Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-08-19
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS.
Points Plcks1 Up Asout the Mills and
Factories.

The work on the new tipple OF the
Boggs Run Mining Company is well I'M
der way.
Contractor A. C. Fisher, Of the South
Side, reports that business In the build
ing line is brisk.
The Wheeling steel works are off but
will resume Tuesday morning. Bottom
was dropped Friday.
The situation at the new Sanitary
Works, on the South Side, remained
unchanged yesterday
The LaBelle nail factory will go on 10
the morning. The employees made but
one and one-half days last week.
Yesterday the employees OF the lower
Benwood mill were paid. Over forty
employees got their cash In gold.
The Riverside steel works will go on
In full tomorrow. They made six days
last week, for the first time for months.
The greater number OF the mills OF
this locality will be idle next Saturday
to permit the employees to attend the
Labor Day exercises.
Spears Axle Works, OF the South
Side, will go on in full in the morning,
and IL is thought that they now will
have q steady run. They will give
work to about eighty men.
The Riverside plate mill and steel
works will be of next Saturday and
until the following Tuesday, that the
employees may attend the Labor Day
exercises the twenty ifth OF this month.
Last week was great one at the
skeip mill of the lower Benwood iron
works. The run was the most success
full and the output the largest OF any
one week before in the history OF the
works.
Gust Shubert, heater at the River
side, and his two brothers have Invent
ed a new musical instrument. 1t Is
made from alder sticks, and it Is said
makes the most delightful music.
The instrument is blown and is made
from thirteen alder sticks, united OY
cat gut strings. The brothers nave
been offered 500 for the instrument but
have refused the offer. The young men
live on Boggs' run.
Some time ago at the meeting OF the
board of directors OF the Wheeling Steel
and Iron Co., IL was decided TO complete
work on the new blast furnace at the
Top mill. Little has been said Of the
matter since, but IL can now be said on
the best Of authority that before many
days the work will be resumed. II will
take about sixty days yet TO complete
the new furnace, which will be one OF
the largest as well as the most finely
equipped in the Ohio Valley. The work
is to be rapidly progressed. When the
new furnace, which has been rebuilt
from top 10 bottom, shall be completed,
it will be great boom TO that
part of the city, as business men have
been complaining ever since the
furnace closed down, over year ago.
The furnace will employ over 300 men.
The furnace being out Of operation
FIRST started the idea among North End
ers TO start the colonization scheme. 1t
is probable that, il the furnace goes on
this winter, the colonization scheme
will fall through, and there is little
doubt but that IL will be in operation
late this fall. The Buck" which was
formerly used at the Top mill has been
out Of repair ana is now at the Belmont.
Orders have been given at the machine
shops of the Belmont to get the Buck"
in readiness ior operation, and this
work will be begun before long. This,
too, is regarded as a good sign. The
large furnace OF the Company In Mar
tins Ferry would have been started be-
fore this time had coke been secured.
That is the reason still why the plant
there is not in operation. II is thought
that coke will be secured soon so that
the furnace can go on.