The daily gazette., 1879-03-25
Business Notes.


in China have increased to a very flat
tering extent during the past year.
A general revival of business is repor-
ted in the Ohio iron regions, and manu-
factuerers are overwhelmed with orders
at advanced prices.
Nashville, Tenn shows signs Of awak-
ming prosperity. According to a local
journal 'sS250 600 will not cover The cost
of the houses now in course Of erection
and to be erected during the year 1870"
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company are building, at the Mount
Glare shops, twenty-five engines Of the
"Mogul' pattern, for use on the grades
of the Allegheny Mountains, aud POO
freight cars.
A Newark (N.J) paper says :-"Sash
weights now manufactured SO cheaply
from scraps of tin-obtaiued from various
manuiactures-in this city, that no COM
pany can compete with them in cheap
ness"
The consumption of rubber by our
manufacturers continues as large as ever
the imports amounting to about twelve
thousand pounds per annum, chiefly
from South America. The price ranges
from twenty to fifty cents per pound.
The Milwaukee (Wis.) Bee reports
that the announcement of new buildings
for the present season are coming in Sc
fact that the papers do not get time
enough to dwell upon the details before
their attention is called to the next
one.
The Cincinnati Gazette has interview
ed number of the representative busi-
ness men of that city with reference to
the business outlook for the spring. II
| finds universal cheerfulness and large
increase of business over that of last
year.
Among the branches of business which
will be affected by the new Canadian
tariff is that of trunks. The Newark
On. j. Journal says 1.-THE new Cana
dian tariff operates against the trunk
manufacturers in this city, as to that
country they have been accustomed to
look for an important market"
Salem, Mass, sends encouraging news
in regard to the shoe trade. The Post,
of that city, says :-"The spring trade
has everywhere the fullest indications OF
being better than it has been for years
and all there is wanted now is for the
people to fully realize the situation and
the wheels of business will just hum.
A Lewiston (Me.) paper reports that
"busness at the Lewiston Machine Com
! pany's works is now livelier than it has
been in years. Every available space in
the works is in use and very large force
is employed. The foundry is crowded
with work. A large quantity of cotton
machinery is being turned out for the
Cabot Company, Brunswick; for the
Hallowell Mill, for the Pontiac, for the
! York, Of Saco; for two mills in Law
renee and for mill in Atlanta, Ga. A
very large order is being filled tor a mill
at Atlanta, chiefly looms and shafting.
The Boston Post prints bright pic
ture, as follows:-'The factories are
generally resumIug or making ready to
resume work, and if the foreign market
could he still more rapidly extended by
intelligent legislation their prospects
would improve at a much more speedy
pace. But it is all certain to come right
in time. Even real estate, which is the
last to rally, feels the effect of the reviv
ing trade impulses and improves lts
figures and pretensions together we
have reached a stage, in fact. at which
further movement is possible in but one
direction. Everything must now go for
ward. The country is evidently aoou
to enter on career of prosperity whos'
splendors have hardly yet been imagin
! ed"