The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-02-11
IndustrIaI Hrevitles.

The Crescent mill is working steadily.
The Belmont blast furnace ia still
banked.
The lantern factories report good run
OF orders.
The LsBelle factory has sll its machines
in operation.
The Top mill has only q few men at
work this week.
The North Wheeling glass works ia
working &C Ito "old tins gait"
Things 60 on smoothly in all depart.
ments Of the Riverside Cotnpapys works.
The Hinge Factory is busy as ususl, CO.
pecially 30 in the nut and bolt depart
ment.
Preparations to rssume work in the
Central glass factory are atill in active
progress.
The Ohio Valley Foundry Company, OF
Bsllaire, continues to ship stoves in all
directions.
All the planning mills report the outlook
for the building season OF 1888 better than
ever 1t was.
The Wheeling d Lake Erie road has
closed contracts for the building OF 700
new coal and 800 box cars.
The BeIlaire Window Glass Company
has made several large shipments OF win.
dow glass to New York City.
The nail makers in the east, OF Philsdel.
phis, on Thursday regulated production,
fixed extras and made prices 81 10.
L.K. Koontz, OF Nicholas county, W..
Va, has been offered $4,000 by Indiana
parties for churn dasher that he patent
ed recently.
Edward Jones, manGHer Of the Bsllsire
blast furnace, will try and make zoo tons
OF iron In q day. He has turned out 80
much as 1856 tons day now.
The coke operators in the Connellsville
region have decided to reduce their output
one.third, owing to decreased demand.
The ovens will be shut down on Wednes.
day and Saturday in each week.
The receipts OF coal OF all kinds at Chi.
cago lRst year were 100000 tons. After
the Union bridge and railroad to Bowers
ton are built the coal fields Of this lmme.
dlate vicinity will have good share OF
this trade.
A visit to the Elgon glass works found
the company still making shipments.
Their stock Is still good, and everything
moves along quietly. The manufacturers
arc still in the same mood they were two
months ago.
Architect Wells reports that the plas.
terinS on the First ward school is being
rapidly finished and the final touches will
soon be made to the handsome structure,
which will be credit to the city and an
ornament to that portion Of It.
A new nail Is coming on the market to
make more trouble. 1t is claimed the
nails will run twenty per cent more TO the
keg in number than the ordinary nails,
and not one imperfect nail is to be found
in key. They are to be sold at current
prices. German steel is imported to
make them, and Chicago firm has the
monopoly.
Albert E. Smith, Howard Ferris, +. L.
Ssegmyer, W. II. Stegmyer and E. F. steg.
myer, Of Cincinnati, O., and Charles A.
Clifton, Of Hartford City, W. Va, have
chartered the Liverpool Salt and Coal
Company to develop salt, coal and oil
lands In West ViFginis. The capital
stock subscribed Is $l6,OOO
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad has made
q contract with the Michigan Oar Com.
pRny for the construction OF $50 Wicks re.
frigerRtor cars, for the transportation Of
fresh meats and other peHishable freight.
Each Car will cost from $500 to 5000,
making the total cest gaaEly $4,000.
The company has also begun the ConstYuo.
ton Of twenty-five large locomotives at the
Mount Glare shops, and will buy or con.
tract for as many more. The new loco.
motives are to be what Is known as the
engine Tor heavy work.
Twenty years ago locomotives cost from