The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-12-08

The Riverside plate mill is Off making
repairs.
All the city planning mills are unusu=
ally busy.
There is talk of building pottery at
Bridgeport.
The Standard is shipping the output
fast as made,
A brewery will be built at Parkersburg
next spring by Hebrank & Rapp.
The Wheeling steel plant turned out
420 tons of steel as one days work on
Wednesday.
The Belmont factory is now running
and all departments are on full. 1t is
shipping nails daily.
This week large invoice OF tram rails
was shipped to the Birmingham district
by the Astna Company,
Large quantities Of glassware and Ian.
tern globes are being shipped to New
England cities now from Bellaire.
The LaBelle is running on full turn
and making handsome outputs, and
shipping the product as fast as made.
The day turn in the new department
at the Standard mill was compelled to
knock off yesterday, on account OF hot
journal.
The factory at the Top mill went on
full Monday morning after weeks rest,
and all departments are again running
full and IN good condition.
The Lazearville bottle works has the
advantage OF the Wellsburg manuiac-
tories in the way dig as, getting the first
whack at it, and consequently is able TO
run full time.
Among the larger items OF job work
turned out this week by Sweeney q
Sons, are new bell for the Belmont fur
nace and big lathe for turning rolls for
the Beaver Falls Iron Company.
An electrict light and power COM
pany has been formed to operate in
Washington, Pa. The Westinghouse
people, whose system is used here, are
also behind the Washington company.
Cooperage in large lots is coming to
RellaiFe and Martins Ferry for Thomas
Mears, OF Martins Ferry. and Neon
nell, OF Bellaire. With the enormous
piles Of stuff coming they cannot get
enough, and have orders for barrels
away ahead.
Mr.. George Crumbacker, Of Wheeling,
has purchased the foundry at Mounds
vile and viii have it in full operation
in a few days. There are three different
companies negotiating for the rolling
I'll md NhaHn n lNn fatR
poets for boom in Moundsyille.
The West Virginia Central & Pitts.
burgh Railroad Company are negotiating
With the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany to extend their road twenty miles
II the Pennsylvania Company will build
h twenty mile road to connect with same,
aud thus Rake direct route to Pitts
burgh. ~ -
The old Jefferson furnace at Steuben-
vile is about RACED and in a few days
work will be commenced on the new
one which is to be one OF the largest in
the valley. Several car loads Of castings
have already arrived, and the CONTRACT
calls for the completion OF the new fur
face In four months.
Arrangements are being made at the
Standard Glass Works, Wellsburg, to use
coal slack for heating the furnace. Slack
Is used at the Brilliant Glass Workshnd
It Is said TO be both cheap and satisfac-
tory. The slack Is obtained from some-
where in the Pennsylvania mining re-
gions, the only cost beingthat Of Ship
ment.
They are having trouble with their gas
out at THIN, one OF the Ohio
boom towns where Beatty's big glass
works went from Steubenyille in order TO
obtain the free gas offered by the city,
All the city's wells combined could not
shpplyenolsh gas to run the factory, and