Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-16
INDUSTRIAL POINTS.

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San Diego is to have an industry
hitherto unknOwn-manufacturing
fine tooth combs from the cactus.
Steps have been taken toward es-
tablishing q cotton factory in Mo-
bile.
A company is forming In Mis-
souri, for working the lead deposits
in a tract OF 1900 acres in the Joplin
District.
A tract of coal and timber land,
containing 400 acres in Clearfield
county, Penn, was recently sold for
$55O,OOO.
There are only two So ton ham,
mers in the world. One is at
Krupp's works In Essen; the other
at the Government steel works in
st. Petersburg.
Herr KruppIecently borrowed on
mortgage the large sum of $780,
600 for the purpose of charging his
great steel and iron works at Essen
in Prussia.
An Iowa paper manufacturer pre-
diets that in less than five years
every barrel Of Western flour sent
East will 60 in barrels made from
the straw on which the wheat grew.
Glassware has been ordered in
Pittsburgh by a Hamburg firm, for
the South American market. This
Is owing to the American pressed
ware being very much cheaper than
the cut ware of Europe, while it is
almost as good.
The tobacco industry Is making
fair progress in California. A Com
pany at Gilroy have planted several
hundred acres of plants, and re-
Gently shipped for the first time u
consignment of $4,000 cigars, and
5000 pounds of tobacco.
The value of the exports from
Great Britain to the United States
during the first three months of this
year was SIS, 4a9, 27O, a falling off Of
S4,2l6, 740 compared with the cores
pOnding period In 1873, when the
exports amounted to S62, 716 900.
San Francisco purposes opening
grand industrial exhibition in Aug
ust, for which a large building is
being erected. Exhibitors will be
supplied with motive power free of
charge, and are invited to apply for
space before the goth of July.
The largest room in the world
under a single roof, unbroken by
pillars or other distractions, is at st.
Petersburg, in Russia, and is $50
feet wide. 1t is used for military
displays in rough weather, and can
be converted into q ballroom at
night.
What Is believed to be the great
est rope in the world has been re-
Gently on view at Messrs. Frost's
walk, Shadwell, England. 1t is a
grapnel rope, 10000 fathoms long,
without a splice, and has been made
Cor the Siemens Telegraph Com
pany. 1t is made of three strands,
the diameter of the completed rope
being two inches.
American makers of tinware are
now actually. under-selling the
British in their own markets. This
fact u London publication, the
Engineer, announces. by way of
warning, in the following terms:
"Our Birmingham correspondent
writes to lis as follows: In the tin
plate department of the industry of
this district competition has sprung
up from an unexpected quarter.
For a long time past one of the best
customers Of the British maker of
and terne plates has been the
United States of America. At one
time We were sending to that coun-
try great consignments of tin plate
goods in varied shapes and of diff
ferent values; lately the Americans
learned themselves to use up
the tin plates, and now we have them
shipping .in-plate wares to this coun-
try, made from the tin plates which
have supplied them. The United
States manufacturer displays an
amount of ingenuity in invention
which is but seldom see in Eng
and, and the handi-craftsman in
he new world, unlike those of the
Did, are ready to adapt themselves
a new pattern as sOon as it can be
shown that it is at all probable to be
! success. The American tin-plate
goods that are now being offered in
birmingham and South Stafford
hire are described as simply mar.
both as to the price of the
'rticles and the ingenuity displayed
q their construction. Surely there
s something very wrong in this
Ountry when the Americans, after
our tin-pIates and paying
wages for the manufacture
f the article, are able to offer it
Iere at prices much under those at
which we can prOduce IL