The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-04-24
INDUSTRIAL.

LIE SOesA AANAu0oAy Va
has reached enormous proportions, the
annual product being valued at fifty
million dollars. The first coal mined,
amounting to few hundred tons, was
sold in Philadelphia in 1918 for twenty
one dollars ton.
NOT less than $1,000, 900 of capital is
invested in grounds and buildings OF
the East Liverpool, Ohio, potteries,
and it is estimated that fully 1900
persons are employed in the various
factories, while many more are sus.
tanned by this industry in the mining
of clay, etc.
THE Directors of the New York
Elevated Railroad have concluded that,
"no known system of switches and sig
nails at crossings can insure perfect Sc
curity," and have, therefore, resolved
to run through trains on the main lines
only, leaving the branches to be oper-
ated independently.
A CONCERN in Wisconsin is doing a
large business in manufacturing paper
bricks for building purposes, and paper
napkins are also being made. These
paper napkins are now increasing in
demand, and single firm in Boston
has sold some 100000 of them since
they were introduced about year ago.
SALEM, Mass, sends encouraging
news in regard to the shoe trade. The
Post of that city says: The spring
trade has everywhere the fullest indica-
tons of being better than it has been
for years, and all there is wanted now
is for the people to fully realize the sit
uation; and the wheels of fortune will
Just hum.'"
WATER transportation is remarkably
cheaper than the rail. Instances of
this are the immense lows taken out
of Pittsburgh by single steamer; one
recently took seven thousand tons. 1t
went to Louisville, six hundred miles,
and the cost was perhaps $4,000. For
this distance on rail the ordinary coal
rates would be $35, 900. Exchange.
AND still our prolonged drought is
not ended. Reports from the country
yesterday were gloomy indeed. Scarcely
anything planted has come up, that
which mas is stunted and refuses to
grow and is running to premature ma
turity. Farmers are blue rs indigo,
but not without hope that copious rains
will yet come in time to save their
crops. No cotton has been planted
Dallas (7er.) Herald.
The prominent peach growers in
Morris County, N. j., say the peach
trees have wintered much better than
usual. The buds are in fine condition,
and unless extremely cold and foggy
weather prevails during April the in
dications are that the ensuing crop will
be the heaviest known for some time
past. A low estimate places the amount
of capital invested in peach nurseries
and orchards in Morris County, exclu-
sive of land, at 100000.
The Ladies' Protective Union to
New York City met, the other day, to
discuss the servant-girl question. If
seemed to be agreed that the wages of
domestic servants have been kept up
unnecessarily beyond war prices. At
present $40 to SIG q month, with
board, is paid TO the poorest help in
the market, and it was declared by one
of the ladies present that by the time
these servants get used to a place they
have saved enough money to take a
months rest, which they promptly do.
Girls have been known TO form them
selves into small cooperative societies.
For instance, four girls club together
and hire a room which they furnish;
two take situations for q month and
put the money they earn into the COM
mon fund; then the two others take
places and when they are settled Nos.
and 2 leave their situations and keep
house for month. It was urged that
servant-girls should not now be paid
more than So to $40 a month"; fair
advance on prices before the war. A
resolution was adopted asking all ladies
employing domestic servants not to pay
more than the price named, and it is
argued that a committee should attend
to notify all ladies of the action of the
meeting, and that another meeting
should be called later. Chicago Times.