Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-12-18
TRADE INTERESTS

The Omaha smelling works are EN-.
ployirg 225 men. ~
PREPARATIONS are being made in Era
to rekindle the fires of the blast furuace
at that place. '0e
OVER 1000 persons in Clark and
Wayne counties, Mississippi, earn tbei,
living by the turpentine industry.
The new mill at Etna. AIlegbe,u
county, recently built at cost of $500,
900, will be started up next week.
The 25 Aroostook starch factories b.ro
closed up their fall business, havinr
made nearly 10000 tons OF starch.
SINCE the rise in the river the pitt
burg Stave company have shipped of
$4,000 barrels and 500, slaves. Thew
expect to send of several millions NOR:
We buy steel railway rails in F,n,,
land. England brings her steel rail.
from Germany and the ore il taken irom
England to Germany.
AN advance of 81 per ton has taken
place in the wages of puddlers emplovea
by the Altoona Iron Association. Their
wages are now ~. %.
ONE result of the advance in iror hoo
been the failure of number Of contrsoI
tors who agreed last summer TO do york
at figures based on the prices for iron
then ruliDg.
ENGLISH housekeepers nave ius. msde
the discovery that oleomargarire il
shipped in large quantities to Normandy
and Brittany, whence it is exported IS
the best French.
SHEFFIELD, England, aends 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 a
final trip to America as Sheffield ware,
THE value of eggs exported from
Italy during the late financial yesr
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.
PITTsBURG, 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 $50 ton,
with a prospect that it will yet reach $40.
In one day of "a hours, in September,
the Edgar Thompson steel works pro-
duced 5l9 gross tons of Besaemer steel
ingots, and in one week in the same
month they produced 1858 tons of in.
gots. The works have two seven-ton
converters.
The 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
7 ,6o5 tons of finished rails.
HE Veusvius Iron works, at Sharps-
burg, Pa, have been purchased by Mr..
John Morehead, large iron merchant
of Pittsburg, for 100000, The mill
will be put in operation in weeks time,
when there will not be an idle mill in
Allegheny county.
A DISPATCH from Fairplsy reports
the discovery of uranium in the Sacrs.
mento mining district, a mineral found
in Bohemia but never before in this
30 far as known. The present
was made by H. l.. Rice The
ore runs 60 per cent. uranium, worth
81 900 ton.
The price of iron and steel have risen
too rapidly for the permanent good OF
the trade. They have now reached
point at which importations can profits
bly, flow into this country. The tempts'
ton to sell st the highest figure Obtains
BILE under g 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.-RailaeGy Rtr'e''.
THEE is great activity in the cotton
mills al the south, all of which are
working on full time, while some are en-
deavoring to fnd relays Of operatives 10
enable the mills to be kept going night
and day. The trouble is to get the
hands wanted. The cotton factory 81
advertised lately for 200 addi-
tional women and girls to keep the estao-
lishment running both day and night
and did not receive a single application
The cotton mills at Graniteville, ID
South Carolina, as we'll IS those along
the line of the Chattahooche nVer ID
Georgia, and elsewhere in those states
and in North Carolina, have found thus
far little or no difficulty in obtaining ali
the operatives they needed.
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