The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-02-04

The Top mill plate department Is still
the only one at work.
The Jefferson iron works are again on in
full in all departments.
The Joseph Bell Stove Company reports
trade better than this time last year.
The Bsnwood nail factory resumed work
Thursday morning with good prospects for
steady run ahead.
Freeman's works, up the river, have
Quit making sewer pipe and put the whole
force on fire brick for the present.
Sweeney & Sons this week shipped q
large amount OF machinery to the Coosa
Furnace Company, at Gadsden, Ala.
The Caldwell & Peterson 0ompany's
works have lately been idle, making re-
pairs with view TO q steady run and In
creased capacity.
A break at the Bellaire steel works
stopped operations there before they had
fairly got commenced, but the repsirG will
be completed by to-day.
The Bellaire nail factory will resume
operations next Monday. This announce
ment is reliable and will be welcome news
to many Bsllaire people.
Work Ia progressing with all practicable
speed at the Central glass works, prepsr-
ing to resume the making Of glas, under
the workmeu's union scale,
The night turn ct the Crescent mill was
of ThursdRy night on account OF the
scarcity OF natural gas. 1t ia not often
that the Oresent loses time.
The window glass factories are doing
very fine business for this season Of the
year, and their trade for last season was
better than for some years previous.
Business continues fair at the Hinge
factory. Prices Of strap and 7 hinges
were raised somewhat ct the National
Manufacturers meeting OF Pittsburgh this
week.
Joseph Hague, an old Brilliant mailer,
has gone TO Hammond, near ChicRRo,
whore he hos a tour-machine job. he
will return to Steubenville when the Brill
liant factory resumes.
The Beliaire blast furnace, under the Of
ficient management OF Edward Jones, is
turning out great quantities Of first class
iron. Last Sunday and Monday they
made 1873 tons each day.
The Riverside nail factory have 224 ma
chimes, the LaughIin 1872, with room for
226, and the Benwood l73. Each company
has two factories. These are The largest
three cut nail factories anywhere.
Superintendent Of Mines Thomas Rit-
son has put eight miners to work In the
Jefferson shaft for the purpose OF getting
out the necessary coal to be used in con.
nection with the operation Of the mill.
A number Of citizens Of Warrington,
Pa, are investigating the possibility Of or.
ganixing joint stock company for carry
ing on the manufacture Of glass. A COM
mittee Ia in consultation with an expert.
It Is understood that as soon as the flint
glass workers wages are adjusted, the
Hobbs, Brockunier & 90. works will
start up under the control OF q new COM
pany, Of which Mr.. ]. Il. Hobbs will
probably be the leading spirit.
One Of the vital questions for discussion
by the stove manufacturers in convention
at Cincinnati, was how To meet the grow.
ing demand for increased ornamentation
Of stoves, which Is carrying the cost Of
manufacture to such pitch as to greatly
diminish the profh.
The Ohio River Railroad Company run
its frat passenger train over the Hunting.
ton extension, Wednesday, transferring at
Point Pleasant, the bridge there not being
completed. The officers Of the company
who were on the train were W. ]. Robin |
SON, General Freight and Passenger Agent;
o. L. Williams, Assistant Superintendent,
and J. A, Fickinger, Chief Engineer.
Charles Carlson, an experienced me-
chanic at the National Rolling Mill, Of |
Nick eeSport, has made and patented nail |
machine which, he claims, will turn out
more nails than any machine In use. An
I'D Ice house there Ii being arranged by
1im for operating nail works. He will |
place In Il, besides necessary machinery,
;Wo Of the machines for cutting nails from
wire, and two for cutting from plate.
Mesan. Long 4 Mortimer are still drill.
ng away ct the gas well. They are now
Town to between 1850 and 1900 feet, al.
most half mile beneath the surface. The
Joniierous lime rock, In which Ras is
found, seems to be entirely
wanting In this vicinity, 90 the drill failed
0 fnd Il. But little trouble has been OF.
,eYienced in drilling the last eight hun.
red feet, Notwithstanding the great depth, II
nd II equally successful from this time on I