The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-12
boys arc hlghly pleased wlth their new

boys are highly pleased with their new
location.
Both Bellnirc Touring mills are run
ming to their fullest capacity. Ault is
shipping to Philadelphia.
The Wetherald Wire Nail Works, at
Findlay, o., began making nails April
3Oth, with a force Of 200 hands.
W. D. Reese, OF Cleveland, o., has
made some sales ofore at 50, or 81 below
the price ofthe same ore year ago.
The Pan Handle Glass Works, of
Wellsburg, will probably start up Mon
day in the manufacture Of fruit jars.
Martin Hardsock, of ottumwa, Ia, will
build factory at Findlay, o., for the
manufacture OF edge tools, drills, etc.
A. Dunmack, OF Wheeling, has been
loading this week a lot of scrap iron for
the Standard Iron Company at Bridge
port.
The boys who went out on n strike at
the Bellaire fruit jar works Thursday
morning .have NEARLY all returned to
their work.
The nail factory OF the Junction Iron
Works is shut down this week, but will
start up again on Monday. Too many
nails on hand.
Joseph II. Parrish & Co., Bellaire con-
tractors, have the contract for the cree
ton Of two decorating kilns for the War
wick Pottery.
The Laughlin mill nail factory en-
ployes now go to work mt 9 u. IN. and
quit at p. M, instead Of working from
a. m. to $3.50 p. m.
The Bellaire nail works, after laying
idle for couple of weeks, started up in
full operation this week, much to the
satisfaction OF all concerned.
The refusal by the natural gas com.
pany to furnish the Spears axle works
with gas after having agreed to do SO
seems to demand an explanation. -
The Belmont glass works, Bellaire,
was started up Thursday morning, but
owing to the breaking OF n wheel they
had to close down in the afternoon.
Arthur McClain, of Bellaire, who has
the contract, is getting along nicely
with the foundation for the new LaBelle
pottery and will have it completed in a
short time.
A. ]. Sweeney & Son are finishing an
anvil block weighing five tons for the
Spears axle works; also two housings
for cold-rolled sheet iron, for the Whit
aker Company.
The window glass trade is moderately
active, the prevailing fine weather hay
ing n favorable effect on it. Though
they have good stocks on hands, the
factories will continue to run the usual
time.
The Elson Glass Works, OF Martins
Ferry, starts up on Monday and will
run with coal fuel OH account OF the at
tempt OF the Wheeling Natural Gas
Company to take advantage Of them in
prices.
A poplar tree cut in Preston county q
few days ago, furnished $3.50 feet OF
lumber. Sixteen feet OF the tree in
length yielded l,S40 feet, and there are
many more Of the same kind on the
same farm.
Some OF the glass factories TINT have
been in operation during the strike find
trouble now in keeping their men. Most
OF them want TO get back in their old
places, and it leaves the new factories
short OF men.
In general view, the movement in
the several departments OF the glass
business has been quite moderate in re.
speCt to the receipt OF orders, except for
some speciNlties anil ut n few factories,
Even Tor those lines OF glassware OF
which the production has been limited
on account OF the strike the demand is
not so strong as might be expected.
Louis Morris, formerly OF Oil City, has
located n large refinery ut Washington,
Pa. He bought 20 acres on the He's
tract, paying 800 an acre, and will break
ground Mt once. Both the Panhandle
and Baltimore & Ohio have agreed to
run in sidings. With the barrel houses,
lubricatiEG and parailino works, in con-
nection with the refinery, Mr.. Morris
will employ fully 400 men constantly.
Some well-known gentlemen OF Wash.
ington are backing him in the enter
prise,
And now comes q new method OF re-
duClng the phosphorus OF non-Besse-
mer ore. G. w. Scott, formerly OF Bel
Iaire, is the patentee OF the new process.
He claims that by his process he can
very easily and very cheaply reduce the
phosphorus in the higher grades OF orc
30 or 90 per cent. This would bring
them within the limits OF Bessemer ore.
AS the difference in price OF Bessemer
and non-Bessemer ore is about 81 so a
ton, and the expense OF treating under
the Scott process is less than 10 cents
per ton, it IS easily seen that the inven-
ton will he profitable one, il it proves
to DO the success he thinks tits; so says
the Independent.
A certificate OF stock for 200 shares
OF the old Steubenville 4 Indiana Rail
road, now owned by the Panhandle,
which has been in possession OF Newark
for some years, was sold to Mr.. r. Sher-
rard, OF Steubenville. This certificate
has n history. Some years ago it was
stolen from the Treasurcr's safe, and
turned up in Cincinnati with the names
OF the Trustees forged on it. 1t was re-
covered and placed in possession OF Hon.
Gibson AthGrtOn, and when again or
dered to be turned over the names had
been taken of by the use OF acids.
The criminals were never punished.
The Legislature recently passed an act
authorizing its sale, The amount paid
for the certificate was $4,000, over
$4,000 less than its face value.
1t has been extensively reported for
several week past that red hot fight
would occur at the national convention
of the American Flint Glassworkers'
Union, to be held ut Canton, o., be-
ginning June 6. The present Secretary,
Mr.. Dillon, it is stated, has made can