New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-29
INDUSTRLAL PROGRESS.

In Virginia, as well as in New-Jersey, the people
dissatisfied with the difficulties experienced III
procuring railroad charters, and strongly favor a
free railroad law.
1t is claimed that petroleum has been found at
Sayorvie, Iowa seven miles from Des MolneSl, ana
several boTings to be made in order to estimate
the extent of the supply.
Fifty years ago there were only few hundred
thousand tons of coal raised in Germany where now
about 200O0000 tons mined as cheaply as III In
gland before the price advanced.
The high price of iron is embarrassing British
shipbuilders. Finding they could not safely take
contracts firm, the most extensive on the lay,
recently discharged $50 of their wOrkmen.
citizen of Pittsburgh, Penn. proposes to place
steamboat costing $4,000 on Chautauqua Lake, N.
Y. which suggests that there are many other lakes
wherein boats for pleasure excursions DC, would
pay.
That localities NAV be advertised as proftably as
business houses is shown by the fact that a mining
and smelling company has leased 10000 acres OF lead
lands IN Missouri, 10 which attention was directed
by local paper.
Sheffield (Eng) trade reports state that the United
States, Canada. India, Egypt and several of the
larger colonies are taking large lots of Bessemer
steel rails; and Brazil Egypt and INDIA take lar
quota OF locomotives.
Thousands of Cinnamon, we read are employed at
railroad building in Costa Rca and have contracted
TO work for eight years for the liberal of 81 per
month three suits of clothes per annum, and free
passage home. If they do a fair amount of work.
their employers can't very well complain OF these
TERMS
carrying business existing in Georgia as well as
elsewhere has led to controversy between an At
lanta paper and ex-Goy. Brown, who owns coal
mines and controls railroads. 1t is asserted that he
ought to be able to deliver coal IN Atlanta at net cost
of 80 IS per ton, which is considerably less than the
| price charged.
| The great profits that may be realized by coal
owners i'll England and elsewhere, are indicated by
| the statement of coal company organizing i'll
London which claims that profit Of 80 cents per
ton will yield rs per cent on the capital employed
and that if the present price, So 2 per ton for steam
COAL is maintained, the company Will clear 30 per
ton, and OF course be able to pay very large dyi
| dend.
| The worlsmep in one Of those cooperative enter.
prises known as industrial partnerships IN En-
| gland, recently received bonus of 8! per cent on
the years earnings, and have received in all S27 800
| lin addition to the wages current ill the DISTRICT
| since the new scheme was adopted. About year
age the puddleTs employed forfeited their interest
in the profits by joining the Union, and now regret
| having done SO.
frankly conceded by The London Engineer which,
commenting the uDwllingness of British railroad
| men TO adopt improvements, says:
1t is beyond question, he the cause what II may tnat
the locomotive engines used in the United States cost
less money and do more work than English locomotives
NO EDghsh locomotive superintendent mas ever pro
pesed however 70 build engine from Yankee patterns
traTy 10 all pfeceden and therefore II Is not DONE.
| The usual results Of fraud. incapacty and mis-
management IN mining enterprises are being felt III
| California. Within" says The Scientific and Mining
| alone have deprecated i'll value $S0000,0OO, and
those of every other mining district the coast in
like proportion" Ii also adds that "Out of 80 40
| California mining stocks daily gambed in at the
San Francisco Stock Board no one ever expects to
hear of dividend from any one of them, excepting
! the AmadOr and Eureka"
The discussion the dearness of coal in England
is eliciting many facts which Free Traders studi-
OusY conceal The London Engineer, for instance,
| says:
"Were we asked what thing the great charac-
teTstc OF British manufactures and products should
have 10 answer cheapness. Upon cheapness our
have mainly depended, cheapness itself has
rested, and still rests-by wholly, but mainly
upon abundance and low cost of various natural
products and among these prominently coal and
r0nstOne in convenient proximity TO each other, and
everywhere near the seats OF Industry and Of nsur
seabOard"
Prof Roscoe found from his investigation in spec
trum analysis of the BeSselner flame that when the
blow begins the lame is scarcely luminous a mere
glare of red giving very faint spectrum, if any.
In about four minutes from the time the blast is let
on a flashing through the spectrum of the sodium
line NAV be noticed. In about minute and a half
after this change we discover lthium and then
potassium. AS the process continues the flame be-
comes intensely luminous, owing to the silicon be-
coming incandescent Then il gradually changes,
and becomes slightly purple, and in few seconds
passes TO nearly the same color at first The first
spectrum is an exceedingly simple one but the last
Is complex, containing as many as SO lines. Tie
lines disappear in the inverse order of theirappeaf
ance and when the green band becomes inv Isibo,
the blast should be shut oil and the metal cooled.