The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-04-08
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In Virginia. as well as in New Jersey,
the people are dissatisfied with the dill.
cuties experienced in procuring railroad
charters, and strongly favor free rail-
road law.
Fifty years Ago, there we're only few
hundred thousand tons OF coal faised in
Germany, where now about 20,000,000
tons are mined as cheaply asin Bagla nd
before the price advanced.
The high price of iron is embarrassing
Britishship- builders. Fihding they could
not safely take contracts one firm, the
most extensive on the Tay, recently dis
charged 150 of their workmen
A citizen of Pittsburgh, Pa, proposes
to place steamboat costing $4,000 on
Chautauqua Lake, N Y, which suggests
that there are many other lakes whereon
boats forpleasure excursions, DC, would
pay.
| That localities may be advertised as
profitably as business houses, is shown
by the fact that mining and smelling
company has leased 10000 acres Of land
in Missouri, to which attention was dtrecs
ted by alocal paper ass
! Sheffield (Eng. trade reports state
that the United States, Canada, India
Egypt, and several of helarger eolonie:
are taking large lots of Bessemer stee
rails; and Brazil, Egypt, and India take
/ fair quota of locomotives E
| Thousandsof Cinnamon, we read, are
employed in railroad building id Cost;
Rica, and have contracted to work fo
Eight years for the liberal sum of 81 pc
month, three suits of clothes per annum
and free passage home, If they do {
. fair amount of work, their employer:
, can't very well complain OF these terms
II The tendency to combine the coal min
, ing and carrying business existing il
a Georgia, as well as elsewhere, has led t.
a controversy between an Atlanta pape
! and Gov. Brown, who owns coal mine
e and controls railroads. 1t is asserte
r that he ought to be able to deliver coal i
q Atlanta at net cost OF 90 35 per tor
+ which is considerably less than the pric
: charged.
r The great profits that may be realize
e by coal owners in England and elsewher
b are indicated by the statement Of q COZ
n company organizing in London, whic
1t claims that a profitof so cents per to
e will yield 26 per cent on the capital en-
1t ployed !; and thatif the present price, s
d 25 per ton for steam coal, is maintained
is the company will clear S3 per ton, and
il course be able to pay very large div
e dend.
4 The superiority Of American locomt
2 tives is thus frankly conceded by til
!, London Engineer, which commenting o
.e the unwillingness Of British railroad me
II to adopt Improvements, says:
q "It is beyond question, be the caus
Ie what it may, that the locomotive engine
ot used in the United States cost less none
4 and do more work than the English loc'
ID motives No English locomotive supe
it intendent has ever proposed, however,
build an engine from Yankee patterl
and try it on an English line The thin
e would be contrary to all precedent, ar
al therefore it is not done" $
N The usual results Of fraud, incapaci
=. and mismanagementin in mining enterpI
y ses are being felt in California ".Wit
:, in" says the Scientific and Mining Pres
" ssthe last ten months the mines on &
~ Comstock alone have deprecated in val
- SS0,000,000, and those of every 9th
- mining district on the coast in like Pr
- portion Italso adds that 'sout OF
le or 40 California mining stocks daily ga
p, bled in at the San Francisco Stock Boa
eu no one ever expects to hear of divides
he from any one oe them, excepting the Al
~ [ador and Eureka