Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-18
INDUSTRIAL PICk.UPS.

s'me Doings and Happenings Among the
Mills, Workshops and Mines-C. l.. & w.
Miners Having a Good Run.
The Warwood tool works, at Market
and Twenty-ninth streets are running
full time now after a shut down of
two weeks for needed repairs. The
management say their line of mine.
railroad and agricultural tools this
year will be up to or surpass the usual
high standard of their product, but that
no new lines will be added. The busy
season for this industry lasts from Au-
gust until June, and sufficient BUSH
ness Is already in sight to insure
steady operation until the close of that
period. The full quota of hands, forty,
are nov working.
The fact that the potteries are again
resuming is gratifying to the large
number of workmen employed in those
plants. The busy hum of industry in
both the decorating and clay depart
ments of the LaBelle is again to be
heard, and the sagger makers go on
to-day. The gloss men at the Wheel
ing pottery began yesterday to draw
a couple of kilns, and the whole plant
is reported to be getting in condition
for an early start.
The coal business at the South Side
yards is quite as slack this week as
often to be found during a winter
month. The shipments have been at a
minimum and haulers report a very
slack demand. This form of merchan-
dlZlng is perhaps more uncertain than
most any other. The demand is either
excessive or is so meager as to create
downright dependency in the man
who likes to shove business along and
make it boom. Said one dealer: Dur
ing the winter orders piled in upon us
until we were so thronged we scarcely
knew which way to turn, but now it is
the reverse, and unless we have a
more formidable winter from this out
our aggregate sales will be wonder
fully cut"
The mines out the c., L. & w. rail-
road, in Belmont county, are enjoying
a steady run, AMI the diggers are get
ting all they can do. The Maple Hill
mines, al Barton, are experiencing n
of the best runs they have ever had,
and are sending big shipments north
daily, besides furnishing fuel for all
the c., l.. & w. engines. The Boggs'
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which were shut down for some months
on account of a bad slip, have been
opened out again, and are putting cat
from eight to twelve cars u day. A,
Barton, the large mines have absorbed
the labor so completely thai owners
of peddling banks have found if diff
cult to get diggers to work for them.
This has caused quite a dearth of coal
at the small banks in that vicinity.
The breaking of the engine at tie
LaBelle tin works has thrown of mills
Nos. 5, 6 and Z. The AZURE OF the
damage to the machinery is such as
to require some time for repairs and
the mills will hardly get on before
next week.
The Wheeling Street Railway Com
pany is putting in additional stays for
the trolley wire all along their line
Anyone who has ever observed how
liable the trolley is to leave the wlIe
when rounding corners, especially if
the car is being d1yen at a rapid
rate of speed, has wondered why the
inconvenience could never be ever
come. 1t appears the ~unevenness of
the curve is responsible in a great
measure, and if this is remedied the
trolley will cling to the wire much
more tenaciOusly. AT least this is the
theory upon which the company is
proceeding.
The small bar mill at the Belmont
mill shut down last night On account
of the breaking of a piniOn.