Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-12-15

also alleges that they are operating on
leased property on which Hannah wants
10 make Improvements against his pro-
tests, which viii inure to the benefit Of
the lessons and irreparably injure plain
tin as the business can not be conduct
ed at a profit at the present location.
In connection with the 100000 sewer
pipe deal with the English syndicate
for sewering New Orleans. it is given
out that such negotiations are lin pro-
gress, bur the pipe trust will have TO
come 90 the figures of the English man>
UiacturerS, as it is claimed that the
English syndicate can import pipe as
cheaply. as it can be purchased in this
country. so the Ohio Valley has no cinch
on the deal One thing in favor of the
Ohio Valley pipe is that they are strOn>
ger, being manufactured from the fire
clay and contains no shale. which weak
ems the strength of the product.
James Russell. Mike Fullen. Frank
Russell. Tom Finerty. Tom Hamilton
Joseph HOuser. Lem Russell and James
Amick. Of this city who quit the Acme
last week are working at Marion, Ind,
under the management of Harry Sch
nel.bach, a former manager at the
Acme.
The business men and manufacturers
of this city. and indeed every city along
the Ohio Valley are kicking an the In
correctness Of the reports OF the amount
OF manufacturers i'm each place IL
has been ascertained that the three
leading industries Of the Upper Ohio
Valley. iron. glass and pottery are not
included i'm the comparative figures ac>
cOrding to his report these special in
dustries separately treated in articles
devoted TO each respectively, glass and
iron having been written mp i'm former
years. while this year the special article
viii be on pottery and kindred man
ufaCtures. This explanation does not
satisfy business men. who think an in
dustries should De included i'm the total
list even If separately treated The re-
ports gave the total manufacture as
S20S,S17, which is about one zenith OF
what is produced
The annual report of State Mine In
spectOr Hazlerive for 1894 gives IS
mines in operation i'm -nis county q gain
of 16 over 1888. although the average
number Of weeks was less by seven.
Hands employed. 2S41 q gain of S43.
Four new mines were opened. three
suspended and one abandoned. The
output of fire clay was 163024 tons. a
loss of 140195. Local production was
S97SSS tons. loss 1+OI95.
Two of the Mack Manufacturing
C0mpany's plants shut down this
week.
The MingO Junction Steel Plant and
Bar Min resumed this week after being
closed down few days.
Ten of the employees Of the McEl-
fresh Fire Clay Company left this week
for Patton, Pa, TO work in a new sewer
pipe plant recently erected there. o.
which Frank McElfresh is manager A
number viii go from Toronto TO the
. same place. A great many of the sewer
. pipe wOrkmen of Toroto are leaving
and have gone 70 New Castle and Ell
wood Pa. and Brazil. Ind. owing 20
+ the poor prospects for work at Toronto
because Of the shut down for indefinite
periods of the sewer pipe plants
Mayers and CrOnk left Toronto this
week by river for the South with q car
go of fire brick.
According TO q Toronto correspond
ent a man Of that place who saws he
knows what he is talking about saws
the Sewer Pipe Combine viii bea thing
of the past after January LIST. Should
this be the case an the factories might
be i'm operation by the close of Febru-
airy. Iii the combine can wea her it's
existence until the opening OF trade
next year the result will be greater
prosperity and better wages. But
many are dissatisfied with the present
state of affairs
Porter, Minor d Cos brickyards at
Empire are still operating. This sub,
stantial concern has run steadily the
year past
Many Of the Monroe county. Ohio. and
Tyler county, West Virginia. residents
of Toronto, have gone to their native
health for the winter. during the shu,
down of fire clay plants.