The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1886-01-13
STATE MATTERS.

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Work continues good ia The
minesof Elk Garden.
Several cooperative nail mill
schemes are on foot in Wheeling.
A certificate Of Incorporation has
been issued 10 the Charleston Lum,
Iber and Building Company.
4 Ex-senator Henry G. Davis has
recently opened an eight foot vein
Of coal on the line Of his new road.
The Hsainias claim that New
River coke commands q higher
price in the West and South than
connelsyille coke.
Tho Winifrede Company, Of the
Kanasha Valley, is Of the most
enlerprising Of the West Virgins
industries and is q prosperous in.
situation.
The Hates Rock coal shaft has
resumed operations after a long
suspension, and il now tnrninpout
a large quantity Of. excellent coal
daily.
The coal business isagain boom.
ing. West Fairmon. mines, which
! have been idle for few days, re,
sumed Wednesday, putting out
about 100 tons that day.
Mccormick & Morrison, Of Sis
tefsyille, have during the past year
shipped 1928 cords Of tanbatk. OF
this amount /, $50 cords we're ship
ped by river and $40 cords by rail.
The Langhlin nail mill, at Mar.
Tins Ferry, owned by Wheeling
parties, claims To have 81 feeder
nailofs at work. They have about
completed Eve patent gas furnaces
at these works.
The two coal companies on the
Kanawha, the Peerless and the
Macfaflane, that we're recently
compelled to make assignments
have both made arrangements, and
are bravely and fully at work.
The Great Kanawha Collisry
Company, at Mt. Carbon station Of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway,
has made a contract for twenty-five
coke ovens, in which to convert the
slack Of its mines into coke.
The walnut lumber Of the Elk
river section, which is remarkably
fine in quality and in great de-
mand, is being shipped to the fac.
tory Of the Domestic Sewing Ma.
chine Company, at Patterson, N. ],
Wheeling embarked 10 the win.
dow glass business in 1921 and in
the flint glass in 1878. The pres.
ent works Of Hobbs, Brockunier &
Co., date back to about 1888, Of
which they obtained control by
purchase in 1916, and have contin.
uOusly operated them since.
The sale of the Kloman mill at
Moundsyille, which was bought by
syndicate represented by Joseph
D. Weeks, of Pittsburgh, has been
validated by failure to pay an in.
stallment of the purchase money
within the time given.
The coal shaft at, Moundsville
now employees lis miners, the out
put being twenty five car loads per
day. Failure to secure sufficient
number Of gondOlaS to take away
the product Of the minGs has caus.
ed the men to lose much time re.
Gently.
The sewer pipe manufactures in
Ohio and West Virginia, were in
session several days recently at
Akron, o, The object of the meet
ing was to advance prices, but
nothing was accomplished, and it
is possible another meeting will be
held,
AT Roncevert, the thriving and
dangerous rival Of Lewisburg, the
chief enterprise is the y. Lawrence
Boom and Manufacturing Com.
puny. The mill has a capacity Of
100000 feet in 70 hours and recent.
ly sawed ono quarter of million
feet Of ten inch boards in two
weeks, in addition to this they
turn out $4,000 laths and 1000
headed pickets per day. The men
employed by this company mum.
beers about S25, and the pay roll
will reach near $4,000 per month.
On last Friday morning, Jon Pas.
coe, a farmer living near Bethany,
committed suicide by shOotinghim
self with a shot gun. He loaded