New-York tribune., 1872-11-05
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS.
NOTES FROM ALL QUARTERS.

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Superior wooden blankets, made in California, are
now dlspihyed In broadway stores.
British carpet manufacturers have largely secured
patents Tor their designs in this country.
The annual production from the 7o6 iron mines
worked IN Swedenis 30J850 tuns pig iron.
A beet sngar factory was recently completed Mt
heeport, Ill., which cost Sl5O,OOO, and will employ
2j0 hands
The Delaware. Lackawanna and Western Railway
Co. are at present relaying their entire road with
steel rails.
A London firm recently imported by way Of Rot
terdam, the first cargo OF Prussian coal brought
into England.
Tennessee company won the prizes for the hest
cotton manufactures at the Cincinnati and New
Orleans EXpOsitions.
There were III S9 95l TINS of coal raised last year
in Engand-the largest quantity ever yet raised
there in n year.
II is proposed in Lynchburg Va. to exempt fac
tories from local taxation in order to induce manu-
factlreTs to settle there.
The total length Of the railways Of France 1llH
miles; that of the railways of the United states Is
more than GO,0OO miles.
Forty German farmers form the Sauk County
(Wisl Beet Sugar Company. which expects to use
1900 tuns of beets this Winter.
Four railroads in all 125 miles in length are con-
structing in New-Zealand and will cost S2,i70,OOO,
or rather less than Slo0OO per mile.
Ashland Ky, on the Ohio river, is abont to have
nail factory, and furnace winch VIII nave ca
paCity of 80 tuns Of pig iron per day.
Iron sand yielding 80 per cent Of pure iron of tho
finest kind is said to be found i'll enormous quanti-
ties within 40 miles of San Francisco.
A British firm is rolling iron bars of the enor;
nous weight of $40 pounds per yard OF the specIal
quality used in the manufacture OF Armstrong guns
There are 400 scutchng mills in Ireland, and the
total acreage under flax in that country tins year
III Sd acres-a decrease OF 10 since ist year,
The French Government recently invited tenders
for the sole right to manuiactiTe matches IN
France, and awarded it Professionally TO one com
pany.
Tho Victoria Musfraliel Legislature has detor-
mined to adhere TO a five feet three moh gauge in
connection with all lines about to be undertaken In
Victoria.
Nasmyth & Co are making SO-tun steam ham
mer which will be the largest ever made and is in
tended for the manufacture of the S)-tun guns at
WoOwich.
The Sacramento Valley california; Beet Sugar
Factory which is III successful operation, consumes
from 80 10 75tuns of bcets day. and produces excel
lent sugar
A new green pigment, said to be brilliant, is COM
posed of % parts of oxide of zinc and Of 81 phato
of cobalt, mixed into paste with water and exposed
to a red heat.
A railway bridge is about to be built over thc
Rhine st Wcse which will have with it's yiaducts
the right and left banks total length OF about
mile and half.
Mr. f. j. Reed, the ex-Chief Constructor of The
British Navy states thai, in their new lrOncad, the
Peter the Great the Russians possess the most pow
erful ship IN the world.
a British railroad buder for the construction OF the
Yokohama Railway which, it is expected, will be
completed III less than year.
The American Pig Iron Manufacturers Association
organized seven months ago, held last week. its first
annual me ting in Pittsburgh and elected Mr. a. Is.
Stone of Cleveland, o., President and Mr. Thomas
Dunlap, : Cretary
Our GOV, rnmcnt having borrowed the original
drawings castings. and core boxes of the handsome
lamp standards ON the Victoria Embankment. Lon
dom are about to erect similar ones in front Of the
Treasury at Washington.
A company is organizing in England for the pur-
chase of coal property at Coos Bay, Oregon, within
two days sailing distance OF san Francisco, the
principal market. The company also propose to
own and use steam coers.
England exported upward Of 1,0OOCO0 tuns OF pig
iron during the first nine months of this year. She
exported 5S0j3 tuns of railroad iron OF the value OF
SlSS7 900 t. the United States-more than she sent
to the remainder of the world
The Weld of the 20 furnaces erecting will add
900 tuns of pig iron to the present annual prOduc-
tion of the United States. and it. ls estimated that
the productive capacity ot all our furnaces VIII DC
3,OOO0O tuns per annum within two years
The prospects of the cotton trade in Preston. En-
gland are considered gloomy. Four five large
manufacturing firms employing 5000 to 1000 opera
tiyes, are said TO have determined to work short
time One reason gwen for this course is the mgh
price of fuel.
Three large companies in Westphalia Germany
have combined themselves into one association.
which IL perhaps the greatest connected with the
iron trade in the world. The annual production of
the works which it controls Is 1000 tuns OF steel
and 100000 tuns of iron IN various forms pig, ralls
&c.
The Prussian Government has recently concluded
a contract with Birmingham England firm for the
supply of 10000 rifles and 100000 cartridges. The
rifle ordered is single-barrecd gun, with Il metal
cartridge on the bolt principle, with range exceed
ing those of the ChasSepOt and Neder, and capable
of firing G rounds per minute.
The value of metaliurgic skill has aecenty been
strikingly demonstrated in Greece. Some time ago
the Greek Government parted for mere trie to two
heaps at the Laurium mines which were first
worked $500 years ago by the King of Athens. 1t
was soon found that the debris which had been
cast aside by the ancicnts as worthless, possessed
great value and the Government repenting OF their
bargain have assessed the property at SAOOOO,OOO,
and are demanding more money for their rights.
The annual consumption of cotton on the continent
of Europe las been as follows since 1923 the year
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