The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-12-05

The long strike (since July last of the
coal diggers along the MOnongahela River
having terminated. all the coal works are
now running their full capacity.
One effect of the panic ia Springfield.
Mass, Is shown by a reduced consumption
of gas. The gas company now make only
10000 cubic feet daily against 10000 M
the same time last year.
Not over half the quantity of coal that
has heretofore been used by the mills will
BE- consumed this winter, and il i thought
that in consequence coal must come down
materially in price.
"A firm of poultry dealers in james
vile last season set 1000 eggs. which
Matched out 1000 chickens. Next year
they propose using an incubator. and dis
pensc with the "settin' hem altogether.
AT Altoona. ON the line of the Penn
sylvana Railway. about 800 hands have
been discharged from the repair shops.
and II is estimated that about 1900 hands
have been discharged from all along the
road.
"A new wine making establishment
has been erected in Healdsburg. Cal. by
experienced French winners. They have
and say if they sell their wine for thirty
cents n gallon they will make fair profit
on their investment.
What is likely to prove the richest
gold deposit i'm the known world il the
mine recently discovered in southwestern
Colorado. Specimens taken at random
from various parts Of the vein just a. they
lay on the surface. and which were
thought 10 be of little value, assayed at the
mint in Denver rs high a. $4,000 per ton.
After working hard for two or three
years. the operators on Jarvis Island. Lake
Superior, succeeded last month in striking
the vein of the silver which they were sat
isiied existed there. and find that il is fully
equal in value to that of Silver Island. and
il is expected that its yield will be- also
equal. Jarvis Island lies about fifteen
miles out from and below the mouth of
Pigeon River, and forty miles west.of Sill
yer Island.
The chcapncss of labor In Europe. and
also the lower cost of chemicals. give not
only the English. but the French and Ger
mans great advantages over us in the bust
ness of petroleum refining. The acids
used in the process cost here fully twice n
much ~ in Europe. and the wages of still
tenders aud other labOrcrs are about 81
week. against SIG ia New y ork and AZ the
wells. our crude petroleum can be taken
across the water. refined. and returned
here and sold in competition with our
manufacturers. 1t appears possible then.
and even probable. that this vast industry
will soon pass out of our hands entirely.
The foreign exporters are building vessels
10 carry the oil in bulk. thus avoiding the
loss on barrels. which has hitherto been
considerable. The value 10 the country of
this refining industry j. sia.cd to DE n
high rs $4,000. OOJ, an item OF income OF
no mean Importance Of Chem
istry,
Serious complaints are made by tor
cign spinners about the decline in quality
Of American Sea Island cotton. Since the
close of the war the finer grades have been
sent TO market in lots of varying quality,
and In a condition very unsatisfactory 10
spinners who desire TO secure uniformity
ot warm American planters lose heavily
by carelessncss and want of fidelity in
packing. 4 comparatively slight mixture
of inferior with the chOicer grades dcteri-
CRATES the value of the whole. and causes
II 10 be- sold al rates much below the real
value. English manufacturers complain
that Texas and Florida cotton j. no longer
equal TO the former standard. and that
there is a constant deterioration in the re-
ceipis from those States. From state
ment of the quantity of long staple cotton
sold in Liverpool during the year ending
oct ,. 1873. il appears that American Sea
Island constitutes only about onc-tllird of
the long-stapled cotton now consumed in
England, Egypt furnishing half ~ much
again.