Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-30

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cess. John James will continue to
manage the plant.
The Glencoe Coal Company, operat-
ing mines near Glencoe Just west of
Bellaire. is making very extensive i'm
provementS to their plant. They are
putt1ng In compressed air machines of
the Mgersoll type and will also add the
rope hallage system. This will be the
second experience with compressed air
machines in Belmont county, but it is
really the first in the No. seam or
Pitsburg vein. The other attempt was
made at Flushing but in a different
vein. Four machines will be put in.
and the capacity of the mine will be in
creased from 250 tons daily to 500 or
600. The boilers and machinery is
being erected now and w. G. Simpson,
who Is to be the new manager, expects
to have the machines in operation by
the tenth or middle of November.
The nail business in this city is i'm
proving, apparently, as nail factories in
the city and vicinity have been working
stealcter than for some time. The de-
mand for nails seems to have been In
creased during the past few months.
Ichacco workers of this city say they
are opposed to the proposition to annex
Cuba or the Philippines, as they allege
1t Will hurt the tobacco business in this
country and will bring wages down.
The new boiler house ait the Bloch to-
bacco factory will be finished some time
this week. The factory will likely have
f0r IL
that connection can be made with the
new boilers.
work is still in progress on the new
incline being built at the Riverside, and
1t will be several weeks yet before the
coke plant is started. MILL A in the
plate department closed down last week
on account of a cog wheel breaking
The damage will not be repaired before
the middle of this week, at least.
The addition to the tin house at the
La Belle is not yet finished, but salts
factory progress is being made. The
tin department. has not been able to
work steadily all week.
The building for the Cooperative
Stone and Foundry Company near the
Warwood tool works, is not yet finish
ed. The Peoples Ice and Storage Com
pany has decided to- build their plant
lear the same site on ground leased
from the B. & O. Railroad Company,
which owns the vacant land surround
ing their yards at Twenty-eighth
street.
E. w. Holiday has secured the con-
tract for furnishing the lumber and
doing the mill work for a residence for
Otto Tyson and for a dwelling to be
built for Mrs. Carr, at Pleasant Valley.
B. F. Higgins, of this city, was CIV
en- the contract for an extensive paint
ing job of the interior of the govern
ment building. His bid was $3.50, the
lowest of several.
The Top mill sheet mill went on
last week after several days suspen-
sion.
Boys and girls are wanted at the
Wheeling Hinge Company's plant, East
End.
The tin mills at the Laughlin start
ed Tuesday afternoon with a second
turn, after being idle for day on &C
count of scarcity of coal.
A new 120-horse power gas engine
was set up in the Warwood tool works
last week.
w. H. Bone, bookkeeper for FLAG
Gus Bros, has awarded to w. A. Will
son the contract for new house, to
be erected on Main street on a part of
the Ohio Valley China company's plat.
The building will be of frame. Work
on it begins at once.
A new residence on South Eoff street
near Twenty-ninth street for R. l..
Lindsay, of the La Belle mile, is about
finished.
The Novelty stamping works, Roder-
fer Bros glass factory the Bellaire
bottle works and the Stewart enamel
factory at Bellaire. are all running in
full and have sufficient numbers of or
Gers on fire to keep them operating IN
til the first of the year.
Fires were started in the furnaces
of the new Enterprise bottle works at
Bellaire, during the past week for the
purpose of heating the pots properly,
preparatory to beginning operations
during the present week in all proba-
bility. The material to be used in the
manufacture of glass arrived at the
works yesterday.
The new quarters of the Bellaire bot
tie company at Bellaire, will be ready
for occupancy next Tuesday. 1t will
require several days at least for the
company to make the transfer from
the old Aetna plant to the new quar-
tiers.
Mr.. George Evans, manager of the
Lisbon tin plate mill, in which the
principal stockholders are Bridgeport
and Wheeling people, was in Wheeling
Tuesday. He visited the tin plate mills
here and in Martins Ferry and will
visit other factories in the country to
inspect their methods, and, if found
practicable, will introduce them in his
plant, where they are now making big
changes. They are using the tandem
or continuous process at the plant
with the result of an immense saving
for a years work. The mill company
did not lose cent in the failure of the
Lisbon Bank last Friday, as they have
been doing their business through an
other bank in the town and the First
National of Bridgeport. The company
was never in better shape nancially
than right now and business is better
than since they started.
Last Wednesday new 120-horse
power gas engine was placed in the
Warwood tool works on the South
Side.
The Bellaire steel plant is being
operated as usual.
PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL.