The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-05-29
INDUSTRIAL.

dollars worth, beside yielding a fine
return in health.
PENNsYLvANIAm manufactured no few
er than 627, 538, 1872 cigars during the
past year, and New York alone exceeds
her in the extent Of this industry.
THE tobacco factories of New York
are very busy, in consequence of the
new Revenue law coming into opera
ton. They are filling large orders
from the north and west.
The crops of Northern Texas are all
in fine order. 1t had been thought
that the wheat crop would be lost by
the drought, but the recent rains have
revived it, and all is hourishing.
FALL RIVER spinners threaten to
strike if their wages are not advanced
Is per cent. The mills say they can
not afford an increase, and a general
shut down would probably result from
strike.
AN emigrant to Kansas writes to the
Cincinnati Gazette that the land is
taken up SO rapidly there, a man can
hardly have time to write to his friends
telling them they can get location
within some miles of him, ere the
chance is gone.
Now THAT the Tramp law is in oper-
alton in Connecticut, every ingenious
tramp carries with Linn evidences of an
occupation. Some have a bundle of
umbrella-sticks and others a tool-box
that gives them the caste of a clock
maker or travelling tinker.
ONE firm in Statesville, N. c., sold
nearly half million dollars worth of
medicinal plants, roots and herbs last
year. 1t is claimed that not only the
greater number of known medicinal
plants in common use are found in that
State, but some of the rarest and most
useful.
In Pittsburgh, Pa, the iron manu-
facturers are complaining of the high
rate of wages. At the present rates
the puddler gets $3.50 per day, the
bar-mill roller from So to SO, the
catcher from SIS to Sc, the heater 81,
the sheet-roller from 81 to S., sheet
heaters from 81 to $3.50, and the
shearsmen from So to $3.50.
The Lewistown (Me.) journals re-
port that the cotton mills in that city
have been sending a good many cotton
goods to Canada during the past year.
Now that higher duties are enacted by
Canada some curiosity exists as to the
effect. That effect, it is thought, will
be to diminish the sale of coarse Amer
ican-made cottons, but it will not par
ticularly affect the sale of fine goods.
The higher prices caused by the in
creased duties will probably result in
reduction of the present demand, but
it is evident that for many years to
come Canada must look to the United
States for the finer lines of cottons, and
little may be feared, tariff or no tariff,
in the way of competition with native
manufacturers. The cotton manufac-
turc is difficult to establish, needing
large capital. the most improved ma
chinery and the best skilled labor.
Having smaller market to supply, the
Canada manufacturer of cottons is at a
disadvantage as compared with his
American rival Chicago Times.
The Lowell (Mass.) Courier of
a recent date says: "The machine
shops and foundries which year ago
were running on short time and with
out a fraction of the force employed in
ordinary good times are now, most of
them, at least, bustliug hives of indus
try. The demand for their products is
a perfectly healthy one, and collections
for goods shipped are made with much
less difficulty than in the speculative
era. Another interesting fact in con-
nection with the iron manufacture
is that there is very large falling off
in the number of men seeking employ
ment. A year ago there were q great
many good machinists who were un-
able to find work. Most of them have
apparently secured situations, and as u
result employers find it a matter of
some difficulty to secure the extra help
which the revival demands. This is
one of the most encouraging symptoms
OF the returning prosperity, and every
one who was aware of the low state in
to which the business had fallen will
regard it with satisfaction"