Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-08-27

Some improvements TO the mill are UNI
der way. A new machine to manufac-
ture high grade paper will be put in
operation inside Of three weeks. When
It is put in operation along with two
other machines of large capacity the
daily output will be IS tons of finished
paper. They are kept busy to fill or
derS.
The La Belle-Jefferson plant inter-
ests our people to understand what i'm
proyements are contemplated. The
nail mill building at the north side has
been RACED and the machines thrown
on the scrap pile The ground is be-
ing cleared off and engineers have been
at work laying out the new mills.
Rumor has it that extensive finishing
mills will be constructed north OF the
present rolling mill. also that an open
hearth steel plant will be put up south
OF the furnace. The rolls are not in
operation and the heating furnaces are
being repaired and two are being en-
larged
wealthy citizen of Toronto has
placed an order with the pottery at
that place for two jardinisrs which he
will present to Dewey on his return
They will cost about SIS and over
twenty bottles of gold fluid will be us
ed on each.
There is demand for good rentable
houses here. AT Mingo Junction there
is an unusual demand for such houses
and fully dozen are under way and
Others are contemplated. The National
Steel Co., has purchased lots in Muir
q -.
erect houses for their superintendent
whom they want 10 live in the town.
The steel company is grading down
land along Commercial street for
building lots. The demand for houses
is so great at Mingo that the company
erected number of temporary houses
which were Occupied as soon as COM
pleted and more will be built.
The Ohio Valley Clay Company is
running in full and five hours at night
trying to keep up with the unusual de
mand for its output. They have sold
large number of window glass fiat
tening stones and could have soti more
if they had them on hands. Since
starting on glass tank furnaces they
have sold 15 The above is line OF
manufacture began last fall. Glass pots
which they have made for years have
been in strong demand also They en-
ploy hands.
At the Stsubenville pottery 200 hands
are employed. The new policy OF the
company inaugurated lately is to give
the pressers and jiggers~all the clay
they want and the pottery is running
full time. They are turning out as
much ware as pOsSibla q certain part
of the cost being the same whether
much or little is turned out. II the
past there was curtailment in the
amount turned out hence the cost of
ware was greater. In three weeks the
pottery will have out a number of new
shapes in novelties. dinner and toilet
ware sets.
The Riverside furnace is being OPP
Grated full time with IA hands and their
output averages 200 tons daily. The
furnace is in good condition and Supt.
VIM. Crockard, who is one of the best
furnacemen in the valley, looks after
details very carefully. The prospects
for the furnace being operated full are
bright as it is in the Tube Trust and
there is a demand for the pig iron for
the Trusts mills. Some hundreds of
tons of pig iron are being stored in the
yards for some reason and at time
when the prince is high the supply
said to be behind the demand.
At Mingo Junction work is under
way for the first of four six hundred
ton furnaces, the National Steel Co.
intends erecting. A good foundation
was gotten after sounding and digging.