Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-10-15
INDUSTRIAL.

BRooMs are being shipped in large num-
bers from California to Australia.
THE Lynchburg Republican notes signs
of business revival in Virginia in conse-
quence of the belief that the crops of corn
and tobacco are the most bountiful that
have been produced in the State fer mum
Der of years.
THE annual report of the Salmon Falls
(Vt.) Manufacturing Company shows
loss during the year of $4,000, or per
cent ON the capital of 100000, and the
prospect for next year is even worse, as
some of the mills heretofore shut down
are to be started up to give employment
to the operatives, who would otherwise
suffer during the coming winter. The
Cocheco Company has made $34 900 dur
ing the year, profit of ITO of per cent.
only on its production of $4,000, 900 yards
of print cloths.
IT seems impossible for European man
ufacturers of Cashmere shawls to attain to
the perfection of the Oriental article, nor
is this to be wondered at when the fact is
considered that in the production of the
richest specimens of the latter scarcely
quarter of an inch is completed by three
persons in one day. Sometimes, however,
in order to hasten the process, a shawl is
made in separate pieces at different looms
and the pieces are afterward sewed to-
gether, this being done with such marvel
Gus deXterity as almost to defy detection.
The shawls are made both loAg and
square, the former generally measuring
four and e-half feet wide and twelve
and one-half feet long, and the latter five
and one-fourth to six feet square 1t is
we'll known they are exquisitely soft and
VIZ n
other clothing material. In some parts of
Asia these shawls are worn in precisely
the condition in which they come from
the loom, but all those destined for India
are carefully washed and paclsad--N. y.
Sun.
A METHOD of bronzing cast-iron, recent
ly introduced in Paris is said to render
the copper so thoroughly adherent to the
iron that there is nothing required be-
tween the two metals, and they are 50 COM
pletely united that, if an accident happens,
the cast-iron will sometimes scale off with
the copper; it is said, moreover, that the
deposit of copper is perfectly even, not
thicker on salient parts than in hollows or
under cuttings. Mention is made of a
number OF huge statues having been COW
cred with copper by this method, and,
among other works, two bulls, larger than
nature, presenting eacn surface OF at
least 1872 square feet, and on vases can
delabra and decorative castings of every
kind-all with invariable success-and
the copper deposited on the works is new
er less than LOO of an inch in thick
ness. 1t is stated that the cost of these
works is not more than doubled by this
valuable application, and the copper,
when carefully treated by a French bronx
list, presents an appearance very little in
ferior to genuine bronze. This process is
also found peculiarly adapted to the tin
ming of copper or cast-iron vessels, the
adherence of the two metals being com
plete and the coating of tin may be Of
any desirable thickness; the articles are
simply first secured, and then those to be
coppered are dipped into a bath of melted
chloride or f1uoride of copper and ergo
lite, to which chloride of barium is added.
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