The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-04-22
NANUF ACTURE IF
NAILS STILL 4
LOCAL INDUSTRY
LA SELLE MILL TURNING OUT
moRE TEAM $4,000 KEGS OF CUT
NAILS EACH WEEK.
E.G Shipment Of walls TO Be Made by
River Today For Southern
Points.

: |! reminds Il person nf I'll" old timfS
when Wheeling WAS the Nail cry. l"
learn that cut naiS ar" growing In d"
quite an item in river shipments 'h"s'
DAYS but nevertheless It's fact
, When this city WAS tn" greatest pro-
Queer of cut nails In tho world. the rIFrr
WAS The particular outlet tn IN" mar
k"tS ur thu west and south and many OF
! tho old Time steamboats, would leave
, this city loaded to the guards with nails
, and hardly anything else hut nails.
! \ boat would start loading nails nj
! in" LauEhlin mill in III" upper no or
Martins Forty. then 20 to the Top mil
; and from there Ia tn" Riverside. Bel
mont. laBrlle and Bcnwood landings
! Ut each place taking on larg" conslgn-
ments and spending the greater portion
! Of n day and with a continuous stream
i"t kegs Of nails going aboard on the
shoulders OF the negro roustaoouts who
sang as they worked
By tho time the steamboat had left
, tho Brnwood landing SIZE would he "tlat-
tened out" IN use tho rivermanS term
and 20 through to Cincinnati. where
the cargo would he trans-shippcd TO
points south and west.
The largest single cargo taken out or
! Wheeling by steamboat was ono OF
1900 kegs from the local mills taken
ny the Andes. That was tho record, but
many cargocs were almost as big and
| il was common occurrence for a
steamboat TO take 10000 kegs in one
cargo.
Since the cut nails was suppla ntcd by
the wire nail. WhcelInE's snbriQuct OF
the Nail City passed out If existence
! and tho cut nail industry dwindlcd until
now there is molly on" factory in the
) city making tho old variety and that
is the La Belle mill which is turning
! out from fifteen 10 twenty thousand
| kegs each week and since the revival
Of river traffic has started 70 use the
| old method of transportation and ship
| by river whenever the destination OF the
product Is touched by steamboat.
| Tho first consignment of nails Will
| be shipped to down-rivcr points tnmor-
| row morning on the General Crowdcr
and hereafter the steamboats, will he
used for transportation whenever prac-
; ticablc.
River News.
Tho river At the wharf yesterday ut 9
p. M. was In feet s inches. and falling
slow. while the stag" 1t the foot or
McMcchrn dam WIS II feet. inches
and falling slow.
The Liberty cleared for McConnclIs-
willie nj ! p. M. yesterday.
Tho General P"rshinI arrived from
Pittsburgh at midnight last night and
left for l'ark"rsburS nj : n. IN.
The Helen f. arrived last night from
New Matamoras
The General Crowdnr will arrive from
Pittsburgh at o'clock tomorrow morn
ing and leave for Charleston Mt : a. m.
The Helen T.. leaves today for New
Matamoras today.
The General PershinC will rn up from
Parkersburg on her way TO tshurgh
at : o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
The Verne Swain which is lying al
the wharf was inspected by L. s. In
spectors George l.. Berry and Edward
Maurer Of tho Pittsburgh district yes
to-day.
The Swain will hn equipped with
| calliopc for III" excursion business and
the instrument arrived ycst orday. II is
cons idcrcd one OF thu finest tnn"d cal
Hopes on tho river and was on tn" i'll
fatod Conny Island steamer Princess.
when she was cut down by tn" ice at
Carrolton. Ky. winter before last.