Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-03
TOPICS OF INTEREST.
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SrvuBESvIILE, June 2.-Steubenyilles sew
.rsI wears ago was an important storage
ro;ut for the wool raised in Jefferson and
surrounding counties. An incorporated
company spent a good many dollars in
leasing an enormous storehouse, fixing it
nm. appointing trusted officers to take
cbsrge and handle the wool which came for
s,o-sOe. L. was to be cared for at q nomi-
nal sum until the market was in
the proper condition to sell. The
bsne6ciaries of this arrangement were
,be stockholders Mr. ]. D. WHIrHAN, Of
Ohio county, West Virginia, if We
remember rightly was the generaissimo
Of the entire business. Buying, stor-
ing advising and selling, all being
done under his supervision. But
alas The scheme was visionary and came
10 uaught. About two years experience
rss sufficient TO convince all concerned
that the best way to keep from being shorn
was for each man to take care of his
own wool and sell it when he saw fit. So
far as We know the theory aud manage
ment Of the concern were all right but in
practice it often occurs that su iron bound
theory does not pan out well, no matter how
good the management
To-day there is little wool handled in
Steubenville, there being but one dealer
there, Mr.. johnson, but Jefferson county
raises probably as much now as she ever
did, and according to Mr.. Pat.
terson's figures there are probably 500, 900
pounds Of wool raised in this county, aud
by the way Mr. A. W. Patterson is a well
known wool dealer from New York City,
from which place he LETT last night. He visits
this section annually, and seems TO know
much about the market. This week will
wind up the shearing hereabouts and farm.
ers are beginning to manifest an interest in
prices. Mr.. Patterson reports that the mar
ket East is very unsatisfactory. Neither
the manufacturer, the commission merchant
or the farmer is at all pleased with the out
look. He admits the farmers are looking
for 80 cents and may not let go for less than
that. But the man nufacturer cannot see at
Presen', he saws, where he can get a new
dollar Tor an Old one, spent at that price.
No one caryes to buy but Just what he
really needs, at present figures, and alto
g her the outlook not good for oven that
.UnUrt
Psrenthetically we remark here that Ed
itor MCFlDDEE, OF the Gazette, saws he has
handled q great deal OF wool in his day and
is willing to stake his reputation as a
prophet that the price of wool will reach -
cents before the season is over. This year
We are particularly anxious the farmers
shall get all they can for their heeces. They
haven't much to come and 90 on, be-
cause of the long and severe winter,
so that every cent they get they
have place to put it. The three counties
of Belmont, Harrison and Jefferson in Ohio,
and the Pan Handle counties IN our own
State together with Washington county
Pa, will have at least 100000 pounds of
WOO to SELL At thirty cents it represents
Sl,8OO,0OO, AT tweuty-eight cents it repre-
stnts a loss $4,000, a sum TOO large to
lose these distressing times.
SchmuIbachs Wheeling beer is found on
tap here and the genial Neuhausen, former
ly Of Wheeling is the agent. He has fifty
five customers and is holding his own better
than game cock, against Cincinnati,
Cleveland, Milwaukee and other brew
sies
The Jefferson iron works looks as If
lick hadn't been struck within it for year
so quiet is everything around it. The peo-
pie in the office are as brunt as the pole OF
an axe in their stateme ents, that there will be
no signing Of the scale tor at least some
time TO come There is no money, at pres
ent prices, they claim, and they don't care
to run unless compelled to. And that re-
minds us, from what has been done and
said from an iron and steel standpoint this
last ninety six hours, that people who
ought to know think it Is pretty safe
to conclude about as follows Most OF the
mills do not care to 20 to work at pres
ent; some, ike the Whitaker, would
have laid of two months for repairs aud
improvements whether the scale had been
signed or not; the wOrkmen pretty generally
NAV make up their minds to dull sum
mer and a brisk fall trade; the iron mas
ters will gradually sign the scale as pre-
scented and by the middle Of September
pretty much everything in sight will be
moving. OF course, there are certain con
I gen. es that might knock this prediction
fieher than he peak OF Tenerife; such
gs the failure oithe crops, or the keeping, IN
O ice of all he Republicans, or some other
yreat calamity not anticipated. Mean
while the ironworkers will do well to hus-
band their resources where they have them
and II they have them not hump themselves
er q temporary job in other directions at
any price, until the crisis OF midsummer
duilness stided over.
IL has been said many time and off that
Democrats are scarce in and around Steu-
benviHe What Is lacking in numbers is
made up in quality if they are all like the
one who prooounded the following inter
rogatory supplemented with certain COM
He He said: What do you think of your
VERY well, thank you. What do you
thiukY' ~. A..
NJ rIsvsIand He don't make changes
cast enonvh, Civil Service reform Is all
bumbuggery. There were always Two par
lies in this country there are TWO par.
t;ss now, and there always will be Just as
Iong "a this form OF Government exists
Ons of tbe parties ought to be IN and the
ctbsr ought 10 be out and that's all there Is
in it"
uIpeE LYNCH IN MARYLAND.