The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-09-20
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

A BOSTON firm advertised for a book
keeper and got 347 answers by mail the
next morning.
MACHINERY has been put up at Fer
nandina, Fla, to experiment in making
paper from palmetto fibre.
AN American horse car company has
just sent the first consignment of the
"bob-tail" cars for use in London.
IRON bridge building is fast becoming
one of the most active and important
industries. 1t rivals iron ship building
in the consumption of iron. The market
is limitless.
MISSOURI wants to be numbered
among the silver producing states. A
few days ago fifty loads of ore were
shipped from Fredericktown, Madison
county, to the smelling works of Chelten-
ham.
UNBREAKABLE glass, an invention
which was heard of several years ago, is
revived in Paris, and a stock company
organized for its manufacture. 1t will
crumble to pieces, however, under great
heat, as in lamp chimneys.
IF the figures published in the oil
region newspapers may be relied upon,
there has been a slight falling off in the
production of petroleum. As soon as the
limits of the Mexican county develop
ment are fairly ascertained a large
diminution of the supply may be safely
calculated upon.
A NEW gas company is to be establish
ed in New Haven, whose managers prom
Use to light the street for s., 200 per year
and to furnish gas so cheap that people
can use it economically for heating and
cook as well as illuminating. The
process is the same as used by Municipal
company of New York.
THERE are fifty eight corporations
doing business in Bridgeport, Conn.,, and
they represent an aggregate capital of
nearly 100000. These are chiefly en-
gagged in manufacturing, embracing fifty
different lines of business, and of the
capital involved about $2,250,000 is in
the manufacture of sewing machines.
A DRUMMER from large st. Louis
firm has shown the Houston Telegram
how the merchants intend to evade, in a
measure, the heavy drummer tax now
imposed in Texas. Several houses pro-
pose to combine ..and pay the tax and
then obtain permits for their drummers.
The permits, however, will be issued in
the name of one house, which will be the
only one known in this transaction.
OWING to the depression in trade and
foreign competition, the earthenware
and china manufacturers of Stafford
shire, England, have resolved on reduc-
ton of wages, which will affect more
than $50, 600 workmen. The reduction
is partly attributed to the American pro-
tective duties. The employers desire to
return to the scale of wages paid in 1871
and it is expected that the men will SUBJ
NIT to the reduction.
THE New York Tribune in its business
review says: "The business situation
is highly satisfactory. Crowded streets
and wharves tell to every visitor the
same story that traffic, trade and clearing
house returns tell to the student. All the
chief railroad lines are crowded with
freight, and it is stated that the Penn
sylvania, especially, has been actually
unable to do the business offered.
THE Orange, Ella, Reporter says that
over 5000 acres in that county have
been planted in sweet potatoes. At a
yield of 100 bushels per acre, $4,000
bushels will be produced. This potato
has been utilized successfully in so many
important interests of late that it is be-
coming much more valuable crop than
las ever before been contemplated.
First, they, when boiled, make the best
food for fattening hogs and cattle; second,
no hoftar food for fot oh
turkeys; third, no better food for horses,
COWS, etc.
In Baltimore there are forty peach
packing establishments. Few, if any, of
these houses employ a less number of
hands than 200, while several of them
reach 800 or 1000, and these are ex-
elusive of those engaged in the manu-
facture of tin cans and the packing
cases. "The hands are all paid by
the piece, so their wages vary according
to their dexterity and the number of
hours they devote to labor. Last week,
it is estimated, there were as many
peaches put up in that market as there
were during the entire season of 1878.
A GREAT business is going on this year
in the importation of iron from Africa
or use in American manufactures. The
Philadelphia Times says that the great
reason for preferring African iron to
native ore is, of course, its cheapness,
but it has the further advantage of
being remarkably free from phosphorus.
This ore has been imported to some
extent for two or three years, but never
in such quantities as now,-one author
ity estimating that two hundred thou
sand tons will be shipped to New York
this year, and half as much to Philadel-
phia and Johnstown and by the Penn
sylvania Steel company. Another
notable feature in the iron trade is the
importation of Bessemer pig, of which
forty-fYe thousand tons are known to be
under contract for the United States.
There have been no importations of this
sort before since 1878, and the fact that
they are starting up again now furnishes
another illustration of the improvement
in business.
A Collapsed Monster.
The destruction of the gigantic captive
balloon at Paris q fOrtDiuht a oo 10 evrIoin