Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-05-30

of Wheeling Creek. 1t is principally en-
gagged in making sheet iron. The Etna
and Standard Iron Works, located in thu
suburb Of Etnaville and opposite the city
manufacture bar and sheet iron very large
IL and also makes rails for coal banks and
! light roads. These mills employ large
number OF men.
GLASS.
Next to the iron and nailinterests comes
the glass industry, which has attained i'm
mense proportions. 1t was first establish
ed here in 1920 and has steadily advanced
in importance until its products ore found
penetrating almost every market. Th'
increase in the number of glass establish
ments does not fully represent the growth
of glass production in Wheeling, for it /:
safe to say that any one OF the works now
operating makes ten times the quantity
produced by any one running in Wheeling
forty years ago. The improvement IL
quality, and the chespening OF the cost o
production have been equally marked
Articles of great beauty Of design, excel
lence of finish, and unsurpassed in purity
OF metal are Of every day manufacture
aud are sold at prices so low as TO excite
surprise II is safe to say that nowhere il
glassware OF equal quality made more
/ cheaply than in Wheeling. These glass
works employ about 1900 hands, with a
weekly psy roll of $4,000.
STEEL WORKS AND BLAST FURNACES.
In the Wheeling district there are nine
blast furnaces for making ordinary pig
iron and Bes5emer pig. The average daily
output Of each is about 100 tons. There are
three steel works in operation and fourth
about completed. Perhaps the most en-
tensive OF these is the Riverside" Just be
low the city, which makes soft steel in all
shapes, including merchant bar steel, all
sizes, steel T rail and steel ingots The pro-
prietors of this mill were the first to dis
cover and perfect the process Of making
steel nails They have pa machines in
their nail department. The entire plant
covers 10 acres the daily output OF
the steel plant averages 250 tons,
the number of men employed is upward OF
1000, the pay I'll being $l8 600 every two
weeks. The capital Of this company ia 81 :
100000. They have superior facilities for
shipping, switches connecting with the B. u
( O. and p, c. i St L. roads, while direct.
" across the river they reach the Wander
bilt system.
Not far below the Riverside" are the
wheeling Steel Works" now nearly com.
pleted This is new plant the partners
in the concern being the Belmont Nail
Works, Benwood Nail Works, and
the Wheeling Iron and Nail
Company. They will manufacture steel
nail slabs, blooms and billets exclusively.
The cost Of the plant ia 5000 900. The
other steel plants, the Bellaire and Mingo,
have similar facilities to those enumerated
for disposng Of their outputs, and all are
taxed to their utmost.
CIGARS AND TOBACCO.
Almost if not quite all of the common
cigars made in the upper Ohio Valley are
known as Wheeling "stogieg." The num-
Der made runs high up into the millions.
Last year tax was paid at the L. s. Internal
Revenue office in this city on something
over $4,000, OOs cigars, the government tag
at 50 90 per thousand amounting at this
office alone, to over 5000 Other cigars
OF finer grades ranging in value from SIS
to $40 per 1000, are also produced to
some extent, but cannot be compared in
numbers to tie "stogies" above referred to.
There are 60 cigar factories in this dis.
trict and four tobacco manufactures, the
tax on tobacco in other forms than that OF
cigars being cents per pound. The to.
bacco house Of the Bloch Bros. is the most
extensive tobacco factory in the State, en-
ployipg large number of men and using
an immense amount Of the weed.
WHOLESALE JOBBIYG HOUSES.
The Wholesale houses of Wheeling have
always been in the van. Time was when
agents for large Eastern wholesalers did an
extensive business in Wheeling and con.
tiguous territory. but now. as conse.
quenoe Of Wheelings enterprising whole.
sale houses, very few come here. This was
brought about by our merchants naming
lower prices than the goods could be pur
chased for in other cities The Wholesale
houses Of the city comprise large establish.
meDts handling groceries, dry goods, hard.
ware, drugs, paints, oils, clothing, notions,
spirits, wines, etc about forty FIVE in mum.
Der, and doing business spproximatipp
twenty-five to thirty millions a wear
TASYERIEs
The business of tanning has long been
important in Wheeling. Hides and bark
are ob:ainsble in the vicinity. There are
large steam tanneries aud 5 smaller ones
employing perhaps 200 people, using 100
lords OF bark per year. Is, 900 hides and
make rs 900 pounds OF harness. sole and
upper leather; the PRINCIPAL kind heinz
harness leather OF quality second to none
n the country and which is sold in ali
arts OF the union from Maine TO Texas
these tsnneries also dress 8. 900 calf skins
10000 to 10000 sheep skin q annually,
'arge numbers Of saddles, hcrls.s, collars
tc:' are made 10 the city Two glue fac,
ores make $4,000 pounds Of glue annual
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LUMBER, FLAMING MILLS, ETC. Ii
The lumber trade is extensive. Five
rye steam planning mills make flooring.
oorS, sash, boxes, etc Steamboat build. !
g, and the making Of wagons, carriages.