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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-09-14

about the future Of Wheeling, A season
Of unusual prosperity has certainly set In,
and as the clouds OF smoke from our lac
tories are cleared away by the introduce
ton Of gas, enterprising business men can
see and select good sites, and the noise Of
machinery viii be heard throughout our
vicinity without the usual clouds otsmoke
going toward heaven to indicate our In
creased prosperity"
The standard white and decorated ware
chamber sets and table ware in great
variety OF form and Embellishments
well known in all the markets, Recently
there has been added an attractive line oil
porcelain china, class Of goods made by
the best potters Of the old world, but
hitherto attempted but by two concerns IN
this country. This ware sells as fast as i
can be drawn from the kilns aud packed.
The success OF this industry, new to
Wheeling, Is another evidence Of what
can be done here in new branch OF manu-,
iaCtuIe by sufficient capital, practical
knowledge coupled with long ex'
perenCe and energetic business
management, Manager Pearson u q
skilled Stsaordshire potter, who built an
extensive pottery at East Liverpool before
accepting the invitation to join the Wheel
lug Pottery Company and build its works.
Messrs. Wheat and Isett have long been
identified with Wheeling's manufacturing,
commercial and banking interests. Mr,
Frauzheim is one Of the most competent
and pushing OF the young business men oil
Wheeling who are preparing TO take the
places OF the older heads, This fortunate
combination has made the Wheeling
Pottery one Of the most successful Of in
dustriRl enterprises
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OIL REFINING.
Isaiah Warren y CoIs Fine Plant.--Tho OIL
Outlook.


Isaiah Warren y Co.'s Fine Plant.--Tho OIL
Outlook.
Wheeling is an oil centre. To the east
Of her lies the msrvelously productive
Washington field; to the southwest is the
MaCksburg field; north are the Smiths
Ferry wolls, and oil around her lies unde-
veloped territory which in the opinion Of
experts is as promising as anywhere. In
this central location, with the facilities for
transportation unsurpassed, Isaiah War.
rem 4 %. have the nucleus Of q gigantic
business which all circumstances indicate
az an outcome OF the future. The refining
Of carbon oil in Wheeling dates back to
the fall Of 1852, when the firm OF Warren
& Son, composed OF Matthew and Isaiah
Warren, began the refining Of carbon oil
in this city.
They erected at frat stills OF 10 barrels
capacity each-total, 45 barrels. These
were replaced in a couple Of years by 8
larger stills, OF 90 barrels each-total, 100
barrels.
Their present distilling capacity is 1900
barrels per week. The market price OF
crude oil, when they went into the bust.
ness, was $l4 per barrel or 90 cents per
gallon. The price Of coal oil, as 1t was
then called, was 81 IL per gallon.
Crude at present costs reHner about
81 % per AZ gallons, and carbon oil Is sold
at 73c for State test, to lie for finest grade
Of Water White 1902 FIRE test oil.
Their highly esteemed brand OF "Sun.
light Oil" has been In use over twenty
years, and is a full guarantee that the oil
covered by this famous brand 10 unrivalled
IS to safety, aud yields a very brilliant,
steady and soft llHht.
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BRIDGEpORT.
A Considerable tom In tho Grand Local
Aggregate.

A Considerable tom in tho Grand Local
Aggregate.
Bridgeport, at the west end OF the bridge
Of the Wheeling & Belmont Bridge Com
pGny, and connected With Wheeling, like
Bellaire and Martins Ferry, by street
Gals, is almost as old town as Wheeling,
and older than either OF the others named.
She has always had something Of a manu-
featuring industry, which now included
tie r. j. Baggs & Son Lumber Company,
operating the National Planning Mill, and
doing q large general lumber business F;
the Bridgeport Machine Shops OF Thomas
Hill; the Roller Flour Mills OF Smith &
Sons, which have a large capacity, and
make also senoliro, preparation OF
wheat germ; the Diamond Flour Mills Of
L. P. Rhodes & Son, also large concern;
the Carlisle Brick Company, which
operates on q large. scale; ]. NJ.
Woodcock's long established stove
foundry aud the La Belle and Nail City
Glass works. The latter manufactures
glass jars and bottles. II hassutTered from
several fires, and 10 not therefore as pros.
porous rs most OF tho factories OF the Sec
ton. The La Belle seems 10 have enter
ed on new era Of prosperity. It Is one
Of the completest one-furnaCe factories in
tho country. SO. Dunleyy Is President
and Addison Thompson Secretary.
Bridgeport also prospers by the close
location Of the Wheeling Greek Coal COM
pany, On organization which operates ex.
tensive mines on the O., L. & w. road a
few miles west OF the town.
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DLowING WINDOW GLAts.

