The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-04-17
INDUSTRIAL,

IL Guo AOrelgn market could be still
more rapidly extended, their prospects
would improve at a much more speedy
pace. But it is all certain to come
right in time. Even real estate, which
is the last to rally. feels the effect of
the reviving trade impulses and i'm
proves its figures and pretensions to-
gether. We have reached stage, in
fact, at which further movement is pos
sible in but one direction. Everything
must now 90 forward. The country is
evidently about to enter on career of
prosperity whose splendors have hard
~ yet been imagined.-Boston Post.
In gathering its figures this year re-
lating to the condition of workingmen,
the Massachusetts Labor Bureau Ques-
toned a considerable number of work
ingmen as to their hopes of securing a
living competence at the age of sixty
five, with the following results:
Expect to lay by enough to support myself
Prospects are good and hope to do ~. .....lS
Do not expect TO lay by enough to support my
self after l am sixty-hve.. .................t6
Expect to die pauper if these times last "
Not at my present business. ...................
No prospect of saving anything nov. ....... II
Cannot save dollar. Observation-Disclosures.
H No not Sx Pay Rsy i %S way now.
Life insurance and savings banks broke me;
With present condition of business, don't
want to live to sixty-fve. Recommendations.
The usual process of bending hard
wood, especially beech, by means of
hot water or steam, is known to be
somewhat costly as regards fuel, and
moreover requires q long time. But
an invention has recently been brought
forward in Germany, it appears, for
making sieve hoops and similar objects
by dry process, more chea2ly and in
less time, from simple cut wood. Two
rollers are employed in the operation,
one above the other, and having less
velocity, so that the upper acts by
holding back, while the lower extends
the wood fibers. When the board, thus
bent, leaves the rollers, it is fastened in
the mouth of the seive; the upper roller
is fluted, the under one smooth. If two
smooth rollers were used, q very much
required.-N. 7. Sun.
The business outlook on the New
York canals is excellent. In the opin-
ion of the Buffalo Erpress, the prospect
for the seasons trade, looked at from
all standpoints. is very encouraging,
both to vessel-owners and the mana
gers of propeller lines, and if reason
able carrying rates are established in
accordance with the demand for room.
there is no reason why shippers and
owners should not all wear smiling
faces. 1t is estimated that there are
at present 20, DOC, 900 bushels of grain
in store at the upper lake ports; that
the amount of lumber which has been
cut during the past winter. and which
now awaits shipment, is larger than
ever before; that miners have been un-
usually active, and immense quantities
of copper and iron ore and pig metal
are ready to be transported. These
are what constitute the down freight.
OYSTERS in California, like those of
England, are small and copper-tasted.
The Eastern oyster is so superior that
California gourmands willingly pay the
extra cost of overland transit. Trans
planted to Pacific shores, Eastern BIZ
valves fatten, but their spawn perish.
Therefore Pacific oyster beds can only
be kept up by constant renewals Of
stock from the Atlantic side. A sue
cessful experiment was made last
autumn which promises large extension.
Taree-hundred thousand dime-sized
oysters from Baltimore were planted
at Benicia, thirty-six miles up the bay
of San Francisco, in brackish water.
They are now full size, very fat and
well favored. The profit is very large
and the risk small. Arrangements are
made to remove them out of reach OF
the terrible flood that sweeps down the
Sacramento when the rain season is al
its height.