Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-08-20
PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL.

Messrs. Eugene Horton, OF New York
and L. S. PoWnall of Cumberland, Md,
| OF the United States Leather Company,
We're along the Beverly extension of
the West Virginia Central railway this
week and have practically decided to
| locate a sole leather tannery at Mill
! Creek, Randolph county. Bark can be
procured there in great quantity, and
1t is cheaper to pay freight on the hides
| and leather than to ship the bark long
distances to their present tanneries.
| j. E. Sands, Of Fairmont, has pur-
| chased 1000 acres Of nine foot vein of
| coal on Shinn's Run, Harrison county,
two miles from Clarksburg, for $4,000
| one-third of which he paid down. New
| York capitalists have purchased a valu-
| liable tract of coal land of John Lat
| stetter, at Mount Glare, better known
| by its old name "Turtletown," five
miles from Clarksburg, for $4,000, pay
| ing $4,000 cash down. This company
will operate extensively in the near
| future
| A company has been formed to de-
velop the rich gold ana silver deposit
| in the Poe mountains in Bedford coun-
| ty, Pa John Griffin, an old California
| miner made the discoery. An analysis
of the ore shows AN per cent to the
ton, $1,000 of gold and $3.50 worth of
| silver. The Poe mountains are similar
| in appearance to the quartz producing
ridges of California.
The miners employed at the Excel
! sior mine of the Piedmont Mining
| Company, at Franklin, Md. are on a
strike, claiming they don't get proper
| weight. This is a new and small COM
pany, the principal being VIM. Cor
man, OF Baltimore, a relative of ex-Sen-
ator A. P. German. Funds are being
solicited for the benefit of these miners.
| Baltimore and Ohio officials fear
| car famine. They have trouble now to
| supply shippers with empty cars, and
are in quandery as to how to meet
| the demand of shippers this fall. This
road now has 1000 freight cars in SER
ice and though they are loaded and IN
| loaded as rapidly as possibly yet the
| company could use at least 1900 moro
| cars.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany are renewing their telegraph poles
in this section.
The Chesapeake and Potomac Long
Distance Telephone Company complet-
ed their line to Piedmont this week,
and opened it to the public Friday eve
ming. Piedmont can now converse by
telephone with almost all large cities
throughout the country. The Office is
at the Kenny House, the best two dol
lar day hotel in West Virginia.
Judge C. f. Moore, who recently sold
| his residence in Piedmont to H. c.
| Thrush, has let the contract for $4,000
| or Ua
| John Cain raised the smoke stack
this week at the new door and box fac
| tory at Keyser. 1t is 81 feet tall and
weighs 5000 pounds. This factory will
be started Up in few days.
The Baltimore and Ohio passenger
depot at Keyser is being thoroughly
| renovated, repaired, remodeled ana
| painted, adding much to the appear
| ance.
The Cumberland Paper Company,
| near Cumberland, Md, is erecting a
new warehouse. S0x44 feet, to accom-
modate its increasing business
| The plant and property of the Aus
| tin, Miller and Company, who started
the Brentwood factory at Parsons last
| fail, was sold at Constable sale. The
mill property was purchased by T. f.
| Hebb for $175.
The controversy between the coal
miners and operators in the Georges
| creek region remains about the same,
and final settlement appears to be as
| far distant as it was last week. The
| shipment of coal from that region last
! week aggregated S9.41z tons, 1916
more than for the same week of last
! year, and for the year to that date q,
651, 1899 tons, an increase of 1889 tons
as compared with same period of 1888.
| For same week 27,13S tons of coal and
| 5,S13 tons of coke were shipped from
| the Elk Garden and Thomas region OF
this State. To date this year S30,621
| tons of coal and 1925 OF coks.
| A tower is being added to the Pres
| byterian church at Davis.