Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-04-22
TRADE NOTES

coke were mined in Pennsylvania
wv The coal mines of this country
LS $50 employment for 273, 900 persons
lu' lyania's anthracite fields lilo, 900
III - are employed, and 50 600 in the
.,;,ous beds. In Illinois 20, 600 per-
pie ore at work In the mines, "a. 600 in
|ss, > 0OO in Indiana and 5000 in Mary
III The imports of bituminous coal
- increased from 6SS,OOO tons IN 1881 to
$40 in 1881, and the exports from 49,
49, tons in 1881 to 643, SOB tons in 1887.
Va, ;roporLs are mSinly received on the
Parts coast
There are forty-two crueible steel plants
=, his country, half Of which are located
= pspnsyIysnia. thirteen being at Pitts
~. Pennsylvania has fifteen of the
.s;,,y-aiskt Bssssmer steel plants, seven Of
-, are IN Pistsburg. There are also
nine Clap-Grifhths steel works IN this eoun-
49, an but two, those at West Wareham,
Mas. ard Belleyille, H., being in Penn
s,yania.
,arniture factory will be erected st
n,n,iiIr, Va; iron mines will be develop
alst I.stsviIle, Va, and the Elgle copper
,,,,os IN LoudOn county will also be work
a O,her factories in Virginia are to be
nm, Il, ~ follows: Lovely Mount, knitting
Nil and a sash, door aud blind factory;
North Danyille, wagon factory; and at
SJtpster Cave 8 canning factory.
Il is claimed that the D0slinion of Can
ala awarded the contract to build bridge
ovsr the Frasie River, on the Canada Pa
on, 10 Contractor ORderdonk at 81 500,
NV who sublet the work to firm of this
c,fy Tor 100 Geo, which ia turn let the Job
tnagorhe: contractor for 500, eco, who let
i for s., 700, at which figure the bridge
was built
Engineers Of Nashville, Tenn, are max
ina, prralla'iOus fer the Convention Of the
American S,cIety of Mechanical Engineers
in thlyc,ty from May to 10. Horace Lee,
Of Clamps ship yard of this city, is Presi-
dent OF tie association. The society has a
membership of SOO, located all over the
country.
4 factory wherein emmensite will be
made Will be hullt az Chattanooga, Tenn.
O.bsr new operations in Tennessee are a
wooien-miil at Huntingdon, n pillow factory
and an asphalt paving company at Chatie-
noo,a. saw-mll,S at EliZ4bethtOn and
Huntington, aud barrel factory at Nash
vile.
TIE BrOotherhOOd of Carpenters and
JJ'pers his go unions, Is, coo members
aad 81 .2iG $50 N their treasures. Sscre-
tuy WctiuiIe, Of philadelphia, spoke in
P.ttsbufc last week to 900 men. lie is on
his way - Denver, Col, and will make
speeches along the route.
TIE Trust Investigating Committee at
Qlcrry, Con-, has heard testimony show
iug that there isa ctfiil Trust which re-
fused 10 sell c. tlias To q man who wanted
to 90 iGto iho undertaking business on the
ground that ;hsre were enough undertakes
in Toronto.
Over leo cllkers and pips-layers en-
p,oysd by the Broad Ripple Company at
Indianapolis Who had been receiving 81 per
d,y, struck tor an advance OF % per cent.
The company has refused the request, dis
charged the men and handed the work 10
a contractor.
Union brics.layers n. Hamilton, Canada,
have contracted for POO, eco bricks at 1850
per thousand Ia spite of the efforts OF the
Builders Exchange TO induce the brick
makers not to sell TO the strikers. A num-
Der oi employers have granted the request
of the men.
Tae mineral Development in Great Brit
sin during 1887 WAS 173. Oi9, 795 tons.
Over 5UD. OhNpecple were employed, nearly
) 500 OF whom were women, and OF the
latter 100 we're under Is years Of age.
Nearly coo persons weere killed during
the year while at wsrk.
There was quite discussion at recent
meeting Of the Trades Council Of Cork.
Ireland, over a proposition to hunt the 500
Jews o, that town from the city on the
Uouad that they are running the Oecupa-
tons Of other men in their respective bust
ness
Work ia Arkansas: Mining is to be be
gun at Bear; 100 400 acres of pine timber
lands are to be cleared at Camden; saw
mill is 70 he built at Hot Springs; a brick
yard il to be opened at Mammoth Spring,
and a canning taeDry to be started at Rus
sellyilie.
The wooGcarvers employed in the Pull
man Palace Car Works, at st. Louis, Mo
who struck for on advance of 10 per cent.
sAd a nine-hOur day are still out. The
company claims that the earvers have
made on an average S275 a day.
Detroit Mich J capitalists propose to
pipe natural gas from the Findlay (Ohiol
aslds-a distance Of 100 miles--in IL
inch pipe, part of the way, and . 22-inch
conductor near the Detroit terminus. The
cost OF laying the pipe will be about 81
COCOON.
Operations reported in Alabama are 8
saW-mill at EY2s' Station, saw and shingle
factory at Evergreen, stove works at Flor,
enes, mica mines st EdwsrdsVille, ssw and
planning mill at Jasper, planning factory al
Pell City snd staye factory at York Sta
ton.
The Meridian (Als) Ncirs, in an article
reviewing the wages paid coal miners II
tnlS country, notes the fact that miners N
Alabama, with one exception, were PAID
higher wages than in other State in the
year 1851,
The capacity Of the Davis, w. Va, lum'
Der mil IS 10 be increased to 10, OOO, OO
feet a year.
Benton ARK Knights run 3 eo-Opera
tive stOneSaIe factory. A cooperative
store conducted By eolored Knights "a
success at Helena, Ark, aud stores at Que
pee Can, and Toledo, Ohio, are also pros
porous.
Ire value Of the Ottawa, (Can.) lumber
export TO the United States during the frs
three months Of this year was S307, 900, an
Increase of 81 per cent over the exporta
Ton Tor the same period Of 1881.
The Southern Wagon Manufacturers
ASSOCIATION will endesvor to persuade ths
Northern and Western makers to join
combine, and has invited them to meet II
convention at Louisville, KY, on May 10
Ii IL said that German parties have con
uaeted for the whole puddlers' cinder ont
put of'Seotland, which will be about 80,
OCO tons this year. The cinders are usef
with fresh ore to make raw iron.
The following are some of the new mill
OF Texas: Lime works at Fort Worth
Two clothing factories at Galveston, Hour
mllls at Greenyille and st. 10, and canning
factories at Jacksonville and Lockview.