The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-10-31
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

PIT1sBURG In dispoeing OF Russia
sheet iron to buyers from Scotland.
THERE In not good machinist out of
employment In Westerly Or Pawtucket,
DuRtNe two days recently SO cars Of
tea and silk were received In Council
Bluffs over the Union Pacific.
Nh. HENRY ADAMS, Of the extensive
MOSQUITO netting mills, Paterson, EN-.
ployes 900 hands.
OvER 10000 miles Of wire fence have
been constructed since its first use for
this purpose.
FIVE hat factories In Adamstown,
near Reading, Pa, are hard at work pro.
ducing 80 dozen finished hats per week.
Conn packing has grown to such an
industry In Spain that hundreds of hands
are employed In the establishments.
The increase of Touring mills In the
four states of Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa
and Minnesota from 1860 to 1873 was
from 1888 to 5000.
Coal has been discovered sixteen
miles from Augusta, on the Georgia rail.
road. It's estimated value Is two. mil
lions of dollars.
The Union Stove and Manufacturing
company at Pittston, Pa, has been run.
ming Its works to the fullest capacity for
some time and still finds the pressure of
orders greater than 1t can keep up with.
THE principle industries Of Taunton,
Mass are now in decidedly fourishing
conditien. The two great locomotive
companies have orders enough on hand
to last them far into 1880.
SHAvIEGs from q planning mill in Chi
cago are, by an air blast, blown 700 feet,
through flfteen-inch sheet iron pipe to
a distillery, where they are burned for
fuel.
Four million bricks will be used in
the construction Of the round house of
the Lehigh Valley railroad at South
Easton. The brick business thereabouts
will hum for awhile.
SOME of the oldest operators on New
York streets say that an upward move
ment in stocks has never been continued
80 long nor with such vigor as at the
present time.
The Joliet steel mills are now turning
out 5000 tons Of steel rails per month
The mills have been in constant opera.
ton since May, 1878, and employed
nearly 800 men at good wages.
The receipts of scrap iron, cindsr
blooms and billets, ore and pig metal
in Pittsburg, from July LIST to October
lst, 1879, was 215,14 tons, an increase
over the same time last year of 40, 1Sl
tons.
The Brooks Locomotive works In
Dunkirk, which once during the hard
times cut down their force to FIVE
mechanics, are now employing 400 men,
and have orders which will keep them
busy until next spring.
HE wages Of the 400 miners employ
ed in the coal works of the New York
and Cleveland Gas Coal company at
Sandy Greek, on the Pennsylvania and
other lines of railroad, have been ad-
vanced from % to 8 cents per bushel.
BosToN merchants and manufacturers
were interviewed by the Herald of that
city the other day, the HeralFs conclu-
sions being: "All classes of business
men agreed that the country had entered
upon an era Of prosperity that will con-
tinue upon solid basis"
The Braddock, Pa, Times says that
last month was the banner month at the
steel works there. The largest run ever
made there, in fact ever accomplished in
world, with the same sized plant, was
made last month, when 1878 tons were
turned out.
THE lumber pool from Chicago, COM
prisirg the roads to the west and south
west, supplied during September no less
than l1,258 cars-an average of 1915 per
day. This is the largest lumber business
done by railway from one point In the
same length of time.
A TOLEDO paper notes the arrival over
the Wabash road of train of sixty
loaded cars and a caboose, with 1900
tons of freight, drawn by a single loco.
motive. The same engine returned with
III empty freight cars and a caboose,
making train over three-quarters of a
mile long.
PRosPRCTs were never more encour-
aging for an an active winter, and at NO
time since the war has season opened
with more promise of enlarged COM
mercial relations, or more abundant as
surance of quick sales and remuhera.
tive price for our great staples.-Ns'o
Orleans Picdyane.
A PRIVATE letter from a well.known
railway manager contains the following
interesting prediction: The next few
years will witness the greatest railway
"boom" ever experienced in this coun-
try. For the first four or five years rail-
roads will be built legitimately, that is
to say, where they are really needed, and
contractors will be allowed only fair
profits, but the "boom" will rapidly
drift into the widest speculation, which
six or eight years hence will prove to be
the main cause of another financial crash.
Within one year from the present time
railway bonds Of almost any kind will