Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-16
management can arrange to do 50 and.
the whole plant will likely be on before
ten days or two weeks.
PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL.


| PIEDMONT, w. VA. July 15.-The
several coal mines in this section and
the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Com
| pany paid their employees to-day for
last month. The Cumberland and
Pennsylvania railroad pays on the 10th,
the West Virginia Central Railway on
| the 10th. and the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad between the 10th and 25th.
! Land in Grant, Tucker and Ran
| dolph counties, specially along the line
of the West Virginia Central railway,
is constantly changing hands The IL
| tie to much real estate is in dispute,
| and firms and individuals are constant
| ly failing in business and their land is
| being sold for debts. Some newspapers
| have several columns each week of leg
al advertisements, which prove a yerit-
able gold mine to their publishers.
| Contractor VIM. A. Liller, of Keyser,
has contracted to build three double
dwelling houses at Thomas, Tucker
| county, for the Davis Coal and Coke
Company, for which he is to receive
about $4,000 These houses are to be
better ones than usually erected for
their employees at that place. H. p.
Rodruck, of Keyser, will have charge
of the work.
The town of Keyser will build foot
bridge across New creek. John Cain
will receive $11O for the stone work,
and Wright Davis SIS for the wood
work.
The town of Keyser had u electric
street lights the past year at cost of
1882 per light, making total cost OF
81, 066
B. w. Davis has opened hotel on
Main street, Keyser.
The town commissioners of Western
port, Md, are rebuilding the wire sus-
pension bridge across the Potomac rly-
er between that town and Piedmont.
The repairs will cost several hundred
dollars.
The engines, boilers, planers and
other machinery belonging TO the West
Virginia Building Company, at Keyser,
will be sold at PUBLIC sale by the receiv-
\ers, August 18th.
The machinery of the bridge, scale
and switch works in the Baltimore and
Ohio shops. at Martins'burg, are being
hurriedly torn down and shipped to the
company's shops at Mt. Clare, Balti-
more, instead of to Piedmont as pre-
viously announced. AS soon as all the
machinery is shipped the Martinsburg
shops will be locked up and number
of men thrown out of employment or
transferred elsewhere.
Several prominent officials OF that
road inspected the Baltimore and Ohio
shops at Piedmont recently, but their
intentions or conclusions could not be
learned.
]. H. Cramer and D. E. Parke are
each building an addition to and re-
modelling their residences.
The Postal Telegraph Company paid
s270 freight on q cedar poles from
Michigan, $40 a pole.
The gas engine used by the electric
light plant at Mt. Lake Park, Nd, is to
be replaced with more powerful one.
The Preston Lumber and Coal Com
payn, of Oakland, Nd, are advertising
for $50 men for railroad grading, and rs
transfers.
Work has been begun in earnest on
the construction of the Morgantown
and Kingwood railroad, following the
route and grade of the old Black Bottle
road, ten miles of which had been
graded, and four miles is in a beautiful
glade which requires scarcely any
grading.