The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-10-30
INDUSTRIAL.

others at present, Is experiencing
revival. Last year the bust
ness was much contracted, in conse-
quence of the general depression then
prevailing; but the situation now is
greatly improved. Chicago journal.
THE Lewiston (Me.) cotton mills are
running 100000 spindles. employ $500
hands, consume 25,OOO,OOO pounds of
cotton and produce 81, ZOO, 900 yards of
cloth annually, and circulated last year
$4,000, 900 in town. Corporation stocks
show an aggregate rise in one year of
81, 500, 900.
CRUDE rubber has risen fifty per
cent. in price since last spring, owing
to the light supply. The caout chouc
trees of Brazil are dying out, owing to
frequent tapping, and the Indians who
collect the gum are compelled to go
farther into the dangerous and almost
impenetrable forests. AS the Indians
are lazy, and the work arduous and
poorly paid, they will not undertake it
if other employment can be found.
The twenty-five per cent. tax levied by
Brazil makes the matter worse.
ALL the British and other foreign
gold coin now pouring into this country
is transferred to the mint, where it is
soon consigned to the melting-pot,
This is deemed by our Government the
safest way, as it would take an immense
deal of time to examine every coin sep
arately, and if they were not SO exam
ined counterfeits might find place
among them, or where the deposit is in
bars holes might be bored into them
after the foreign assay stamp was af-
fixed, and the cavity filled with lead
and the orifce concealed by smelling
over it. .-.
The business of manufacturing cot
ton is in a transition state. The mills
of the old world began several years
ago to move silently across the water to
enrich New England and populous In
dia, and now the New England mills
are silently and slowly but surely COM
| inc to the cotton fields-where nature
intended they should be. 1t does not
take bright capitalist long to see now
adays that mill among the cotton
fields, with an abundance of fuel or wa
ter-power at hand, must vanquish one
that draws its raw material, fuel and
food supply from distant sections of the
country. The mills are coming South,
and when the inevitable movement
reaches its height, it will astonish the
oldest inhabitant. atlanta (Ga.) Con-
s tuition.
A MONTH ago it would have been diff
ficult to find news about the activity of
the iron trade in this State. Now it is
impossible to take up one of our ex-
changes in the State without seeing
something about the starting up of some
new mill, the blowing in of some blast
furnace, or the extra work of some
manufacturing company. The reports
even 60 so far as to say that mills will
start up as soon as they can get the
hands, and that others are only waiting
for material. Some that have been idle
for six years have started up and be-
gun at once to work day and night.
These are substantial signs of prosperi-
ty that cannot be gainsaid, and give as
surance of higher rates for labor and
more remuneration for capital.
burgh Gazettc
AN improved apparatus tor utilizing
the waste heat of exhaust steam is among
the recent engineering inventions. This
straight tubes screwed into tube plate,
which forms the base of an enclosed
cylindrical vessel containing the tubes
and the water to be heated. These
tubes for heating are closed at their up
per, but are open at the bottom to the
exhaust steam. for which short direct
passage is provided. Small circulating
tubes draw any air out of the heating
tubes which would prevent them being
filled with steam. The latent heat of
a portion of the exhaust steam is trans
mitted through the heating tubes to the
feed-water which is forced through the
heater and passes into the boiler at a
temperature of about two hundred and
twelve degrees. 1t is claimed that
such heater is perfectly free from back
pressure in the engine.-N. Y. SIT.