Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-08
TRADE INTERESTS.

The cotton mills in the south are run
night and day.
The Waltham watch people will add
900 men to their force this fall.
In the Indianapolis rail mill the work
mems pay has been advanced ten per
cent.
AMERICAN corned beef is superseding
all other kinds in the market of Ger
many.
The Ashland iron mill of Baltimore,
after long rest, has resumed work with
400 hands.
SIX Pittsburg firms are so busy that
they have refused large government
contract.
In the Jefferson, Ind, car works,
moulders' pay has been advanced TWEEN
ty-five cents day.
A PITTsBURG iron manufacturer has
just received his fifth order from Eng.
land for machinery.
AS soon as 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 one-balf in
most factories during the last six months.
In the American Iron Works, Phila-
delphia, a 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 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 at 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 Dispatch: "The call for
engines and boilers is simply unprece-
dented. We have our hands full"
A BUFFALO grape sugar company
offers $4,000 "for any appliance to
boilers that will consume smoke and not
diminish the quantity of steam now OBJ
tanned"
The Lewiston, Me-, cotton mills are
running 100000 spindles, employ $500
hands, consume 25,OOO,0OO pounds of
cotton and produce 100000 yards of
cloth annually.
SHoNBERG's nail mills at Pittsburg,
Penn, with 100 nail manufacturing
n achines and capacity for turning out
keg of nails e minute, are being put into
operation, having been idle over year.
The Lochiel works at 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 1.
The demand for rails engendered by
the building Of new railways and the ex-
tension of old ones the present year, has
been so great that the steel rail-mills
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 as far ahead as February, 1880.
SECRETARY SwANK, of the American
iron and steel association is reported to
have said: "There will be more iron
and steel turned out in the United States
this year than in any one in the annals
Of the country. When speak Of iron
and steel I embrace categorically more
rails, more bar iron, more plate and sheet
iron, more pig iron, more Bessemer steel,
and more crucible steel. What is bet
ter, this large production in answer to
the demand"