Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-10
INDUSTRIAL POINTS.

An effort is being made to estab-
lish a silver-plate factory at Peoria.
Des Moines is to have a new brew
cry, 40 by 100 feet, and three stories
high.
Des MOines manufacturers claim
to be doing three times as much
business this year as in 1873.
The new Palace Hotel at San
Francisco is to have water-works of
it. own.
An Iowa paper manufacturer pre-
ditcs that in less than five years
every barrel of western flour will be
sent east i'm barrels made from the
straw of the wheat it grew on.
A correspondent of the Manches-
ter Guardian, estimates the total
cotton supply of Europe in 1874, at
5,450,0OO bales. OF this estimate
2,S 5000 are American, /, zoe, 600
East Indian, and 1900, 900 Egyp-
tian and other kinds.
The Michigan wool crop amounts
to about 100000 pounds, of which
100000 pounds are already mar
keted. The price ranges from 50 to
AZ cents per pound, and the total
yield is almost 100000 pounds
short of laat vnorfs
A New York paper enumerates
some of the things which the me-
trOpOiis ouhgt to have, but has not.
Among them are wharves and piers,
quick transit, uniform pavements,
cheap, pleasant cottages, accessible
markets, and streets free from booths
and stands.
The largest locomotive in the
world is the "Pennsylvania," on
the Pennsylvania and Reading rail-
roae. The diemeter of the cylinder
in twenty inches; the stroke twenty
six inches; the number of driving
wheels twelve; the diameters of the
drivers four feet; the weight of the
engine alone is sixty tons.
A Venetian founder named GiOr-
DAM has discovered a Lew process
of casting, by the operation Of which
at a single flow of the liquid metal,
not only large statues, but groups
Of the most elaborate completely
can at once be produced, and with
so fine a finish that no supplement
tary chiseling is required. He has
cast, 1t Is said, a statue of Leda with
perfect success.
A young lady i'm Concord, Mass,
says there is profit in the poultry
business. She commenced with
about 60 fowls in the spring. From
these she raised $50 chickens. Uur-
ing the season she sold eggs to the
amount of $50, and from September
20 to January q she got ready for
market $50 pairs of chickens, which
she sold for $3.50, making in all
$3.50.
The Harrisburg Car Manufacture
ing Company has closed a contract
with the New York Central Rail-
road Company for the manu-
faeture of four hundred cars.
A force of $50 or 400 men will be
employed to do the work, and four
or five cars will be turned out daily.
The resumption of operations at
these extensive works, will be good
news to the many employees of the
shops iu eastern Pennsylvania, who
r idle from necessity.
1t is gratifying to find copper
smelling added to the varied indus
tries of Pennsylvania. The Schuy.
kill Works at Phpnixville are, we
learn, making satisfactory progress
in that line, having already smelted
ore from Chill, Cuba, and Spain,
as well as from Texas and New
Mexico. The article produced is so
good that the Philadelphia Mint,
hitherto supplied entirely from Lake
Superior, recently purchased $4,000
pounds. The success of this enter
prise renders it probable that the
United States will yet steadily ex-
port copper to Europe.
1t is not generally known that
steel can be made so hard that 1t
will pierce any substance but dia-
mond. Many jewellers and lapida-
ries experience great difficulty in
getting the points of their drills hard
enough to pierce an amethyst. For
their benefit, as well as for
that Of miners and Others using
drills requiring a very hard
point, the following method Of
treatment is recommended The
drills should be held, if small, by
hot pincers or tongs while heating.
The tool should first be heated to q
white heat, and then pressed into a
stick of sealing wax, left there for a
second, and then removed and in
serted into the wax in another place.
This operation should be repeated
until the instrument is too cool to
enter the wax.
A Hartford letter states that the
subscription book business was bad
ly hit by the panic. Of $4,000 or
more agents who started out, the
majority are out of employment,
and instead of tie expected sale Of
$50, 900 copies of the new Hartford
books, the aggregate sales only
reach 10000 to 10000 copies. Hart
ford expects to produce something
like over q million and q half
worth of books a year (retail prices),
and the present deceit is a severe
blow to her, if a benefit to the
country a large. 1t is sincerely to
he hoped that the suspected pei
manent wane in the subscription
book business prove a fact, for ex-
cept as an entering wedge for better
books, It's gaudy and padded pro-
auctions are usually far from COM
mendable.
England has now SO, 900, 900 spin.
dies in her cotton mills. with nearly
4OO, 900 looms, and $50, 900 work
men. Next comes the United
States, with 100000 spindles;
France, 5 ZOO, 900; the German
Zollverein, 1900, 600, of which Al
SAGE possesses ], 100000; Russia, g.
OOO, 900 Switzerland, 1900, 600;
AustriO, 100000; Spain, 1,4OO,-
600 Belgium, 100000; Italy, 5OO,-
600, and over 1000, 900 for other
countries. According to the report