The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-06-02

move their own trains. We are here
to stay.
Industrial BrCyities.
The Top Mill nail factory is on in full.
The Benwood factory is running part
ly this week.
The hammer for the Spears axle fac
tory is in place.
The LaBelle nail factroy made five
days this week.
The Wheeling pottery has put in three
new clay presses.
The Belmont shipped 1900 kegs OF
nails by river this week.
The LaBelle's small nail machines are
idle for an indefinite time.
The Warwick pottery is about ready
to draw its first kiln ofwarc.
The Wheeling glass houses will shut
down July for two months.
Several Bellaire window glass workers
will work in Muncie next fire.
The Riverside company shipped 50
car loads of steel pipes last week.
The Laughlin mill will resume Mon
day morning, for few days at least.
The Ohio Valley Foundry, Bellaire, is
idle this week on account Of the strike.
The hinge factory will have its new
building in operation early this month.
The Riverside Company has contracts
for furnishing two gas companies with
pipes.
The cylinder for the Crescent mills
new engine was cast at Sweeney's
Thursday.
The Joseph Bell Stove Company will
ship another cur load OF steel ranges to
Chicago to-day.
The Wheeling Pottery is charging its
sample rooms, andwill have this depart
ment reiitted by July l.
The Wheeling steel plant is making
good time. In the last week in May it
made 1000 tons OF billets and slabs.
The Martins Ferry keg and barrel fac
tory is making excellent time and
disposing OF its stock as fast as made.
Twenty cars OF steel rails have arrived
at Beverly for the extension of the
GAINESVILLE & Ohio River railroad to
Lowell.
The Bellaire nail factory will go on
next week and perhaps run steadily till
the summsr stop. The demand for steel
keeps the factory idle.
The castings for the new Standard
mill are being received this week from
Pittsburgh. The mill will probably be
completed in few weeks.
Some Of the gathering boys are not
satisfied with the piece price plan at the
glass factories, while some OF the other
workers get more money than they did
before.
The housing Of a roll in the nail plate
mill OF the Junction Iron Works, at
Mingo, was broken and will cause n
shut down in that department for up
wards OF n week.
The "virgin" soap, made by the
Wheeling Soap Company, is a success.
Everybody who tries it adopts it as n
steady thing. The factory is running to
its fullest capacity.
]. Kerr d Sons planning mill at Mar.
tins Ferry was opened yesterday, and
was kept running all day saving and
trimming lumber. No carpenters were
at work. The strike is still on.
The Bridgeport Glass Company is
making heavy shipments Of fruit jars
this week both by river and rail. Two
car loads were shipped Yesterday over
the Cleveland & Pittsburgh road.
The Northwood glass works steady
run from the first Of the year has re-
suited in heavy output, and the goods
find ready sale on the market. Their
line of fancy ware is still leading.
William Mann's foundry at Martins
Ferry has made an almost steady run
since the first OF the year. They have
just completed large order for the cast-
ing for the air furnace OF the Bcnwood
iron works.
The Buckeye glass works resumed OPP
erations Wednesday night after stop
for Decoration Day. The factory is on
in full, except the girls in the deCorat-
ing shops. Mr.. Andy Gottschalk has
just returned from a Business trip and
reports trade good.
The Elson glass works since its re-
has been running steadily. 1t
will take most OF the time until the
summer stop TO re,stock. The works
during the strike underwent necessary
repairs, and since then the offices and
sample rooms have been finely fur
nished.
The West Virginia China Company
will start its engines to-day to see how
the machinery works. The factory will
not be in operation for a couple OF
weeks yet, however. One OF the direct
ors said yesterday that the Board did
not intend to start until it was ready for
0 steady run.
The rebuilding of the Benwood furnace
goes steadily on, the work having now
nearly three months, and it Is
probable that a month or six weeks will
yet elapse before it is completed. The !
,upola will be ten feet higher than the
Did one, and the hosting house will be
topped ten feet also. When the furnace
Is complete it will be stronger and better
than the old one and will produce at
east ten tons more iron daily.
An attempt was made by McKeesport,
Pa, to get the Diston Saw Works OF
Philadelphia, the rolling mill OF which
'eoently burned, to remove there on n
promise OF cheap natural gas, but Secre-
AIRY Murphy writes that "The company
inds that water gas rs fuel recently nd.
'pted by 1t gives great satisfaction, and