Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1879-10-25
WHOLE NUMBER, .42s.

WHOLE NUMBER, .49g.
1--WE have more than we can do"
is common cry in Pittsburg.
REAr1Na's new mill. that started
Wednesday, employs 200 hands.
WINE-MAKINaf from muscadines and
other wild fruit is new Alabama
industry. -.-
5, WILMINGTON, N. c., will celebrate
tie trade revival by an industrial pa
rsde this week. 49,.
One thousand more men are now
employed in Taunton, Mas. than
this time last year. '>"'
LARGE sums Of Chicago capital are
being invested in iron manufacturing
in Western Pennsylvania Eut
WONDERFUL improvam ent in all
kinds Of business in Mobile, Ala, is
noted by the Register, of that city.
The estimated average yield of
wheat for the entire province Of Man
itobia exceeds 80 bushels per acre.
The Vicksburg Herald says that
business in that city was never on
mole solid foundation than it is to-
day. e ..t .sls.. al
THERE are six conferences of Welsh
Baptists in this country, of which
that of Eastern Pennsylvania. ia the
largest vide
1t is stated that the production of
cotton is assuming, large dimensions
in the Central Atlantic provinces of
Russia. ~. -..., n .'-A .a"'
IT is estimated that over 10000
miles of wire fence have betn con-
structed eince its first use for this
purpose. -aIg.-, 7at . .-.I Il
The Corliss engine which 80 many
people saw at the Centennial is now
ueed to run the branch mint at San
Francisco. ..- . r.s...; tt.....-'.
The latest estimate of practical
statisticians is that there are in the
United States 35 100000 cattle valued
at 81, ,2Oo, 100000.
IT is said 10000 men in New York
city earn their living by waiting on
hotels restaurants, boarding houses
and private residences. DA
The Railroad Gazette says that l.
Ats miles of railroad have been made
in tae United States thus far this
yea., against GA in 1875. s.
The increase Of Touring mills in
the four States Of Illinois, Wisconsin,
Iowa and Minnesota from 1860 50
1878 was from 1,13S to 5000.
NEVER before were there so many
orders for locomotives as are report
ed now at all the locomotive works
in the Middle and Eastern States.
THE recent advance in the price Of
oil. says the Oil City Derrick, gves
the rrolucer Al tout $4,000 more day
than they were receiving fifteen days
age.
"LAsT year." says the Pittsburg
Telegraph "about 1900 telegraphic
messages day was sent or received
in this city; now there are 5000
day"
ga millennium of trade" is what
the Wheeling Register calls It, adding:
"All our mills sre booming, all our
factories running on double time, and
why not?'
SHAvINGs from planning mill in
Chicago are, by an aig-blast, slown
700 feet, through l5-irch sheet-'ron
pipe, to distillsry, where they are
burned for fuel.
ONE thousand additional machin-
lists, blacksmiths, etc, will be employ
ed in the new shops of the Lealgh
Valley Railroad Company, soon to be
built in Cocth Easton.
THE book publishers are feeling the
SlIPClS Vi lES DbslucSS OIOil, s'hA oiAS
printing presses are overtaxod to su-
plv tie demand for standard as well
=. for epheruerai Publications
TaEwar cloud hangs heavy ever
Russia and England, owing to the for-
mcr advancing into the Afghanictan
territory and occupying Herat, an i'm
rortant city and yaluai le strategic
point.
The Huntingdon Commercial says:
But two hundred In N were employ
ed Two months ago in the five iron
furnaces along the line Of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad, and Low
there are over twelve hundred employ
cd"
NJ. DANILoFE, the eminent Russian
engineer, Las begun the works by
which it il intended to unite The
Rlack ard Caspian asas by connect