Omaha daily bee., 1874-06-12
INDUSTRIAL POINTS.

The Wyandotte (Mich.) rail mill
is running double turn.
Steps have been taken to establish
a produce exchange i'm Baltimore.
Two hundred and forty men are
employed at the Northwestern car
shops, at Fond du Lac.
The first attempt to manufacture
beet sugar i'm Melbourne, Australia,
has proved Improbable.
The citizens of Alton, by paying
5 5000 to an extensive pillow factory,
have induced them to move their
shops to that city. They ordinarily
work about 200 hands.
One thousand seven hundred per-
sons were thrown out of employ
ment by the recent stOppage of the
Lackawanna Iron and Coal Compa-
ny's works.
A Company has been formed in
Great Britain, with a capital of
GOO, 600 sterling, to export fresh
Canadian beef to the English mar
ket. The chief establishment will be
in the Province of Quebec.
The new rolling mill at Topeka,
Kansas, recently went into opera
ton, and employs 164 men. Unlike
most iron mills, it has orders which
it will take many months to exc
cute.
Nashville, Tenn, recently cele-
brated the attained by
the tobacco industry there, the
quantity of tobacco received having
incroA sed from 900 hogsheads three
years ago to 3, 200 last year.
The Exchange for the sale of
manufactured tobacco in Rich
mond, Va, is found to facilitate
business and encourage merchants
to buy there who formerly purchased
tobacco i'm the larger cities.
The movement i'm favor of home
industry at st. Paul, MIMI, has led
to the organization of manufacture
ing and trust company with a capt.
tai of $3.50, 600, designed to encour-
age local manufactures.
A new hot-blast oven is in use i'm
iron-making at Troy. 1t Utilities as
fuel the gas generated i'm the fur
mace, aad being placed on the
ground the blast passes from it into
the cupola with little or no loss of
power.
Mr.. Jerome Jones, who is cOnnec-
ted with the glass industry of New
England, recently stated, after his
return from Europe, that the glass
works there were nearly idle, and
the proprietors admit that American
makers have attained a degree of
excellence that has practically cut
them of frum this market. The
glass works of New England, he OBJ
served, produces articles which in
quality, design, and engraving, are
equal To any made abroad. The
New England Glass Company, Mr..
Jones said incidentally, paid an av-
erage dividend of Is per cent. du-
ring the past 40 years, but had
earned no dividend i'm the last two
years. The contemplated winding
up of the Company has, however,
been postponed for further consider
alton.
The state of the iron trade Is dis
cussed in the Commercial Bulletin
of b ,ston, which speaks hopefully
Of the future. 1t says: "The re-
markable progress of this industry
for the two years Immediately pre-
ceding the panic, and the enormous
demand for American iron, give
reason to hope for q partial revival
of this brach of business at no dis
tant day, and arenewal of profitable
operations. This growth has prob
ably no parallel In the history
of any industry i'm the country. The
call for American iron was so great
that large profits were realized, and
this I'm turn stimulated production.
New furnaces and mills were erect
ed in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and here
and there i'm other States, until the
PRODUCTION was in excess OF the
wants of the country. Irrespective
of the panic it would have been al
most impossible to maintain prices,
with so great an increase In produc-
ton. The panic added to the weight
to be carried, and the result Is what
we have seen.