Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-07-14
INDUSTRIAL NOlES.

bred yards to get his posts. Alter ne mas
picked them and carried them to the mouth
of the mine he has tOwait perhaps an hour
til the driver comes; then ne has to load
them into the wagon and ride IN with
them. Then be has to run and get caps
for these posts as hest he can, as these COM
panies 90 not supply tie miner with them.
In fact, in addition to this the miners at
some Of there mines have 10 purchase their
nails and lay and nsil their own track. Is
this not gtand?"
The L7ughlin and junction Steel Com
pany, the first Bessemer plant to sign the
scale this year, has two . gross tons con-
vsrters, 4, hole soaking pit, 4-dOor gas heat
ing furnace and blooming mill. The PIC
duct il slabs. billets and blooms for gener-
Al purposes. snd the annual capacity is TO-
Oo0 net tons. 1t is evident that other firms
srs withholding their signatures from the
steel scale, preferring to see what the out
come will be at Homestead before signing.
An example of quick work was shown
nv the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, of
Paddock, Pa, in aiding the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company to repair and replace
tracls washed out by the tlOod at Johns
tovvn An order for LOCO tons of steel
rails yss received in the morning, rolls
had to be changed, and in thirty-six hours
the raw material was delivered as rails OF
the weight required seventy miles away. J.
The largest steam engine in the world is
that constructed for the new Italian crpis-
or Sardegua. Il really consists of four
triple expansion engines, which can be
used together or separately. as desired, the
entire combination being capable Of devel-
opipg a force Of -, 900 nominal, or %, OOO
actual horse power. The ships driven by
twin screws.
The Laughlin Nail Company is closed
down for three weeks, during which time
they will repair the mill IL all depart
ments. A new set Of roughing rolls will
be put in, and two new sets or finishing
rolls are in the mill. The engines and
other machinery will be put IN good trim
before start is made.
The Northwcod Glass Co. is making ex-
tsnsive preparations for resumption N the
fall. A nsw bench is being built IN the
furnace, and a new brick floor will be pat
in the factory. All the machinery and
shaftirg is being overhauled, and the plant
generally repaired. Fall business pros
poets are good.
The Belmont Glass Works, of Bellaire,
will do but little repairing except the put
ting IL order of their furnaces and the
necessary overhaulipg of machinery. As
10 what they will do next ire they have
bat little idea, and viii be influenced by
the outcome OF the summer months.
Dan Reardon, John Burns, Thomas
Charlton and Thomas Parker, who have
bsen employed at the lew factory st An
dsrsop. Ind, have returned to Martins
Ferry to spend the summer Stop with their
families. They intend to move 10 Ander-
son by the next tire.
The officers of the Amslgamated Asso-
cistion has prepared a scale for their men
who are employed In the Carbon steel
works ia Pittsburg. The Carbon CON-
psny's process is exclusive and demands q
different scale from any adopted by the
Convention.
The Polly Ferry Company, which ope-
rates the ferry between Ballaire end Ben
wood, will soon replace the Frank $. o.
ems with fine new boat nov building by
8. J. Sweeney & Son. The new boat will
be one hundred and ten feet by thirty six
feet.
Martins Ferry will in few weeks COM
mence their first JOB Of paving and sewer
iny. The city Council has advertised for
bids for the paving of Hanover street, and
the patting II of a sewer on the same
street. The work will be let in few days.
The Ohio City Ferry Company, which
operates the steamer Climax which plies
between North Wheeling and Martin s
Ferry, will make some extensive improve
msnts to the boat in the near future. The
list includes a new deck and guard rail.
The Bsllaire Window Glass Company
which has been idle for more than
year on account of the failure OF gas
producer which thsy 5uiit to produce gas.
Tney Will bald new gas producer and
commence with two furnaces in the fall.
The Crystal Glass Company has gotten
on. full line of samples Of pressed ware
and lamps, which will be pat on exhib-
ition at the McLure House this week. The
company is at WORK now fitting up the
Unholam furnace for use next fire.
Mr.. Joseph Miller, of L. Spence's Ma
chine works has made the best record yet
OF any man setting up portable engines.
He put the engine on a horse boiler and
tried it in little less than six days. 1t
worked 0. X.
At the Top Mill there are thirty or forty
machines IL operation. The demand tjr
small nails has improved materially, oT-
ing principally to the fact that prices
have been reduced somewhat below tack
factory rates.
The North Wheeling Glass Company is
making extensive improvements. A new
crown Is being built into the furnace and
new warehouse is seriously contemplated.
All the machinery will be overhauled.
Mr. Harry Kelly will succeed Mr.. ".
F. Snively as Secretary Of the Belmont
Glass COmpslS at Bellsire. Mr.. Sniyely
goes 20 the O'Hara Glass Works in Pitts
burg about August first.
:. Q Hamilton, c. L. Shuttleworth,
ARE, sre at Lancaster, o., where they in
tend breaking gIoHud for cooperative
window glass works.
1. will be Just thirty years or the Goth
of August next since the first oil we'll was
near Titusville, aud the people
OF the oil country propose to duly GALE
brate the occasion.
Bsllaire has been full of Findlay people
during the past week. There are many
ex Bellsire people in the new gas town,
and they are taking advantage of the cheap
excursion rates.
The Standard MIL is closed down for
three weeks to make repairs. All the ma
chinery will get thorough overhaullog.
The new brick corrugating factory Is we'll
nigh completed.
The b, Z & O. railroad has been granted
ten years more time to pay the purchase
or loan money due Muskingum county
for that part OF the road in and built by
that county.
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