The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-19

plate rolls are IN operation at hellys
nail mill, Ironton.
Four hundrednew coal cars will be put
on the Cleveland, Lorain < Wheeling
railroad this season.
The Central Glass Works is sill work.
ing with a full force, and will continue
so till the summer stop.
The stone masons are moving the
work right along on the new plant of the
BellairC stamping works.
Smith & Black arc opening the old
Coalmont coal mines at Winifrede, w.
Va, and will soon be shipping coal.
The Crescent mill is still idle owing to
the breaking of its engine. Repairs are
being pushed as rapidly as possible.
The Ohio Valley Railroad Company
have large force Of men at work on
the southern extension, just below Bel
laire.
The Bellairc, GAINESVILLE & Cincinnati
Railway is taking nails by the car load
from the Bellaire nail mill to points on
its line.
One hundred barges containing 1,200,-
900 bushels Of coal were sent out by the
various Kanawha operators on the pres
ent rise.
Bridgeport lumber companies gobbled
a good deal Of the trade from Martins
Ferry on account Of the carpenters
strike there.
@. steinmetz reports trade improving
since the starting up Of the glass works;
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liberal receipt OF orders.
TheNorthwood glass works have never
ceased operations for a day since their
beginning work in January. The run
has been principally on fancy ware.
William F. Thompson, OF Ithaca,
Mich, wants to learn of a place in the
South where white ash is abundant;
also red cedar. West Virginia fills the
bill.
1t is currently reported that the Bril-
liant, o., glass works has also caught the
Findlay, Fostoria, etc, fever and con-
template a removal to that section OF the
country.
The contract for piping gas from the
Guernsey district to GAINESVILLE has been
let, and the gas company expects to de-
liver gas in GAINESVILLE by the middle Of
October.
Secretary Martin and ex-President
John jarrett, OF the Amalgamated Asso-
citation, are in Washington loaded down
with data to be used in the debate on the
tariff bill.
Klieves, Kraft & Co. have closed con-
tracts for remodelingt he First Methodist
church at Bellaire; and for a large and
spacious private residence for A. j. Nc
Intosh, ut Ravenswood.
The Bridgeport glass works is running
along smoothly, making good output.
The @. q p railroad has placed a switch
from the railroad to the works, thus in
creasing their shipping facilities.
There is some talk of having the work
on the Bellaire, st. Clairsvillc & Cleve-
land railroad commenced shortly near
Bellaire, and il this occurs, large num-
Der OF men can find employment.
The miners claim that Western Penn
sylvania is knocking the bottom out OF
the Columbus scale. Sixty cents ton
is the highest price paid there, and it
ranges all the way down to 4Ocen ton.
The Morrow farm, a short distance be-
low BenwoOd, has been viewed by man.
ufacturers who contemplate the purchase
OF it and having large manufacturing
establishment moved on it this summer,
A telegram from Ishpeming, Michi-
gan, says that the ore shipping season
has opened, that a number OF cargoes
had already been sent from Ishpeming,
and that navigation had been opened at
Marquette.
The Novelty mould works ut Martins
Ferry is unable to supply the demand.
The works were started with only three
employees, and now have sixteen. The
building will have to be enlarged the
third time soon.
The B. & o. Railroad company have a
gang OF men and pile driver at work at
Indian Run, Bellaire. They are build
ing another bridge across the run and
will lay second track into the blast fur
mace stock yards.
TIC. White, western agent OF the Full
ton foundry, Cleveland, o., was awarded
the contract for furnishing the Hunting
ton (W. Va.) Street Railway Company
all the material, including ties, for the
construction OF their road.
J.K. Kerr & Sons planning mill, over
the river, is idle again, and this time
will remain idle until the firm opens the
doors. The carpenters having been re-
fused work after declaring the strike OIL,
upon the resignation OF non-union work
men, declared it on again Wednesday
morning.
A report has gained considerable cir
culation that the Royal Gas Co. had no.
titled the Wellsburg Gas Co. that after
the first Of July the supply for Wells
burg would be shut of, but Superin-
tendent Burns, Of the last named COM
pany, when seen in regard to the matter
declared the story to be utterly without
foundation.
The following companies are operating
coke ovens in Marion county: Montana
Coal and Coke Co., 100 ovens; Castor
Coal and Coke Co., 80; West Fairmont
and Marion Consolidated Coal Co., l2
o. Jackson, 10. In addition to these the |
following companies are building new
ovens: The New England and Western |
Coal Company, 200 ovens; The Briton
Coal and Coke Co., l25; the Montana
Coal and Coke Co., 100; the West Fair.
mont and Marion Consolidated Gas Coal
Co., 40.
When the Dithridge Glass Company,
at Martins Ferry, was seeking a loca-
ton for its factory in the natural gas
belt last year, the Board Of Trade at
New BRIGHTON, Pm, rendered bonus of |
$1,000 II II would go there. The offer
was accepted, articles drawn, and the
establishment moved in August. Pay.
ment Of the bonus was deferred from
time to time, until the company placed
the matter in the hands OF attorneys.
They insisted upon payment, and now
it turns out that the money can not be
collected. Moral: Let well enough
alone.
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