The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-05
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Mr.. James S. Gill is still adding i'm
proyements to his glass pot factory
at Bellaire.
Sycamore is again coming into fashion
for furniture. West Virginia can supply
the world with this wood.
The brick work on the new hinge fac
tory is progressing with celebrity and
viii shortly be completed.
The four-penny machinesat the Laugh
lin mill have been laid off for an indef-
mite period, owing to the surplus OF these
nails in stock.
The pottery at Tiltonville will be
started up us soon as things can be put
in shape. Twenty-Five or thirty men
will be employed.
The Riverside tube mill is running
full time turning out their usual pro-
duct, and shipping 1t at the rate Of five
or six cars per day.
Since the settlement of the flint glass
strike things have doomed up considers
bly, ut Bellaire, and several contracts for
new buildings have been let.
A company has been formed in Berlin
to manufacture electric watches. Two
small cells and an electric motor take
the place Of the ordinary movement.
Joseph Heatherington, one Of the
blacksmiths at the Bellaire Nail Works,
made wire ninety feet long out Of q cut
of Bessemer steel one foot long and one
inch square.
The miners at Wegee Coal Works
went out on Saturday on a strik6for q
cents advance. They have been getting
G2l, and now ask Is cents, the regular
district rate.
The Auditors OF Belmont, Monroe,
Noble, Guernsey and Muskingum coun'
ties, will meet at GAINESVILLE, on May
18th, for the purpose OF appraising the
B. q. & G. railroad.
A goodly number OF colored laborert
arrived at Charleston Thursday morning
from Virginia and will go to work al
once on the extension OF the Kanawhi
& Ohio Railway. The work is being
pushed rapidly.
The nail market does not seem TO i'm
prove in price. Manufacturers here heal
Of decided cut in prices by mills dowr
at Ironton, o., and by one or two travel
ing agents ut st. Louis, equivalent Il
81 50 Tor 10 penny nails at the factories
The Spears Axle Company have got
their hammers in position and are pre-
pared for work. They made test run
OF engines and machinery Tuesday, and
found everything satisfactory. They ex
poet to be turning out axles in two
weeks.
]. d. Emery has the contract OF load
/ ing 1000 tons OF steel on barges for the
Wheeling steel plant, Benwood, which
will be shipped to the Norton iron
works ut Ashland, Ky. This is the
largest shipment Of steel that has beer
made for some time from this section tc
the South.
The LaBelle Pottery commenced the
brick work on one OF their building
Monday. The two buildings they ex
poet to erect will be one hundred by
sixty feet, one five and the other sia
stories high. Tho space occupied by
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bred and forty feet in length.
The Rochester Tumbler Works Com
pany announces that although man!
very big offers have been made to securt
the removal OF the works to the gas field!
OF Ohio and Indiana, the stockholder
are so well satisfied with their presen
prosperity that they will not move.
A correspondent writing from Steub
enville says "AIuch excitement wa!
created here by the statement that, not
withstanding previous assurances to thu
contrary, Beatty's big tumbler work
was to be removed to one OF the West
ern Ohio boom towns, and the furthu
statement that Gill Bros Acme glas
works was also to be removed to the ga
region. The worst o. the matter is, tina
the statements are true"