Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-10-16
AMONG THE INDUSTRIES

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Up.
The Bridgeport Glass Works is working
steady and has fair trade.
An addition 5OXsO feet ia being built TO
the ware house of the Il 10 Iron Works,
at Bridgeport.
1t looks like old times al the Kina Iron
Works. Thirty one boiling furnaces are
on in full blast.
The Bellaire Stamping Company is chip
ping a great many Of the magic light"
lanterns at present.
The ElsOn Glass Works at Martins
Ferry is still idle. The company has a
good sized stock Of goods on hands and
claims business is dull.
Beltz, FladiDg & Co. have ELL they can
do at their planning mills They have a
good run of trade, with some big jobs and
numerous smaller ones
The Standard Iron Works is on in full In
all departments The sheet and bar iron
turned out by the plan. is shipped almost
as fast as manufactured.
The BenwoOd blast furnace at Martins
Ferry ia having q splendid run since the
plant was enlarged. The former product
Of the works was about go tons day.
Now the average is so tons.
The West Virginia Tobacco Co is work
ing to a good foreign trade. Their K d |
Letter tobacco takes well and their mail
orders are constantly increasing, which |
shows substantial prosperity.
The NorthwOod glass works laid of a
day or two for repairs aud then concluded
to lay of several days more, IS business is
not very pressing az present. The factory
will 90 on again on Monday.
Again there is talk of the Ohio Valley
foundry at Bellaire being rebuilt. II will |
be remembered that money was pledged |
for this purpose lest spriD,, but for some
reason the project fell through.
Edward Mcdonald, who has been the
blower 81 the Rverside Steel Works for |
the past two years, ha5 given up his p1si-
ton to accept q similar one at the Du-
quesne Street Works, PittsbGrg.
The Ballaire Nail Works is setting up
some new machinery ID that portion ot the
works where the pudding furnaces once
stood. 1t is underatood that the company |
will run a bar mill in connection with the
steel works
The Crystal glass works al Bridgeport is
doing q nice business for new concern |
Only white ware is made Elmer Wall |
iug, of Bellaife, ia travelling 10 the West
for the works, and finds his line Of samples
please the people.
The lever factory OF the Bellaire Lantern
Globe Works vas Of for cO1Dle of days
owing to the shortage OF lumber for boxes
in which to pack goods The material er-
rived Yesterday and the works will resume
in fall this morning.
Among the scrap that is being used at
the R'na Iron Works is several cars Of
horse shoes. They we're turned out by
some factory but not being up 10 the stand
ard were case aside. There is at least
/. 900 600 in the pile.
The Reading iron works, which failed
six months sgO, mailed all its creditors
circulars offering them four per cent fret
mortgage bonds guaranteed By the Read
ing Railroad Company at the rate Of fifty
per cent Of their claim.
The Barnhill Boiler Works Is rushed
with work. At pre.ent there is under
contrac. tso boilers for the Ballaire
Stamping Company; four large stacks for
the Riverside Blast Furnace, and two iron
water tanks for :he same works.
The factories st Beliaire fud it difficult
to get cars for shipping purposes The G.
& P. and G, l. q W. have been rushed
for some time. TIE blockade on the B. &
o ia caused by the large number of paseen-
ger trains the road has been handling OF
late.
Since the B. & o. took the head freight
agent from the OHIO side Of the river, there
is a great deal of complaint among ship
gers who claim they cannot get anything
done without waiting a day or two. After
the gentleman who secs to the disposal Of
freight goes to Wheeling no one on the
Ohio side has power to even shift car.
This atate of affairs could be easily rene
died.
A gentleman who knows what he is talk
iug about, informed Us yesterday that The
difference between the cost of natural gas
fuel and Ras manufactured from slack,
when used in two small blow furnaces at
window glass works, is 81 q day cheaper
with the slack gas. Several little items
like this would make sum in year that
would allow some Of the fecsoTie3 to de-
clare 8 dividend.