Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-11-08

rapidly nearing completion. The bull
dings viii be one hundred feet long.
Additional pudding furnaces are to be
erected at the Tube works IN Mckeesport
Pa, shortly.
Il il reported in the daily papers that
company with capital of $50, 900 is being
/ formed in Belleville, ILL.,, for the purpose OF
building and operating 9 new nail mill
The Waugh Nail Mill, at Belleville, III {,
which has been idle for several months,
has resumed operations in the nail and roll
Ens Departments, and its factory viii soon
be started. This will give employ ment to
some 400 men.
The new rod mill at Brsddock, Pa Is
an assured success. The mill will be built
entirely Of iron, and will be 60xll2 feet.
Ii will have an output Of 100 tons per day:
Four engines and four trains Of rolls will
be used.
Thsp,oplieiors of the New Haven, Conn,
wire mill now demand that their Workmen
Withdraw from their union as condition
of employment The men refuse to do SO,
and the strike continues.
The operators Of the Sunbury nail works
have amour csd an advance in the wages
of nsilers and feeders of 10 per cent, dating
from November /. The demand Is 90
brisk that the Northumberland mills we're
compelled to decline an order for 100000
kegs,
The CIendon Iron Company's No. 3 for
mace has been put in blast after being idle
shout three years. The company again IN
creased Its force Of Eorkmen last week and
there is talk of preparing another stack Tor
service.
The furnaces Of the New York and Per-
~ Coal and Iron Company. formerly the
Slrsitsyille Company; which is the largest
10 the Shawnee district, Ohio, is being
thoroughly repaired and alterations AND
additions made to facilitate the work, and
it il expected to be in blast early in Novn'
Der,
The Vulcan steel works, of St. Louis
have been in successful operation IN all
departments for the last ten days. Steel
slabs and bllle,s Of the various sizes con-
ten plated 1t the time the syndicate came
into possession of the works, includirg also
nail plate, are being turned out.
The latest news about the Cleveland roll
ling mill is revival or reissuing of the
mill orders TO employees on the Eighteenth
ward stores IL seems ike an injurious
plan, and in disregard OF the State law,
which explicitly prohibits workmen being
paid in orders Cleveland, o., Chronicle
WI. McCEnton, manager of the nail
department Of the Jefferson Iron Works,
hiss rendered his resignation to the board
of directors. IL wss accepted, snd Spauld-
ing Wallace, of Wheeling, brother OF the
president OF the Jefferson Company, was
elected to 6ll the vacancy.
The South Chicago Calumet. Of October
81. contains the official rssolt ton adopted
at q meeting of the Cni'ed Nsilers, Heat
ers aud Rollers Of the Calumet Iron and
Steel Company, held on the evening Cf
October 26,h, rest6rmirg their determine
ton to stand out for The 2l.cent scale.
The demand for STEEL rails has exceeded
all expectations. and orders have been
booked for 100, 800 tons within the past
ten DAYS, and orders amounting to nearly
so 600 tons will be booked early this week
This demand is caused by the anxiety OF
the railroad companies to anticipate their
requirements for 1856.
At meeting Of the puddlers OF the
Eastern Association, held in Harrisburg
Pa October 81, it Vas determined to ask
for an increase of 10 per cent in wages.
The eastern usilsrs two weeks ego made
this re uuest which the manufactures grant
ed. and the puddlers and nsilers wages
generally lucIusted together.
The managers Of the Cumberland Nail
and Iron Works, Bsidgeton, n. j., an
pouuce that after the 10th Of this month
an increase of ) Per cent in wages will be
Maid 10 the hands in their various mills
This company resumed operations about 6
month ago, whsn a six months strike was
ended, BY 90 increase Of 10 per cent wages.
They employ 400 hands.
The Northampton, Pa, furnace, near
Frsemsnsburg, which was built IN 1872
and leased for term OF years By the
Bethlehem Iron Company, will shortly be
/ uat in blast, the company having released
il. The stack has been idle for several
wears. The furnace will give employment
10 many residents Of FTeemsnsourg who
are now enc ployed in THERON works al South
Bethlehem.
DR.. Brooke, Of the E. & G. Brooke Iron
Company, owners of the Birdsboro nail
works in Berks county, Pa, was in last
week, and closed contract with Mr.. J. 7.
Witbero= for u Clspp-Grifirhs steel plant,
uhieh will cost about $50, 600. DR.. Brooke
saws his com psGy will make steel nails ex'
e'usively upon the completion OF the ne"
plant The present capacity OF the works
is shout $50, 800 kegs OF nails per snnum.
American Msnnt.