Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-01-30
PRESENT DIZZINESS.
How and Why wheeling FEST, Its
Effects.
The Situation in Manufacturing and Meecan-
tile circles-The General Outlook
A Light Now Breaking.

The dullness in business circles. whether
mercantile or manufacturing, finds q rehsc.
ton throughout an entire community, is q
well known fact. That is what affects
Wheeling at this time. Not only are we
now tiding over the naturally very dullest
part of the year, but traffic of all kinds is
rrnsturslly dull even for this season. The
mills are all down and the time Of their
re- uming operationsis indefinite, TO say the
least. The glass factories are running, after
q style, but the glass trade is depressed,
throughout the country and the effect is
felt every where. Wholesale business 10
dull, in ell branches especially since navi-
CATION was suspended, it being yet too ear
ly fer the opening OF spring trade. In the
retail line, the sale of winter goods is over,
and spring styles have not yet been ex-
posed for sale.
RATHER A JEREMIAH.
This is the situation and, trade being
dull, nearly every avenue of life is in
similar condition. About the only thing
that has not felt the apathy, is the business
OF renting houses, for there is always
steady current of restless humanity seeking
Q change, from either choice or necessity.
Still il is not as bad as it might be. Other
cities have not only the seasonable dizziness
10 contend with, but are afflicted with
strikes and lockouts. In the far West,
mill men are locked out and coming in this
direction East a number of glass workers
strikes are encountered. The coal mines
are all shut down in the vicinity Of Pitts
burgh, from a cause that not even re-
sumption of navigation would remote at
present. The iron interest is depressed
everywhere aud last year showed decrease
in Bessemer steel production, the first since
the introduction Of the industry.
NO COAL WORK ABOVE.
In relation to the mines at Pittsburgh,
an exchange at that city says it is estima-
ted that there are at least 5000 idle miuers
i'll that district. There is not single rlyer
mine in operation, the last OF them to close
being "Old Eagle" at Monongahela City
aud Browns pits at Port Perry. These
shut down within the last few days. Only
little over half of the railroad pits are in
operation. A mistaken idea prevails that
this suspension of mining operators is ow-
ing to the icy obstructions in the river. An
operator said yesterday: THE fact is the
operators are anxious that the river should
remain frozen for the next month"
There is no demand" he added. "rhe
Southern ports are stocked up and the black
diamonds are drug in the market"
President Costello, OF the Miners Assoc.
iation, has the same TO say about the con-
di ion of the coal trade. He is also of the
"riuion that it would he good thing for
b, II operators and miners should nayiga
ION remain INSTRUCTED until some life is
infused into the market.
While the miners generally are not yet
in a condition to require monetary aid,
there is considerable suffering among them,
and should the present period OF stasns
ton be OF long duration they will be re-
duCt d to straightened circumstances.
At Buena Vista the situation OF affairs is
Guiet, the arrests made on behalf OF the
operators having intimidated the strikers
from further demonstrations. There are
only about twenty miners at work in the
pits of the South West Gas Coal Company,
several men who consented 10 the reiuc-
ton having joined the strikers.
THE LIGHT Is BREAKING.
But the light will come. 1t cannot long
remain thus. Experienced iron men il
the East predict better demand, in the
spring for manufactured iron and steel fof
all kinds and vast improvement in bust
ness generally. The spring will bring the
demand from western builders for our
nails and the mills will hum along as
usual. Our glass is always in demand and
our IL yriad glass workers will find steady
EMPLOYMENT The winter has been severe,
but still good for the crops and the prom
Use of a correspondingly good summer,
with abundant harvests and an increased
foreign demand for them, will brighten up
things amazingly. 1t might be worse. We
have yet had no suffering among our Flap labor ";
plenty was stretched out toward it, with
relitt