Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-02-26
TRADE NOTES.


Tive concerns engaged in the manufac-
t1Ce Of stamped and Japaned tinware in
PIttrburg estimate the increase in capacity
and output since 1856 at 25 per cent.
Tubes of German manufacture are SAID
to be made of iron Of frst.class quality
and splendid finish, and in some instances
obtain q preference over English and
Scotch tubes, and that, too, at advanced
rates.
The Irwin pa } Novelty Works has Just
been organized with e cspital of SIS, 900.
The Cunningham foundry has been pur-
chased, and the new enterprise will be in
full operation early in the summer.
A good vein of lire clay has been devel-
oped near Charleston, in this State.
An extensive machine shop ia to be
erected at MassilloD, Ohio, in the early
spring.
Parkersburg, w. Va capitalists have
chartered and organized O brick and tile
company.
The coke industry of Mineral county,
w. Va, will be largely increased in the
early spring.
The stove foundrics of Pittsburg pro-
duce between thirty and forty thousand
stoves annually.
English tin plate manufacturers are try
ing to effect an organized opposition to the
tin syndicate.
Steel rails contracted last week aggre-
gate 60, GOO tons. Most Of them ordered
so far are for repairing.
Raleigh county, in this State, is said to
be entirely underlaid with coal from four
n twelve feet thick,
The Edison aud the Westinghouse
Electric Light Companies are engaged in q
lively and wordy contest.
An 5000 pound brass casting was
moulded in Pittsburg last week, the
largest brass casting ever made in this
country.
IL is now announced from Boston that
the rubber trust has exploded and that
the trade for 1858 will not be affected.
MeSsrs. Ritet & Conley, of Pittsburg,
have received q big sub.contract from tine
contractor of the new water works at
Chicago.
1t is estimated that, during the past
two years, the number Of electric light
companies have increased from forty to
over one thousand.
There are 3l5 stove manufacturers in
this con try, and their expenditures in
tbe single item of patterns amount to ST.
81, 500 per annum.
In is currently reported that the West
Virginia Railway Company will, at al
early day, extend its road from Mineville
to Elk Garden and open up new coal
fields.
The French copper syndicate is said to
have bought Up the entire output of Spain,
Chill and the United States for three years,
and have So, 500, 900 of capital to back up
its operations.
According to the report of Mr.. Schoen-
hot, United States Consul at Tunstall,
England, the average weekly wages of the
American potter are SIP. so as against ST.29
for the Eogiish potter. =.
Oak tools have recently been found in
mines near Abby, Italy, that were worked
by the Romans 1000 ysars ago, the outside
of which were deeayed but the hearts are
perfectly sound.
Charles Burgess, Of Titusville, Pa, con-
templates doubling the producing capacity
of his iron and steel mills the coming
spring, which has been made necessary by
his rapidly increasing business.
The temperature necessary to melt
wrought iron lies between 4.00Oo and
5,OOGo F., and even ut that tremendous
heat, wrought iron is only rendered fluid
by the addition ola small amount Of alum
mum.
From the annual report of the Massa-
chusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics it ap-
pears that ont Of s16,470 w~age-workers in
that State PAL, $50, or nearly so per cent
were idle something over four months dur
ing 1887.
Dat Of the 5,396, $40 immigrants that
have arrived in this country during the
past fifteen wears, only 6l9, 152 have pro-
fessed any trade, and over 9, SOC, 600 &C.
knowledged themselves to be without any
occupation whatever
The contest between the coke men and
furuacemen seems to have settled down
into . question of endurance. The former
threaten to suspend entirely before they
will sell tor $3.50, ard the latter will not
start mp at present prices.
The Eastern Nail Association, compris-
ing the twenty fiSe nail manufacturers OF
the New Epgland States, New York, New
Jersey, Maryland, Virginia and Eastern
Pennsylvania, have agreed to reduce the
--zl.,t,o, 81 poilr An mar cont
Among the projected enterprises in this
State is 8 railroad sixteen miles long from
Peytona toSt. Adams, in Kanawha county.
Ii will open up some 100, 0C0 acres of yalu-
able coal property, which abounds heavily
in splint, camel and bitumiuous coal and
timber.
The home markets of this country deal
with over s., OO0, coo. 900 annually of agri-
cultural products and$6, 600, 600, 900 ofman-
ufactures; while the foreign market deals
with only 81, SOC, 0G0, 600 Of exports and
imports annually, and more than halt OF
these are home products.
The new dynamite gun Of Lieutenant
Zslinski, of the United States naval SER
vice, which has been tried in New YORK
harbor with great success, has brought
naval officers from the following countries
to inspect it: France, England, Spain,
Italy, Denmark, Russia, Japan and China.
The Union Iron Company il a new and
immense concern just organized at West
Duluth, Mimi. The works will cover 50
sores, and will comprise blast furnaces,
rolling mills aud rail mills. Chicago, Bos-
ton and Philadelphia parties are interested
in it to the extent of Sl,000,OOO.
Glass blowing is IN art nearly 4,O0o
years old, and perhaps much older. Yet
there has never been any means discovered
of dispensing with the human lungs as the
Instruments Of the blowing. An English
company is experimenting with a mould
aud mechanical bellows, which does salts
factory work at bottle blowing, but this
pretends to attempt only coarse work.
Some of the capitalists Of Chicago have
combined for the purpose of recovering tin
from. waste tin cans, scraps, &c. The n
Auai consumption of Chicago is 2l,6OO,OoO
pounds of tin plate, 1,l70.OOO pounds Of
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