Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-11-04

and commission housssin large quantities.
The visible supply Of c,ttol is about one
half what il wss year ago. Tbs cthsr
half is held ha:k 70: better prices and
cheap bagging.
Ths rush of railroad trait, is. sen ling
large car orders to car works West, East
and South. The loo ,motiye builders are
very busy. The rail mills have less work
on hand II WI for fur years.
Fifty thOuasnd English miners are de-
handing higher wages because times are
getting bstter.
Plat. glass making is booming. Two
immense works ara pref :e.ed in Pennsly-
vauis and the New Albany, Ind, works
has had < capacity doubled and can turn
out 100000 feet of plate glass besides
200, 600 boxes of window glass and $4,000
gross OF fruit jars.
I.ingl ass is now to bs ussd in thu manu-
facture Of wall paper aud to make oil in q
big works at Denver, Col.
1t is 8 good siga of the future when 30
many iron and steel works are extending
their capacity and 80 many new concern 9
are p-oJpecte1. Some twenty new mills
ara projected. Toe Monopgsheis river
miners shipped this year SO, 227, coo bush
els of coal as against SO, 435, Geo last yea.
The worlds coal supply, it is roughly
guessed, will LAST 100000 centaIiss.
Here is an est mate Of resources
@ ntral ani Northern Asia, 50 200
suusre miIes: Russia, % coo square
miles; Island of Formosa, 10000
square miles; Southern Europ., $4,000;
India, IS, 600; China, 100000; japan,
5000. Southern Chila is a vast coal bed.
Brazil has plenty OF cosl II to 25 feet
thick. Persia and Pate gonia are we'll
supplied. Australia has $4,000 square
miles. There are enormous patches Of
coal scattered all over thu world, the ex-
tent of which is unknown. Sd poke up
the fires and shake the grates!
Fiuan isrs are contemplating the posi-
bility Of q scarcity of money in tbs near
future when thsy will b, able 10 buy up
creditors properties under forced sales at
q 1.-THE of their real vclue, as was done in
IS73J7S and in earlier trade depressions.
Railroad managers anticipate q railroad
5Se1AB UASA WY
5000 will DO tuilt.
Lumber manufacturers West and South
are Masking exirsordiEny preparations for
big production this winter and next sea-
son. There his bean aud sill is an enor-
nous demand for lumber in the West.
Spectators continue to bay up timber
lands.
One OF tie gre atsst window glass factor
lea in the world is just starting in the
Westm 1rela1d gas region in Pennsylvania
Daily capacity, 5000 boxes. Four hun
dred HOUSES for workmen will soon be CON-
plAted.
The watch manufacturers all over the
United States are crowded with work, and
competition is narrowing margins.
Toe o -gsniz.ion of labor is at stand
still as regards numbsrs, but the cohe-
sigeness of labor organic alton is increasing
despite the hostile comments OF the out
siie wO:id A grtai deal CT progress
must be m,ds bsfo,e q Grand Confedera-
ton Of labor organizations can become pos-
sible, yet it will bsevsntually reached and
thu purely political fea'ur of popular
government will gradually give place to
more pronounced industrial control.
Boats in some rivers in Alaska cannot
find good anchorage becsusa coil IS so
abundant. Gold dirt worth $50 PEI ton is
bsing hauled to stamp mills en- the Yukon
river.
For rartow streams stone bri3geI are
taking the place of iron bridges because
ttey do not vibrate.
California fruit growers, manufacturers
ard exporters are expecting to get rich
Australian demands.
TINS county turns out S95, 900, 900
worth OF pIpar. American inventors are
taking pager pulp machinery to Mexico to
grind mp fibrons stuff they find there that
makes gcoi and cheap PAPER. Quits a
trade will spring up.
A petroleum motor that will make 10
miles an honr and cost 81 pr day to run
is being tested in Chicago.
A giant locomotive is being constructed
in B ston. 1t is for use on the Atchison
road, and has two c,bS, one over the boiler
for tie engineer, and the other in the usual
place foc the fireman. The driving wheels
. e of paper, with steel tires.
All the ore mines OF the Lake Regions
are fedsrating. One hundred fac Ories in
the S1uth will soon be makir g straw and
pins bagpipg to supplement ju:e baggipg
that the ate Syndicate run 10 price from
: to 14c Diamonds ara being found so
plentifull7 and in 80 many places that o
Diamond Trust is being tslSed of to re-
strict supply Venszuela is trying to get
French emigrants. but the English come
faster. The New Z1rk Elevated road tax
t. ths city is $275, 900 Per yea. A AZ inch
tile, cope is to be made that W. III bring the
moon sixty miles eff. They are rolling
iron platss II f'. long and 8 #. wide at
Pittsourg weighing tons each. There
are 5000 locomotive engineers in the
United Siates compactly org sniz:d. Not
one Of them will accept situation on the
@" road, aud es vacancies arise the
managers haves hard time to fill then.
Louisville, KY, is TO have two new
railroads. An Eoglsh syndicate is TO
spend several million dollars in develop
ing the timber, mineral ard agricultural
resources of the S)utb. Some ofths rich
est mineral regions Of Mexico have just
been opened by the completion of the
Mexican National. English capital is
now galloping IN.
MILL NOTES.