The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-10
GENERAL INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

works in st. Louis.
Florida is shipping red cedar, for pen
ellis, largely to Europe.
The Harmony Mills, at Cohoes, N. Y,
have resumed on full time.
Tampa, Fla, is shipping two hundred
thousand oranges per week.
Eastern parties are to put up vegeta-
bic cannery at Franklin, Ind.
A Denver firm is going into patent
stone making with large capital.
The corset factories at Birmingham
Conn, are all doing driving business.
They are making chemically prepared
tire-proof pine shingles at Pentwater,
Mich.
A number of new furnaces are talked
of near the Cornwall iron ore banks in
Lancaster, Pa.
There are four file works in st. Louis,
which together employ on an average
some sixty hands,
The Glenn quarries, near Avondale,
Chester County, Pa, have been bought
by Philadelphia firm for $4,000
Klein, Logan & Co., of PiJtsburg, have
received an order from South America
for six thousand picks and shovels.
The Dayton nut and bolt works, in
Newport, Ky, are in full operation.
About one hundred men are employed.
The Norway Iron Works of Naylor &
Co., at South Boston, Mass, now give en-
ployment to four hundred and fifty men,
double turn.
The Parryville Carbon County, Pa.)
Iron Works has started up. The furnace
is run on pig iron, which is converted
directly into cast-iron pipes.
Chase's wonl.an %.;ii;s nils, at York, Me-,
wb,"1 lcn remained idle for about siiS
months, are Immediately to start up with
an increased number of hands.
The Messrs. B umgartner, of Lancaster
Pa, have contracted to introduce a new
process of manufacturing gas into Paris
and cities of Hungary, Austria and
Italy.
The Soho and the Keystone Mills of
Pittsburg are running triple turn in their
pudding departments, fifteen heats per
day being made at the former and twelve
at the latter,
The Union Saw Works, Toledo, have
orders on their books for twenty large
circular saws. They are running twelve
hours day, and can not keep up with
their orders.
The Lehigh Car-works at Stemton, Pa,
have just completed an order for five
hundred freight cars for the Erie Road
and closed contract for an additional
five hundred.
1t is stated that two men have formed
a partnership for the coal business at
Groveport, Ohio-one OWNS the cart and
the other the horse-to deliver pickings
from the railroad.
The Messrs. Jones, of Middlesborough
England, have erected special machinery
for the manufacture of steel nails, which
they believe are destined to drive iron
nails entirely out of the market
in the rolling mills of Pennsylvania
there are twenty-one hundred and eighty
seven pudding furnaces, and i'll the roll
ing mills of the whole country there are
forty-four hundred and sixty-threc.
The Merrimac hat factory at Amherst
Mass, is running extra hours. 1t is the
largest hat factory in the State, turning
out three hundred dozen day. The
carriage and boat business is also doing
well.
The Saco water power machine shop al
Biddeford Ne, for the first time in five
wears, has contract on hand of suffi
cient magnitude to necessitate the EN-.
ploymeut of full force of five hundred
workmen.
The Burgess Steel and Iron Company,
Portsmouth, Ohio, are running the plow.
steel department of the works on full
time, often on double turn. They have
orders on their books to run them fol-
some weeks.
The Falcon Iron and Nail Company at
| Niles, O., have $50 men at work. The
Ward Iron Co.'S rolling mill gives work
to about 100 persons. The Carter ma
chine shop isrunning steadily, giving en-
ployment TO about fifty workmen. The
Miles Iron Company has received an order
for 400 tons of sheet iron for roofing pur-
poses. The Rusri Mill, operated by l..
B, Ward, gives work at present to about
$50 persons.
1t lisa great comfort after shaving to bathe
your face with Caswells Camphor Ice Lo.
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