The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-21

I, S6U,UuU Win ~ q anu Oolvvu pubnel
OF coal. The Point paper mill Of A. I
R. Fisher-printing and coarse grade
only-With II hands and 1900 bushel
OF coal, enjoyed an annual income 0
$4,000. This firm also manufactured 10
the southern market $4,000 worth 0
ploughs yearly, A, Armstrong 4 Co..
Fulton paper mill manufactured $500
worth, with2 q hands and $1,000 bushel
OF coal.
Five plough establishments made ever
year from Ito 5000 ploughs, mostly ioI
southern orders, valued $4,000,
Dana Hubbard's saw mill and sast
factory ripped up and manufactured
100000 feet OF lumber annually, HI
invented and was operating the lath
saw, one hand turning out 5000 lath
daily. He employed % hands, used
$4,000 bushels Of coal, and gathered
$4,000 yearly.
Junkin & Sons Touring mills ran
three pairs Of stones, daily averaged 81
barrels OF -four, Sundays excepted
with s hands and 8 1000 bushels Of coal
yearly, In 1888 the celebrated drought
Stopt mills over a wide spread country
but this steam mill met the emergency,
The author speaks a%dmiringly Of the
steam planning machine lust introduCed)
Tan Improvement in mechanism, which
takes of a large proportion OF the here,
totore necessary muscular labor, and
produces q preparation OF boards for
flooring and wainsCoating, far superior
to the former mode, and with a speed in
the ratioof20 to l." I'LL, Brown & Co.,
at 2+South street, was operating 1t by
steam, land rips boards into breadths Of
from 5 to s inches, after which, In rum
ming them through theplauing machine,
one side IS planed, one edge is tongued,
and the other Is grooved, all al HE same
time, &C., capacity 1000 superficial feet
daily, with an annual profit Of $2,O00.n
Refreshing chestnutO
He closes this branch OF industry by
likening their number to a drop in the
bucket to the number that might be es-
tablished here ITO exceeding great ad.
vantage" etc.
Mr.. Bowen aggregates his Wheeling
manufactures In 1850 as, annually,
!, OO0,001 bushels coal consumed, 900
hands employed, and their productive
amount $l,l50,0O0Ill
Zone mandatory, the Riverside iron
works, gave employment In 1887 To
1900 men and boys. The Wheeling
Iron and Mil Company alone have 600
employees. A mercantile and manufac.
turing periodical, The Ohio VALLEY, pub.
lished In 1887, gave Wheeling's popula.
ton as "35, 0O0, one-half OF whom are
engaged In manufacturing; $0,000,000
invested, yielding $2,500,00O annual
profit" This exclusive OF carriage and
wagon factories, other handiCrafts, tan
nefies, oil refneries, etc.,
In May, 1888, there were ia mercan'
tile (wholesale and retaiD licenses taken
out.
Two printing establishments did the
Job and book work and supplied news
the Wheeling Gazette, John NJ. MCCreary,
and the Times and Advertiser, James 4.
Wharton. Bowen says "each OF them
prints a t~ri.weekly newspaper, which
they issue every other day Ia alternate
arrangement. BY this arrangemnt, these
messengers Of intelligence are supplied
to the citizens OF Wheeling every day
throughout the year."
Insatiate nav o~fintellect, what do you
think OF that2 What think you, INTEL.
LIdRNCER, and you, Register, Nems.L Letter,
Aeitung, a. ali Gagged lightning, steam
and natural gas don't get newspapers
fast enough these December mornings Of
1880, for wegrandchlldren Of ye a%ncients.
River navigation opened March Hand
closed Glow water) August 10, 1885.
THE GLORIOUS OLD s%TAoE.coAcHRs
went rafting out every morning and in
every evening, on the National turnpike,
e%nliyened by the music Of the drivers
horn, the clack OF his whip aud clatter
Of his horses hoofs. Halcyon daysl
Alas, soon To be replaced by the screech.
ing irou.horse and ear-splitting steam
whistle. III '3S he writes: ut has been
satisfactorily a%sCertained, that a continu.
Gus railroad can be constructed from
Baltimore TO Wheeling, and even now
such a road Is in process OF location. >
. The whole line from Wheeling
TO Cumberland, Md, 1t is expected, will
be completed within two years from
next spring, "[but 1t wasn'tL by which
time the Chesapeake and Ohio canal will
be completed from Washington City To
the same point" And Sin a brief space
thereafter supplementary link Wilt be
completed to APPOINT some seventy miles
west Of this in the State Of Ohio"
And, so, We find advertised In glaring
head linesof rapid transit promises the
Union Line coaches Through Chambers.
burg, Harrisburg, Lancaster, &c.,) for
Philadelphia. Also, Reside 4 Co.'s
Opposition Line OF Stages, from Wheel
ing to Baltimore. Andthe mail chariot,
Reliance Line for Baltimore. All
through In three days'u
The Zane "bridle-path To Maysville,
KY, had spread, too, aud a daily stage
lett for that point; and one for Pitts
burgh and on alternate days, one for
Norwalk and Lake EIie. All stopped at
or started from ono or both Of the two
hotels Of the Clty-the United States
Hotel, John MCMILLAN, and the "vir.
ginia Hotel, jas. A. McCreary, inn.
keeper"
All, me the memories OF those stage
coach rides across the Alleghenies 10
Cumberland, where we took the railroad
10 Baltimore; Wilt ever DO forgotten
Only two principal educational insti-
tutions are mentioned as then open:
The Wheeling Institute, founded In 1880,
under II. g. Darling, A. NJ, Miss Syl.
vina Il. Epson, and W. 7. and L. w. 3.
Canning, A. NJ. The LanCasterian
Academy, founded by gift from Noah
Linsly, ESD, was taught by James Nc.