The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-11-28
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

THERE are twelve tannerles In Berks
county, Pa, tanning Is, 900 hides year.
COLUMBIA, Tenn, is to have q large
factory for turning out wooden handles
of all kinds.
The car works at Scranton, Lehigh
county, Pa, have received q new con-
tract for LOO cars.
The Augusta (Ga. cotton mills have
a capital of 5000, COO, and pay a divi.
dend of % per cent. on the money in.
vested.
TIE New York Commercial Bulletin
presents the gross earnings of 26rsilroads
during the month of October, which
shows q handsome increase throughout
nearly the whole list, compared with the
business of the corresponding month last
year.
THE Rai'a0ay Reuie,O says: The prices
of iron and steel have risen too rapidly
for the permanent good of the trade
They have now reached point at which
impOrtstions can proftably flow into
this country. The temptation to sell at
the highest figure obtsinable under a
lively demand is too strong to be resist
ed but it was hardly wise to permit for
eign goods to again obtain hold in our
market.
TIE amount of grain received at Chi.
cago during October was larger than for
the corresponding month of any previ-
GUS year, and 5000 cars more than in
October, 1878. During the last month
there were SO, 600 cars of grain inspect,
ed and 100000 bushels by canal and
lake. The oat inspection amounted to
II, 100000 bushels. The amount of
grain received in Chicago during the
year ending October 81 was several mil
lion bushels more than during the previ-
Gus year.
THE cast steel works at Abookhoff oc-
cupy the first place among all factories
of the kind in Russia, the army and navy
being provided with ornaments from
them, although the government has also
been much indebted in this respect to
foreign countries. They have also done
large private business hitherto, but in.
structions have now been issued to sus.
pend all such operations, every resource
being required to execute the enormous
orders of the government for steel can
non and other implements of war.
No other staple article, says the Boston
Commercial Bulletin, appears to boom
more resonantly and continuously than
wool, the reported sales of which in Bos-
ton thus far this season have footed mp q
total of 92,574, 7O1 pounds, against &c.
42l 400 pounds for the corresponding
period of last year. All of the vast
quantity of wool represented by the sales
of the present year has not gone into
consumption, but includes sales and re-
sales between dealers. The actual guam
tity consumed, however, has been far in
excess of previous years.
ONE of the silk manufacturing firms of
Lyons is introducing Photographic i'm
pressions on cuffs. They sent to q
recent meeting of the Photographic
society several pieces of elk with a
variety of Photographic pictures printed
thereon, including, with others, q num-
Der of large medaIlions representing pic
lures of the old masters. The length of
the specimens thus exhibited is stated as
being no less than 131 feet. The process
by which they are produced is not given,
but it is believed that the prints are
made with salts of silver.
The trade of sea shells is principally
in the hands of a single Philadelphia
firm, who recently received q cargo of
20, 900 of what are termed the common
conches," and which wholesale at IS to
$6 per hundred. They are brought from
the Bahamas at a very cheap rate, as
they make excellent ballast. The shells
are gathered by negroes, who fish them
ont of the water with LONG milan Tho
"queen conch" is a much rarer shell,
and has to be dived for. The Wholesale
price is about $50 per hundred. At all
inland places the shells are in great de.
mand.
The project of building a parallel
railroad between New York and New
Haven is daily assuming a more sub
stantial form. The road will be built
for cash and when began will be pushed
to speedy completion. The company
is now arranging for q New York
entrance, it being proposed to make q
connection at Harlem with the elevated
road. As the company is at present in
cOrp0rated only for road TO the New
York line, it will be necessary to organize
another company to build the short
piece of track required in New York
state. 1t is claimed by the friends of the
new road that a number of Boston
manufacturers are taking q lively in.
terest in it and have promised it their
freight provided a through line to that
city is secured. The new company does
not expect any trouble or opposition
from the New York, New Haven and
Hartford company