The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-01-06
TRADE NOTES.

TRADE NOTES.
Virginia has forty blast furnaces.
The machine shops at Chillicothe, Ohio
ave all they can de.
Ali the mills at Fall River, Massachusetts,
will, it is thought, be running on full time
by New Years.
The Canton Me- toothpick factory has
just contracted tor five hundred cords OF
wood for its business.
The Surveyor Generals report of Maine
shows that 179 200, 900 feet of lumber were
survey ed there this year, against 246. OOO, 600
last year.
In consequence of the heavy government
orders, the wooden mills at Lawrence, Mass,
have started again on full time and with in
creased force.
indianapolis, Ind, congratulafes itself
that it has almost entirely recovered from
the slight blow its business interests
suffered.-St. Louis Times.
Savannah, Georgia, is to have one-wheel
street railway, and passengers will be ex-
pected to part their hair in the middle so as
to preserve an equilibrium.
In reducing the wages of employees to the
extent of ten per cent, the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company treated all alike, from
Superintendent down to the lowest man.
1t is said that quite a number of coal
miners, recently at work in the Pennsyl-
vania coal regions, are returning to their ma
tive land and collieries-hOld England.
A company has been organized at Denver,
Col, TO construct a canal from Platte River
Canon, in the Rocky Mountains, to the east
ern border of the State, at distance of 80
miles, at an estimated cost of SIO,OO0,OOO.
As an evidence of the i'll effects of 'strike''
among laboring men, it is estimated by the
Troy, n. Y, Press that each of the eighty
four striking puddlers at Burdens Iron
works have lost 500 through their idleness.
The tobacco crop of Connecticut of the pre-
sent year, though less in quantity than in
previous years, owing to the smaller area
devoted to the cultivation of the plant is
fully equal in quality to The famous crop of
1864.
Newburyport, Massachusetts,, employs
large number of men to catch frogs for the
frog eaters. One man has taken 1000 and
another 600 this season. They are kept in
tubs and fatted with meal and shipped to
order.
The falling of of Northern orders for lum-
Der, owing to the financial depression, has
led to an increase of foreign trade in Flor
ida. There are now six or seven vessels
loading at Jacksonville for West India and
South American ports.
The coasting trade in Alaska is rapidly in
creasing, and complaints are made that there
is no correct chart OF the coast. AS there are
upward of 10000 miles of coast line, the
work of surveying, if undertaken, will neces-
sarily last several years.
Cotton and wooden mills throughout New
England are very generally resuming opera
tions, and there is a brisk holiday trade.
This revival is attended for the most part by
a reduction of wages of from ten to twenty
per cent. To this reduction, however there
are some exceptions.
The London Grocer reports a scarcity in
the market of cloves, caused by hurricane
that swept over Zanzibar in April, 1872, and
destroyed the whole of that seasons crop.
The Glove plant requires several years to ma
ture, and it is not expected that the losses of
1872 can be met by new crops for some time
to come, bat fortunately the world can do
without cloves for a season il speculation
should materially increase the cost of this
one:of many spices.
Among the thousands who wear alpaca
cloth, very few know what it is made of.
The alpaca goat is species of the llama,
whose home is in the mountains of Peru.
1t lives on the coarsest fare, the scanty
heritage of the rocks, and has a beautiful
wavy coat of light chestnut brown wool,
which is nearly foot in length, very soft
and elastic, and nearly as fine as that of a
Cashmere goat. This is sheared off and sent
to England. where il is sorted, woven,
dyed, steamed, singed and turned into the
market.