The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-02-06

Industrial,

r Milwaukee made last year SO, 103 bar
rels of malt beverages. ISM ss5 e
"A. T. Stewart sold $24,0 worth of
goods on New Years eve. f1Eu29a q
l-s 1t costs 100000 month to run the
New York city government. Iol e
Three hundred and eighty steamers
arrived at St. Louis last year.
1t takes two men one hour to wind up
the clock In Trinity Church, New York.
The present average daily production
of the Pennsylvania oil regions is 1905
barrels. 9.
Luther Whitman, of Winthrop, Me,
is filing large orders from England for ma
chinery.
The Atwood Lead Company, of Port
land, Me-, make 2,O0O, 900 pounds Of acids
yearly.
cleveland manufactured 4,524,332 CT
CARS during 1867. Number of manufac-
turers, ia.
1t costs a million and half dollars q
year to do the printing for the National
Government.
The ffty-eight oil refneries in Pitts
burgh have weekly capacity OF thirty-one
thousand barrels.
1t is estimated that 1900 sleighs
were manufactured at Westboro, Mass,
last year, at q valuation of $25, O0O 1s :
"A gold brick weighing over eighty
pounds, having coin value of nearly
twenty thousand dollars, has been cast at
Helena, Montana.
Middleton and neighboring towns in
Orange county, N. Y. are excited over
the discovery Of gold in their limits. One
nugget worth twenty five dollars has been
taken out =
a paper mill at the town of North
Shapleigh, in Maine, Is at present engaged
in manufacturing leather board, made of
leather chips, DC. II employs ten hands,
and turns out about one ton per day.
The international Bricklayers' Union
comprises Al Unions, with total member
ship of 6,103. At the Unions late ses-
sion in New York, the name was changed
to "The National Bricklayer's Union of
the United States of America" E4
1t is thought that tie prospects fer a
large immigration in 1858 are by no means
flattering, owing to the depression in bust
ness in this country, though, if there should
be prospect Of war in Europe, many will
come, notwithstanding the uncertainty OF
getting employment. ~. .,.----e =, g
The Springfield (Mass.) Repubgsca7,
states that most of the wooden 1nanufac-
turers that are running in that vicinity are
expecting fair spring trade, as pretty
much all the imported goods are used up,
and they consider that importations must
nearly cease as long as our present low
prices In woolens continue. ~
The number of hides shipped from
Texas last year is estimated at 100000,
and their value at 100000, of which
100000 are expended in Houston alone.
In some part of Texas, off the lines of rail
roads, and apart from towns, the hides of
cattle are not saved, and one stock raiser
is mentioned who has never sold single
hide from the hundreds of beeves killed
on his premises. ..- III
"A writer in the Commonwealth, pub.
lished at Lincoln, Nebraska, says: GA
short time since we saw a man driving a
team over the town site, loaded with lum-
Der and household furniture. He had q
plan OF the city IN his hand, and every
little while he would stop and examine the
stakes. After long search he succeeded
in finding his lot. He Immediately pro-
ceeded to unload his wagon, and in foe
hours from that time had a house ND and
ecds Aoiaag IN 1t. Fast!"