Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-20
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS.
Points Picked Up Asout the Mut' arr
Factorier.

Factories.
The Wheeling steel works went on In
full Monday evening.
George Newcomb. Of upper Benwood,
a we'll known mill man, has gone 10
Miltonsburg, o., for visit.
Ten of the pudding furnaces at the
lower Bsnwcod mill went on yesterday
morning. The heat was terrible LOT the
men, who are unused to it, all day yes
terday.
The Mate mill OF the Wheeling Steel
and Iron Company, in Benwood, IS on
in full, and now the entire works OF the
Company in that part OF the vicinity
are nearly on in full.
Contractors OF the city say that the
business outlook is much better. They
guage il by the fact that many more
new contracts are being figured on, and
thew regard this as the true barometer
Thomas Spears and Fred River, well
known mill men OF the South Side, are
home from q fishing trip to Fish creek.
They were there two days and caught
forty large bass and sun hsh, dong
better than any Of the natives.
The old Wheeling pottery, which has
been changed into factory for the
manufacture OF all kinds OF sanitary
ware, is completed, and is all ready Tor
the start, which will not be until the
| potters' strike is settled. a few days
ago some clay was moulded in the new
factory for the making OF styles.
Business is about the same at the pla-
ming mills Of Holiday & Son, on the
South Side The Iirm is furnishing the
materials and Contractor Louis Hart
ong is doing the work for house on the
Island for Alexander Mitchell, aud one
for Paul Gobnskey at Forty-third
street. The fine new residence OF
James A. Holiday, on South Eof street,
is being rooted.
The differences between the Bogg's
Run Mining Company and the employees
remain unsettled. BY the new scale
the miners would get ffty-two and one
half cents a car for mining and this the
MANAGEMENT refuses to give. The men
would go TO work for fifty cents a car
I load, but this will not be paid by the
employers. When the strike was begun
the men were getting forty cents car
load for their work.
Wood Bros report that business Is
much better and the outlook with them
| is growing brighter. Work on the nm
ishing OF the TWO houses, one at the
! foot and one at the head Of Mozart park
incline, will be begun today. The firm
has the contract for the furnishing Of
/ ~, yunrly
SIS, 600 botel pow In process OF erection
st Fairmont. The contract OF WOOD
Bros. on the hotel will amount TO about
$4,000. The firm will soon send force
of men there to begin the work.
The heaters OF the Belmont mill will
get TO work this week. At present all
the mill is idle. 1t was reported that
the coal miners OF the mill bank had
gone to work, but this is not the case,
and they will not go to work until they
are needed. Even when the heaters go
to work, the coal from the mines VIII
not be used, as this department will be
run with gas for the time being. What
thew need at the heating department Is
steel, and some of this product will be
on hand soon.
Want of coke is the only reason why
all the furnaces in this locality are not
in operation. The arrangements are
puzzling their minds aud frettibg Tor
some way to get this fuel. There is lit
tie word from the Conrellsville regions,
where most of the coke for the furnaces
OF this locality is secured. II is thought
that bv the latter part o. this week,
some assurance can be gotten from
these regions that coke can be gotten
regularly. The steel works at all the
plants cannot look for steady run I'M
Ill coke is secured. Under the present
conditions, the Bellaire furnace will
probably go on first, as FairmOnt coke
is used TO some extent there.
1t has been over year since the out
look was so bright at the La Belle mill.
From the present indications the en-
tire plant will be on before the latter
part OF this week, and this means that
over four hundred men will find work.
The best news OF all is that the pudd-
ers, who have not had steady run Tor
over year, are given orders to report
for work the first OF next week. 1t was
even thought that the pudding indus
try was a thing Of the past at the La
Belle, hence the word TO get ready TO
resume was a great surprise, but a
joyful one to the employees, many OF
whom had gone elsewhere to find work.
The price paid for pudding will be 81
a ton, now the standard rate of wages
In this locality. All the heaters went
to work yesterday morning, and the
big nail mill will be on in full to-mor-
row. Then the entire works, except
the pudding furnaces, will be In full
operation, for the tack factory is run
ming TO its limit.
THE attraction at the Glassworkers'