The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-04-14
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What Is tsofnE ON I'm the Furnaees, Fac
forIes and SLines ETerenbonts.

What Is tsoi1E8on in the Furnnees, Fac
tories and stines Herenbouts.
Pay day at the LaBelle mill to-day
An extra heating furnace was put on at
the La Belle the fore part of tue week.
About a day and a half was lost atsthe Top
Mill the past week, owing to bad air in the
coal bank.
The moId-room at the foundry of Spence,
Baggs & Co., Martins Ferry, is being repair
ed and the molders are Off
The blast furnace at Quinnimont this
State, was lighted April 9th, and bids fair to
do better work than ever before.
Work is steadily progressing on the new
street, adjoining the county jail.
The word from the Top and La Belle mills
is a good business has been done during the
week, but nothing special going on.
Inethe near future, a tram%ay will be
erected around the Upper Riverside furnace
and coal delivered from the cars to the diff
ferent furnaces.
The Norton Iron Works, Ashland, KY,
made AGA kegs of nails last week, and from
so to 20 tons of iron daily, and shipped 65
tons of pig iron.
1t is probable that spence's works, at Mar,
tins Ferry, will be obliged to run day and
night during the summer to keep up with
orders for agricultural implements.
Workmen were employed yesterday open
ing up the brick sewer from Market street
to the river on Twenty-fourth. 1t has be-
come badly choked with sand and rubbish.
Samuel Samples, we'll know roller at the
lEtna mill, left his job "Wednesday night and
has gone TO 1ronton to enter rolling mill at
that point. His family will follow in about
two weeks.
The miners at the keystone Coal Works,
on the Panhandle, went to work Wednesday
morning at 31S cents. A telegram from
Steubenyille states that in that district they
are all working full time with no apparent
discontent.
The Ashland, KY, Furnace made 405 tons
of good iron last week. Col. Putnam is test
ing the phosphor-bronze tuyeres, which are
said to last three times as long as iron tuyereS,
and the old metal, when worn out, is worth
60 per cent of first cost.
AT the South Wheeling Glass Works nearly
all signs of the late fire have been oblitarat-
ed and every department is working full
time The fore part of next week glyss will
be made out of the north furnace, in which
the fires we're lit several days ago.
An offer of II cents per ton has been made
to the hook-up, drag-downs and straighteners
at the Clinton Mills on the South Side, who
have been out for the last few days on de-
mand for 16 cents per ton, instead of 81 60
and 81 40 per day, which they had been re-
ccfving, Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Boilers committee held a meeting
Wednesday morning at the general Office of
the Amalg dmated Association at Pittsburgh,
ana Wnlle CneV maze no cna0Se III the OASIS
of the present scale, it is intimated there are
some other important changes, but just what
they are President Jarrett declines to give
away until the committee reports to the
general meeting at Schiller hall Saturday
next.
The firm of G. Ed. Mendel & Co. which is
building a new factory on the site of their
] old furniture establishment OH Eoff street
which burned over year ago, has placed its
order for an entire new outfit of improved
wood working machinery with Bentel, Mar
gedant & Co., OF Hamilton, o. Mr.~N. L. r.
Sawyer, b. NJ. & Co.'s salesman, who has been
in the city for several days past, says they
will have the most complete furniture factory
in this vicinity. Success to the firm.
The Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad Com
pany are about to remove their Cleveland
Mechanic was removed. The removal will
be finished about the middle of May. Be
! tween two and three hundred men have been
employed in the shop at Cleveland, many of
| whom will continue in their places and go
with the shops to Wellsville. The new lOCa-
ton, it is claimed, will have the advantage
of being central. The most important part
of the company's work, .however, sis done at
the shops on Preble avenue, Allegheny.
Vice President Ed. Rogers and Trustee c.
D. Thompson, leave tomorrow morning for
Pittsburgh to attend First District meeting
of the Amaigamation. A meeting was held
about two weeks ago in Pittsburgh for the ur-
pose of considering the present scale. and ar
ranging one for the ensuing year. The
and the meeting adjourned till tomorrow.
Each lodge has so many delegates, and these
delegates composing the First District meet
ing, will prepare the scale rs near in accord
ance with the wishes of their lodge as posi-
BILE, to be presented to the manufacturers.