Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-28
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The Excelsior glass works are running
full.
The glass works at Brilliant, o., are rush
ed with orders.
The Ohio Glass Co., of Canton, o., has
been organized.
libby Bros works, sharpsburg, Pa, are
running full time.
Epping, n. H., has shoe factory which
employees 800 persons.
The Homestead works of Bryce, Higbee 4
Co. are on to full capacity.
The Gallatin glass works of Robert Lid
dell is doing full business.
Armstrong; planning mill is filled with
orders for all kinds OF work.
Work on the P. w. & KY. extension is
still being pushed along rapidly. -
A very large quantity OF nails Left the
city yesterday morning on the steamer An
derson,
There are 6S6 blast furnaces in the United
States. Their united capacity is SWO,OOO
net tons per year.
The hardware factories of New York
Brooklyn, Cleveland, Worcester and Phila'
delphia are busy.
The machine shops of New York city,
Brooklyn, Jersey City and Philadelphia
report trade as fair.
The effort to import foreign glass workers
will prove failure in the end, and big
loss to the importers"
Dominic Ihmson has started an eight-pot
bottle and prescription house at Butler, Pa.
He commenced blowing last week.
Foundry business is looming up. Dur
ing the last week new men were put on in
several of the foundries in this city.
All the numerous cooperative stores
owned by Patrons of Husbandry in Kansas
are doing we'll and making money.
The spinners at Mechanics Mill, Fall
River, Mass, have struck on account OF
dissatisfaction with work and wages.
In this city the machinists' trade is brisk.
ing up considerably. The shops are full Of
men, and plenty of orders coming in. h.
Five thousand men are employed IN the
shipyards of Philadelphia and Chester, Pa.
Ship building at these places is booming
The Pittsburgh clay pot works are rush
ed with orders, and their pots are SAID TO
be giving great satisfaction to all who have
used them.
The Way-bauks Coal Works at Salisbury,
Pa, took fire from the furnace last week,
it was extinguished.
The Benwood Rolling Mill has been short
of pig metal all week, and the boilers are
only making three heats on every turn,
but will be on full force next week.
A rich vein of coal, from four to five
feet in thickness, was discovered last Fri
day at Wenona, Ill. The quality IS consld-
cred extra and mining will be commenced
at once.
The Jefferson Iron Works Co. is doing a
big trade in the retail coal business.
Thirty.fiye miners are at work in the lower
shaft, and eighty in the shaft at the MILL
-Steu6enrille Gazette.
Yesterday the gas had to be lighted in all
the industrial establishments throughout
the city, and especially in the nail factories,
W here the nailerS were required to have
strong light on their work when grinding
the bits"
The Glassrart Reporter refers to the state
of trade as follows: As regards window
glass, the situation here is unchanged The
New York manufacturers have reduced
discounts owing to a scarcity OF supply.
Manufacturers here yet expect to do good
trade this season; they allege that trade is
behind, but that it will certainly pick up
before the close of this month. Bottle and
prescription ware barely hold their own
and there is nothing new in the state OF the
trade that calls for special comment
Tableware is very active, and all the houses
are as busy turning out and shipping
goods as they can be. Chimneys are i'll
good demand, and the season promises very
well for this class of goods.
Sweeney & Sons foundry was on full
force yesterday and in stroll through
the machine shop yesterday the reporter
noticed that large lot of machinery was
nearly completed. On making inquiry OF
the manager he was informed that a por.
ton OF the machinery was for Capt Princes
new boat that is to run in the Bellaire
trade, and that 1t would be finished and
ready to put on the boat by the middle OF
next week. The hull for this boat is being
built at Harmer, and is expected to be
finished and delivered at Wheeling wharf
on next Wednesday. The machinery for
Capt. Berrys new boat is also nearly COM
pleted, but as the hull will not arrive here
until week after next, the firm is not push
ing the work on the machinery, as it will
be completed before the hull arrived. The
new machinery for the sugar refinery in
Wisconsin is nearly all finished. A large
portion of it will be shipped to-day. The
new iron presses for the sugar refinery at
the tn end will be completed about the
first of next week.