The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-26
INDUSTRIAL.

In Indianapolis, Ind, the building
outlook is exceedingly bright A large
number of new houses are going up.
ALL the factories in Maine, large and
small, are reported busy, some of them
even running two or three nights in
the week extra.
THERE is rejoicing all over Kentucky
at the crop prospects. The latest re-
ports are all good as to wheat, corn,
oats, hemp and tobacco.
THERE are six shoe factories in San
Francisco owned and run by whites,
and over thirty owned and operated by
Mongolians, with approved machinery.
TEXAS planters seem to think that
the negro exodus will greatly raise the
Price of cotton. and with this impress
sion upon them have planted largely in
cotton. In some instances large fields
of wheat which we're poor have been
plowed up and put down in cotton.
The hitherto despised, neglected and
apparently worthless pine straw has
developed into new industry and an ar
ticle of export at Wilmington, N. C.
Over eight tons were shipped on one
steamer to New York recently, and the
manufactory requires fifty tons week.
1t is said that at the factory where it is
consumed it first undergoes sweating
process, by which all article of spirits
is obtained, which is used for medical
purposes, and that it is then manufact-
ured into paper, and also an article for
stuffing mattresses.
The car wheels now made from a
special combination of cast steel with
the very best grades of charcoal iron
are said, by the Polytechnic, to prove
very satisfactory, a metal being pro-
duced in this manner which it is almost
impossible to break. Although the
form of tho axles in this case, says that
journal. is probably as perfect as any
that have ever been produced, vet the
greater claim to excellence lies in the
quality of the metal used in their con-
struction. They are made from soft
crucible steel out of Swedish charcoal
iron. are carefully turned to the proper
size throughout, and, before accepting
them from the maker, are subjected to
the following test: From every lot of
fifty axles, one is taken at random, and
tested under a drop weighing 1,84O
pounds; the axle is then placed upon
supports three feet apart, and struck in
the center. If the axle bears five blows,
OF twenty-five feet each, without break
ing, it IS accepted.-N. Y. sun.
SULPRURET OF IRON, or fools gold,
Is beautiful mineral frequently found
in large quantities and of various col
ors-bronze yellow, brass color, steel
gray; and it occurs crystallized, cellu-
Tar and massive. Especially in its va
rious crystallized forms, it is often very
beautiful, resembling FURNISHED gold
or highly polished steel. Its compost
ton is somewhat variable, but usually
it is composed of about forty-eight
parts of iron and fifty-two parts of sui
phur. 1t is fusible, the sulphur burn
ing and passing off into the air, leaving
the iron which is magnetic. The mas
sive forms of sulphurets frequently, in
fact nearly Always, contain very small
quantity Of gold, but seldom enough to
pay for extracting it. The finding of
this material may or may not indicate
the presence of other and more valu-
able kinds; still it is very abundant in
many of the silver and gold mines of
the Rocky Mountains. The principal
use to which sulphuret of iron is put is
the manufacture of sulphuric acid. -
ECchanQe.