New-York tribune., 1875-02-26
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS,

Several railroad cars for Cuba have been ordered
from iron works in Richmond, Va.
A Manufacturers and Merchants Exchange has
| been established at NewAlbany, Ind.
A Californian wooen mill has received an order
to the amount of $40S, 900 for the Eastern trade.
The cotton mills of Columbus Ga, are reported to
have orders for more goods than they can produce.
The largest circular saw IN the world is in use at
Trenton, n. j. 1t Is seven feet four inches in diam
eter.
Mail steamers are to sail twice a month this year
from England TO Brazil and the River Plate Hith-
erto they have sailed only monthly.
California aspires to be great cotton manufac-
turing State, and hopes to supply China with cotton
goods more cheaply than England can.
Last year 732, 1876 IONS of produce and other COM
modties were brought by river to ST. Louisa lesser
quantity than in 1S13 when ,055 tons were re-
ceived in that way.
Ship building made fair progress in Maine last
year There were 29l ships built there, making
1850 TONS while in 1873 the number was 23j aggre
eating about 100000 tons.
Extensive works are being erected at Phenixyille
Penn. by the Chemical Copper Company a new
corporation which expects to begin the reduction of
ores by May next. and employ large number of
wOrkmen.
| The iron region of Alabama has within the past
month or two 4een visited by Dr. Mell0r, Messrs
| are from England and are more or less connected
with industrial enterprises
A firm in Leavenworth. Kansas offer to establish
iron bridge works there, provided the city awards
promises TO buy from them all others that may be
needed at the rate it would have to pay elsewhere.
The sufierings of the shpwrecked sailors of the
| Cospatsick have impelled an English scientist to
point out that the efectua way allay thirst
when there is nothing but sea-water at hand is to
keep the clothes, especially the shirt soaked with
| that water.
Ouicksilyer is SO scarce and dear in Mexico that
the Mexican Congress has offered reward of $1,000
to the first mine producing 500 TASKS Of that mineral
1t is contended by Mex cau Inetailurgist that il
may be procured at 50 places n proper steps are
| taken to do
The copper industry promises to be prosperous
this year. The price is rcmuneratve, and the stock
| on hand no greater than last year, when 1T was
100000 pounds. All that is not needed at home
can be exported to Europe which received most of
| tne 100000 pounds exported last year.
| The demand for East Indian opium has largely de-
creased in China owing to the Government allow
ing the drug to be produced at home. This is done,
II is said, in fuiment of the threat held OUT by
Prince Kung to Sir Richard Alcock, the British Min
lister, that he would put end to the foreign opium
trade by encouraging the manufacture of the native
drug.
The construction of canal from Lake Michigan
to the Mississippi River is advocated in Iowa on
the ground that it would reduce considerably the
cost of carrying agricultural products to the sea-
board One half the cost OF conveying the produce of
the upper Mississippi Valley to the seaboard is said
to be incurred in sending it by rail across the
belt of land between the river and Lake Michigan.
Russia spends her annual revenue of S35l 100000
in this way Interest of debt, S65 900 900; ecces-
astcal. S65O0,0O0 Imperial family. S6.000000; for
eign affairs, 81 100000; war. $l20, 100000; navy
S150O00O0; finance, $4,000 600; domains Including
studs, S65000O0; Interior $30,000,000; public in
struction, S90JO,0O0 public works. S2OOO00 900; JUS
tce S7,500000 special for administration of Trans
Caucasus Sf,500.OOO.
Some progress has been made in introducing coal
cutting machinery in Great Britain. where the
prejudice AGAINST il is dying out. In Scotland the
machine made by Baird of Gartsherre is in success
full at a number of the principal colieries while
the other machines, such as those OF Firth, Win
stanley, and Hurd are finding favor in England.
The Scotch firm referred to have built large estab
| lshment exclusively for the manufacture of the
machine that bears their name.
| The great progress which cooperation has made
in Great Britain is shown by official statistics
Gently published AT the end of 1873 there were In
England and Wales 100 industrial and provident
co0perave) societies, with 3iO330 members share
capital of Sl6G0,5 and loan capital of $2l59040
Their net profits during the year amounted to
S4 93605 the dividends declared due to members to
S4,3O9,S2O. and the dividends allowed to non-nem-
bels to 1872, 10. In Scotland there 1873 societies
with 1851 members, o share capital of Sl17929O
and loan capital of So iGG0 The net profits were
37jl5l0 the dividends to members S663,2l5, and
to nOn-ncLnbeIs Sl5l l3j.
In an article on native industry AH The Year
Round, British periodical, Says:
some countries such Russia for instance, have al
xaya done their best TO attract foreign workmen for
eQn artists, foreign talent OF sort, conoeding
special rights and immuntes TO the valuable colonts
whose skl and knowledge silently help to reclaim tho
natives from barDarsD. But for such impOrtations
from England Holland, and Germany the great Empire
of the Cars would not at the accession OF Peter the
orea' Iono tnod for cannon Some
famous OLD manufacturcs are now all but ex-
DO longer furnish their historic sword blades TO half
worli; Florence and Mantaa no lonaer cIohe Europe;
the Venetian glass been but artcally revived For
none can chain the subtle sprite Prosperity TO their
chariot wheels ana when greed or neglect has brought
awaits native Industry.
The commercial changes which it was predicted the
Suez Canal would bring about are gradually taking
place. In its annual report the Pennsular and
Oriental Navigation Company, which conducts the
mail service of England with Asiatic ports. states
that since it received the sanction of the Govern
ment to tie steamers using the SueZ Canal tho
| directors have begun to reduce their various
pairing establishments abroad and to concentrate
| their work as much as possible in England. AL
| though the mail terminus under the contract con-
tinues to be Southampton, it has been found neces
sary for cargo purposes to continue the voyage OF
the steamers to London, and 1t has been proposed
| to consolidate the work here, and to reduce the
establishment at southampton to one of very small
extent. With view to the further Improvement Of
the companys fleet, it is intended, in the Of
the ensuing year. to make two calls of 25 each upon
the new shares viz the LIST of April and the 1st
of July which will increase @ @ the paid-uP capital
| call was made in April, 1868, and the Company's
BUSINESS since that date has undergone o complete
| revolution, entailiDg q necessity for an entirely
new class Of steamers Before 1869 the freight busi
| ness consisted of carrying by the overland route
small quantities of fine. goods at high rates,
while the cOnmoncr description of cargo was sent
by tho Cape Of Good Hope. But now the overland
trade has almost ceased to exist the general trade of
the East being 10 very great extent carried by the
Suez Canal and the Company has to compete for it's
share of it ut rates of carriage which barely q
fourth of those earned before. The steamers have to
carry consequently nearly four times as much cargo
as they did in 1868 in order to the same amount
of freight For the purpose of meeting this radical
change the directors have since the last call added
% TO the feet aggregatng Co., 900 tons, and
costing upward of Sl0.000,0O0, besides contracting
| for engines and the reconstruction of old
steamers at cost Of S20OO000. The net profit made
| by the Company for the year ended September last
| ives 500 .Si5 equal to o dividend Of Z per cent.