The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-10-23
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

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has been sent TO Hungary.
THElumber interest of Oregon amounts
to nearly 100000 annually.
The largest crop of oranges ever
known is expected in Florioa this season.
FRIER's POINT, Miss, wants domestic
servants, and Chicago girls are going to
the rescue.
UTAH is said to have produced three
fourlhs of the supply of refined lead IN
this country last year.
BALDWIN IL Co, of Philsdelphis, have
offered TO build locomotives tor Australia
ut 1000 less than they can be pur-
chased in England.
Mr.. HoDNET living near LocKhart,
Texas, raises enough of the genuine
. Chinese tea to supply his own family. 1t
grows and produces well.
CORNELL university has 100000 acres
of land IN Wisconsin, and yet with all ITS
muscular development running to waste,
does not produce u bushel OF corn per an
mum.
DURING the yesr ending September |,
there were exported and sold from the
factories of the United states l02,OOOOOO
yards OF cotton goods, ten times more
Than was exported the year before.
IT is stated that the area of the gold
mines in Russia is u little over 2,OOO,OOO
square miles. The yield is about $4,000
pounds in WEIGHT annually, equivalent
~ ~ X ONNliNOl
The Lowell, (M4ss.) machine shop
sent twenty-uine car loads OF machinery
TO the Natchez cotton mills, Natchez,
Miss, recently. The machine-shop Is
To furnish machinery and fixtures for
mill of 1000 splnd)es
SCREW. MAKING machines are now
being manufactured at the Cambris IRON
works, at Johnstown, Pa, ard If they
prove d success it is proposed to erect
buildings and establish works of sufficient
capacity TO turn out 10000 gross OF
screws n day.
IT has been demonstrated that the cork
tree can be raised without difficulty at
Los Angeles. Cal; and rs the demand
for corks in bottling wines and brandies
is very great on the Pacific coast, the
growth and manufacture OF cork Is likely
soon to become III important industry
there
A COLONY of three hundred and fifty
Poles arrived one day last week at War
rem station, ten miles west OF Little Lock,
Ark. where they will settle, having
bought twelve thousand acres OF land
from the Iron Mountsin and Fort Smith
railroad companies, the lands OF which
iptersect each other there.
EDWARD SHELLY writes to the Amer-
,can Manufacturer, Pittsburgh, glow
ing account OF the mineral wealth OF
Southwestern Virginia. Iron, copper,
lead and zrnc ores are found in abund
ance. Gold and silver quartz mines OF
great richness are also found, and some
of the most valuable mica mines are
found in the same region.
The Petalums (Cal) Argus says:
FLAMES English rs still ut work on the
redwood tree he feled at Russian-river
station some months ago. He had nj
ready made from it 100000 shingles,
1000 fence posts, 5000 stakes, lumber
Tor \ dwelling house and outbulldlngs,
ard has timber tor 100000 shingles.
The tree was fourteen feet IN diameter.
THERE was on exhibition IN store IN
San Francisco the other week mSmoth
bunch of grapes from the great vine OF
Santa Barbara Ia cutting from the mon
Ser sent to the Cen:ennlaD. This clus
ter weighed 1875 pounds, WA: SIX feet IN
circumference and three feet long. The
vine from which this was cat is sixteen
wears old, and produces annually 10000
TO $1,000 pounds OF grapes.
THE Louisville MGnWdcurer and heT.
chant SAYS: No matter how enthusiastic
ally we speak of the immenslty OF the
present fall trade in Louisville, there Is
scarcely possibility of Over-estimatlng
its volume. Never before in the history
of the ci V has it worn u brighter com
mercisl look. Merchandise OF all sorts
has been gong forward freely, and there
is An undenisble feeling of confidence in
the future of the South, contrasting tav
orably with the dependency In which,
for some past seasons, it was the habit -
indulge.
A LARGE establishment has been
opened in st. Louis for drying eggs. 1t
is in full operation, and hundreds of
thousands OF dozens are going into its IN
satiabe nav. The eggs are "candled'
/ hy hand-that is examined by light TO
| ascertain whether good or not-snd are
I then thrown into an immense receptacle
where they are broken, and by centra-
fugal operation the white and yolk are
separated from the shell, very much Ms
I lQ uid honey is separated from the comb
/ The hquid s then dried by heat by pat
ent process, aud the dried article Is left
resembling sugar, and IS put In barrels
ard is ready for transportation any