The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-03-17
MANUPACTURING BREYIT1Es.

The match factory Is having good
run.
orders are plethoric with the stove
founders.
The Bellaire window glass houses arr
shipping lots of glass west.
The Wheeling creek coal miners re-
sunied operations yesterday.
The lEtna ILL is running with full
force; likewise the Sta;:dard'
The new East Wheeling soap factory
has its products on the market.
The Benwood nail factory is on full and
large shipments are being made daily.
New Cumberland brick makers have
already booked orders for {, 1000 900 brick
The kilns Of the West Virginia China
Company will be commenced next
week.
The Wheeling steel plant, at Benwood,
is averaging from $50 to 400 tons OF steel
per day.
The Bellaire nail works ison full in all
departments and is making heavy
shipments.
L. Spence, OF Martins Ferry, Is making
the engine for the big addition to the
Standard mill.
The contemplated pottery at Martins
Ferry is supposed to be paralyzed by the
Mills tariff bill.
The Riverside tube works lost q little
time this week on account OF an inade'
quate supply Of gas.
No. sheet mill ut the Crescent iron
works broke Thursday evening, and was
off for several days.
The Laughlin mill has been running
smoothly the past week, and an average
output has been made.
The hinge factory enjoys uninter.
rupted prosperity, having difficulty in
keeping upwith its orders.
The Wheeling steel works are on in all
departments. They find coal much
cheaper and better than gas.
The Martins Ferry key and barrel fac.
tory have all they can do to supply the
Laughlin mill with nail kegs.
Mr.. W. X. Elson, of Martins Ferry
was in Pittsburgh this week attending d
meeting Of the conference committees
The Fergus oil well, ut Washington,
Pa, was drilled deeper yesterday and
responded by doing OF barrels an hour.
The Buckeye glass works is running
quietly along, working steadily in every
department. Shipments are almostcqual
to the output made.
The Steubenvillc pottery is working to
its fullest capacity. The demand for
decorated ware is such that forty deCora-
tors are busily employed.
All the planning mills arc busy on
flooring, mouldings, doors, sashes and
the like, preparatory to brisk building
season when the weather opens.
The Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad
Company have put in new switch fol
the filtonyille pottery. The pottery is
being enlarged TO almost double its for.
mer capacity.
/ The Steubenville glass pot factory is
running with full force in spite Of the
strike in the flint houses, enough works
being In operation to make a brisk de
mand for pots.
Owing to the exhaustion OF funds, the
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, corporation has gone
out OF the gas well business. The Warren
Gas and Oil Company will now go t6
work at that place.
A prominent glass manufacturer re-
marked to u reporter yesterday that in
his opinion there would be no settlement
OF the strike nor resumption Of the work
before November.
The closing Of each week and month
marks considerable increase in the freight
traffic on the c., l.. & W. Railroad at
Martins Ferry, their yard engines doing
almost equal work with those Of the G.
& P. road.
The Northwood glass works has just
closed its eleventh week OF prosperity,
having run since January without
stop. The works are still making large
output Of fancy table ware, which finds
ready sale in the markets East and
West.
A petition in Bridgeport is open to
signers, to be presented to the Repre-
sentatives in Congress, to strike out the
% cent reduction OF duty on green glass,
proposed in the Mills tariff bin. It is cir
culated by some Of the glass workers OF
that place.
A certificate of incorporation has been
issued to the Standard Lime and Stone
Company, organized for the purpose OF
mining. quarrying, manufacturing, trans
porting and selling lime, with the right
to buy, sell and hold such real estate
and personal property as may be proper
for carrying on such business. The
principal office is to be at Martinsburg.
The different lodges Of the Amalga-
mated Association Of Iron and Steel
Workers have been voting on sugges-
tons relating to this years scale. They
have been rather slow in sending in
their decisions, and but eight lodges
have reported. These do not express
any opinion rs to their desires regarding
the basis, or what shall be paid for the
year. But all relate to slight changesin
rules for heats and the quantity of metal
to be produced in certain department.
It is not thought probable that all the
lodges will send in their suggestions be-
fore the last Of April, and Il will be far
on in May before the Scale Committee
can meet
Good Luck of F. Davis.
Frank Davis, brakeman, visited the
store OF the Globe Tea Company, ll3l
Main street, and purchased six cans Of
tea for five dollars, and found in one can