The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-27
LOCAL INDUSTRIES.
News from the Mines, Factories aud Fur
uaceS Of This District.

| nRCeR OF ThA DlStrtct,
The box factories are rushed Will
business,
All Of the planning mills have all the
business they can do.
The two stove foundries are doing q
satisfactory business,
Ground was broken for the Seventh
ward school house yesterday.
OF the window glasspots in the United
States, 1,O4O are working and 252 are idle.
All three OF the Wheeling flint glass
works are doing as well as any factories
anywhere,
Smiths brewery shipped 10 barrels
OF ale and porter to Chicago last week,
in one shipment,
j, A. Huston & Son will build three
story brick building for the Standard
Iron Company soon.
The large addition to be built to the
Warwick Pottery will more than double
its decorating capacity,
The Riverside Company is having a
plat surveyed at Benwood on which to
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The Belmont has contracted to put in
third hot-blast stove, 1t will be built
by the same contractors who put in the
other two,
John shriver is getting his sand boat
in position for business up at Burlington,
Jake Watson, formerly OF the police
force, will be IN charge.
A. J, Sweeney & Son are building two
new grinding tables and other portions
OF equipment for the Standard Plate
Glass Company, at Butler, Pa.
At the LaBelle, the forge continues
closed down the tack factory Is running
full aud few OF the factory machines
are on for few days to sort up on sizes,
schwertieger & Co.'s, within the last
three or four days, have filed some very
good orders from Harvard, ILL.,, Wash
ington, NO., Kansas City, and other
points,
The Whitaker Iron Company have all
the mills on full turn and working TO q
fair business. Tradeis reasonably good,
and all the signs point to q strengthen.
ing OF prices.
Coal mining is almost at standstill in |
the local peddling mines iE and around
the city, except at the Bogg's Run mine.
1t Is running full. The railroad miners |
Of the Panhandle are making about
half time.
The Caldwell & Peterson Manufacture
ing Company have their full force en-
ployed and working to q fair current
business, but general trade is n little
quiet. The seasons trade in their line
is not fairly on yet.
The Benwood factory has been rum
ming portion Of her machines for n few
days to sort up on sizes, but closed down
this week for an indefinite period. The
forge is still closed down; furnace max
ing its regular output,
Operations will be commenced at the |
Crystal Glass Works, Bridgeport, about |
May /. The works will start with the |
little furnace and make q full line Of |
tableware. Business continues good at
the Bridgeport Glass Works.
The West Virginia China works was
of last week and the week previous on
account Of natural gas. The company
has good many orders booked and they
are still being received. Secretary and
Treasurer Ran Stalnaker is in the East
10 the interest OF the works.
Last week the Wheeling Pottery Com
pany shipped a car load OF decorated
goods bulk TO the west and is shipping
other goods by the car load this way to
the south and other points. The COM
pany Is having a big run on adamantine
china and decorated goods, and is doing
nicely generally.