The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-12-12
lNDsTuRIAL NOTES.


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Flour has recently cold Tor lesA In
Liverpool than at the grain centres Of
the west.
EVERY kind of leather of oak and
sumac tannage Is produced In Oincin,
nati, there being 30 tanning establish.
ments there.
A WALNUT timber boom Is going on
in Tennessee. Every water.will and
saw-mill Is saving it fast. Already $780,
600 worth has been shipped from Lewis.
burg. There Is q large demand for IL in
London, and Tennessee people expect
great things Of the European market.
UPoN the guaratee of state bounty
Of one cent per pound for the first 7O0,-
900 pounds of beet sugar made each
season, Portland, Me-, company have
expended $4,000 in machinery, and
disbursed $50, 900 more among the farm
ers for raising the beets.
MUCH fault is being found with the
slovenliness and imperfection of the
amateur American lace. The maker Is
too much In hurry to be artistic. She
wanted something 20 show, forgetting
that art Is exacting and demands long
and patient service.
LIMBURGER cheese is considered more
profitable to the maker than other
cheese, because, from a given quantity
of milk, more weight Is obtained and
better prices realized. Thousands of
tons are produced in New York and
Wisconsin at less than half the cost of
the imported article.
THERE are over $4,000 carriage manu-
facturers in the United States, who
employ upward of 100, 900 hands, pay
out from $2s, OOO, 900 to $3l, OOO, 600 for
labor annually, and produced during the
past II months upward of ], 200, 900 car
riages, amounting in value to 1925, 000,-
900.
ITALIAN trade returns for 1879 COM
pare well with those of 1878, but the
enormous taxation keeps the people
deplorably poor. A united Italy has been
found to be q terribly: costlyiluxury, and
the absurdly expensive army and navy
now maintained aggravste greatly the
situation.
THE actual returns of the present
years crops in the south, as far as known,
are interesting. The cotton yield is
larger by half million OF bales than
ever before in the days of slavery.
The tobacco crop is greater by twelve
million pounds than last year, and the
product of sugar exceeds by two hun
dred thousand hogsheads that of 1878.
The number of paper mills in the
United States had increased to 812, en-
ploying 1000 hands, and their average
annual product was estimated at 3l7,-
8S7 tons of paper, valued at $67, 000, 900,
and the capital invested in them was
placed at $43, 100000. Theibusiness had
been very profitable, greatly stimulating
the multiplication of mills.
DURING 1878 the Onondsga salt works
produced, in the aggregate, 1925, 1913
bushels. Up to date this year, the yield
is 7,276,o62 bushels, and there is no
doubt that the production of the entire
year will be very near 5000, 900 bushels,
an increase of almost 1000, 900 over last
year, and nearly equal to the largest
yield in the history of the trade.
ARKANSAS people are happy this year.
Beechnuts Tor NASTY are plenty, and hogs
fatten without labor or anxiety for the
owners. An Arkansas paper says:
d" Never, since the time God fed the
Israelites with mama, has there been
such an exhibition of this munifcence
without any labor or effort on the part
of men,"
AFTER being closed for FIVE years, the
Oldest, most famous, and most lucrative
iron works in the British empire, have
been set agoing by Messrs. Crawshay at
Merthyr TydriIl. This is tremendous
event in the principality. Mr.. Craws-
hay, who died some months ago, vowed
that he would never reopen the works on
account of the misconduct of his men in
trying times.
The New York Commercial IdrrtiSer
says of the coal stocks: "The coal stocks
are going up rapidly. The weekly report
of the coal trade from Philadelphia
stimulates the demand. The current
tonnage is large, and the stocks at tide
water reduced at the close of October to
less than GOO, 900 tons. The tonnage last
week was COS, 5000 tons, the very largest
within our recollection. The total for
the year to date is 22,730, 900 tons, and
the difference in price from one to three
months ago is alone equal to a dividend
on the stocks on the two Delaware and
Central New Jersey, if not on Reading.
THE low price of iron has led to q
largely increased use of that material,
for constructive purposes, in England.
Recently there has been erected in
Manchester large warehouse, covering
an area of some 900 yards, and consist
ing of three fronts six stories high, the
whole of which are composed of cast
iron. The main structure consists of
vertical iron standards, one foot nine
inches wide, and the same deep; the
cornices and strings are six inches wide,
and are carried on stretcher beams run
ming between the vertical standards,
while the floors are carried by means of
cast iron columns, between which and
the vertical standards are cast iron grid.
ers, and the whole framework of the
building is thus tied firmly together.
The advantages claimed for this system
of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. its durable
and 6re-proof character-are, with the
present price of iron, its cheapness, the
great saving of wall space, and the large
amount of wall space also which is pro-
CURED.