Ohio Valley Foundry, manufacture
stoves and make general line Of castings.
Situated In First ward on Ohio Valley ex.
tension OF Cleveland & Pittsburgh railroad,
and occupy new building OF double the
capacity Of tho old works. This was orig.
nally started by Messrs. Parkes and Lewis;
but now a Joint stock company has great
ly increased the capacity Of the works,
Etna Glass and Manufacturing Com.
pany, situated in the three story brick
building Of the old Bellaire Implement
Works, with glass furnace in the rear,
reached by both Baltimore & Ohio railroad
and Ohio Valley extension OF the Cl0ve-
land d Pittsburgh railroad manufactures
table ware and many fancy articles. In
addition to this the company also runs q
large foundry and machine shop in the
same building. The officers are Wheel.
ing men.
The Ohio Valley Cement Works, OF G.
Trolls Soma, at Pinch run, manufactures
cement from rocks found beneath the
hills in that neighbarhood.
Bellaire Bottle Co., on the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad, Fourth ward, manuiac-
lures flint bottles and prescription ware,
and have been running steadily with
scarcely time for repairs.
Belmont Glass Co., the Oldest OF the
Bellaire glass houses, now has two fur
naces; Is located on tho Baltimore & Ohio
railroad in tho Fourth ward. II was the
frat concern 10 use tho Wheeling Com
pany'g natural gas. Manufactures gem
eral line Of table ware, etc.
Rodefer Bros, the old National Glass
Works, in tho First ward, on the Ohio
Valley extension OF the Cleveland & Pitts.
hurEh railroad, manufactures tableware,
globes, chimneys and vault lights In great
variety.
Beliairo Goblet Company in Frat ward
on private switch OF Ohio Valley extern.
sion oil O. & P. railroad, occupies works Of
the old Ohio Glass Company. Manufac.
tured until this season only gobleta and
tumblers, but now all sorts Of pressed
ware has been added. President, NJ, L.
Blackburn; Secretary, W. A. Gorby.
Stewart & Ward, Globe Flour Mills B.
4 o. and 9. & p. switches, and Thomas
Ault 4 Son, on Union street, both do large
business both at home and abroad. Both
have tho modern roller process machinery
complete.
The Bellaire Stamping Company, oCcu-
pies large buildings on Baltimore 4 Ohio
Railroad, Third ward manufactures Ian.
terms, tin ware and jar caps and has grown
very much In the last few years, running
steadily with few suspensions.
William ellis factory for glass house
pots In the Fourth ward, has built up a
large business and furnishes many Of the
pots used by tho glass houses Of the Ohio
Valley,
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ongs ]. W. Hunters Anchor Mustard
Mills, and this concern, which has grown
In comparatively short time from Q
modest beginning to an immense affair Of
its kind, forClhly illustrates tho peculiar
advantages Wheeling offers for the inanu.
tactnre Of certain articles. Mr.. Hunter
has the most extensive mustard works
outside Of New York, and lie sells hig An.
ohoHbfAnd Of prepared mustard In all the
large CitOB from Boston and New York 10
the Missouri river. Tie seeds he brings
from California and England, He docs a
considerable business besideH In the manu-.
faCtureoi ground spices Of all sorts, and
his coffee roasting establishment has a
grees capacity as large 30 that Of the other
Wheeling rolbterB combined, hia place be.
Ing fitted up with four large ROSTERS and
and the most modern appliances for hand
ling, packing, etc. His coffee ID sold 10
jObbets exclusively.
The success Of the Anchor Mustard
Mills 10 interesting from the bearing II
has on tho desifability Of Wheeling as
location for such On industry. Hall the
cost Of prepared mustard az put on The
market 70 ordinarily In the glass OF earth.
enwRre ar or other package. The iaClll.
ties Tor buying these In Wheeling are un.
surpassed, II eqnaled, anywhere. Other
makers come 10 Wheeling TO buy. There
10 no boxing and no freight 10 pay on the
Jars, etc. Here they arc delivered from
the pottery or glass house right al the
door Of the spice mills. This 10 "polnt.
OF" iot manufacturers seeking location,
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A THRIVING TOWN.
Martins Ferry'S Advantages aud Credit
able Industry.

