The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-25
INDUSTRIAL. NOTES.

I Mexico Ia to have an Industrial exhibition
d January next.
II The Waterbury, Conn, Button Company
/ ara preparing TO manufacture 5000 toy
! watches per day.
/ Ten million paper bags were made by u fac
j fory IN Ballston Spa In ono month, recently
/ and YET the demand exceeds the supply.
The Russian government finds 1t for ita ~
| tarpst W contract with American ship build
es for $i7,0nD,00D worth of fast sailing
| cruisers.
uG'lang 7" The Shah Of Persia rides through
thp streets Of lspahan In n Connecticut hnRgy,
and knows genuine wooden nutmeg Wheli
l hesees IL.
/ The Lamb Family Knitting Machine Coma
rar,y ~ ChicpDee Falta recently shipped loo
hitting machines 10 England and France,
| mi 1000 egg heaters to one house III Boston.
There Ia scarcely q mill IN Iittshnrg now
/ that Is not In operation number that have
Men idle INf some years nave naen DIV lii no
I'm and has been long time since Ptttsbnrg
wnfs stnh duaky robe ~ she wears az
present.
livery machine nf the Hnlyuke Lyman mills
IA running IT, It's fullest capacity. The annual
,nprpluct III goods II l00n,oon pounds of sheet
lngs shirtiugs md drilings. and 100000
naallnds of lawns and other lighter goods.
There arc five paper and pulp MILLS at Ap-
nletou, WIS, engaged III making paper from
tnnlar and pine as well rs other paper stock.
Pha Atlas mill II ono III the largest establish
ments of the kind IN the country. II cost
sIeo DDn and makes niue tons ut paper every
unrRjpn day the year round, the annual
nrulllct amounting ~ S325.0oo.
French papers claim that the wealth Of
france has Increased during the last ton years
III al average annual rate of $75o,oo00 no, and.
II their own estimates are correct there II
more wealth, public and private, In lfranca
ta.tay than In Great Britain. The correctness
III this statement may, perhaps, be cues
Timed but II s unquestionabiy Il fact that for
lila last few years France has been the most
pnepefelIs country In Europe.
would II not he well for olr people tn look
after Japan litte2 The total importations
III That nation last year were S32 l8U 900, of
which England had Si9oit.D0O and the United
States ia, 100000. OF exports, the former TO-
cetypd &c. nB, one and the latter 81, G7s 900 The
articles sent to them were principally gray,
white and ooipred shirtinga, cotton drill
lawns. Y cloth. chntz, mualina, buntinga
woolen and cotton goods, thread, etc.
There are between 500 ana 600 important
hundties IN New York city, md several of
them employ from 100 IT, 100 hands A sin
ale one does Tho work of fifteen hotels and
Restaurants. and turns out more than 10000
pieces daily, and the pay roll amounts to $25,-
bUl d year. The Troy larndries turn ont 24n-
6nN collars and tutls, and nearly 5000 shirts
daily, and over MI nOnnOn are annually paid
out In wages 10 employees, who receive from
s2to $50 weekly fnr their work And ono Chi
cago laundry passes through M average of
1900 pieces daily.
Chicago Is coming to the front In the boot
anl 5toe trade IL being estimated that her
BUSINESS IN this line the present season will
Ne fully double That of last year. The new
Northwest attracting the attention Of the
world to its unriynIed grain growing re-
SOURCES. and the mining regions of Colorado,
New Mexico and Arizona. are being rapidly
populated. and great will he tho demand In
these sections for boots and shoes. The Cana
dian authorities are pushing forward the
Canadian Pacific Railroad with d view Of So
curing ihn promised great trade. but Chicago
has good lead Mt present, and ought to be
able "a hold her own.