Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-01-31
rHE WoRLD OF WORK.

The sheet rollers met in McLain's HaI
yesterday afternoon to decide as to the line
of action and the prices they will work for
the coming wear. Several members were
approached by a reporter last evening, but
would not divulge anything, stating h
the meeting was private n that none OF
them were allowed to give anything away"
The miners at Nolans' coal bankin Bridge
! port were paid off yesterday and notified
that If they did not go to work this morn
ing at the old prices their places would be
filled by new miners. For the benent OF
some of our readers who do not understand
the issue, we give below q slight history OF
the strike: Last Wednesday the miners at
these works decided that they woald rather
work for Wheeling prices and bank meas
ure they having heretofore been receiving
Al co for every ten of coal dug, and the coal
was weighed as il came out OF the bank
The proprietors refused to submit to their
demands and told them they would either
have to work by the ton or get employ
ment some where else. The men nave nos
been at work since, and il is hard to tell
inst what thew will do. The owners OF the
bank think they will have no trouble about
filling their places should they not go to
work today.
Yesterday a large force Of men were
busily engaged removing the large scrub
Der from the cars to the gas works. The
scrubber arrived here Monday evening
and will be Immediately placed at the
works. The officials think that they Will
have all connections made and the new
machinery in operation by the first OF next
week.
Chas. Miller, the North End tin ~roofer,
took a large section of the new stack to the
| Top mill yesterday. This stack when com.
pleted will weigh 400 pounds and is 30
feet high.
The transfer boat Lizzie Townsend
brought a barge load of slaves to Wilson q
Dunbery's cooper shop, at the North End,
yesterday.
Sweeney & Son are making very large
improvements 10 their machine shops. Mr..
Sweeney was approached last evening and
asked: why is il that you are enlargirg
your present'capacity?'
'.'Oh, we are run to death with orders, and
are busily engaged on the machinery for
FIVE new steamboats,, four of which are
nearly completed. The one for Captain
James Thompson, of Pittsburgh, has just
been started and the cylinders will meas.
ure 12xl4H feet stroke"
What new machinery are you putting
in the shops?" asked the reporter.
"At the lower shops, a steam hammer
and three new lathes, and in the Twelfth
street shop a planning machine"
A schedule has been prepared by tue
officers of the Miners Association show
ing the number Of men employed in each
pit in the district, and the amount OF
money collected for them during the year.
There are 70 mines on the Monong1hela
river. 5 on the Youghiogheny river, on
the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston.
on the Saw Mill Run, 2 or the Lake Erie,
16 on the Panhandle, 6 on the CHARTERS
Valley, 4 on the Pennsylvania, 8 on the
Allegheny Valley, and IL on the Baltimore
and Ohio. During the year the 1876 men
! paid So, COG. 70 into the general office fund,
1924. IA into the free speech and free press
fund to be used to defend Messrs.
Armstrong and Jones in the Waiver
ly Coal Company libel suit, $751;
443. % into the executive fund to maintain
the strike, $207.5 to support the Bellwood
miners, $lG.S so into the legislative fund to
pay the expenses Of the men revising the
mining laws, $331.42 for district debts and
$l8.l Is for Office furniture. The amount
paid into the General office fund, $2,6Q7.36
in addition to $1,000 Of back dues which do
not appear in the statement, went to the
officers in lieu of salary. Their expenses,
about 5000, were paid out of it, leaving a
little over $1,000 to be divided among
President Jones, Vice President Schaming
and Secretary Flannery for their years
work.-kcgStOne Courier.
The rod mill Of the Cambria iron works,
Jamestown, Pa, which has been idle for
two years, has been started under charge OF
Mr.. John T. Rawley. The mill has been
overhauled and put in good repair.
The largest amount of coal ever brought
to the surface in a single day at one works
-, Aha nnlyn rnr,nnc caN-S fhn pa11IaIU UQa
mined at the Standard mines last Friday.
The number of bushels was 10000.
The Keystone Courier says: MessrS.
Henry Croushore and NJ. l.. Painter are
negotiating for the purchase of about one
thousand acres of coal lands extending
from the Martin Wertz farm, near Mt.
Pleasant, to the Greensburg road. They
have already secured the Gitfin,~ Gongaware,
Mitchell, Rose, Myers and Simpson farms,
with prospect" of obtaining the Wertz farm
also. This area embraces one OF the finest
bodies of coal in the Connellsville region.
The average price paid was about 500 per
acre for the coal.
The Granite iron rolling mill Of the st.
Louis Stamping Company is now, and has
been, running double turn since it started
upon the Sd inst. 1t is turning cut large
quantities Of galvanized sheet iron and
stamping iron.
The Helmbacher forge and rolling mills,
st. Louis, have just put in several pieces
of new machinery, among which were q
new hammer for welding links; a new pin
machine for making railroad coupling
pins; two Smith furnaces and several
smaller furnaces. The machinery and i'm.
provements will increase their capacity for
links and pins about ten tons per day, and
raise their daily production OF these manu-
features to two car loads.
The Springfield Iron Company, VIII ose
works are at Springfield, ILL.,, will for the
present discontinue the manufacture of
iron and steel rails, and in the meantime
are making il important changes and addi-
tons with the view of producing steel
plates for boilers, tanks, agricultural in-
plements, etc, steel bars and steel forg-
ings, such as heavy shafts, crank pins, axles,
etc. The company are also making prepa'
ratiuns for the erection OF a heavy plate
mill, capable of rolling steel plates nine
feet wide and thirty feet long. 1t is stated
that not less than $3.50, 900 will be expended
in these improyements.-Labor Tribune.
The new wire mill at Beaver Falls, Pa,
we are reliably informed, will begin opera.
ions about February first with ninety
hands, and as the buildings are completed
and machinery put in position the force
will be increased until employment will be
given to from go to 800 meh.
SWISS iron and steel works, Globe roll
ing mill, Mitchell, Trauter & Co., and Lick
ing Rolling Mill Company, Cincinnati, O.,
are all running full. The Swift works are
running double turn in all branches, both
at the Newport and at the Riverside mill.
They are running on the largest tank iron
order given in the United States.-4mcr.
Manufacturer.
Engineer C~ampbell's map of the coke
country embraces territory between Fair
chance, Pa, and Latrobe, Westmoreland
county, a distance of forty-five miles. Be-
tween Latrobe and Pleasant Unity there
are 24,023 acres of coking coal, Of which
l4,727 acres are being operated. Between
Scottdale and Pairchance there are 40, 1873
acres, of which 24,57S acres are under ope-
rations. The whole coal area embraced in
the territory is 69,673 acres with 10,050
ovens in operation and 5000 more being
located and built.
The Elson glass works made its first