Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-12-10
MANUFACTURING AND
TRADE NOTES.

SrAr,srICIAN computes that $780,
600 watches and 1000, 900 clocks are an
nuallv turned out in different parts Of
| the world.
The exports from San Francisco for
/ the week ending November 10, were OF
au aggregate value of S7O7 ,SSl, as against
1886, 759 for the week previous.
NOVEMBER returns show that the
wheat Weld this year will be 26,OOO,OOO
/ bushels greater than it was last, while
/ the increase IN the corn crop reaches
/ 10000, 900 greater.
CINCISNArI takes the lead in carriage
manufactures in the West. In the ear
riage industry eight firms have manu-
| featured 5000 carriages and buggles
| the past year.
Every kind Of leather, of oak and SUI
mac tannage, is produced in Cincinnati,
there being thirty tanning establish
| ments. Ii is the oldest tanning point
/ west of the mountains.
PHILADELPHIA is the largest wool nan
/ uiacturing city in the world, and on
/ Philadelphia looms more yards oil car
pet are manufactured than in the Uni
/ ted Kingdom OF Great Britain and Ire
/ land.
A FIRM i'm the iron commission line in
/ Philadelphia is reported to have made
/ a golden strike out OF the boom IN
/ the iron trade. The story is that they
/ purchased on a speculation 10000 tons
/ of steel ingOtS or blooms, and contracting
with a Pittsburgh party 10 roll the same
into steel rails, have cleared net profit
of Sll per ton, or about 100000 on the
transaction. The rails on future deliy-
cries have all been closed out.
TIE Eagle and Phoenix Mills, at Col
umbus, Ga, on Friday week last sold
over So, 900 worth OF cotton fabrics, and
during the last twenty days their sales
have amounted TO a quarter OF million
of dollars. The Columbus Enquirer says:
"Our mills are using over $4,000 bales
Of cotton and making $4,000 yards OF
cloth annually. There is something
practically solid about such a South.
especially as we are undersellng our
Eastern friends"
THE manufacture of cigars has grown
in san Francisco with rapid strides.
Manufacturers employ several thousand
men in the business, and ii Is one Otthe
leading manufacturing cities in America.
In 1870, according TO the census report,
that city had 50 establishments, and
manufactured cigars worth Sl,9O99l7.
Now il makes more than twice rs many,
valued at about S4,0OO,OOO and imports
from fifteen to twenty million cigars
from the East.
THE American iron trade certainly
cannot maintain present prices II the
heavy impOrtatlOns from Europe con-
tinue. The following figures taken from
the Philadelphia custom house reports
week before last, will show 10 what eX-
tent the old countries on the other side
are feeding our furnaces and mills
There are ,9O7 tons iron ore, 1895 tons
piy. So tons scrap, 1888 bars, BIB
pieces old rails, about 1850 tons old
rails, besides large quantity OF steel
ingots and light iron.
Mr.. ADAMS, United States Council at
Geneva, reports that Switzerland begins
ID feel the influence of returning pros
perity i'm the United States. 1t is wei
coined rs meaning better times for
Switzerland. The exports 10 the United
/ States had fallen from about 100000
francs i'm 1871 To little more than
/ l.OOO.OOO i'm 1873, when the turning
point seems To have been reached. The
second and third quarters OF 1879 have a
/ decided increase. The importation of
[ preserved meats and anthracite coal
from the United States began only a
wear or two ago, and seems to be profit
able. Preserved meats are very gener-
ally used and sold In Geneva.
| A ST. PETERSBURG paper saws: Given
| ~ wears ago st. Petersburg exported
/ 10000 tons OF lard; now the competi-
/ ton OF the United States, the River
/ Platte and Australia has destroyed the
/ trade, and st. Petersburg imports in
/ stead OfeXpOrting. In the present year
/ the imports OF the article already amount
I % 5. 1000 tons. The same journal COM
I plains that Russian grain is being driv
/ en- from European markets by Amerl-
/ can grain, and it finds an explanation
! of the tact in the superiority of the rail-
| wav system of the United States, the
I Russian railway system having been
/ constructed with view to military OPP
creations.
The American Iron and Steel AssoCia-
ton have issued a pamphlet giving the
result of an investigation into the wear
ing qualities of English and American
steel rails. The American rails tested
were those laid on the Pennsylvania
railroad and used from 1868 to 1873.
In the ten wears only 6.26 per cent
were removed OF the English rails
laid from 1864 TO 1871, when their pur-
chase ceased, 1927 per cent was re-
moved. On the Philadelphia, Whining
ton and Baltimore railroad the Ameri-
can steel rails have worn fully as well as
the foreign rails laid at the same time.
The investigation completely explodeS
the idea about the superiority of English
rails.