Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01

week. ..,
IT. Edwards & Co., managers oftne
Canal Dover rolling mills, have maae
an assignmert, Liabilities are ABOUT
s6f, 600 and assets 5000. Forty men
are thrown out of employment, Win
two months pay due them. This IS the
second assignment in the iron business
in that county during the past week.
The Scale Convention of the Anal
vsmsted Association Will insist on last
wears scale, with . provision lor wv
cont iron. The tariff preciudes RAISE
and the IONS of Vulcan are snosldln;'
They fear that the improved methoa'
i'm making steel will cause all OF the
nuddIing furnaces to be torn down
shortly.
The Miners.
The mines at Gaymont, w. Va, are
running slowly at present.
The new mine at Fire Creek, W. w.
has done very little this month.
The mines at New River, w. va,
are running steadily, with good pros
poets. ,
The coal and coke works at WILDWOOD,
pa ore running about half time at
present.
All of the mines in CampbelPs Gre ok,
|. w. Va, coal region are now running,
With good prospects.
The Ansted mines, Hawks Nest, w.
Va, are running steadily, having large
contracts to I'LL.
The Longdale mines, Sewell, w. Va,
are all running steadily. Their output
rs principally used in coke making.
Connellsville coke is still quoted at
r On to So in Chicago. Some sales
| lave been made at lower figure, how
ever.
The mines at Nuttalburg, W. Va,
| are doing very little owing 10 lack OF
orders. Buery, Cooper 4 Co.'S mines
are running steadily.
The mines at Coal Valley, w. Va,
are working OH on average about naif
| time. The companies are erecting river
l.pples, and will ship by both rail- ana
| river.
About one.half of the ovens in the
| Connellsville, Pa, coke region are run
hing full. The other 1000 are running
one fourth full four days in the Week,
and making 72-hour coke.
Alex. Artist, a miner at the Wander
grit coal works, near Fredericksburg,
was crushed by fall of slate. His leg
and arm were broken and he sustained
other injuries ola serious nature.
Probably million tons Of coal will
be mined in Tennessee this year. The
year "output last year was S57,SS9 tons.
THIS coal is largely Used i'll making
coke, and in that form enters into con-
sumption.
The non-union man in the Lingan
mines, New Brunswick, were attacked
by eight hundred strikers and several
! of them badly hurt. They were follow
| ed 10 their homes. Doors We're broken
open and the inmates terror.strlcken.
| The manager OF the mines was beaten
The fire in the Culm bank, at
| Shenandoah, Pa, is still burning. In
order to save the. Buck mountain and
| Mammoth veins, which are covered by
the burning bank, it is estimated that
300, 900 cubic yards of material will
have TO be removed.
The miners employed at SoXman's,
Ridgeview and the st. Car coal ana
coke works east of Latrobe, Pa, have
had the wages reduced from Az to 6O
cents per ton. The men accepted the
reduction with the understanding that
they will receive the old price as soon
as the coke trade brightens up.
] Mcdonnell, WaIuer &c o., have
opened up new mine two miles back
oil Dubois, Pa. They have but recently
begun shipments, and expect to do
goId business during this year. MIR.
John Il. Williams, formerly of the
Warner slope, Mineral Ridge, O., has
charge Of the underground work, en-
ploying at prese mt about forty men.
A dispatch from Huntington, Pa,
March ., says: a first installment
consisting of car load of cOlOred men,
has been brought here from Virginia by
Robert Hare Powell, owner OF the
large furnaces at SaXtOn, to work in his
| iron ore mines at Warriorsmark. There
are the same kind Of complaints here
in regard to this that there were on the
Pacific coast against the extensive ar
rangcments which have been made to
supply the labor market from Virginia.
The Dear Creek coal fields, near the
San Carlos re servation, Arizona, pro-
mise great results. They were discov-
cred in 1851 and active developments
began last March. The coal is found
in fifty veins Of greater or less size,
which have been open and extends for
full mile in width. Seven shafts
have been sunk in different places on
the property, the deepest being some
20 feet. In this deepest shaft, as in
all the othera, the coal has been follow
ed all the way down, and at the depth
| OF 80 feet cross cut has been made
| through thirty feet of sandstone, strik-
ing another vein Of coal Is feet wide.
! Above this shaft, on the next vein, a
| 100 foot tunnel has been run, showing
face of eight feet of coal about 10 feet
| from the surface. A cross cut from
this tunnel shows vein of feet
of coal at the same depth. West ofthis
tunnel, and about 100 yards distant,
| there is a shaft ~ feet down on an in
cline, 80 that any one can walk in at
any time and see one of the finest bod
les of coal on the property. In addi-
ton to these developments there are
several other shafts where the veins
have been cut, shOwina coal from 6 to
70 feet in width.-Arizona Star.
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General.
Wisconsin refuses to require her
prison goods to marked.
The Pennsylvayia Hardware Co., Of
Reading, Pa, advanced their moulders
| 10 per cent.
California has established a Bareau
of Labor Statistics with authority to
summon witnesses and take testimony
under oath.
The Limerick girls who sailed in a
body lately for this country are bound
for the factory of Messrs. Jackson x
Co., Naghu&, for twelve months.
Ex-Treasurer Egan, of the Land
League, met representatives of the IRISH
societies in Chicago to arrange for q
union of all Irish American bodies.
The workmen recently thrown out Il
employm mt by the fire at the WASH
ington, Pa, lead works have volunteer
ed to give a weeks labor each toward
| the rebuilding of the works.