Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-05
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temptible enough TO vloiate tue Iu'e'
of the Association.-Iabor Tribune.
The stock books are now open I
| Utica, N. Y, for subscriptions TO tina
l new glass works at Durhamville, N. 4.
| The style of the new firm will be "Fox
& Co., Limited" Samuel II. Fox Ii 10
be the new manager. =
The Cape Cod glass works, at Sand
witch MSS, which for many years have
been lying idle, have been started by q
company who have speciality In the
glass business. 1t Is new kind Of fancy
ware. The factory has been put in Or
der, and fire was lighted in the furnace
on June 2S.-Glass and Pottery Re
porter.
Mill Matters.
The Albania iron works, at Steu-
benville, is again in financial trouble,
and will be sold shortly.
The caulkers along the Monongahela
river are resisting the attempt TO cut
their wages down 25 cents per day.
It is stated that the Scranton steel
works, Scranton, Pa, use as fuel dust
from q mine near by which costs only
ten cents per ton.
The puddlers at Graf, Bennett K Co. IS
mills have received orders to utilize all
the "cobbles" possible which have &C.
cumulated about the furnaces.
The strike continues among the wire
mill men Of Beaver Falls, Pa. The
crew secured at New Haven, Conn.,,
went home again on learning there was
trouble.
There is a strike of the wire mill
workers of Oliver Bros. & Phillips, Pitts
burgh. Dirty wire was furnished the
men, and the product being of an in
ferior quality, payment was refused,
hence the trouble.
It is said the nail feeders of the Ne-
suvius iron works, at Sharpsburg, Pa,
have been promised steady run OF
nine months after the 18th Of August
The Lawren nee mill, Ironton, o., con-
tinues running double turn, with orders
in her regular trade. The iron and
steel mill is also running full, single
turn, with good prospects for continued
activity for some time to come. The
finishing department is on double turn.
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Mines and Miners.
One hundred and thirty-five new
coke ovens are being built by the Con-
nellsville Gas Coal Co.
Connellsville coke sells at Chicago at
s. to S5.l5 per ton, according to quality.
The demand continues fair.
The owners of the coal mines at Dade,
| Tennessee, have 400 men at work, $50
of whom are cOnvicts. The company
expect to have 1000 miners at work
next winter.
The COnnellsvilIe, Pa, Courier, speak
| ing of the coal trade, says: There are
now 9,l56 ovens in the region proper,
the number having been slightly in.
creased of late by new plants. Out Of
them there are but ,456, or fifteen per
cent. idle, against 2,O9S, or twenty
three per cent, at the date OF our last
| report. In other words, 6+2 ovens have
been fired up within the past two
weeks.
On the LIST inst. the Lehigh and Will
kesbarre Coal Company will resume
mining of its own coal in the Wyoming
and Audenreid districts of Pennsylva-
| MIA.
The vein of coal lately developed in
the Flat Top coal regions Of Virginia is
certainly on what is known in this
State and Maryland as the great vein"
and is the same which is worked on
| New river, to the west of Hinton, from
which the coal brought to Newport
| News by the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
road is obtained. This vein, as it crops
out at POcahontas, in Tazewell county,
Va, presents itself in circumstances Pc
culiarly favorable for easy and prOtita'
ble working. The miners are taking
out 800 or 400 tons per day at present.
| Industrial South.