Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-12-18
TRADE INTERESTS.

1HE Su8O Iron WORKS, at PlttSDurg,
are employed to their full capacity.
PREPARATIONS are being made in Erie
to rekindle the fires of the blast furnace
at that place.
OVER 1000 persons in CLARK and
Wayne counties, Mississippi, earn their
living by the turpentine industry.
The new mill at Etna. Allegheny
county, recently built at cost of $500,
600, will be started up next week.
The 25 Aroostook starch factories have
closed up their fall business, having
made nearly 10000 tons of starch.
We buy steel railway rails in Eng
land. England brings her steel rails
from Germany and the ore is taken from
England to Germany.
AN advance of 81 per ton has taken
place in the wages of puddle1s employed
by the Altoona Iron Association. Their
wages are now $3.50.
ONE result of the advance in iron has
been the failure of number of contrac-
tors who agreed last summer to do work
at figures based on the prices for iron
then ruling.
ENGLISH housekeepere have just made
the discovery that oleomargarine is
shipped in large quantities to Normandy
and Brittany, whence it is exported as
the best French.
SHEFFIELD, England, eends large
quantities of steel blanks to Connecticut,
to be struck of into scissors. They are
then returned to England, where the
fine finishing is done, and they take q
final trip to America as Sheffield ware.
The value of eggs exported from
Italy during the late financial year
amounted to 5000, 900 lire. The Italians
have caught the almost universal hen
fever, and are turning their attention to
breeding French and Asiatic fowls.
P1TTsBURG, Pa, is thriving wonder
fully under the iron boom, which has
been sending prices up with a bound
since the last week in July until now !;
red short pig iron is quoted at $35 ton,
with prospect that it will yet reach $40.
In one day of "a hours, in September,
the Edgar Thompson steel works pro-
duced $40 gross tons of Bessemer steel
ingOts, and in one week in the same
month they produced 2,53S tons of in
gots. The works have two seven.ton
c0nverters.
THR Bessemer department of the
Pennsylvania steel company produced
in October 5000 tons of ingots, the
blooming mill 9,249 tons of blooms.
The rail mill made nine changes of rolls
during the month, and yet produced
2. 7.6S5 tons of finished rails.
HE Veusvius Iron works, at sharps-
burg, Pa, have been purchased by Nh.
John Morehead, large iron merchant
of Pittsburg, for $160,000, The mill
will he putin operation in q weeks time,
when there will not be an idle mill in
Allegheny county.
The price Of iron and steel have risen
too rapidly for the permanent good Of
the trade. They have now reached a
point at which importations can profita-
bly, flow into this country. The tempta-
tion to sell at the highest figure obtaina-
bic under strong demand is too strong
to be resisted-but it was hardly wise
to permit foreign goods to again obtain
a hold in our market.-Rail,ray Rtvie,0.
THERE is great activity in the cotton
mills at the south, all of which are
working on full time, while some are en-
deavoripg to find relays of operatives to
enable the mills to be kept going night
and day. The trouble is to get the
hands wanted. The cotton factory at
Atlanta advertised lately for 200 addi-
tional women and girls to keep the estab-
lishment running both day and night,
and did not receive single application.
The cotton mills at Graniteville, in
South Carolina, as we'll as those along
the line of the Chattahooche river in
Georgia, and elsewhere in those states
and in North Carolina, have found thus
far little or no difficulty in obtaining all
the operatives they needed.