Martins fGrry'S Advantages aud Credit.
able Industry.
Martins Ferry, Just opposite tho upper
end Of Wheeling, Is a busy little city Of
about 1900 inhabitants, tho majority
being wage.earners TheCity hasthe advan.
tage Of The Ohio river and the Cleveland,
& Pittsburgh railroad, and the Cleveland,
Lorain 4 Wheeling railroad ls now extend.
ing o branch there, which In the course
Of a year or two will become main line,
as tho Baltimore L Ohio is believed 10 be
behind the Cleveland, Lorain 4 Wheel.
ing. To show the Importance Of Martins
Ferry, II Ia only necessary To cite the BIT.
Ter war between the two railroads for The
right Of way, frat begunin Martins Ferry
and still Waging In Bridgeport. From
City 10 BeVenty.hve cars OF freight daily
are handled there, which makes Il q first.
class railroad point. With is many and
varied industries, Martins Ferry 10 bound
10 advance rapidly in wealth and popula-
ton.
Martins Ferry already posseSses nunuf.
Gus thriving manufacturing establish.
mehts, and has room for % many more.
DesldeS the Laughlin Mil, which ere long
will be the largest nall factory In the
world, Ahe has The blast furnace Of the
Benwood Iron Works, Of which II, D,
Meyers is clerk, and Joseph Bird, mana.
ger, II employees 30 men and produces
Us 10 70 ton Of BeBsOmsE pig Iron daily,
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calities, and to-day has an extensive con-
Germ in this line, which actually produces
large percentage OF the wagons used In
the cotton tislds Of the Gull States, rs
well Rs many other styles Of wagons which
are employed in all uses nearer home,
This concern is the great wagon works
OF the Bodley Brothers, on Eof and Eigh.
tenth streets. The establishment is a
monster brick building extending from
EoG TO Ohaplins streets and having q
frontage Of a quarter Of square on each
OF these streets. Halt OF the building Is
four stories in height and the remainder
three, and two offices and other email
buildings ara also occupied on the oppO-
site side Of Eighteenth street. The works
are supplied with the latest machinery
for turning spokes, axles aud hubs and
forming all the parts OF q wagon, iron OF
wood, from the raw material.
The firm makes a specially Of wagons
for the nee Of cotton planters, having
wheels six or eight feet in diameter with
extra wide tires, fitted for hauling their
heavy Burdens over soft ground. These
are made here and shipped to New Orleans
where the firm owns warehouses oCcu'
plying one entire square, They employ
a large number OF skilled workmen at good
wages. The freight on their wagons
which are largely shipped in the piece by
river steamers, 10 so low that the greal
facilities here more than compensate fol
the transportation such q long distance
ThR firm consists Of James w. BldlaV
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who resides in New Orleans, and john
Bodley, who has charge Of the works
here.
There ARE nine less extensive wagon
building houses In tho city.
CARRIAGES.
In carriage building Wheeling has
achieved scarcely less distinction than in
wagon manufacture. The firm OF Don
aldson, Lewis 4 Co., whose works are To-
Gated at 1900 to 1906 Market street, have
established a reputation for carriages oil
their build from Kansas City and Chicago
to Pennsylvania, aud yehicles turned out
by them compare fGvorably in style and
workmanship with the most costly pro.
ducts Of the most famous builders. Their
buggies, carriages and light road wagons
are scattered all over the country.
D, Kull, IT,, & Co, have factory at
2ll0 Main street, where carriages, phae.
tons, buggies, delivery wagons and all
sorts OF wheeled vehicles from road cart
or q surrey to an Ice wagon or an omnibus
are turned out. The firms work COM
pares,with that Of any city.
Lott 4 Elig, at 0S7 Market street, have
an extensive and convenient factory
which produces equally creditable work
in the same lines.
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WOODWORKING.
rAEvARlous APPLICATIONS
OF Timber, from House Building to Making
barrel BunsS, Largely Carried on here.
Planning Mills, Wagon aud Carriage
Manufacture, Ksg Factories, etc,

In wood working Wheeling is no lees
busy than in iron, steel and glass, She
has Ave saw and planning mills, which
turn ont rough or finished lumber, make
doors, sashes, shutters and blinds, do con-
tract woodworking from the turning of .
newell post to the erection Of the largest
house, and work in both hard and soft
wood. These Ave establishments employ
an average of thirty men each, not In
Guiding carpenters working on contracta
elsewhere than In the factories.
No place in the country is more favor
ably situated for the carrying on Of lum.
Der working enterprises than Wheeling,
Her railroad and river facilities give her
command of all the sources OF lumber
supply, and her proximity to the whole
countiea OF virgin timber lands In tho
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-09-14
A POINTER ron WHEELING.
Her Soft stoOla Promising Material for Cai
rinRa Wnrk

