Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-03-03
i've TO haul their lumber and logs in
stead OF horses and trucks, as has been
done heretofore.
REVIVAL AT CHARLESTON.
Timber and Sawmill Business Will Be
Brlsk-A Building Boom Prom

1imoer and SaWmill Business Will Be
BRISK A Building Boom Prom
Special to the Register.
charleston, w. Va, March 1.-THE
spring will open out with a revival of
business in ali lines. The high tides
IN the rivers and streams during last
month has brought down a sufficient
number of logs to keep the sawmills
and lumber factories running for some
time, out large amount of timber still
remains to be brought down on the
Teshets which are expected this and
the next month, when the rains will
begin to melt the snow in the noun
tains. All the lumber mills in and
near Charleston are now running, after
an luieness of nearly year Orders
received at the lumber factories for
building material have been very
brisk within the last two weeks. There
IS likely to be great activity in the
building trade this season. The con-
structiOn OF several large residences
IN Charleston has already begun.
Among them are a brick and stone
residence by Capt. Frank Abney, of
the wholesale dry goods firm of E. S.
Arnold & Co., to cost $4,000; a brick
residence by George GOshorn. to cost
$4,000; brick and stone residence by
Mrs r. $. Truslow, to cost $1,000.
Four large brick buildings have
just been completed in West Charles
ton for the Standard Folding Bed Com
paEy. The first of these is 160X60 feet,
three stories high; the second 160X60,
two stories high; third, the power
house, 4OX60 feet, one story; fourth, the
dry house, 40XS0, one story. These
buildings have all been completed and
equipped and the company will begin
running March 4, with a force of 125
men,. They will manufacture folding
beds of various styles and finish, and
sell them Tor from SIS to SIPS each.
The opening of the folding bed works
mas very largely increased the pOpula-
ton of West Charleston. and number
of dwelling houses will be put up in
the vicinity during the coming season.
A company has been organized to
construct a street railway line TO run
from the folding bed works and the
Buckeye cart works, adjoining east
ward 10 Charleston, through the city
TO Runner. the eastern suburb. The
length of the line will be about four
miles The construction of this line
of railway will result in the building
CT a large number of residences in the
vicinity Of tie folding bed and Buck
eye cart works, where building lots
are selling cheap.
The Charleston Water Company has
i'm course OF construction three large
reservoirs on Capitol Hill, which are to
be completed by July l. These reser-
voirs are designed to hold enough
water TO supply the city during the
season Of low water in the river, when
the water is impure. the reservoirs to
be filed at a time when the water in
river is clear and pure.
The citizens of Charleston will. on
March s, when the municipal election
is held. vote on the question of issuing
bonds to the amount of $4,000, to build
a city hospital. If the voters decide
TO authorize the issue of the bonds,
the building of the hospital will begin
within the next thirty days