Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-05-16
TRADE NOTES.

The workiugmen continue to organize,
aud all unions and assemblies OF Knights
Of Labor are in a aourishing condition.
The new nail mill at Hammond, Iud., is
progressiDgwell, and the manager, General
florence, expects to have it in full opera
ZION during the summer
The Pratt Mining and Iron Company
now employ from the State of Alabama
700 State conyicts, men convicted OF
crimes against society, violence or dis
honesty.
The various trade reports from the Eng
ish pottery centers are very discoursging.
Bad trade and excessive composition, re-
sultiug in Improbable prices, is the uni
versal cry.
Il is stated that two thousand two hun
dred and forty people visited the Edgar
Thomson steel works, at Braddock. De-
tween November Is. 1891. and April %,
1886, an average of little over tour a
day.
Pittsburg steel rail manufacturers report
a better demand and numerous inquiries for
steel rails from protected roads, mostly IN
the west. Prices are qaoEed at $50 aud
$50 so cash at the mill An advance to
$33 is looked for before many days.
The workiugmen of BsllVilts, Ill have
started into cooperation. They have In
coruors.ed under the name Of the Star Sup
DIV Company, capital $1,000, divided into
four hundred shsres-Sl0 a shsEe-no one
shareholder to hold more than one share
The Hartman Steel Company, Beaver
halls, Pa, are about extending their busl
ness by manufacturing wire door mats,
steel signs, ETC., under patents that they
have recently bought controlling interest
in, and are erecting additional buildings IN
connection with their other works tor the
purpose.
Oliver Bros. & Phillips are preparing to
erect a blooming mill at their Clspp.Grit
fith plant, on the Southsida, Pittsenrg
They have purchased q portion OF the L l.
Gar Thomson steel works, aud ere having
II repaired and reftted for placing |; II
position.
The first trades assembly Of the y nited
States was organized Janusry Il, 1854, II
the city of Boston ia the common counci
room. On the following Fourth OF Jul!
there was q procession with several thou
and workingmeu in line, an Grafton De
Jivpred on Fort Hill in the open air, snd
dinner IN Fsneuil Hall.
The paragraph going the rounds OF to-
naners that the Shields plate glass works
pov in course of erection at Butler, will b
Tba largest of the kind in the world, 10 81
a,-or This works will have cspsclt.
sbont the same or little in excess OF tina
of the Piusburg plate glass WorkS' q
Creighton, this county.-Aanuiscturer'
Al Rayenns, Ohio, the window glass lac
torv has run stsady sinca last October
Tbsv are working in the Cd style witaou
rhe separate blow furnace. Toe eiosi
/ aint (chimusy) house has made me s'sSoi
eat run siucs It's organization.
The groWth of the South in msnutac
lures and general industry continues 10 al
! ,onish the on-looker. The Baltimore MANI
lacturers' Record has gathered sIalsncs &c
Tho frat three months in 1886, and hna
that in that time upward OF thirty SIX an
a hsf millions have been invesed IN ne
| ,n-.ror,sss, as against about twenty MI
ian, during the same period of 1885.
| An immense deal in coal lands has bee
oonsumstsd 10 Greensourg, involving 5,Si
acres Of coal producing territory. E'SI
hundred and twelve acres have siteaa
man trsnsfsrred By Messrs Pool William
rorbet and Greeusalt to F. ! Cioppe
rppressuting n syndicate Of PhllsdelInl
capitalists, for the purpose OF miuin2 -
comnsny will build 8 RAILROAD tom pol
near Hunker's station, on the SouthSs
Ealrosd. to follow the bed of the Big )
! -icklsy to its mouth, snd will connect WI
-. .. .iuors and Chic road at or ne
Scott S%S Haven, to give them as OStiss !
their coal.
It's the intention of the owners, "
they are completed, to unite the new pla
glass works now building at CreightC
: sith the plant of the P,ttsbarg Plate Ola
, Company. that has bsen in operation son
? wears. When this is done, this sstsbhs
: ment will be the largest plate glass Sor
/ | in the world, surprising even the fsmo
St Gobain. in France, and The well kao'
, Belgium plate glass works TINS nj
! works is the fifth works in the United Stat
|. in the building of which Capt. J. B Fo
has been the pioneer. This number
.. cludes the Louisville, New Albany a.
: Evansville and the two at Creighton.
! Manufactures.
Plans aud specifications for the locati
/ of an extensive sreel plsnt at Hammer
: Ind are nesrlv ready, aud contracts u
!. aoon be let. There will b. nail fsctC
a 3s6 xl2O feet with capacity of 1900 ke
: Of nails per day, plate and blooming n
T5x22s, warehouse l60x40. producer hoI