Her Soft StoolR Promising Material for Car.
riage Work.
Now that Wheeling Is the leading soft
steel manufacturing point In this country,
the following from q recent issue Of the
Carriage Aonthlyis Of interest hero:
We were present few days since al
the testing Of number oicelebrated brands
Of this new mild steel, which sooner or
later, will usurp the the place OF iron.
Some were Of foreign manufacture and
others domestic, among which was o
''silver steel" by the Catasauqua Manu-.
featuring Company and mild steel by the
Ath Steel Works, Newark, N. ]. There
was also q number Of other very excel.
lont brands. We took a sample bar
and forged from the same set
Of dash heels for buggy, and
when cold subjected them to all sorts Of
strain without fracture. We heated the
same to about ZOO, and cooled In cold
water, and again put the iorgingS through
another set Of tests, and still no fracture.
Yields were made and Bwaged and cooled
OF while at 500, and could not be broken
any more than the same made Of Norway,
II was 90 easy TO weld without nux as any
ordinary iron. There was density or
hardness about II while forging Il that fol.
low In the making Of Low Moor iron.
When cold II is much sitter than Norway,
but will bend under a heavy pressure
without breaking.
We next hada piece lathed and case.
hardened with bone dust, which was after.
ward put through the bulfing process, with
g view 70 show up seams, dirt or losSeneSs,
The result was, not blalni0h could be de.
IOCted. Alter niCking with cold ChiSel
we tried its breaking qualities over tho
sharp corner Of the anvil, and after more
than Q dozen vigorous blows witha Ia.
pound hammer failed 10 break the specl.
men. With all these facts before ,,s, We
come TO the ConOluHlon that at last the
carriage builder has reached Droper
metal Tor tue production Of hlB wares, ljto.
viued the manufacturers will Btudy their
own Interests by putting the came on the
market Ia mefChAntable BiHeb, FofRxieH,
the gplndleB Of which may DO letnpeted,
ana ior axle boHes, We do not know OF q
peter metal. For allwofk which 10 sub.
lect 70 all sorts Of adverse strains II has no
superior, II II has an honest equal, which
we. doubt II would DO impossible 10 ana
better article for rocker plates, For
polished work, polecfabS, lead bar az.
lures, cock.eyes, fefruleB, doof.handlee. or
any other furniture In the carriage Inc. Il
hag no superior. Tho fact Of the matter
4, u 10 uBt what we want, and we want Il
right ,away.-thAt IL, II we can Ret Il, and
there 10 noplauIlble reason why we should
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1.-THE GLASS CITY, 4"
YoUNsER sIsEra
ON the other side of the OhlO-Ths Indus
trIo, of Bsllalrs window Glass, Glass
ware, Lanterns, Stamped GOOds,WOOd
Working, stO,-A Thriving Place,

Bsllaire Is as fairly entitled to be called
"the Glass City" as Wheeling to be known
as ''the Nail CITY," When the rolling mill
was built by Wheeling operatives at Bel
laIre her industries were few and unim'
portant. Shortly glass men from here
also opened operations in the thriving
little town whose future looked bright in
view Of tho completion Of the Central
Ohio railroad and construction Of the rail
road bridge over the river, The town has
gradually grown to q thriving city, with
two daily papers, and her list Of mauuIac'
lures below, in addition to the nail works,
makes an impressive show;
Crystal Window Glass Company-Presi-
dent, DR., R, W. Muhleman; Secretary, A,
W. Voegtlyi manufactures window glass
factory on Cleveland 4 Pittsburgh rail,
road, Fifth ward; was burned in spring Of
this year, hut iron buildings are being
rapidly built on the same site,
Union Glass Company-President,
Thomas Wetherald Secretary, O. O, Kelly
manufactures window glass factory Is on
Cleveland 4 Pittsburgh railroad, In the
Fifth ward.
BeIlaire Window Glass Company
President, A. W. Hamilton Secretary, S,
O, Hamilton, This was the first window
glass house built in Bsllaire, and now has
two furnaces. II ia situated on the Ohio
river extension Of the Cleveland 4 Pitts
burgh Railroad in the First ward,
Enterprise Window Glass Works, on
the Ohio River extension OF the Cleve'
land 4 Pittsburgh Railroad, In the First
ward, A, SChIck, President and D. ],
Smith, Secretary,
Lantern Globe Company, on Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad, Fourth ward, uses the
building originally built by the Goblet
Company. President, ]. NJ. Marlng;
Secretary, WIN. Bsrgundthal; manufac'
lures globes Tor lamps and lanterns,
Ohio Lantern Company, office on Union
street and factory in the rear, manufac'
lures lanterns and lamps. This Is CO.
partnership affair, composed Of A, l.,
Baron and W. G. Ruier, founded In 1881,
Buckeye Lantern Company, on Balti'
more 4 Ohio Railroad in Second ward,
occupies the upper story Of the old
tobacco warehouse, q large brick building
built by the State a lew years ago. 1t
manufactures lanterns,
Bellaire Cooper Shops, George W. Grod.
haus; situated on Baltimore 4 Ohio rail-
road, Fourth ward,
w. W. Mcconnell, cooper shops, on
Ohio Valley extension OF Cleveland 4
Pittsburgh railroad, in First ward.
Dubois and Mccoy, planning mill and
lumber yard, occupy new buildings re-
built after q fire q few years ago, on Balh'
more & Ohio railroad, Fourth ward.
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THE MANUrACTUnE or pArEn,
The Hanna Is Clemens Paper Con,pany's
NnrIa

