The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-11

QuduJlCy anu KIM. OluJClng ourselves
within ourselves, we find all else shut out.
Opening our life to other life, we find that
other opening to us.
Industrial.
Pittsburgh supports eleven dailies and
thirty weeklies.
Black River Falls, Wis, has shipped
two thousand bushels of blueberries this
season.
Oregon has fifty-four boot and shoe
establishments, that manufactured $115-
312 worth of boots and shoes last year.
The harvest of wheat and barley is
concluded in Arizona, and the same land
is now being plowed and planted with
corn.
The Sutro Tunnel is now in dis
lance of 4,243 feet. The face of the header
is in hard, dry rock. Drifting has been
commenced both east and west, on the
line of the tunnel.
Money at the bank in Dallas, Texas,
is worth 33H per cent, and no trouble to
property are reaping rich harvest.
The Illinois Central Company is
about to construct a very large freight
depot at Dubuque, Iowa. 1t will be 3O4
feet in length by Sc feet in width. The
building will be of brick, with stone
trimmings.
The great bore of four miles through
the Hoosac Mountain has so far advanced
that the workmen in each shaft hear the
daily blasts in the direction which they
are advancing. The distance to be bored
is now less than twelve hundred feet, and
e 50 xvyS1 1>on %ol
| within year. This will secure q short
railroad route between Boston and Troy.
The London Times of a recent date
mentions the increasing competition of
the American iron dealers with those of
ton is plainly shown in Canada, where
prices fifteen to twenty per cent below
those of Staffordshire. 1t mentions in
this connection an order for fifteen thou
sand axles, which, under ordinary circum-
stances, would have gone to England, but
which, on account of the cheapness, was
given to a manufacturer in the United
States.
Recent experiments have confirmed
the supposition that the inferior quality
of certain kinds of wheat and rye flour is
frequently due to the action of sunlight,
by which, even when in bags or barrels,
the gluten suffers metamorphOsis SINH
lar to that occasioned by heating in the
milk. The tendency thus impaired to it
to become lumpy, and form dough with
out toughness, is similar to that of flour
| from moist grain, or of flour when it is
too fresh, or made from grain ground too
early, or when adulterated with barley
meal. Such flour can be improved by
keeping for some weeks.
Michigan is said to have the largest
sawmill in the world. 1t is located in the
Saginaw Valley, four miles from Saginaw
Bay, and opposite the Bay City. The main
building is eighty by one hundred and
forty feet in size, with slate roof. There
| are also several wings, in which machine
ry for the manufacture of lath and slaves
is placed. All parts of the immense
establishment are lighted with gas. The
mill began operations in 1865, and since
that time has manufactured 1870, 153, 927
feet of lumber, giving employment to
three hundred men. In one day it cut
$40, 1877 feet of lumber, a feat which has
never been equaled.
The vast number of our railroads al
ready built, and the tens of thousands of
miles yet to be built, make the question
of ties one of vital importance. The rail-
roads of the United States now use one
hundred and fifty millions of ties annually,
and these have to be replaced by new
ones euery secen gears. Ties, as every one
knows, are made from young timber, the
trees being only 8 to 10 inches in diane
ter, and seldom cutting more than two
for this kind of timber will, in the future,
require millions of acres of forest, and it
will afford q valuable market to our
young tree-erowers. A tie is now worth
from so to 50 cents, and tree planted in
1878 ought to cut two ties in 1888. Allow
ing 800 trees to the acre, which is a small
estimate, an acre of trees planted now will
be worth at least $500 for railroad pur-
poses in ten years. Then the tops, after
the ties are cut Oft, will sell for wood, and
ought to bring as much more, or $500 per
acre for trees ten years old. What farmer
can make the half of that amount from
his land in ten years by raising crops!
Religious and Educational.
The Methodist Church in this coun.
try increases at the rate of two church
edifces each day of the year, besides those
erected by the Extension and Loan Com
pany.
The Baptist churches of Chicago con-
tain 1922 members. of which the First
church has 1923, the Second, 1917, the
Olivet 5S1, and the Union Park, 431.
The Rev. Abraham Gaeger, the re-
Gently converted Rabbi, of Mobile, has &C.
cepted an appointment as Assistant Pro-
fessor of Hebrew in the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary at Greenvillc, =. G.
The Wesleyan Church in England
raised last year for MISSIONS, .$7OO, 900.
One of the secretaries, being asked how
they were able to raise 50 much, an
swered, by the grace of God and the
penny week" ...
"A writer who recently visited the
Shakers at Albany County, N. Y, believes
that their zeal and members are declin-
ing. Unless religious revival occurs to
replenish their members, their existence
as community will necessarily cease.
The late Rufus Dodge, of Beaver
Dam, Wis, a bachelor, left the Fox Lake
Female College, Ripon College and Be-
lott College 5000 each, and $4,000 to
found female seminary at Beaver Dam.
Congress has at various times appro-
priated public lands for the benefit Of
railroads, canals, etc., to the amount of
more than 100 900 of acres. The en-
tire amount granted to the States for edu-
cational purposes Is less than $50, 100000