Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-04
INDUSTRIAL.

! is about to be commenced, on an exten
sive scale, in Baltimore.
: In Glasgow and on the Clyde, accord
! ing to recent advices, the demand fol
Z coal was greater than the supply.
! 1t is expected that extensive stee
: works will soon be established in st
Louis by the aid of Pittsburg capital.
Only one niekle mine is now worked
IN the United States. 1t is in Pennsyl.
! vania, and yields six hundred tons pei
, month.
The demand for handmade lace has
improved in Europe, and the skilled
lace-makers Of France are busily en-
ployed.
The village ofClinton, Oneida county,
New York, is about to have a new blast
furnace. Iron ores are abundant in the
locality.
The best sugar industry of Germany
and France Is prosperous this year, and
in both countries the production has
largely increased.
In New-Zealand, very large deposit
IOf brown hematite ore, containing sew
enty five per cent. Of iron, has been dis
covered near LauncestOn.
The introduction of street railroads in
England widens the market for Ameri-
can inventors of machinery or appli-
anees connected Herewith.
The corporation of the city of London
IS, like ourselves, considering the subject
OF improving the water supply, in order
TO have abundance in case of fires.
The Madras Government have deeid-
ed TO construct breakwater at the City
OF Madras, at an estimated cost of six
million eight hundred thousand dollars.
There was recently discovered near
StauntOn, Virginia, a large deposit of
red hematite iron ore, probably thirty
feet wide, and extending several miles
Italy is now entering the market as a
ship-builder. She builds excellent ves-
sells, it is reported, at seventy-five dol
lars per ton, and of her superior oak
timber
1t is stated that lithographic stone,
which has hitherto been obtained ex-
clusively from Bavaria, has been found
in large quantities in ROckbridge coun-
ty, Virginia.
The competition among coal-cutting
machinists, for prize of two thousand
five hundred dollars offered in England
by Mr.. S. Firth, will take place about
a month hence.
-Four iron companies in the north ofl
England district have each more than
one hundred and fifty pudding furna-
ees, and three have from one hundred
to one hundred and thirty each.
II is expected that twelve new iron
furnaces, producing one hundred and |
twenty tons per day, and affording en-
plOyment for one thousand workmen. !
will be in operation at Rome, Georgia, |
within six months.
1t has been decided to complete the
survey and proceed with the construc-
ton OF new railroad from Boston to
Worcester, Massachusetts. It will pass
through Brookline and Newton.
The siege train of the future is to be
composed of sixty-four Founders, forty
FOUNDERS, and eight-inch hOwitzers.
Very few of the latter description have
been constructed of late years.
1t is stated that deposits of iron ore
have been found in the neighborhOod OF
WaynesbOrough, Greene county, Ten
nessee, but railroad is needed to secure
their development.
The Town Council of Downington.
pennsylvania, desiring to attract man
there, have resolved to EXEMPT
he real estate of all new factories from
ocal taxation for three years.
The production of salt in the Saginaw !
District during the season Just closed
vas six hundred and thirty-two thou
and bushels, which is about ten thou I
and bushels more than the average of ]
he previous three seasons. ,
A gratifying announcement connected
With. the indstrial development of West ]
virginia is that an iron furnace is to be {
,ullt at Wheeling, where all the condi- |
ions are favorable to its success.
Atmospheric gas machines, invented
n Germany and improved in England. g
re coming into use at Bradford, Eng 1
and, where they are valued as a con- e
enient and economical small motive 7
Ower d
The promoters of an iron company in L
.ngland represent that an average profit Z Z
three dollars and seventy-five cents .
er ton on finished iron may be expect
during number of years, but larg-
sum is realized at present. :
Preliminary steps have been taken in
iewcastle-on-Tyne, to form Co-Opera- C,
We Coal Mining Society for the pur- s.
Ose of workings coal mine and assur- G
lg the miners share in the profits NJ
rising therefrom. q
The statutes have been approved of
)mpany formed for the construction of
railway plant at Taganrog. The Rus :
an Government is doing all in its DOW
to stimulate Russian mechanical in O.
lstry. F.
The capital invested in British and yt
1sh railways had attained last year the
lormus sum of two billion seven hum pa
ed and sixty-three million four hum :
ed thousand dollars. The total length
the railways of the United Kingdom =
as, in 1871, fifteen thousand three hum
ed and seventy-six miles. of
The production of anthracite coal in to
has been, IN round num- mi
rs, i've millions, six millions, twenty MI
70 millions, sixty-four millions. and Br
e hundred and fourteen million tons -
the decades which ended in 1880, 1870.
30, 1850, and 1870, respectively. -
The contract for building an iron
ag-bOat for the United States Govern
ant was recently awarded to Mir. IT
lorn OF Cincinnati, for one hundred L
d twelve thousand five hundred dol I'm I'm
s. Five other boats are to be built. Fr
d st. Louis aspires to have the con- 2e8
uction of them. UT
The extraordinary demand for iron
d coal is causing the development of
W sources of supply in Europe. Eng
I'd now draws on Spain and Ireland Fo
iron ore, while new coal mines have
en opened in the latter country. =
Mr. David Thomas, venerable resi-
ut of Catasaqua, Pennsylvania, was n,
1888, the first to smelt IRON ores sue- i
sfully with anthracite coal, and has sseoal. sol
ed to see two-thirds of ali the iron -'''
the United States made by the use of Ia
same coal.
t is stated by M. Tatro, the inventor
/ process for the publication of pc
leum, that by adding sulphuric acid
'm two TO four per cent and four per Or
t. of dry lime, agitating the oil with -
nd distilling a large proportion of %
ming oil is produced.
he city of Cleveland, Ohio, has now
ut two million dollars at its COM Sou
nd as the resnlt of an investment of
, hundred thousand dollars in the ~
TX of railroads twenty years ago. 1t "
however, in its good luck, nearly mr. ned
option to all other counties or mu- q
palities that made railroad invest
ats. =