Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-09-25

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and four low pressure cylinders, 75
inches in diameter, stroke, three feet;
boiler pressure, 60 to IS lbs. coal con-
sumption 2. .35 lbs. per hour per horse pow
or. Ohe man governs the rudder, which
is worked by steam. The vessels arma-
ament will consist of ten 64-p0 unders.
|-Seientifc american.
THE BUSINESS BOOM.
THE prospects of the stove trade have
not been brighter in Boston since 1874.
THERE are $4,000 more men at work
In Pennsylvania than there were a year
ago. :..
TIE number of reed and blackbirds
shipped from Salem, N. j., alone during
last week was 4,l77 dozen, 50,lM birds.
EXTENSIVE saltpeter beds have recent
ly been found near the track of the
Pleasant Valley railroad, a few miles
from Springville, Utah Territory.
The shipment of large consignment
of Baltimore pianos from Baltimore re-
Gently to the japanese government at
Toxic, Japan, marks an event in that
important industry of the United States.
The manufacture of tobacco furnishes
employment to some 10000 children.
The girls are especially skilled in this
gross Of tobacco in tin foif ana a tt9@5tssn t@59sS
two gross in paper in one day.
STATISTICS of the anthracite coal trade
for the seven months of 1879 show that
OSn n00 hnu
forwarded to market, nearly 1900, 900
tonssin excess of the production for the
same period in 1878.
The nail card was further advanced
to $500 at a meeting of the manufacture
ers at Wheeling, West Va, on the 18th.
The mills had been declining orders on
account of the advancing tendency of
pig iron and the number of orders al
ready on their books.
The Whitehall gold mine on the mar
row-gaugc railroad near Fredericksburg,
Va, formerly owned by Commodore
Stockton, has been purchased by Boston
capitalists, and operations will be re-.
sumed in October. Some years ago this
mine yielded $4,000 in seven months.
The Paterson, New Jersey, locomotive
shops are much delayed in filling orders
from the difficulty in getting supplies,
such as air-brakes, bells, gauges, ETC., the
makers of the articles having orders on
hand for months ahead. Last year at
this time such orders were filled at
twenty -four hours notice.
As illustrating the change in the
course of trade, q member of the largest
jewelry firm in the country says that
their imports from foreign countries are
not ten per cent. of what they were ak
or eight years ago. They have ceased
importing silverware altogether, and
on the other hand are exporting large
quantities to meet foreign orders. He
farther states the improvement in their
line of trade has been most marked the
past few months, and is better now than
it has been for years.
We notice in the reading correspon
dence of the Philadelphia Times special
evidences of increased proftableness Of
manufacturing establishments accorded
by large stove moulders of ten per cent.
on the wages of their employees. It
seems that in nearly every iron mill in
Reading there has been an advance in
the rate of wages. There is a disposition
among operators to retain their men and
keep them at work, and, rather than
have trouble, reasonable requests for an
advance in wages are granted.
A VERY considerable trade, accoring
to the London Times. has been gradually
diverted from England of late years in
the shape of machine-made doors, win
dow sashes, and other joinery, which are
now being furnished to that country and
to her Australian colonies in very large
numbers. The trade commenced in
1877, when $500 doors were shipped to
Great Britain, an amount which last
year was increased to $4,000. The New
York makers with whom this trade or.
iginated, are complaining that Califor.
MIA is taking it away from them. In
fact, the bulk of the Australian demand
is now supplied by California, which
sent last month over ~ 600 doors, while
New Workers had only orders for 5000
The San Francisco Journal accounts
for the prevalent business depression in
that city thus: "6an Francisco itsel1
shelters about 800, 900 people; oakland
40, 900; Vallejo, 13, ,000;-a total of 373,
600. Adding other smaller towns, which
are really suburban. a total not falling
very far short of 400, 900 people, will b
obtained. So that there are here 400,
600 people carrying on the commerce O
about q million and half; for that il
the population of the whole coast a
near as need be. No legitimate employ
ment can be found for this mass; hepc'
hard times; hence suffering. A larg'
unemployed population, or one consid
erable proportion of the total of whicl
is at work only half the time, is the in
evitable result of this state of things
Being unemployed, the loss of thei
wages is felt by tradesmen, and from
them it goes to importers.