The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-29
Industrial.

| The largest wire works in the world
are at Worcester, Mass. They turn out
thirty tons of wire per day.
| Manufacturers and consumers gener.
ally consider Lake Superior copper worth
from three to four cents per pound more
than the foreign metal.
| There are two hundred and fifteen
firms engaged in the manufacture of stoves
in this country, who represent $50 ,O0O, 900
to $40, 0OO,O 900 capital.
| The Graniteville Cotton Manufacture
ing Company, of Augusta, Ga, report that
they have earned over twenty-six per cent
on their capital stock for the year ending
February %, 1878.
The State Mineralogist of Wisconsin
announces that there is enough iron ore
in the neighborhood of Black River Falls
to supply the whole demand of the United
States for the next ten centuries.
| There are twenty-five blast furnaces
within radius of twenty miles from the
city of Ironton, Ohio There are over
10000 people in this district, nearly all
dependent upon the iron industry for their
support.
| 1t is estimated that One-tenth of the
entire population of the United States is
dependent for support upon the produc-
tion and manufacture of iron. The value
of the metal annually manufactured is
$500, 100000, and 100000 workmen are
employed in the industry, the aggregate
Of whose wages reaches 100000, 600.
Boston is full of mechanics who were
induced to come from England by the ex-
travagant stories circulated there OF the
abundance of work and wages incident
upon the fire in Boston. The consequence
is there never was known to be so many
mechanics in the building trade in Boston,
in comparison to the work to be done, and
prices are lower than they have been for
years.
| According to the Mechanics Magazine,
London, an inventor of that city has le-
vised a process for so thoroughly uniting
silver with cutlery as to produce an anti
Gle of great practical value. 1t has long
been the custom to electroplate silver III
steel, but whenever the external coating is
ground off, the steel is exposed, and thee
by rendered liable to rust. By this new
method the knives are finished in Ale
style, and chemically cleaned by special
process; they are then treated with rer-
fectly pure silver, and the two are pressed
together by process not made known by
the inventor. 1t is asserted that the sil'er
is driven into the pores of the steel, and
that the heat and moisture have no Ier-
ceptible effect on the metals. The reSult
is, as claimed, knife that will not rust, is
not stained by acids, and only require
washing after use. Though sharpened
any number of times, it always shows a
silver surface.
| The Boston Post gives the following
statement of the condition of the strife in
Rhode Island: ''The strike of the mill
operatives in Rhode Island for reduction
of the hours of labor is still in progress,
both the workmen and their employers
maintaining their ground with the ut
most firmness and determination. Be1ond
several meetings held by the strikes in
the principal manufacturing towns d the
State, no demonstrations have yet been
made, though it is understood that more
| widespread agitation is soon to be inau-
gurated. Meetings will be held in livery
factory village, and the cause presented to
the people in the clearest and fullest
aspect. If the millowners should SEE fit
to hold out much longer, it is proposed to
set in motion the withdrawal of DEPOSITS
from the savings banks. If the Withdrawal
should take place as combined move
mcnt, it will largely affect the banks, as
they will have to call in their loans to meet
| the run upon them The operatives ap-
pear determined, however, and reason that
the withdrawal ofdeposits wouldforce the
manufacturers to terms. 1t lis proposed soon
to levy tax of twenty five cents upon each
member of the association to raise funds
| to carry on the war;