Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-11
THE NAILERS.

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THE NAILERS.
A few of the small machines we're put
on at the Laughlin mill yesterday. There
is some talk, kept very quiet, however,
that the nsilers will, in June, backed by
the Amslgamated Association, demand
the restoration of the old twenty-one cent
scale for 1899. Trade is extremely dull,
and the mills are running very poorly,
but, as a prominent mailer expressed 1t
Yesterday, 'All the reductions have given
us no more work to do, and their only effect
is TO cut cur annual receipts that much
lower" Whether such move will be
made OF not is very uncertain, and cannot
be determined till the Amalgamated Scale
Convention meets.
THE TUNNEL AND BRIDGE.
Work on the Union Bridge progresses
nicely. At the Top mill tunnel, the hole
has been driven into the hill seventy-twO
feet. The framework for the tramwsy to
convey the eaath from the east end Of the
tunnel is about up, and the work Of floor
ing and laying the track will be COM
menced in few days, at most.
BUSINESS HOLDING UP.
The building season will be one of un-
precedented activity. Already a large
number of contracts have been let, and in
quiry continues TO increase. J. A. Holli-
day & Son, have in their mill the work Of
getting out lumber for thirty houses al
ready, with inquiries coming in 30 fsst
they cannot sll be properly attended to.
Beltz, Flsding & Co., have a shop full Of
work. KIevis, Kraft ~ Co. have not 20
many buildings on hands, but there's are
all large and will occupy the summer in
building. Capt. Mcclure has decided TO
increase the Dimensions of the new build
ing he will erect on Twelfth street. II
will now be thirty-lour feet by fifty and
double building where he had intended to
put up q single building. The bricklayers
commenced on the new house of Mr.. f.
w Wells corner 23d and Chspline streets,
yesterday. 1t will be of pressed brick laid
in red mortar Beltz, Flsding q Co. will
erect two fine frame buildiDgs on South
Jacob street for Bishop Kahn.
NEWS NOTES.
The puddlers at the Standard mill have
been notified that hereafter they will only
work three days a week. No cause lie as-
signed by the management
The H3tns mill mines are closed down.
Nearly all the diggers and baulers belong
to the National Progressive Union of
Miners and Mine Laborers. A few, how
ever, refuse TO join the organization, and
the Others have quit work.
Things sre lively up in the Hancock
county oil field. Twenty five cars Of oil
well supplies came in during the past week
alone. One new hotel in the field had If
ty seven people for dinner Monday.
BENZ Fisher q Sons report the stove
bueiness in splendid condition. The de-
msnd is extraordinary for the time Of year.
All the stove foundries, however, are quite
busy. and the only trouble the msnufac-
turers complain of is low prices.
The newly organized Sseubenyille Iron
and Steel Works, located at Aliksns. made
it's first muck bar iron Tuesdsy. Twelve
new padding furnaces are completed,
making twenty-five in all. The company
owns about 14O acres of coal property, and
as soon az the pumping out of the mine is
finished it will bsoperated. Thirteen fur-
naces will be started to-day, and by Mon
day the entire plant will be in full blast.