The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-02-18
Industrial Brovities,

/ The Andes could not take all the nails
offered on her last down trip.
The Wheeling pottery Is getting out
some handsome new designs.
Tho North Wheeling glass works keeps
on the even tenor OF its way.
The Crescent Is making lots Of good
sheet iron and working steadily.
The Joseph Bell Stove Company has q
full force on, and business Is good.
Work on the new Warwick pottery, in
the Fifth ward, is in forward state.
The Bsnwood blast furnace will proba-
bly, close down this week for repairs.
Sweeney & Son have the contract for q
new boat for the Haiuesss, OF Proctor.
The resumption Of river navigation Is
q great boon to the local manufactures.
The Bellaire nail factory has been run
ming oil week and making tolerably good
time.
Fishsr's foundry Is running steadily and
the stove trade Is reported good for the
seaEon.
The Standard mill will return to the use
Of coal on account Of the scarcity and un-
certainty Of gas.
The Belmont and Pittsburgh coal works
down the river are sgain working and the
miners are happy.
steubenville coal miners and coal haul
era talk Of 0 boycott against business men
who use natural gas.
The striking coopers OF the Mingo key
factory are still out, but more than half
the force Ia at work.
The Benwood nail works Is running on
all but small nails and made some good
shipments this week.
The Wheeling pottery has 10 work at
night in the decorating department to
keep up with the orders.
Clark Hanea and wife this week sold
their interest in the North Wheeling
planning mill to w. A. Wilson.
The trouble between tho flint glass
manufacturers and workmen ID apparently
as far from settlement as ever.
Sweeney & Sons are busy on the ma
chinery for the Spears' sxle works. Work
progresses favorably on the axle factory.
It will require day or two more to put
the Wheeling steel plant in order for run
ming, and 1t 10 probable that Ii will not re-
sumo until Monday.
The Belmont nail mill has liz machines
In operation. The small machines are
idle snd probably will be for some time to
come. The blast furnace is still banked.
The La Belle mill, like the others, ex-
perienced good deal al inconvenience
from short natural gas supply this week,
but managed to get OF good shipment or
two OF nails.
Seven hundred freight cars have been
ordered by the Cleveland & Canton rail.
way. ThiB is one OF the roads which will
reach this city by the new link from this
city TO Rowerstoa.
Tho strike or lockout at the Elson glass
works is enabling the company to dispose
OF their manufactured goods at good
figures. Sometimes apparent miafortunes
are blessings in disguise.
The Northwood glass works at Martins
Ferry have all the work they can do.
This week good run has been made on
ruby ware, and the goods are being put on
the market as fast as they are made.
There is decided lull in freight and
passenger business at present, still the
D. & P. road La pushed for cars. The
LauRhlin mill ordered ten cars Saturday
and twenty Monday and did not get one.
Several fine improvements in the way
OF depot buildings and orHamentallon Of
grounds have been made on the line OF
the @. & P. railroad during last season,
and more are contemplated the present
year.
The Belmont County Commissioners
will be asked 10 build bridge over the
creek near the Wheeling Greek coal
mines, west Of Bridgeport, for tho accom-
mediation Of miners and others In that To-
cality.
Work has been delayed somewhat on
the North Wheeling pottery building by |
the bad weather, but as soon 90 the
weather permits the buildings will be |
pushed to the earliest completion practi. |
cable,
The large blast furnace recently com.
pleted ct Pulaski, Va, by the Pulaski
Iron Company was successfully blown in |
on Saturday last and ia working well. This |
enterprise was established by Philadelphia |
capital.
A Pittsburgh dispatch Gays that there
are ninety-iour bridges, all but four wood. |
en-, on the Southwest or UniontoWn |
Branch Of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and |
that this spring they are all to be replaced |
by iron structures.
The Laughlin mill will run all day to.
morrow. This Is very unusual thing for
the factory. Tho demand for nails Is 80
heavy that extra time will be made for
come weekg to keep up with orders. A
shipment Of seven cars was made Thurs
dap and like shipments are being made
every day.
The Buckeye glass works are running
along steadily In all departments. Their
decorated wares are some Of the prettlest
ever placed on the market. Two furnaces
are working Of present, but third will
soon be put on. The company will send
out another salesmRn next Tuesday to
work Southern territory.
The little town Of Maynard, situated on
the O., L. 4 W. railroad, 10 miles west Of
Bridgeport, will receive o great building
boom this spring, The coal operators,
owing to the large increase Of trade, have
concluded to put on about 600 more min
era the first Of April, and in consequence
they will have So new dwelling houses
erected at once.
Everything continues 10 move along
smoothly ct the Riverside's establishment.
The men are working full time At the tube
works, plate mill, steel plant and blast fur
mace, and the prospects are that they can
continue 90 doing for some time to come
II they desire, a. orders for the products
from all four departments are numerous
and are coming In daily.