Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-24
GENERAL INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The Top mill is running full in all de-
partments
Mendel Il Cos, furniture factory is rush
ed with work.
The furniture factories report trade very
fair and prospects good.
The Central glass; works are working full
time in all departments.
Dutfirlds copper works. on the wharf, is
doing very big business.
The gas works are working nicely, every
thing is in first class order.
All the planning mills are busily engaged
filling orders for repair work.
The forge department of the upper Riv-
erside mill is working full capacity.
The Belmont mill is running along
smoothly, men all making good time.
The North Wheeling glass works are do
ing big business, turning out large
quantity of bottles.
The La Belle mill is turning out large
quantities of nails. This mill is having a
very successful run.
The bar mill at the upper Riverside will
hardly be started up next week, as the
shaft has not arrived.
The South Wheeling glass works are run
ming full in all department, with plenty
of orders on hands, and trade very god
The Top mill nail factory will be off this
tternOon. The nail feeders wishing to at
end the funeral of their late Comrade
Henry Trimb.e.
The new addition to the Contra glass
works is being built as rapidly az possible,
yesterday. owing to the bad weather,
nothing could be done.
Swift & Co.'S refrigerator building on
Water street, south of the Creek, is fast
reaching completion. This building when
completed will be we'll worth visiting.
The new machine shops at the La Belle
mill are being built as rapidly as possible.
The brick ;nasOns, weather permitting,
will complete their portion in a6ay or two.
The Helmbacher Forge and Rolling Mill
Company, of st. Louis, are putting in their
new pin machines for making car coupling
pins and report good demand for links
and pins.
The funeral of Henry Trimble, nail
feeder at the Top mill will take place this
afternoon. Interment at Mouth Wood Gem
etery. The nail feeders of the Top mill
will attend the funeral en- mdsse.
The Great Western Glass Works Of st.
Louis, which were shut down on he 9th
of last month, will be started up on the
worked from and after the last mentioned
date.
Judge A. T. Newell stated to Star re-
porter that Boston glass firm is seriously
thinking of locating here. At Rock City
and Four Mile is an inexhaustible deposit
of rock rich in the elements necessary to
the manufacture of tiue glass. There is
50 4 to be a similar deposit OF great extent
at Tip Top.-BrGifori Star.
The Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, which
was established few months since by VIM.
Kent and VIM. f. Zimmerman, for mechan-
ical tests Of materials of construction, has
lust added a chemical department for the
convenience of its patrons. The laboratory
will shortly issue new circular and price
list for both mechanical and chemical
tests.
Goodwin Brothers have let the contract
for the construction of two additional gloss
kilns, and two three-story brick buildings,
one 4Ox59 feet, and the other 40x45 feet
These improvements have been in contem-
plation for two years past. Messrs. Boyce
( Flahaven are building them new Cor
liss engine Of great power. Morley & Co.,
the white ware manufacturers OF Wells.
vile. are so pressed with orders that they
have to run their works night and day
East Lircrl0OI GdSette.
1t sppears that there are no fewer than
Is. O23 S.w mills in the United States, sni
537 ir Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba The
figures of the work performed by these
mills are almost bewilderiug, and during
last year nearly $50, 0Oo 900 feet more timber
vas manufactured than in the year 1851.
Toward the close of the year new mills
we're being built in every direction so as to
be ready for WORK this spring all Of which
promises to keep insurance companies as
Busy as ever paying losses on this class OF
special risks.