Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-10-15
TRADE INTERESTS.

The cotton mills In the south are run
night and day.
The Waltham watch people will add
600 men to their force this fall.
In the indianapolis rail mill the work
mems pay has been advanced ten pei
cent.
AMERICAN corned beef is supersedin,
all other kinds in the market of Ger
many.
The Ashland iron mill of Baltimore
after long rest, has resumed work with
400 hsuds.
Six Pittsburg firms are 30 busy tha'
they have refused a large government
contract.
In the Jefferson, Ind, car WORKS,
moulders' pay has been advanced TWEEN
ty.five cents day.
A PIrTsBURG iron manufacturer hal
Just received his fifth order from Eng
ls1d for machinery.
As soon ~ cold weather shall have
come every iron mill in Pittsburg will be
put upon double turn.
NEW YoRK state reports the number
of working men increased 0ne-half In
most factories during the last six months.
In the Americsn Iron Works, Phila.
delphia, q compromise has been effected
with the strikers at fifteen cents advance.
The eight.year idle rolling-mills at
Spuyten Duyvil, N. Y, are starting UP
with an order for 10000 tons of railroad
iron.
QUITE a brisk demand for American
wind-mills has sprung up in the British
colonies, West India islands and South
America.
INDIANA industry is booming. After
lying idle for three years, the great rail
works at New Albany are now ut work.
The glass factories are alive.
The old Superior rail mill of Pitts
burgh, which has been idle for several
years, is rolling 5000 tons of steel rails
for the Denver and Rio Grande railroad.
AN officer in the Erie iron works
writes to the Dispdtch: "The call for
engines and boilers is simply unprece-
dented. We have our hands full"
A BUFFALO grape sugar company
offers $4,000 "for sny appliance to
tojlers that will consume smoke sud mot
diminirh the quantity of steam now OBJ
tained."
THE Lewiston, Me-, cotton mills are
running 100000 spindles, employ $500
hands, consume $4,000, 600 pounds Of
cotton and produce 5000 yards Of
cloth annually.
SHoNBERa's nail mills at Pittsburg,
Penn, with 100 nail manufacturing
machines and capacity for turning out q
keg of nails minute, are being put into
operation, having been idle over q year.
The Lochiel works ut Harrisburg,
which have been idle for five years, have
an order for 10000 tons of railroad iron.
Every industrial establishment will be
running in Harrisburg before January l.
The demand for rails sngendered BY
the building of new railways and the ex-
tension of old ones the present year, has
been 80 great that the steel rail-milla
have been utterly inadequate to supply
it, and the pressure upon the iron rail
mills has become almost equally urgent,
orders have been taken for delivery In
some cases ~ far ahead - February, 1880.
HE general improvement IN Du0ueM
is strikingly illustrated By the ex.
perience Of an agent Of the Albany and
Rensselaer, iron and steel company, who
has been, on . prolonged tour In search Of
rolling mill hands. He found no idle
iron-workes in his state, could engage
but . small number In Boston, and
secured only four men BY 9 visit to
Portland, Maine.
SECRETARY SwANK, of the American
iron and steel association h reported to
have said: "There will b moro iron
and steel turned out In tho United States
this year than in any one In tho annals
Of the country. When l speak OF iron
and steel embrace categ0Fically more
rails, more bar iron, moro plate and aheet
iron, more pig iron, moro Be.emer steel,
and more crucible steel. What ID bet-
ter, this large production in answer to
the damandv