Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-05-30
WHEELING.
Exposition of Her Manufacturing
Facilities.
Pipinu of Natural Gas Into the
City---Grsat Benefits
Thereof.
Opportunities offered to PrOspec'
tive Investors.
Brief Mention of Her Mills, Fac
tories, Mercantile Establish
msnts and Other
Industries.
The Registers Mite Contributed
Towards Giving tho City
a Boom.
The Largest, Most Prosperous ant
Most Substantial City
in the State.

To the manufacturers who are seeking
70 better their facilities, 10 the capitalists
who are contemplating the formation OF
new industrial enterprises, to the practical
men who are about to unite their savings
in cooperative concerns, to oil these, East
or West, we would respectfully say, give
Wheehng's claims passing consideration
when casting about for desirable locations
for your plants. While cheap and abundant
fuel Of any kind, whether coal or natural
gas, is a consideration of prime importance
in connection with the establishment oil q
manufacturing enterprise yet this is not
the oaly advantage claimed tor our
city. There are very many others
not the least of which are
eligible sites, plenty of help, law abiding
people, excellent police, FIRE protection,
cheap rents, reasonable prices for real es-
ta.e, low taxes and other superior con-
veniences. The manufacturing enterprises
already located here have all been emf
nently successful, yielding abundant divi-
dends to stockholders, and characterized
By such wise management that it is q mat
ter Of pride that during the panic which
convulsed the financial world in 1873 Lot
q single Wheeling institution went down
with the crash. The mills and factories
now here are very extensive, particularly
the nail mills, iron mills, steel works and
glass factories, and their products are
standard articles in every market. But
there is room for more; greater diversity is
what We want. The people will gladly
welcome those who come here with their
works, and will aid and encourage them
in every proper manner. Wheeling If
essentially a working community. Her
workiugmen are her pride, and the man
who does not work, either with hand or
brain, is considered an indigenous plant in
the community. Even the men who can
count their hundreds of thousands, and
there are numbers of them, toll as earnest.
" as the poorest citizen. Hence the de-
sire of our peole to add to the list of their
industrial institutions.
Wheeling contains population ofabout
81, 900, with q contiguous population in
neighboriug cities aud towns OF perhaps
$4,000 more. It's principal industry is
manufacturing, and in this it is surpassed
By no other city of the same size in the
country. For the purpose Of msnufactur-
ing and bringing the completed articles to
market at small cost 1t has unexceptional
advantages A large seam of coal crops
out in the hills around and almost over
hangs the furnaces consuming it. The Ohio
river furnishes abundance of water, while
the river and the railroads give easy and
cheap access 10 all parts Of the world.
Some of Wheehng's greater industries are
the various Manufactured forms Of iron
snd steel, dressed feathers aud light cloths,
the production of cigars, glass, malt and
liquors.
Daring a single year Wheeling makes as
high as $4,000, 900 cigars. 10000 barrels
of beer, ale and porter is the annual capsc-
iry of her breweries, while single one of
her numerous nail mills can turn out over
{, 900 kegs of nails in a week. Wheeling
is, in fact, best known abroad for her nails,
being widely known as the Nail City, as
TIRE city aud vicinity is the greatest nail
market in the world. The growth of this
business in the past vas owing to the
abundance Of cheap and excellent fuel
coal; and her supremacy will be maintained
in the future Sy the new and still cheaper
tuel-nstursl gas. Cheap fuel, easy and
cheap access to the markets of the world,
have always favored Wheeling merchants
sad manufacturers. These advantages
have not departed; on the contrary they
are of increasing Importance In the close
competition which now chsrscterizes the
business and commercial world.
Glsss manufacturing has been an i'm
portsnt industry in Wheeling since 1920,
and it will doubtless be brought to even
greater perfection under the magic in.
duercs of the new fuel. There are many
other indusiries successfully carried on in
our city, but it is not tEe pain purpose OF
this article to describe them; but rather to
point ont the desirsbility of Wheeling as a
manufacturing center, aud to urge the &C.
tive cooperation of oar citizens with pros
peesive investors looking to their mutual
Improvement. We invite other industries
to come here. There are many lines of
manufacturing, little and big, which could
be successfully established here and be
made to yield to their proiec.
tors q handsome percentage upon
the investments Among the many
industries which Wheeling would
encourage in her midst might be named
potteries cracker factories, soap works,
chain works, match. factories, structural
iron works, tank works, pipe and tube
works, bridge works, wooden factories,
works for the manufacture of sewer pipe, |
Srs and pressed brick, red brick, |
bolts aud nuts, saws, files, |
brass foundries, additional stove
works, wood works, furniture factories and
in short any kind Of industrial establish
ments furnishing honest employment to
men and women, 1t is confidently asserted
By such practical men IS Captain c. W.
Bachelor. of Pittsburg, that q pipe works
I established here now, would pay for it
elf in 9 very short time. Hundreds of
niles of pipe will be needed in the upper
ohio Valley Just as soon IS it can be OBJ
aimed. The natural gas supply is practi-
lily inexhaustible from past and present
and the business Of bringing it
nto use tor domestic and manufacturing
purposes is only in its infancy, l
nd it 10 not too late !
ct for pipe works to be I
established here in order to reap the I
sne6t of this extraordinary demand. {
nd this success, so confidently predict (
/ by the most competent authority, is not |
,nsned 10 the single line of manufacturing j