The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-08-21
INDUSTRIAL.

INDUSTRIAL.
THERE are seven gold mines in full
blast in Lincoln County, Ga.
A NORWICH (vt } man has made set
of wooden teeth, which he wears.
ALL the bottle houses in the country
are now running full time and full
handed.
THE Atlanta (Ga.) ice factory of Sem
ator Jones, of Nevada, produces $1,000
pounds of ice day.
THERE are $50 lady dentists in the
United States, and three times as many
learning the business.
SAVANNAH has just shipped to Liver
pool the largest cargo of rosin ever ex.
ported from this country. It amounted
to $3.50 barrels, valued at $4,000.
The acreage of potatoes in this
country is estimated at three per cent.
more than in 1873. The condition of
the crop is more favorable than at the
corresponding time last year.
MISSOURI has a factory devoted to
the manufacture of corn-cob pipes, and
is quite proud of the new industry.
Cobs are scarce at one dollar per 100,
and the pipes In great demand.
The grape crop of Ohio will not pan
out first-class this year, but don't you
imagine, says the Detroit Free Press,
that this will make the least difference
with the number of gallons of wine de-
manded. Grapes are not necessary to
wine.
The Leadville Chronicle says that
during the past sixty days there has
been twenty per cent. increase in the
population of Leadville, and that the
city is daily settling down to better
and surer business and a more settled
state of business generally.
LORD BEACoNsF1ELD has been telling
some industrial art students that desti-
tute of feeling they can obtain no ex-
cellence either in the arts of utility or
in the arts of design. "However skill
full may be the manipulation, if it is
without feeling you will not accom-
plish your purpose. There may be
taste or even genius in the fancy of a
button or the construction of buckle. 1"
Mr.. CROSBY, United States Consul at
Florence. Italy, in dispatch to the
Department of State, reports that q
successful trial of anthracite coal has
been made in Italian locomotives. One
company has ordered twenty thousand
tons from the Philadelphia & Reading
Company. The United States Consul
at Naples has just reported favorable
experiment in the use of American coal
in smelling furnaces in that city. The
locomotive from this country, exhibited
at the Paris Exposition, was recently
sent to Milan for trial, having been re-
fused at Florence. Great opposition is
made to it by Belgian and English
makers of locomotives. There is now a
prospect that it may have q trial. A
son of Louis Kossuth is the Chief Engi-
neer of one of the roads, and is in favor
of the American locomotive.
The utilization of iron scrap or tin
plate is now effected, according to an
English process, by employing q cen.
trifugal apparatus, so arranged as ia
permit of the scrap being readily placed
therein and withdrawn therefrom, and
of receiving a central fire for heating
the scrap. The rotating cylinder OF
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cage, which is packed with the scrap,
and in the center of the cylinder and Of
the inserted cage is chamber for the
fuel. When the cylinder is charged
and the fuel ignited, rapid rotary
motion is applied to the cylinder and
its contents, and an indraught of air tc
the ignited fuel is thus produced and
maintained. The heat thus generated
is caused to impinge upon the scrap
and raise the temperature of the mass
to sufficient height to fuse the coating
metal. The effect of the centrifugal
action is to discharge the fused metal,
in the form of spray, into the casing OF
the apparatus, and to leave the iron
in a clean state. The cage containing
the scrap is then removed and replaced
by another charged with fresh scrap,
and the operation may then be repeated.
Instead of using central fire, the heat
may be supplied from an adjacent
stove. This will permit of the temper
AZURE being nicely adjusted to suit the
work in hand, and in this way prevent
the volatilization of the metal.-N. Y.
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