Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-07-05
LOCAL INDUsrRIAL NOTES.

The Wheeling, La Belle and War
wick potteries are idle.
The .Etna Iron Works, OF bridgeport,
will DE lighted with 40 arc lights.
The new Brilliant mill, Wheeling,
will be ready 20 run by November l,with
three trains, 5, l. and Is inches.
The Wheeling steel plant has been
closed down all week, but will resume
next Wednesday with fair prospects Tor
q long run.
The new fire extinguiShing apparatus
az Bloch Bros tobacco works is we'll
under way, and in 4 few weeks will be
in operation.
Work has been commenced upon
new set of EilnS for the Wheeling Lime
aud Cement Company. which will double
the capacity of the plant.
The .Etua mill shut down Tuesday
evening for repairs and StocS'tGking. 1t
viii be probably two or three weeks be-
fore operations are resumed.
The Riverside Iron Works paid off on
Friday, TO give their employees money
for the Fourth. Most OF the other in
dustrial plants paid during the week.
The new ANA gamated Association
scale has been completed, and already a
number Of our local mills have signed
10. while others are holding out. No
trouble is anticipated, however.
Dan Judd, former well known en-
ploye Of the Wheeling steel plant, died
Wednesday night, at bis home in jacobs
burg, o., from injuries received by fall
ING in the fly wheel, pit at the works.
MeSsrs. A. ]. Sweeney & Son shipped
ibis week another consignment OF ma
chiuery 10 the Howard Plate Glass Com
pany at Golden Station, Pa. They have
also made a considerable beginning on
the machinery for Capt. Princes new
boat.
The Belmont blast furnace, which has
been banked for over five months, re-
tuned operations Friday night. Fire
was started at that time, and the first
cast will probably be made tomorrow
During the idleness of the furnace II
was built ten feet higher, considerably
increasing its capacity.
Following are some of the glaSSwOrk-
erS who are home 10 spend the shut
down season: Mike Owens. and Tom
Owens, Findlay: Andrew Howard, OF
Blairsvlle, Pa; James Malif and fam
lily, OF Anderson, Iud., Ed. HaSenaur,
John HaSenauer, John Collins, Will
HObrecEt, and Jacob Healy, of Findlay;
A. Nedermyer, August Ney, Of Fos-
tOria, and John Mann, of Tifin.
The big changes which are being
made at the BenwOOd Iron Works are
beingpuShed forward as rapidly as pos
slbe. Last week the old train of rolls
was torn out and the foundation COM
menced far the new Skelp mill. Every
thing will be 10 readiness for the
machinery by September l, and it is
expected that four or five weeks will
be required to put 1t in position. When
the mill resumes it will be one OF the
best equipped in this vicinity, and it IS
expected that it Will be operated more
steadily and more profitably than here
tofOre.
There have been two removals Of
glass factories from the Ohio gas fields
. TO West Virginia within the past six
months, aud last week two new factor
les were chartered in this State by the
people who come from Findlay, Ohio,
4 the very heart Of the gas region. These
q factories are the West Virginia Flint
Bottle Company and the Central City
i Window Glass Company. They are both
q 10 be located at Central City, w. Va,
8 and will be a great acquisition to that
town. The former has a capital stock
Of 60 0oN Cd ,,-f1I
of factory at once on ground pur-
s chased from the Central City Company.
s /, will have a factory 7Oxl0O feet, and
VIII Put in two furnaces. The buildings
will all be two stories high, and will be
+ % the most modern design. The win
dow glass company has capital stock
Q; 500, 900, and will begin operations
sOcn.