Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-02-12

The EDISON people are proving along
the South Pacific coast trying to turn night
into day. They have captured C!ai with
5000 lamps. They have an iron-clad pat
snt and propose to make some money. The
Ncity government of Los Angeles, Cali, has
bought the Edison plant.
ATaerican hardware is finding ready
markets all over the world. The exports
of the week ending January 81
amounted in value TO S26, 900 to thirteen
don, Liverpool and Hull.
A New York railroad has Just ordered
item locomotives from the Rogers works, at
Patterson, and the st. Louis and San Fran
cisco Company has ordered twenty from
the Baldwins.
A Pittsburg mechanic has Just returned
from Ontario, where he built a steel water
tower 140 feet high aud thirty feet in diam
eter. Similar towers have been in Colo
rado.
A syndicate of New York capitalists
will build a railroad from Montgomery,
Ala. to Chattahoochee, Fla. 1t will run
| through the richest pine forests of the
South.
The exports of American machinery to
| Mexico, Central and South America and
| Australia continue to a2itate the manufac-
lures of machinery in Great Britain.
A large cotton mill at Enterprise, Miss,
called the S%tonewall, turns out $500, 600
Yards of cloth per year, and it is said to be
the best paying factory in the South.
Indiana has 800 coal mines, the annual
product OF which last year was a little over
3, OOO, 900 tons. Natural gas has no percep-
| tible influence on the output.
A number of new railway enterprises
have been announced since the opening Of
the year. Nearly all of them are in the
South and West.
Weighing machines, steam pumps and
mill machinery, as well as American stoves
are finding a ready market in Australasia.
Omaha capitalists propose to spend So
900, 900 on a railroad to start at Omaha and
run northward toward the boundary.
Electricians are still at work on the
! problem of obtaining electricity direct
from coal.
English steel workers are objecting to
beginning work at IL o'clock on Sunday
night.
\ company with 81, 900, 600 capital will
| run a railroad from Atlanta to East Ten
neSsee.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company is
about to place an order for $500 cars.
The North Chicago rolling mill will re-
sumo operations February s.. The wages
question has been settled with all en-
ployes except the laborers.
The Spaug Steel and Iron works, Of this
city, shipped last week q consignment OF
steel boiler plates 20 Japan, and within a
dey or two will ship material TO France for
the construction Of steel boilers for the
Government.
The Steeltou, Pa, Reporter says: There
is a brighter outlook around the works OF
the PENNSYLVANIA Steel Company, than
there has been since the first OF the year.
While there are no pressing demands tor
rails, orders for other steels are good
A manila paper mill and sack factory
will shortly he established at Mononga-
hela City.
A COMPANY with $4,000 capital has
been organized to establish another glass
factory in Washington, Pa.
Capt W. X. Jones has been appointed
general manager Of the Homestead Steel
works in addition 10 his duties 20 manager
Of the Edgar Thomson.
A Joint stock company has been formed
at Noblesville, Ind, for the manufacture
of pipe tools and brass fittings, and to do
a general machine business.
East Palestine, o., is agitating the es-
tabllshment Of q white ware pottery there.
| They want q l2.kiln factory, and the citi-
zens will take $50, 900 worth of stock.
There is q lockout in the shoe business
in Cincinnati, involving 1000 men. The
difficulty grew out Of a misunderstanding
with Bidder, Gerstle & Co, who employ
45U hands, and who locked their men out,
and then the other manufacturers followed
suit.
The deepest coal mine in this country is
at Pottsyille, Pa, 1876 feet deep.
The Edgar Thompson Steel works, it IS
said, will not start up before March l, and
will then resume on greatly reduced
forces.
l.. K. Kountz. of Nicholas county, W.
vs.. has been offered $50, 900 by Indiana
~rarties for a churn dssher that he patented
recently.
Pa~rkersburg, w. Va, has contracted
with the Jenney Electric Light Company
to light the city. She has also ~organizeda
Street Railway Company.
The Davidson Coke works, near Con-
nellsyille, Pa, are altering their ovens
from a center to a side delivery, which Is
now generally recognized as the correct
principle in charging ovens.
A portion of the men at Giliinder q
Co.'S Glass factory, at Philadelphia, have
accepted the manufacturers scale and gone
to work. 1t is reported that all Will re-
turn during the present week.
The firms of Oliver Bros. 4 Phillips, and
the Oliver & Roberts Wire Company, Q;
| P~ittsburg, since their compromise with
their creditors IN 1885 have paid to them
81, 200. 900 in principal and interest.
There is a great demand for small boil
ers to suit the numerous small shops n
and factories starting up over the country.
The Philadelphia boiler makers are over
sold, and business is coming in frequently
without being sought.
The Solar Iron works at Pittsburg, after
| being closed down several weeks on &C
count of trouble with the Amalgamated
Association on the two job system, are
now running twenty-three out OF twenty
| five furnaces with nom Union men.
Owners of mica mines in this country
are taking the preliminary steps for the
organization Of q mica pool" or trust
to control and advance the price OF that
product. The mica mines in this country
are small, principally confined to North
Carolina and New Hampshire.
Carnegie & Company have been notified
by their furnacemen that arbitration will
only be accepted to govern wages nnth
July Is. This presents a serious obstacle
in the matter of adjustment, as the hrm
ole compelled to make yearly contracts for
pig iron and will only make yearly agree
ments with their men. Other furnacemen
are holding off, waiting the outcome In