Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-07-17
Points Picked Up ABOUT tho Mills aud
Factories.

Points Picked Up ABOUT tho Mills and
Factories.
The outlook at tho Top Mill is bright
er than IL has been for the last year.
Yesterday the sheet department went
on in full at three eight-hour turns.
This gives work to IS idle men.
1t was fully arranged that mills 6 and
: of the Whitaker Iron works would go
on yesterday morning, but they did not.
Steam was raised and the big engine
started for the first time in seven
months yesterday morning, and 1t is
thought the mills will GO in full by the
latter part of this week. More OF the
mills will be put on right along as soon
as they are finished.
One Of the batteries Of boilers Of the
Reymann Brewing Company, which had
been using gas since the beginning of
the coal strike, vert back yesterday
morning to the use Of coal. This will
require 500 bushels day, and will give
work to q dozen idle miners, who have
not had work for the last three months.
The coal Is gotten from the Manchester
mine. After the first OF next month the
other battery of boilers at the brewery
will be put on coal, and this will re-
ouire 900 bushels Of coal day for the
plant. The miners and coal dealers are
in happy frame Of mind over the re-
suit.
Trade at the Wheeling Corrugatlng
works is better Shipments can now be
made TO the West as usual.
The plant Of the Wheeling Hinge
Company is off taking stock. This will
require about week.
The LaughlIn Mill Company is talk
ing OF placing machines at the works in
Martins Ferry for the manufacture Of
wire nails. The com pany has the matter
under consideration. If this is done
both kinds Of nails will be made at the
plant.
The planning mill in East Wheeling OF
John w. BeItz & Son Company is going
steadily. The firm has finished work on
the bakery and residence of l.. A. Juer-
gems on Sixteenth street. -
Morrison & Chew's Wheeling boiler
works have the contract for smoke
stack for the Touring mill at Cameron.
The stack will be 81 feet high and three
feet in diameter
East Wheeling manufacturers say that
trade is looking up. as they find many
more inquiries for work of late.
G.. S. Smith, of the firm OF Wood,
Smith & Co., of Fort Plain, New York,
who has been in the city, has gone to
his home. While here he left the order
for two machines with the machine firm
of Spears & Riddle, of East Wheeling.
Both are axle machines, and are to be
sent TO the new works Of the company
at Chicago when completed.
The West Virginia Tobacco Company
is as busy as it can be, the manager re-
ports.
The boiler making firm Of William NJ.
Cox & Co. has the contract for two large
tanks for the new LANCE block. The
firm finds it difficult now to get iron.
The Wheeling wire works are busy.
Trade with the firm is looking up.
Redman & Co. report that the en-
ployes Of the works are all on, and that
they are busy on jobbing work about
tue CITY
The Wheeling steel works will go on
in full about the middle OF next week
The Riverside steel works will go on
this morning. They have been idle for
less than week.
The welcome whistle OF the Belmont
blast furnace sounded Yesterday morn
ing, summoning the 200 employees TO
work again after the long idleness. The
furnace has not been in steady opera
ton for over a year, but now it looks
like the run would be steady. The fur.
mace was blown in about the middle OF
the forenoon, and there we're enough
men there for work to start two fur
naces Yesterday was hot day for
the men, but they stood the heat well
considering, and the days run was
success.