New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-02-14
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS.

The manufacture of mallcable iron will soon begin
at Springfield, Ohio
The rolline-uili in New Albany. Ind, which has
been idle is again in operation and employs go
men.
1t is expected that a company will be organized
for the purpose OF building two blast-iuIIdces III
Syracuse.
1t is now common for the State Oranges to order
cultyGtors and haryesteTs III large numbers direct
from the manufacturers.
A Springfield Mass firm who have already sup
piled the Russian Government with 10000 cavalry
pistols are completing an order Tor 5000 more.
An organization called the National Federation
of Employers" has been formed III England with
the view of counteractiDg the influence OF the
trades-unOns
The miners of Colorado are seeking to have the
mining laws of that Territory made uniform with
those II the United States especially III regard to
the width of the lOdes.
Mr.. Haight, boatbuilder of Buffalo, proposes that
the locks of the Erie Canal be heightened that q
number of boats tOwed by steamer may be passed
through in ten minutes. steamer, with three boats
would now take from As TO 80 minutes to pass lock-
Some of the largest houses IN the dry goods trade
in Boston have decided not to send out commercial
travellers this season. pTeeTrng TO attract buyers TO
Their warehouses by making prices low and sending
samples. They complain that travellers give credit
recklessly in order to send home large orders and
that heavy losses have resulted from tins practice.
Coal from the Montevallo Mines in Alabama has
recently been tested by officers of the United States
at Pensacola, who report that they ma IL TO be
clean and free burning, MAJ king steam rapidly with
no clinker and very few ashes, and believe IL com
pares favorably with the Cumberland now used IN
the Department of Steam Engineering"
Galveston is evidently enjoying considerable pros
perity. " Our wharvcs," "a local paper says, " are
lined with vessels, our presses OVERLOOKING with the
heecy staple Even the streets are whitened with
cotton for which it is impossible TO find shelter and
vet every train and every boat brings forward
accessiOns to the already oyerstOcked yards and
warehouses"
The American Iron and Steel Association has Sc
cured the cooperation of a scientific commission
composed of the following gentlemen, to aid II IN
collecting and Classifying the iron ores of the
United States for the Centennial EXhDliion; froi.
j. p. Lesley, Prof. +. A. Genth, Pro1. feTsllQr
Frazer ir of the University of Pennsylvania; Iroi.
r. w. Raymond; Thomas NJ Drown, esq; fT0i.
Frederick Prime, jr.; Eclley b. Coke, ESQ., OF the
American Institute OF Mining Engneern; o.
delphia; Prof T. StcrTy Hunt of the Institute OF
Technology Boston; Prot. Geo. III. Cook, state Geol-
ogist of New-Jersey; James Z. Bayles esq, edllof
of The Iron Age, New-YOrk; DR.. Robert Peter OF
Lexington, NY.
Ii is constantly asserted and often conelusively
refuted that good steel made here as III Engah1,
MIR b. Galley of Sandusky adds IN honely
phrase his testimony TO that of others III favor Oh
American steel He says:
For more than twenty years have 9een
America and that good steel made in thus
country any IN the world. Why then should we AT
the expense Of our reputation and independence resort
70 other for that which our raw material and
native intelligence can produce at nome tray why
DO we lack the skill Have brains Or u in
the atmOspherei assert That are surrounded by
as skilful workmeu England can produce, assisted
by the patriotism that seeks to exa m own coun-
try in the depression OF no other
II has been proposed by Constantinople paper
that the European Powers purchase the Suez Canal,
in order to reduce the tonnage dues and thus render
1t more available for the commerce of the world.
Ihe canal Us not now yielding much pronI 10 its OWL
ers but II is doubtful whether they will be induced
to part with it, that the European nations would
act III concert in regard to its purchase aud manage
ment. The condition and prospects of the enterprise
may be judged from the following results OF the past
| three years business:
:. iSSI 1872. 1873.
| Number Of vessels iC5 1852 ll72
| tonnage. ............ $4,000 l,lS9.9OO 20e5,O00
receipts lgoldl 81, $4,000 s32H5o0 $457s.5O0
The hrge Increase in the receipts during 1872 and
100 Is IN part owing to the augmented tonnage dues