Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-07-10
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS.
Points Picked Up About the MILLS and
Factories.


Factories.
The Riverside steel works are to re-
sumo this morning.
The Wheeling boiler works yesterday
completed putting four new rings on
each Of the tanks at the Bellaire nail
works.
All the workmen employed at the ma
chine shops Of Spears d Riddle 10 the
East End are at work. The workmen
are now at work on new axle turning
machine for firm in Scranton, Pa.
The Cleary Electric Company, OF East
Wheeling, has the contract for 40 an
nunciator for the Arlington Hotel, Sis
tersvile. James +. Dolan, formerly OF
Benwood. is the proprietor OF the hotel.
Contractor 1. r. McCue, OF the Island,
reports that business with him Is good.
The fine new residence of Robert Wat
kins, at ST. Clairsvile, is being finished,
and the one on Wabash street, Island,
for Samuel Shell, is ready for the plas-
terers.
The boiler works firm OF William M.
Cox & Co. has a force of men at work
repairing at the Moundsville peniten-
tiary: and others al the building OF the
Atlantic Tea company, on the South
Side. A number OF the workmen Of the
plant are also at work at Valley Grove.
The tie-up of the railroads in the
West has made business duller than
ever at the works of the Wheeling Cor
rugating Company. Among the indus
tries OF the city which will suffer most
from the labor troubles in that part OF
the country these works are among the
foremost, by reason OF the big part OF
the trade in that part Of the country.
Morrison & Chew have made large
smoke stack at their plant for the Hotf-
mann tannery, near Morfeld, this State.
The stack, which will be the highest in
the interior of the State, being 90 feet
high, will be shipped this week, and
force OF worKmen sent TO putt up. The
stack is Al inches in diameter These
works have also sold tubular boiler to
Bebout Bros. at Ryerson's Station. Pa,
and it will be shipped this week.
Encouraging news comes from the
Whitaker iron works. Work on the
new mill is progressing rapidly and Will
be completed by the first of the month.
Mills Nos. and Z are TO go on next
Monday at three turns. They have not
been on since the time of the fire, on
the 18th of last November. The two
mills will give work 10 IS men. Other
parts of the mill are to go on rapidly as
soon as they can be gotten ready, until
the entire plant is on again. The sign
Ing of the Amalgamated scale with
other favorable signs, have made the
outlook for the plant very encouraging.
Bids were opened yesterday on the re-
modelling OF the Pollock Touring mill
building, at Fourteenth aud Market
streets. Six contracting firms placed
bids for the work, and that Of the firm
of John w. Beltz g. Son Co. was the
lowest, being S22, PAT. The other bids
were: Wood Bros, S23, $50; Kevis,
Kraft & Co., S22, 270 E. A. Ssson, S22,
434; Hamilton Bros, S23,0 900, and c. j.
McCarty, S23, 26O. Trimole ~ Lutz
made the lowest bid for the plumbing.
S475. There will be a contract of SO. 900
for cast irou work on the building. The
contracts will be awarded in a few days.
House d Hermann will occupy the
building when it is remodeed.
The planning mill firm OF John w.
Beltz & Son Co., in East Wheeling, re-
ports that trade is more encouraging.
They are furnishing the materials for
house on the Hanevtown road for M. A.
Howard. The firm is furnishing the
materials for the new Catholic church
at Burkhart, Ohio. Work on the re-
pair OF the residence and store OF Louis
Juergens, on Sixteenth street, Is about
completed, and the remodeling OF the
residence of Henry Menkemeller, on
South Chapline street, is about done.
The work being done by the firm on the
building Of the Atlantic Tea Company,
on the South Side, will soon be finished.
They are also remodeling the residences
of Henry Emsheimer, on North Main
street, and that Of Lee Baer, OF Twelfth
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