The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-02-09
INDUSTRIAL BRgYITlEs.
NsWg Notes Of Interest From the Indus,
tries Of This section.

Box Factory is very busy,
All departments OF the Riverside are
on full but the pipe works,
The lEtna shipped fifty tons OF steel
rails to the South this week.
Fishers foundry reports business bet
ter than this time year ago.
The Diamond Mill, Bridgeport, is
closed for some slight repairs,
The Hinge Company expects an I'M.
precedented trade this spring,
The Mingo nail works will likely re-
sumo operation next Monday,
The LaBelle factory Is closed down for
two or three days, taking stock,
Clay and sand in large lots is coming
from Delaware for East Liverpool,
The Northwood glass works at Mar
tins Ferry, Is doing a land office bust
ness,
The Elson Glass Works over ut Mar
tins Ferry is running steadily and do
ing we'll,
1t is said that the new pottery at New
Cumberland will employ about four
hundred people,
There are 600 men on the pay roll oil
the Ohio River railroad, 200 OF whom are
in Wood county,
Sweeney 4 Son shipped this week
sixty tons Of plate glass works ma
chinery to Pittsburgh.
AT the Top Mill, forge and furnace are
the only departments In service, the fac
tory being of this week,
The employees OF tho Braddock, Pa,
Wire Company have accepted reduc'
ton OF s per cent in wages,
All the machines at the Belmont are
again working except some on which
self.feeders arc being fitted.
The Wheeling Steel works company
are erecting an iron bridge over Main
street, south Of their worksat Benwood
The Ohio Valley Foundry Company
OF Bellaire, In all probability will accept
the 900 and gas at Mansfield, o., iol
their location.
Mr.. Eugene Ryder Is the latest acquis.
ition to the clerical force in the office OIL
Spence, Baggs 4 Co.'s stove foundry,
Martins Ferry,
The Reynann Brewing Company's
Edison electric light plant will have q
capacity OF 225 sixteen'Candle-powGr in
candesCent lights.
The flint glass melting pot invented
by Asa G. Neville, Of lazearville, W,
Va, is now on the market and will BIO O
successful venture.
A Pittsburgh Alderman has rendered
a decision that n district assembly Is re-
sponsible for the debts contracted by q
local assembly Of the X. Of L.
Slaves, hoops and headings from West
Virginia points are being shipped to
Bridgeport, Martins Ferry, Brilliant,
Mingo, East Liverpool and Wellsvillc.
The Etna and Lantern Globe works
are using all the coke made ut the Bel,
lairo gas works. Private consumers
have been using this fuel for some time,
Out OF 10000 miners in the Luzerne
district OF Pennsylvania only 5000 OBJ
tanned steady work during January.
The outlook for this month Is much
worse.
One furnace is on at the Buckeye
glass works and another will be started
about March /. Louis Smith, Of New
York, now has charge Of the decorating
department.
One hundred and ten miners near
Mcdonald, Pa, left last night for Seattle,
Washington Territory, where they are
promised steady work in the coal mines
at s. per day.
Nearly dozen new potterics are now
in course Of construction or will be dur
ing this year. The business bids fair to
become very much like the glass bust
ness in few years.
The employees Of the II, @. Frick Coke
Company, ut the Standard Coke works,
have decided to pay the company fifty
cents per man for the coke lost by the
company during tho strike.
The miners at tho works Of tho Mill
wood Coal Company, at Greensburg, Pa,
have struck. The firm want to reduce
the price OF mining seven cents a ton
and raise the weight OF atom.
The Commissioners OF Wood county
will receive proposals until February %
for the iron and steel works OF cells and
building sheriiFs residence and cell
room. Wheeling ought to get the con.
tract.
A machine which, 1t is claimed, praC.
tically eliminates the danger associated
with electric lighting has been invented
by James Irwin, OF the firm Of Robin
son, Irwin 4 Co., machinlsts, Of steub'
enville.
at the Standard mill everything Is of
except the plate mill and pudding de-
department, on account OF the large
heating furnace being rebuilt. The new
housing on the big plato mill started on
Wednesday.
The name Of the town Of Leadsville,in
Randolph county, is to be changed to
Elkins, and 1t will be the terminus Of the
West Virginia Central railroad. The
shops Of the company will be moved to
Elkins soon.
Klieves, Kraft 4 Co, contracted last
week for d two.story frame dwelling for
John SunReld, on ChaplinO, between
Thirty.ninth and FourtiGth steets, and n
two.story frame dwelling for James
Parks, on Penn street.
Business is booming at the Laughlin
mill, Martins Ferry. Every depart.
ment is on full. Owing to the insult.
Cient supply Of gas the heating depart
nent has been starting NJ midnight in
stead OF 3 o'clock, thereby getting bet
ter supply.
There will DO five large buildings
erected at once for the Piedmont Pulp
and Paper Company. To give IN idea
Of the extent Of this enterprise, there
has arrived for use OF paid Pulp and
Paper Company, 10000 pounds Of solder
10 be used on tho roof ot the building
alone.
The leaning stack at the Crystal glass
plant has been torn down and the furn.
ace Is now being taken ont. A. new
furnace OF more modern design will DO
built TO replace the old one. The plant
has been wonderfully improved by tho
management and will soon be IN shape
10 start up.
The extensive Touring mills Of O,
MetsCh, at East Liverpool, were COIN.
RELIED 10 CLOSE down last week owing 10
the scarcity Of wheat throughout the