Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-01-29

IdCluI6 Oh CATS III bhc COutu anu west
They will also erect ct Admission Car works,
rolling mill and foundry.
The Youngstown, o. Stamping Com.
q has elected X. l. Walker, President;
l. II. Blackburn, Vice President; A. j.
Duncan, Secretary and Treasurer. The
American Tube and Iron Company has
substantially decided upon increasing its
capacity for production by the erection OF
a large addition to its plant with the open
ing Of sprfng. BY reason of the uncertain
pressure the mills there using natural gas
have, 10 most instances, gone back to coal
for fuel. II
Edison has 200 men at work on his latest
invention, the phonogrsph, aud expects to
put it on the market in the course of four
or five weeks.
- Shares in some Of the Alabama land COM
panies which sold a year ago Tor $l25 have
sold within q month for $13 so. For a
verify all is not gold that glitters.
Carnegie, Philips & Co, have signed the
steel scale adopted By the Amalgamated
Association, and last Tuesday morning 100
men resumed work in their mills. '
More than AZ, 600 bottles of cotton seed
oil have been exported to Europe within
the past four months. 1t is principally
used as a salad oil, taking the place Of
olive oil.
The LIQUOR business of the country, in
GLIDING termented liquors, has paid to the
government, since the Inauguration of the
internal revenue tax, the sum of s 1885,
600, 600
A German employed IN o Massachusetts,
factory claims TO have discovered a pro-
cess by which copper can be manufactured
from acids and scrap iron. He will be
able to produce copper crystals at 8 cents
per pound.
A six-foot vein of camel coal has re-
Gently been opened in Harrison county,
West Virginia. 1t is of fine quality and
yields Is, 900 cubic feet of high candle
power gas to the ton.
Recent experiments have shown that q
copper pipe may be overheated or even
burnt in the process of brazing, and still
the properties of the material be restored
after it has cooled.
One design of electrical motor has al
ready been introduced into 100 different
branches of industry. The demand for
electrical appliances is so great that a
number of works are to be built this win
ter.
Il IS a matter for congratulation that
during the past year three manufactures
necessary 10 the navy have been estab-
lished in the United States-armor plate,
f~orgings for heavy steel guns, and the
HotChkiss rapid fire guns.
E. H. johnson, one of Mr.. Edison's as
s~istants, stated at a meeting of the Mer-
chants Club, 10 Boston, that the time
must soou come when a house or Office will
be lighted, heated and ventilated, and its
elevator run altogether by electricity.
The locomotive builders are barely able
10 keep up with the rush. Nearly all
works have orders for engines to weigh
from forty to sixty tons. Southern roads
are extensive purchasers. New England
roads are buying engines of special con-
structiOn with a view to speed.
/ In every Southern State agricultural
and mechanical schools have been estab-
lished. Louisiana has twenty-one indus
trial schools, in which 3, 1926 boys are iu-
structed in mechanical branches. There
is a growing desire among the boys OF the
South 10 learn mechanical trades.
The imports into this country of wood
and the manufactures thereof for the seven
months ending July 81, were of a value OF
"a, $50. BOB. au increase of SAT-, 900 over
the sam date in 1885. The exports for
the same period amounted to $l2, 567, $50,
an increase over 1886 of 1922, 900.
II is a~uthOritatively stated that the rub
Der Industry of to-day represents an invest
meut OF about $50, OO0, 900 and an annual
trade of over 500 900, 600. 1t is within
the memory of the present generation that
Ga0dyea, the inventor of the present prac'
teal uses of rubber, died a pauper.
Boiler making is one of those industries
which have grown rapidly. philadelphia
boilers are perhaps better known tuan any
others The Pittsburg makers Of engines
have q world wide fame. The urgent de-
maud for tue Corliss type of engine has re-
suited in an increase OF capacity of one
fourth within a year.
Ia several Of the Brazilian provinces,
and at Costa Rica, Valparaiso and otneI
/ South American points, Euglish w~OOlens,
cutlery, hardware and cOtlons are being
rapidly supplanted by German goods o.
like character. In wooden goods alone
| German imports exceed those Of English
manufacture five fold.
Tie Buck Shoals silver mines in Dubois
county. Indiana, sent their first ton Of or
| to the Philadelphia IN nj last week for 9s
saving. 1t turned u $50 il silver and. s.
in gold to the ton. The mines and Smelt,
ing works are located on the White River,
| fourteen miles from Shoals, on the .. Il NJ,
Z. K.
The United States stands second among
| the nations Of the earth in the production
of coal, the following being the estimates
tor last year of the countries mentioned
Great Britain, $50, 000, 600 tons; United
States. 10, OOO, 900 tons; Germany, D $1,000,
600 tons; France, 10000, 900 tons, and
Belgium, Is, 900, 900 tons.
The famous Great Eastern steamship,
which is now lying in the Clyde, Scotland,
has been purchased from the first mort
gage by a well-kuown firm Of metal bro
kers. 1t is understood that the huge hulk
is to be broken up, the cost of which opera
ton il estimated to be from $4,000 te
$4,000. The cost Of purchase was
So, SEQ.
Ex.Gov. Ayers great Michigan pine
forest is located at Block river, on Lake
Huron, near Alpena. 1t comprises 7O,OOe
acres, or over 100 square miles. The an
nual product of the forest is from 7o,OOO,'
900 to 80, 900, 900 feet of lumber, according
to the state of the trade. There are 5Ot
men employed in the nine camps in the
forest.
Terra Gotta lumber is manufactured on 9
considerable scale, and is claimed to be alb
s~olutely fire-proof. Terra Gotta can be
shaped with edged tools; it is laid more
rapidly and with less cost than brick; 1t Is
ready for use in twenty-four hours attel
receiving one coat of plaster, without stud,
ding or laGh, and it readily sustains great
pressure.
The Great Salt Lake has been computed
70 contain. if IL Uere all eVaporated, 1885,