New-York tribune., 1873-02-25
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS.

llQ Blllaueplla Board OF Trade IaNOfB BuDSlulZ-
ing mail steamship lines.
general railroad hill is finding supporters in and
out OF the Virginia Legislature.
Hematite ores have advanced in the Whtehayen
Eng district 80 to 70 cents per tun
The State of Massachusetts has already expended
S9301 900 on the HoOsac tunnel, and isanOw deiber
9ting AZ to it's future control
A company is organizing in London for the pur-
chase and working of the Tecoma mining property
in Box Elder County, Utah.
The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada has deter
mined abandon its broad 6-feet gauge and readopt
the ordinary narrow one for economical reasons.
There were 2,s09,OOO pounds Of gunpowder exported
from the Clyde, last year, of which TSOOO pounds
sent TO Valparaiso. and $4,000 70 Nova Scotia.
Some of the large Sheffield Eng steelmakers,
feeling that the cOal-Owners were charging too
much, have purchased collities and make their own
coke
The oOal-miners who are on strike in Scotland are
reported % be experiencing great distress, but there
are no signs that the contest Is drawing toward It's
close.
A boier-cleansing company is organizing in Lon
don for the purpose of purchasing the patent and
plant OF the inventor of fluids for the removal and
prevention of the incrustatiOn of boilers
During the past year 10 of the largest redistil-
ling and rectitying houses IN Cincinnati manufae-
tured and sold II 900 600 gallons of whisky which, at
the price of 81 OS per gallon. amounts TO ST. $4,000
The Pittsburgh coOpers have asked the state Legls-
laturc to prohibit the manufacture of barrels at the
County WOrkhOuse on the ground that the cOmpet-
ton OF penal and pauper aO0r MJuIes Jhelr
business.
A British iron and steel company have purchased
a Thousand of land for the purpose OF working
rich seam OF isst0ne coal, which, lies at an average
depth If $50 yards and is expected 70 yield several
millions OF tuns of that mineral.
An English inventor proposes to deface postage
stamps on letters by placing them IN gas whlch
viii cause reaction in the material contained IN
each stamp, and change its color. This process
would do away with the tedious work OF detacng by
hand-labOr.
PHILADELPHIA manufacturers employing in the ag-
q IHg lLOfflTsT
ing to abandon Philadelphia. and carry on Their
business III Delaware IN order To- be under lighter
taxation. The prOprietOrs OF the Pascal Iron Works
have already done 50.
Among the applications for patents IN England is
one for process whereby steel or cast IRON can be
procured with certainty and facility directly from
the ore, either a small or large way or in quantl-
ties OF from one 10 a hundred tuns daily, as CLeaply
as by the ordinary method.
A transandine' survey. made Jointly by the Argen
tine and the Chlllan Governments. leaves httle
doubt Of the possibility Of railway communication
between the Atlantic and Pacific. The length OF the
proposed railway would be about l,2OO miles, OF
winch nearly 40 are actually made.
IL is claimed IN Iowa that it costs less 10 send
grain from that State TO Europe VIA the mississippi
than by wav of Chicago and that when the pro-
posed Fort ST. Pmhp canal ana 0ther improvements
are carried out "A saving in the cost OF freight Ot
rom 10 to Is cents a bushel would be effected
Desiring TO Stimulate home industry in ST. Louis,
, a journal of that city observes: Missouri sends
abroad Tor millions OF collars "Oitn OF li.lIIou rIs
| locomotive engines, agricultural machinery TOOLS,
nails, boiler iron, wrought iron, and steel, all Of
which can DO made more cheaply here than any
where else III the land"
The famous Bessemer shin has encountered n rival
in the floating cabin devised by a Russian lie con-
structiOn is very much the same as that Of the bes-
e,mer, but the CABIN, instead OI Deing atlacAeu 10
pivot literally loats amidships between the engines
! The invention has been tested by t4e Grand Duke
Constantine, and is deemed successful
Blast furnace slaCs are Cranulated NJ Osnahruck,
Germany, by allowing the molten stream from the
tap to How INTO water from Q suitable night ID Tne
same way lead is converted TO shot ID towers. Inc
Stag is used for illing In bel yeen railroad 7leepes,
and also in the manufacture Of concrete, and # 10
contains considerable aunlna IL Is ground aAd con-
yerted into alum.
The eyz0orrs of coal from the United Kingdom have
been as follows In the year lolO l,1U2C4J tns, OF
the value OF G5,63o,37l in the year I6l, l%,l4l.e9
1872 211o o6 tuns. OF the value OF G10443920 The
change in value in 1872 Is nearly 80 per cent brazil
which received III 1872 1854 tuns may ere long I'M
port coal only from the United states.
Experiments have recently been made in Paris 20
test the merits Oi the OraulIne system Ot pro-
ducng electric light "The poweroi tins light cor
respondent savB lis great that ita intensity equals
800 CaTcel lamps and the electric current heated 10
Z a red heat the wire Tor ~ teet OF rs lengJh ana
of the fairy effect produced by TINS powerful hight,
OF 10 conceive to what extent this now power may
be apphcd'
REGARDING the dutv on British steel the Sheffield
correspondent of The L0Rd0H EiigiHeer SAYS: "Such
houses as do an American business bave been some
what reassuTed By a Telegram from New 4Ork 70 a
/
finally decided not put up the value Of cast steel
so as render II liable To extra duty, ans is salh-
factory but some of those concerned think duty OF
fl2 IT'S 6d. Ds52 81 per tun is quite sufficient 1T
is TO be hoped In view of this statement Jhat our
appraisers are not astray as 90 the uue Value or
foreign steel, and the fluctuations taking place
abroad.
Recent advces from Wales regarding the great
strike contain these items: The cOeIs are the IN
Welding faction: the miners IN great part dis
pOsed to 20 to work. and the iTOn-wOrkcrs rule
are anxious to resume work on the masters terms,
but without coal little can be done The only trade
now Ourishng is the sea-cOal trade; the making OF
rails and bars is almost suspended. At DOWlms
not a tun Of rails mas been made IN week. Out OF
/ lG furnaces u are damped down the hne Besscmer
mill is deserted and other mills are at rest. The
colieTs in coal mines in other parts have divided
| their work with some of those on strike.
Railroad management being now popular theme
/ the following propositions of Committee OF the
Philadelphia Board Of Trade, which delibented on
what legislative restraints are necessary IN regard 10
railroad companies, possess general interest
First That each Railroad Company slhli puDlsl lhc
rates OF freight upOn which each class OF goods shan be
carried over roadway, with statement or amount or
die shipped 70 destination 20 cousgEee, ana
infractiOn Of this regulation slaA DC NslJtu
with heavy penalty. - ,,
connection with the aforementioned Irlght rates
tariff OF charges mile at which 10 VIII furnish road
way and motive power for cars Other than those owned
v the cOmpanyl winch De delivered 20 IT'S eharge
Anv deva on from the published tariff OF rates. shall De
visited in this case, also, with neaVy penaltY' -,
TLird. That Congress shall 90 memOriaIzed for the
passage OF such shall establish these regulations
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