Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-01-08

The stockholders in the new Bellaire
Canning Company held a meeting last
week and appointed a committee OF nVe
to secure q charter. The capital stock
Of the Company will be $4,000, OF which
amount 50, 600, enough 20 start business,
has already been subscribed. Men OF
push and energy are back OF the com
pany, aud 10 will be success
The Elsou Glass Works, Martins Fer
~, will resume work about the middle
Of this week, after the usual holiday
idleness.
W. e. Stewart, Jr., has been pro-
NOTED TO Vice-Presldent and General
Ma-ager o. the Bellaire Stamping Com
pany, Of Harvey, H., while Wilbur
Topping succeeds Mr.. Stewart IS Secre-
tary. Col. j. T. Mercer continues as
President OF the company.
Sweeney & Son are making prepare
tions to plSce their Harvey, Ill.,, plant
IN operation. The Twelfth street ms
chine shop will remain here, 20 do local
repair work for the firm.
Fishers Star Foundry is receiving an
equipment Of necessary machinery TO do
pattern work, general castings and re-
pair work. This snterprising firm has
lately completed other important i'm
provements, 50 that it's plant is now sec
ond to none in the country.
Most OF the Wheeling glaSsworkers
who are employed elsewhere-and no
town Of any industrial pretensiOns but
has Wheeling WOrkmen-spent their
holidays here. and about all have re-
turned to resume work.
Factories "H" and 80" United States
Glass Company, are both in operation.
Work on Wood Bros new planning
mill. which was suspended on account
of cold weather, has been resumed.
The building has now been finished TO
the second story.
The United States Baking Company,
and Hunters Spice Works buildings
are ready for their equipments Of ma
chinery.
Work on the new plate mill at the
Riverside was stopped on account Of
the cold weather.
]. A. Holiday & Sons planning mill
will be running this week, after several
DAYS idleneSs, during which needed re-
pairs were made.
The disastrous fire which destroyed
Caldwell & PetersOn's factory has
caused a betterment Of business in the
other local factories engaged in the
manufacture OF metal roofing and cell
ings, The old plant will be rebuilt
and will be much larger and especially
adapted 10 the business OF the firm.
The Bellaire steel plant is idle while
repairs are being made.
The cold weather has necessitated a
suspension of building operations, but
contractors already have enough work
booked 10 indicate that '93 will be a
prosperous year ia this line.
II is estimated that the fuel for Ro-
defer Bros new iiteen-pot glass furn-
ace does not cost more than 500 per
month. If this shall prove true, II Is
the cheapest fuel which has ever been
used in this section. The fuel il the
poorest quality coal slack, something
that has heretofore been considered
bothersome refuse about coal mine.
Another important consideration is that
this fuel used in the Murphy patent
furnace MeAAc T. as IA IA NNNA A@NA@ -
less, whereas bp other methods il re.
pulres from .twentY-fOur TO thirty hours
10 melt glass properly. The furnace
works like a chaIm, and everything is
moving along nicely about the factory
since it began operations.-Bellojre
Democrat
The output at the Bellaire steel plant
last year was nearly $4,000 tons In ex-
cess OF any previous year. The COM
pany will build another blast furnace
directly west Of the present one, and
will also occupy the sites Of two window
factories with a new mill.
The business outlook for '9S In Bell
aire is very bright. ROdefer Bros
new fiat factory. the Chemical Com
pany's factory and the Novelty Stamp
ing Company will be a clear gain in
the industrial strength Of the city, and
All will be in operation in a short time.
A project is being agitated to issue
bonds on the city In the sum OF $500, 600
or 500, 600 TO be used In inducing
factories to locate thefe. 1t is esti-
mated that the latter sum would bring
at least ten COED factories.