 1t is
intended that the we'll shall be drilled to
the depth Of 2, 800 feet if necessary.-Greens-
burg, Ind.
With one exception all the blast furnaces
in the Valley are in operation. The demand
for mill iron is large, but few concerns hay
l. H., ato @aI thate pnIH.
ling furnaces. The Mahoning Valley Iron
Company has recently placed sixteen new
boilers in their mills arranging them in
manner different from those in other roll
ing mills The boilers are placed between
the pudding furnaces, receiving the heat
from them in generating steam. In addi-
ton to this the smoke from one pudding
furnace, instead of passing out at the top
of the stack, passes under the boiler, and
out OF the next stack. There is considera-
BILE heat in the smoke, and all this is uti-
ized by having it pass under the boiler be.
fore il can reach the open air. 1t is be-
heved that by this arrangement a great
amount of fuel can be saved and steam
more rapidly generated. The work Of set.
ting the boilers was done under the super
vision of Richard Cattick. The improve
ment has proved great success, and il is
believed many other rolling mills will
adopt it.-keus- Register.
Regarding the proposal to shut down iron
mills during the summer months, the
American Manufacturer says: while We
have no doubt that IN the future combins.
tion is to take the place, in part at least,
OF what has heretofore been held to be the
mission of competition, the iron trade will
have to be in a far different position from
what it is now before this idea. in its details,
will be practicable. 1t might be practica-
BILE in the nail trade or in the nut and bolt
business, but in general iron mill where
all classes of rolled iron are made, and
where the mill has been arranged for sup
plying the special trade Of each season, at
that season II will be found wellnigh i'm
possible to work such a combination sue
cessfully. In the associations that were
formed some years since for the purpose Of
attempting TO regulate prices in the iron
trade, the subject of stoppage in times of
great abundance of supply, or, at least, of
reducing production, was very thoroughly
canvasaed and found to be impracticable.
In the rail business, on the other hand, it
has been found practicable, and in 1880, our
nil her