Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-12-15
PUSHING THINGS.
The StsubsnyiIIs Cooperative Nail
Factory Assuming Shape.
The Foundations to be Completed To-mor-
rcw--Pitsburg NaiIers Join the
Trades AssembIy--Sec. Chew
in. Pittsburg.

Work on the new cooperative nail MILL
at Steubenville is being pushed with great
energy. Stockholders, stonemasonS and
other workmen are hard at work getting
the place in readiness for the reception OF
the machinery, which has been promised
to the company in ten days. The touRds-
tons will be completed tomorrow, while
the fy.wheel pit and drain are now ready
for the reception of the machinery. In
the east end of the large room an office has
been built and the lumber for the flooring
ordered. The first machinery TO arrive
will be the engine, IS horse power, and
boiler, both Of which are
ENTIRELY NEW MACHINES.
Five grindstoneS, three face and two bead
stonee, together with shaf,ing, pulleys
shears, etc, etc are expected al the same
time, and January let will see the nail
machines which are being manufactured
BY the Pittsburg Manutactury Company,
there. 1t is expected that nails will be cut
in the first or second week of the coming
month.
do you anticipate any trouble in run
ming your works successfully, was asked
of q member of the company.
well, certainly not. We did not jump
into the thing without first looking the
ground we'll over, and at each point where
We met with q difficulty proper care was
taken TO
OVERCOME hi TROUBLE.
OF course being a cooperative company
our expenses will be small compared with
large concerns, and we feel assured thai
the product OF our eighteen machines car
be sold at the bottom figure"
The engine which the company will put
in is powerful enough to drive fifty OF
sixty machines, and was built in Erie, Pa
They will put in a large s%teel-rimmed drum
pulley and The machinery will be Of the
latest improved style.
JOINING THE RADEs ASSEMBLY.
The Pittsburg lodges of the Nailers
Association joined the Trades Assembly
Saturday night. Messrs. J. G. Stephens
and Will Hunter were the delegates, elect.
ed by the lodges, who were admitted. Nc
nailer-feeders nails have been openly re-
ceived in that city yet, but it is rumored
that they are being shipped. If the rumor
proves correct the Pittsburg Trades As.
sembly will issue q circular boycotting all
such nails.
SECRETARY HEW
Of the Nailers' Union, went to Pittsburg
Saturday and is still there. He is q uoted
as saying that the affairs Of the Union are
in excellent shape. he also denies that
Gen. Beaver or any OF the Eastern manu-
facturers have furnished money to carry
on the strike. They were asked TO but
said it would be unbecoming in them 10
do 80.
The Pittsburg papera say that a com,
mittee of Western nail operators visited
the Eastern manufacturers last week to
request them not to lend any assistance 10
the strikers. They found on this visit
that no assistance vas being given.
FACTORY TO CLOSE.
There is an apparently reliable rumor
afoat to the effect that the Bellaire nail
factory, which has been running steadily
for several months past, will close down
about the first of the year for an indefinite
period. The cause Of the stoppage is not
known.
GENERAL TEDUSTRIAL NOTES.
Work on the Wheeling company steel
plant at Benwood is being puzzled forward
with increased rspidity. The main build
ing ia almost under roof, and the boilers
are being put in position.
Three more feeder. nailers went TO work
at the Jefferson mill, Steubenville, yester-
day morning, and twenty-three machines
are now running.
The directors of the Jefferson and La
Belle mills have Got yet concluded on
which Of the two steel making systems they
will adopt, and this is the only reason a
steel plant has not been erected.
The Top mill and Riverside will pay
their hands the day before Christmas, in
stead Of on Saturday, as usual.
1t is reported that the coal mines in
South Wheeling, operated by kasley y
Brooks, will be opened soon.
A. j. Sweeney a Son contracted q few
days ago to make sixty nail machines for
a new Cooperative nail factory, being
built at BelleVille, Illinois.
A. j. Sweeney & Son are making a pair
nf rnlla for tho Belmont.