Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-07-24
IMPORTANT MATTERS
TO BIZ CONSIDERED AT TO-DAY'S NAIL
ASSOCIATION MEETING.
The Committee on a New Plan Of Organization
Meets Yesterday and Reads Its Report TO
Meeting Of Manufacturers.

A regular meeting Of the Western Gut
Nail Association will be held in the office
of Supervisor Hszlett on Main street, this
morning at 10 o'clock, and there will be
general matters Of interest to the nail
trade in general, considered at this meet
ing. 1t may be one that will have much
to do with the future of the cut nail bust
ness.
Some time since, at meeting OF the
Association committee was appointed to
formulate new plan of organization fol
the Nail Association, whereby the inter
eats of the cut nail manufacturers would
be advanced, at the same time avoiding
such thing as trust.
The committee has been diligently at
work for several days pact, and while
they did not feel prepared to make re-
port at to.dsy's meeting, they were pre-.
vailed upon to do 80. Yesterday they
called d number of the Wheeling manu-
facturers together to listen TO their report
and express their opinions upon 1t. In
response 10 this about fifteen or eighteen
REPRESENTATIVES of the several mills in this
immediate vicinity met at the office Of the
BenwoOd Iron Works at o'clock yester'
day afternoon and the report was read to
them. While good deal Of comment was
INDUCED in, il was all of favorable ma
ture and after an hour'e session the meeting
adjourned. The committee will present
its report to the general meeting to-day,
but it may be that no definite action will
be taken, and the matter will be allowed
to 20 over to a meeting to be called in the
near future exclusively for this purpose.
1t is known that light gauge nail was,
some time since, accepted, and the
weights about agreed upon, but 1T was
learned yesterday that the meeting to-day
will, in all probability, take some action
on this matter, with view OF formulating
an entire new schedule OF weights and
sizes.
1t is probable that the old organization
will be modified or done away With, and
the forfeits put up by the various mills in
the district, to limit their sales to 30 many
kegs per month, will be refunded to the
mills; and that feature of the old Associa-
ton will likely not enter into the new.
Yesterdays Pittsburg Commercial Gazette
says in connection with this subject:
Representatives of Jones & Laughlin and
Chess, Cook & Co., of this city, will prob
ably attend a meeting Of cut steel nail
manufacturers to be held at Cleveland to-
morrow. At the meeting the question Of
doing away with the present card prices Of
nails will be discussed, and the sentiment
is so greatly in favor of adopting new
basis, that it will probably be done.
"On the new card, the prices of each
size of nails will be BASED according to the
cost. For the past six months the market
has been demoralized owing to the action
of some of the manufacturers who cut the
card rates. Several mills sold their product
on sliding scale for extras. 1t has also
been suggested that the bat steel nail be
reduced in size to bring it more into uni
formity with the wire nail standard. By
the change in the card basis prices will be
advanced 10 TO 20 cent?.