The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-10-24
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

Thirty -one -four mills in st. Louis use 6n,oOo
bushels Of wheat per day.
Omaha ha- just manufactured a complete train
of cars for the Union Pacific road.
single cheese factory in Southwestern Virginia
viii turn ont q, 900 pounds this season
The furnace at GAINESVILLE, Ohio, put in operation
last February, has more than paid for itself al
ready, having produced II, 900 tons of pig iron. Is
The Adrian Paper Company's new mill at
Adrian, Mich, will be in operation soon, 1t con-
tains one 62-lnch machine, with 1886 engine
beaters.
A stock company with a capital of $4,000, has
been organized at Alegan Mich, for the purpose
ofpromotpg the manufacturing interests of that
village.
The manufacture of salt is becoming an impor-
tant interest in Michigan, and is constantly in
creasing Several new works have been recently
started among which we notice those at White
Rock in Huron, and at Casevllle.
The Adrian (NItch) Car Company employs SS5
men, 1t has a capital of $3.50 OOoinvesed in build
ngs ard machinery, and capacity of ten fat or
freight cars per day, and one first class passenger
coach each week. The sales for 1872 win exceed
81 100000.
The Millville Manufacturing Company, at Mill
vile, N. J., own cotton mill, bleachery, glass
works and foundries. In the cotton ssmill $4,000
spindlers and 600 looms are run. The bleachery
and dye works handle 800 pieces of goods per dag
The foundries turn out 5000 tons of castings per
annum
There are 1000 square miles of coal fields in
which Pi.tsburg capital Is interested and $l5,-
900 of capital is interested therein. Pro-
badly $25, 900 O09 more is invested in transporta-
tien and the total of all interest dependent upon
these coal fields cannot fall short of the enormous
sum Of Sl0O,COO,OOO.
Anew branch OF industry has been started in
Florida, which bids fair to prove exceedingly re
muuerative. It is the manufacture of feather
flowers that will not fade or change color under
any circumstances. The flowers are made OF the
plumage of the white heron, while the leaves are
taken from the paroquet. They are unusually
rich and attractive.
The rail mill connected with the Pennsylvania
Iron Works. of Danville, Pa, recently turned out
in about ten hours 100 tons of finished railroad
iron, the number of bars being 5o4 each of which
thirty feet long, and weighing fifty six pounds
per yard This was done by of men and
one set of rolls, and is called remarkable days
work
ames Buckworth, Of Mount Carmel, Conn.
is the inventor of new loom for weaving al
kinds of tape, wicking suspender webbing, etc
Instead of having several webs on one loom, eact
web has separate loom, so that any hreakage OF
disarrangment of one does not interfere with thu
weaving of any other web, as it does under the
old method.
The new iron bridge of the Main Central Rail
road over the Androscoggin, at Brunswick, va
shipped in forty days from the time the order wal
given, and erected in eighteen days 1t will aic
in understanding the magnitude of the work Il
know that it consists of four halfdeck spans of 1S
feet each. The bridge was built by the Phenix
vile Bridge Works, and the contract price wa
S56.25o