The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1873-06-19
Manuiacturee.

The buildings OF tn, Terre Haute
car works cover three acres and the
ground eight acres.
There are large number of impor-
tant iron establishments in copfempla-
ton throughout the United States.
A company has been incorporated in
Portland, Oregon. for the purpose of
manufacturing railroad and ear iron.
A factory a; Kankakee, H., turns ont
Il. 400, 900 buttons per annum. The
Hoosiers will no longer have occasion
to cry about having nothing to wear.
Recently 1886 tons of rails were
made IN fortnight at a British iron
coinpanv's works--thc largest quanti-
" ever made in England under one
roof within the same space OF time.
The total number of not tons Of rails
made in the United States in 1872. as
reported to the office of the American
iron and steel association by the max
crs. is 94l 1872 or 81, .064 gross tons.
The present investment in wooden
manufactures in Kansas is $4,000.
The products for 1872 in the factories
amounted to 100000. while the value
of raw material used TO produce the
same costs SS5,l02.
The Sedalia (Mo.) Foundry and Ma
chine company's present buildings are
to be very much enlarged. and a de-
partment added for casting brass. and
an additional cupola put in for smelt
ing purposes. at present some 1000
pounds are smclted per day.
The Fort Scott Foundry and ma
chine shop. AT Fort Scott. Mo, mann
facture engines. iron fronts for build
ings, force pumps. mill gearings. etc.
Forty-tive men are employed, and the
entire buildings nearly cover a lot 200
1900 feet and a further enlargement of
buildings will soon be necessary.
The Rhode Island locomotive works
has built I55 locomotives for single
road. the Great Western. 1t has now
on hand the orders for ~ engines for
various roads, and has recently been
obliged to refuse several applications
for others. Nine hundred men are en-
plOyed in the establishment and twelve
locomotives are completed every
month.
1t is stated that Mr.. jay Gould has
transferred to the Erie railroad COM
pany the title to 600 acres Of land sit
uated west Of the tunnel. on which the
company propose erecting workshops.
1t is understood that the Pullman car
company are contemplating the pur-
chase of $50 lots in the vicinity of the
Erie land. on which TO build car fac
tory.
The superintendent of the census cs-
Inmates fifty-six per cent. as the just
measure of the increase in the prices
of mechanical and manufactured pro-
duets from 1860 to 1870. He estimates
the aggregate value of the manufac-
lures of the country at one hundred
and eighty per cent. greater than their
value in 1860: but this value is esti-
mated at the increased price, so that
the real difference is reduced to about
fifty per cent.
The plate glass works at New AL
bany, Ind, recently made four glass
dials for clock for the steeple of a
church in Columbus, o., each of which
is seven feet in diameter and half an
inch thick, and the numerals arc one
foot in length. They were east in the
rough in New Albany and then sent to
Cincinnati, where they were ground by
man power, there being no glass grind
ing machines large enough to do it.
These are said to be the largest dials
in the United States.
The paper manufacture has become
very important industry in the Uni
ted States. Sometimes, however, there
is great difficulty encountered in Sc
curing a suiiiciency Of material for its
manufacture. This has inspired the
inventive faculty of several persons to
search for means calculated TO enlarge
the source of supply. Straw, wood
and many kinds Of tibrous substances
were thought of, but nothing that has
yet been discovered can compare with
the old maicrial-cotton rags-for
beauty, strength and durability. The
addition of some linen TO the cotton
basis forms fine writing paper, but GER
tain kinds of grasses. old papers. etc.
are worked up into the more common
grades. There is more paper used
within the limits of the Uniled States
than in any of the grand divisions of
the old world. Much of it is used with
wanton prodigality. il being appropri-
atcd for kindlng fires, etc. In Europe
every scrap of it is carefully preserved.
and it is never found lying about in the
cutters or streets of the cities.
The Pottsville Ledger collects some
interesting news about old iron furna-
ces in Berks and adjoining counties,
which we quote: The first iron man
ufactured in the United States was
made in Pennsylvania, and furnaces
were erected and the trade commenced
in l7l5 Some jealousy was thereby
excited in the mother country, So that
in l7l9 bill was introduced in the
English parliament TO prevent the
erection of rolling and sitting mills in
America, but it was then rejected. In
1850. however, such an act was passed,
but allowing the expectation of pig
metal amounting to 1926 tons. and of
bar iron to $50 tons. The chcapness of
rood and labor here have great advan-
tagc to the American furnaces, which
they thus enjoyed from 1850 to the
period of the revolution. The first
furnace built in Pennsylvania was
at Colebrookdale. Berks county, which
WAS erected in the year 1920. by James
Lewis and Anthony Morris, of Phila-
delphia.