Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-13
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

Interesting Items Picked Up About the
Clty and Vicinity.
The Centre Foundry is running foil,
principally on mill work, and are having q
good run of business.
r. J. Bags & Sous Lumber Co, Bridge
port, are running full this week on general
ovders, and are kept fairly busy.
Donaldson, Lewis & Co., are booking
orders daily and are pushed to their full-
est capacity to keep pace with them.
The Warwick Pottery Co. resumed oper-
stions last Tuesday, after vacation ex-
tending through the 4th Of July week.
The Belmont furnace is doing its usual
good work; no time has been fixed yet for
resumption of operations in the factory.
Kleives. Kraft & Co. have their full
force employed and are enjoying good
run of trade. The prospects in their line
are good.
The Wheeling Steel Works, after a
thorough repair throughout, including the
recent breakage, started up on night turn
Wednesday night, for permanent run.
At Joseph Bells Stove Foundry the re.
pairing is actively going on, also general
and thorough overhauling Of the ma
ehiuerv. The works will probably re-
sumo in two weeks.
The Crescent mill is closed down except
in the galvinizing room, which is running
part time. Rerairs on the recent break
age are in an advanced stage Of completion.
The BenwoOd is closed down in all de-
psrtments. Extensive repairs on the fur
mace, including refining, are about COM
pleted, and it will blow in in about two
weeks.
b. Fishers Star Foundry shut down
Wednesday night for the balance OF the
week, to make some necessary repairs on
the engine. Business is fairly good, bet
ter than last year at this time.
The West Virginia China Company com.
menced making ware last Monday, and
will have q full force on next Monday.
Fires will be lighted under the kilns on
an early day next week.
Sweeney & Son are running full on
general work and their plate.glass ma
chinery contracts, which will employ them
about six months yet. Their business has
not been better during the past two years,
The Rtns is engaged in taking stock
and making the usual repairs. Daily
shipments are being made from the stock
on hand and the wage question will In
fiuence the matter of resumption entirely
Caldwell & Peterson are running full
and are pushed to their fullest capacity to
keep pace with the orders for their sheet
steel roofing. This week they shipped
car load of goods to st. Louis and one To
Milwaukee.
&c. Arbenz & Co. 's furniture factory
is under full sail again after the national
holiday vacation, and is turning out
large stock, including some attractive de-
signs for the fall trade, which they antici-
pate will be good.
At the LaBelle the repairs and improve
ments are progressing rapidly. The new
blacksmith shop and tack factory will be
completed in about another week. The
repairs are extensive and embrace every
portion of the works.
The Top mill factory is closed for an in
definite period. The furnace blew out on
the 1st, and will be refined; il presents a
good record, having been in blast since
November, 1885. It will blow in again
from go to 80 days hence.
The development of the Ohio Valley gas
field will soon begin. Preparations are
making to bore well at Calumet and one
at Empire, on the Ohio side, and one will
be bored at Block House Run, ON the West
Virginia side, for the Brilliant glass works.
At the Bellaire Nail Works all is silent
this week, except the furnace and the
musical din of the hammers IS the work
men prosecute the thorough and complete
repairs now going on there. The furnace
is doing its usual work; the output last
week was LII tons.
The gas and oil well sunk by the War
rem Company at GAINESVILLE, has been
abandoned after reaching depth of 1850
feet. The Macksburg ssnd was reached at
a depth of 1,650 feet and yielded small
quantity of oil as well as gas, but neither
in paying quantities.
At the Standard operations are confined
to shipments from stock, general repairs
and work on the extension. which is be-
ing prosecuted vigorously. They will not
be ready to resume work before August
LIST, and then resumption will depend on
the status Of the wage questioB.
The North Wheeling Glass Co. sold their
entire stock of fruit jars on hand at the
time OF the shut down, before closing out
AL their orders for them. The resumption
of these works has not yet been decided
on; the action of the Ganton convention
may have o controlling influence in that
direction.
Spence's Machine Works. Martins
Ferry, are running foil on traction and
portable engines, and they have to en-
ploy their fullest capacity to keep pace
with the orders. The monster engine for
the Standard Iron Co, ID ready to be