Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-08-06

The week in local industrial circles
has been one of uninterrupted pro-
gress. The high temperature wnlch
prevailed has to greater or less ex-
tent interferred with the output at the
rolling mills and has reduced the num-
Der of heats made per turn by one
fourth to one-third. The glass work
ers of this section of the valley have
been somewhat agitated by the an
nouncement that the table ware COM
bine has renewed negotiations Tor
plants in this vicinity and the outcome
of such movements will be eagerly
watched by those interested in that
branch of industry. The statement
that the La Belle Iron Works Company
will locate its proposed new plant else
where has been disappointing to those
interested in the growth and greatest
prosperity of Wheeling but there is lit
tie doubt that the facilities for manu-
facture offered here will be able to at
tract capital in the future as they have
in the past, enabling the city to at
least hold it's own as an industrial CEN
ter with all surrounding points.
The National Glass Company since
its formal organization has shown
more activity in its endeavor to secure
control of the table ware houses IN tnls
locality. Ever since the promoters or
the National set the movement on foot,
the owners of plants hereabouts have
been receiving propositions of one kind
or another to sell out to the trust.
The fact that nearly all of these offers
contemplated paying for the plants in
trust stock kept local glass men from
falling into with the proposition! 1t
appears the combine is now willing to
negotiate upon a cash basis, or at least
the plant owners insist that it shall if
plants are to be absorbed. Last week
a committee representing the National
was inspecting property in this section
of the valley and it is presumed that
the report they shall make to the head
officials at Pittsburg will have much
to do in pushing forward the deal or
declaring it off as their impressions
may be favorable or otherwise.
The West Virginia Glass Works at
Martins Ferry closed down last We'd
nesday and no definite date has been
set for resumption. The owners are
negotiating with the National Glass
Company and it looks as though sale
may be-..he result, but it can be posi-
lively stated that the deal has not yet
been closed as was reported in some OF
the papers last week. 1t is understood
the stock is being offered to the Ma
tional at $1.35 or s1.40 which would
make total for the plant approximate
ing $4,000.
The National Tube Company which
recently absorbed the Riverside works
of this city has decided to locate its
general offices in Pittsburg instead OF
New York. The Office of the general
manager will be in Pittsburg, for Pitts
burg is now regarded SO pronouncedly
the centre from which radiate all in
fiuences dominating the iron and steel
industries of the world that it is con-
sidered advantageous to the company
to be where it can hear the heart beat
instead of pulse throb.
The river and harbor act of March 3.
1879, appropriated 5000 for a survey
of the Ohio river from Marietta to the
mouth of the Big Miami river, with a
view of securing a six-foot navigation
by means Of movable dams. The work
in the field has begun. A large part of
the funds appropriated by the act of
March 3, 1879, for the Improvement of
the Ohio river, together with an unex-
pended balance from a former appropri-
alton, was especially set aside by the
provisions of the act for dredging neces
sary at various points in the lower riv-
er, to be supplemented in part by dixie
construction in order to secure in
creased depth in the harDors or ADA
cent channels. The appropriations be-
came available July 1, and the work is
to be pushed energetically. An all
year navigable river means wealth and
development for West Virginia.
The American Manufacturer has this
item upon the starting of independent
iron and steel producing concerns:
grand rush has set in among investors
to organize and build additional steel
plants. In every instance it is herald
ed in the daily press that the object OF
each pigmy concern is to fight the COM
bines. The fact are that their object
in starting new industries is to make
IuOuty duu llSy lOpO W W ~ e'AO~'
believing that the combines cannot
take care of the trade to be had.
The subcommittee on amusements
of the general labor day committee of
the Ohio Valley Trades Assembly, held
a meeting Tuesday night, at which a
programme of attractions for the de-
monstration on the fair grounds was
outlined. The committee is determln-
ed to make the picnic a big success,
and to that end will provide features to
attract the crowds.
1t appears to be settled fact that
the La Belle Iron Works Company will
locate it's proposed new plant at Steu-
benville instead of here. This course
the management claims is necessary
because of the lack of room in the vi
cinity of the present works on the
South Side This, President Wright
claims, is the only motive for placing
the new improvement at Steubenville,
where the company has tract OF for
ty acres of land nicely located for man
ufacturing purposes. The kind of a
plant it is intended to erect has not yet
been made public.
A shortage of stock is causing the
manufacturers in this locality some
trouble as it has elsewhere, and among
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