Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-05
81 25 delivered in the city; Saskatchewan
coal 50 - IN track
INTERESTING INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.

81 % delivered in the city; Saskatchewan
coal, So % on track.
INTERESTING INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.
A vein of coal was struck at ut. Vernon,
Ill on the 10Th inst.
The COalburg, Ala, Coal and Coke Co.
is about 10 erect $50 additional coke ovens
at Coalburg.
A vein of coal, said TO be nine feet thick,
has been discovered seven miles east OF
Fort Collins, Larimer county, Col, at
depth of $50 feet.
The introduction Unnatural gas at Johns
town. Pa, has led the discharge of two
thirds of the coal miners employed in the
Isine from which the Cambria Iron Co.
drew its supply of coal.
Soft coal appears to be on the turn to-
ward improvement. No one is willing to
make any contracts ahead for another
season; in fact recent sales made have been
at an advance from figures previously
ruling.
The steel plant, with the new buildings
in course Of erection at the Waugh Nail
Mill, Belleyille, costing about Sl25, 900,
will likely be completed by January or
February next. About 100 new hands
will be given employment when the adj
ditiOnal capacity is utilized.-Age Of Steel.
The railroad coal pool has gone into eff
feet, but is limited to seven roads IN ONO,
west of the Cleveland, LOrain and Wheel
Ing. and the advanced rates apply only to
local points within the state, and does not
touch lake ports The coal producers pool
still hangs of, cooperation with the Pitts
burg producers being the prime requisite
of its successful outcome While an Ohio
pool would be possibility, it could not
long hang together without a joint under
standing with Pennsylvania competitors.
The burning Standard mine has not yet
been quenched, but work Is progressing
satisfactorily. An effort will be made to
confne the fire and operate the pit through
the slope opening. 4 new air shaft Is
being sunk at the north end of the plant,
and il is expected that it will be completed
by the expiration of the present month,
thus giving the mine q second outlet rs re-
ouired by law, and establishing a perfect
ventilation. WOrkmn have repaired the
roads and are laying additional side tracks
in the slope, rs it is intended to run this
portion of the mine night and day, and
will start December LIST. BY the miners
working in two 10 hour turns from 400 to
500 wagons OF coal can be hoiSted at the
slope alone, and thus about 800 ovens can
be fired up. The ovens OF the crusher
block will be fired first, in order TO supply
the cruSher, whrch has been idle since the
fire. The crusher ut the Valley works
was started few days after the one here
closed down, but its capacity is only
about 10 cars daily, and this does not Till
more than half the orders coming in from
crushed .-C0RReiisrNe Courier.
Sweden, long since famous for its excel
lent charcoal iron, is about to have its
first BeSSemer steel works. Heretofore 1t
has imported its rails from England. 1t
has not railroads enough to give work to a
large Bessemer plant The state railroads
have contracted with the projected works
to take about 1000 tons per year for four
yearS at So - per ton for the first two
years andSS27 - for the last two, which
were the prices offered by an English
firm.