The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-11-06
Industrial.

"A %tO,VUV mlnc, ucstF DISTINGUISH, iowa,
yields 37S tons of coal per day.
MIR. Mackay, of Martin County, Mimi,
will make clear profit of $4,000 on his
crop of beans this season. He has raised
1900 bushels, which he has sold for
$46,72O.
Owing to its abundance, petroleum is
now one-half the price it was two years
ago, and its use has greatly increased,
both for illuminating and lubricating pur-
poses.
"A salmon factory has been started at
Lake Sebec, Me-, thirty miles northwest
of Bangor. A Matching house is to be
erected at once, and the fish will be bred
in large quantities.
"A new saloon car for freight trains
just finished at the Maine Central shops in
Augusta, has turret from which the con-
ductor can see the whole of his train at
once, and communicate with the engi-
neer and train hands. The brakes can be
applied from the turret.
"A mass of copper was recently raised
from the Copper Falls mine, Lake Supe-
rior, which weighed 9,8lQ pounds; and a
| smaller piece cut from the same mass,
weighing $40 pounds, is supposed to be
almost, if not entirely, pure copper.
The Mining Journal recommends the
use of pulverized fuel in the manufacture
| of iron. 1t states that the iron made in
this manner will bear greater tensile
strain, when reheated and rolled once,
than that which has been reheated and
rolled three times by the ordinary pro.
cess.
The amount of timber cut on the
head-waters of the Mississippi River and
its tributaries, the past year, was equal to
1879, OO0, 900 feet. This quantity, estima-
ting the yield of pine land at 10000 feet
155, 900 acres, or nearly $50 square miles
of land.
| The total shipments of ore and pig iron
from the Lake Superior iron district fol
the year 1873, to date, in comparison with
the shipments to same date in 1872, in
gross tons, are as follows: Iron Ore-1873
1000, lis; 1872, 73O, 712; increase, 2O9, 4O3
Pig Iron-1S73, 1856; 1872, 81, 572, show
ing decrease from the district of 2,717
tons.
The Methodist Association for the
Niles (Mich.) district have leased their
beautiful spring situated upon their camp
meeting grounds, six miles east of tina,
city, to the Michigan Board of Fish Com
missioners, and State clearinghouse is
to be Immediately erected upon the prem.
Uses. The spring, and the land contigu
GUS, is leased free of all taxes and charges
to the State, and for a long term of years
There is at present in course of con.
struction at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a
pair of pumping engines said to be the
largest in the world. The following are
the weights and dimensions of certain
parts: cranks, nine tons; shaft, twenty
four tons; four sections of the two valve.
chambers, one hundred and twenty tons
fy-wheel, seventy tons; four plungers
nearly four hundred tons; cylinder, sixty.
four inches in diameter; stroke, fourteen
feet; diameter of plungers, sixty inches
with a length of stroke of eleven feet
These engines are designed to raise water
into the Highland Avenue Reservoir, in
the city of Pittsburgh, which is located a,
a height of three hundred and fifty-six
feet. 1t is estimated that seventy million
pounds of water can be raised for every
one hundred pounds of coal consumed
which would make an average cost of one
cent for every three thousand and seventy
gallons.