The Hanna Is Clemens Paper Company's
Works,
lisa significant fact that when recently
the firm Of Hanna & Clemens, manufac-
tureis Of all rag newa and book paper,
was merged into the Hanna & Clemens
Paper Company, and it was concluded to
enlarge their capacity, introduce new ma
chinery and practically rebuild the Fulton
Paper Mill, the company after casting
about ell over the country from Canada to
the gulf aud from Nashville to st, Paul for
new location, decided TO reject several
advantageous offers, and re.loCate here,
They were led to adopt this course by
the unusually good facilities for cheap
transportation, tho good water and the
advantages Of natural gas for fuel. Aside
from the reduced cost Of the new fuel, the
gain in cleanliness is worth money, Great
as are the advantages OF natural gas in
the production Of iron or glass, they can.
not equal those which theme fuel affords
In the manufacture OF paper. In addition
to the even texture and the desirable IA.
Cility for regulating the steam at will,
gas contributes to tho clear surface and
untarnished tint, which are the chief
beauties OF paper.
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TRADE FACILITIES
LABOR SAVING rAlPRovrursr.
And Means of Rapid and Easy Counpn,.
ti0nwith the World at Largv-slet,opoI,'
tan Features of Life IN Wheeling
Mall aud Expire" Convenience.

There are a number OF particular. :,
which Wheeling equals the mstronoli,nH
cities OF the country, and which CONT
upon the manufacturing and commoroi,,
business Of the city increased aayapt,saa
The city is not only supplied With III.
telephone, but the system is c,npectol az
the central exchange with the oxcb,r,,,
at Pittsburgh, Allegheny, WAshIpr,osS'
Rochester and Beaver Falls and oms'
places in Pennsylvania; Wcllsbn,"
Mouudsvills, Bsnwood, and all tina 81 "
burbAn localities in West Virginia. S,sa.
beRville, Martins Ferry, .E,pavn,
Bridgeport and BsllAire, Ohio; and bn',
ness men can converse with customs,. 3 T.
those towns as satisfactorily ss i5c, to i,ca
Her telegraph connection ia comnl.,
and the rates as reasonable as comps,i,"S
can render them, Both the Wss's,qp
Union and the Baltimore 4 Ohio 1 ~
graph systems have large Offices . wv
with expert operators, the money o,i.' '
feature, and all the facilities Ola tlfst cs'
telegraph station. S''
Express communication Is afforded h,
the Adams, Baltimore 4 Ohio and AM!
can Express Companies, the different sv.
TENS embracing with their Conpec,iSn,
every express Office on the continent
The city has the advantages Of Pnu0,
electric light plant, md the town. ac, o.,
the river and the different sections oi w.
city itself are connected closely by st, ,-S
car lines, The city has free mail dellvs,v
and from twenty to thirty mails ANNA
and depart daily. '
Wheeling's hotels are ample 10 cara n,
all travel and transient visitors, and ,Sa
has q number OF boarding houses Of nj
grades, sufficient to Accommodate tho lana
floating population, Her restaurants ShS
eating houses excel those oil agy cltv ~
equal size in the country. They han,
juhtly earned fame as puryeyoD Ia Ina
varied tastes Of their patrons, and i; i, N
matter oil wide comment that not even in
the largest cities Gun better restaurants hs
supported at lower charges. lransisr,
boarders are furnished tina best meals a,
20 cents, while arrangements are malsi,,
weekly board at much reduced ra,ps
There Ia no city whore u visitor Ia mSiS
to feel more at home, or u resident on.
tended more conYenlenCss and aCcomno,
dations, than In Wheeling,