Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-04-05
GEN ERAL NOTES.

Ths Benwood factory Is running tnll
time.
The Crescent mill ia on foil tilt and trade
is reported good.
The Riverside steel plant is running to
its fullest capacity,
All the planning mills except Holiday
& Son are shut down.
The Belmont factory is on full time and
the nail output is large.
The hinge factory is on full time and bus
mess is reported fairly good.
The Top mill furnace is making its usual
output, and the factory is running full.
The Belmont furnace is running along
steadily aud making a good output OF pig
The BslIaire Nail works, steal works and
blast furnace are running to the fullest Ca
pacity.
The nail trade is still reported to b. in
good condition and lots Of nails are oeing
shipped.
The tack factory continues to run stead
lily although the demand is not 30 hca'S ~
il might be.
w'7.sas 20 commenced on the new
Assd brick mandatory, west of Bel
lAire, soon.
A large number of nails were shipped
South on the Sherley Saturday last. The
Andes cargo of nails was not so heavy.
The Bellairs Lantern Globe Works Is
running In full and the girls who we're out
on a.strike are OF their places Of labor
again.
The Wheeling steel plant Is running full
at present. The output last week was
], 700 tons, a day or 80 being lost during
the week.
The stories aloat to the effect that Rode
fer Bros, of Bellaire, contemplate locating
their glass works at Findlsy, sre without
foundation.
There is some talk Of raising a sum of
money among Bellaire manufacturers aud
business men for the purpose OF prospect
ing for gas.
On account Of 4 scarcity OF skelp iron
the Riverside Tube Works Is not running
at its full capacity, but it will be on full
in a day or so.
Work IN the repairs 10 the Benwood
furnace, at Martins Ferry, are still going
on and 1t will be several weeks before they
will be completed.
Sweeney & Son are still running along,
although work is little slack at this time.
They are looking for several large orders
in the near future.
The Riverside Mill shipped more nails
last month than any month since it has
been in business. This is a pretty fair
as to the condition Of the nail
trade.
The contract has been let for the large
addition to the B~ellaire Stamping Company.
These works were enlarged only q year
ago, ard now the stockholders think il
necessary to branch out more.
The La Belle Factory IL running full
with the exception Of 3 few small ma
which are laid OF on account of a
of nail plate. the plate mill has
been rolling u good deal OF tack iron
Work on the lower end OF the Wheeling
is being pushed rapidly, and will
soon be completed. The tracks are laid
d far as the upper end of BenwoOd, and
work in the lower end Of the city will
commenced at once.
The Wheeling Greek mines have resumed
operations In full and both the lower and
upper mines have gone to work. This
means an increase in the prosperity of
Bridgeport, which the resumiDg Of any
other industry could not give.
Since the carpenters demanded that they
be given ten hours pay for nine hours work
the planning mill OF Bellairs, 10 common
with those Of this city, has not been doing
much, as the managers Of the establish.
men: have refused the demand. A great
ieal OF outside carpenter work has also
A large number of poles for the electric
wires on the Citizens line have arrived,
and will be distributed along the line
rom Twenty-seyenth street down 10 the
They will be put up at once, and
liter that the poles will be put in from
rwenty.seveuth street up. The work will
'e pushed rapidly.
Mr.. William Weihe, the 'giant pud-
and President of the A~malgamsted
Of Iron and Steel Workers,
vas quietly married Tuesday to an es.
Unable young lady of the SJuth Side,
httsburg. She vas Miss PHILIPPINE Oh
ipger, a handsome and ACCOMPLISH
'ouug lady. Weihe's many friends in
his region are pleased to learn that he
las i1ined the Renedicls-