Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-02-11

LAST year Colorado produced 50, 31O,-
900 worth of COAL
THREE thousand miles of new railway
track are now under way in this country.
A New HAVEN factory showered upon
the world %, 900, 900 fish hooks last year.
THE price of nails is higher at present
than at any time for the past six years.
THERE are now 2, 500 empty cars stand
ing on side tracks at Indianapolis and
vicinity.
HOUSE servants are wanted in Mon
tana and Nevada; wages $25 to $40 a
month.
A PARTY from New Orleans is about to
start glass factory at Bay st. Louis,
Miss.
ELIZABETH furnace, near Altoona, Pa,
has been fired up, after being out of blast
since 1877.
A POTTERY manufacturing company
with capital of $50, 900 has been organ
lied at Rhinebeck.
THE shoe trade of Macon, Ga, is
greater, in proportion to the population,
than that OF any other city in the south.
In France it is estimated that about
Is, 600, 900 Of the population live by agri-
culture, and 5000, 900 by manufacturers
PREPARATIONS are actively going on at
the Philadelphia and Reading shops, in
the latter city, to build 1 900 freight cars
TIE Baldwin Locomotive works now
employ 2,371 men, being about double
the number employed year ago.
THERE are fifty-one furnaces in blast
in the Lehigh Valley, Pa, with an
annual capacity of over 500, 900 tons OF
pig iron.
The exports of the port of Savannah,
Ga, the past month show an increase OF
$3.50, 900 over the same time last year.
HoLYoKE, Mass, is one of the chief
centers of the manufacture of writing
paper In this country, over one-haf the
whole production coming from there.
A BELFAST QrelanO company manu-
features collars and cuffs of thin wood
They are almond colored, finely polished,
and bound with scarlet ribbon.
The American demand for iron is carls-
ing great activity In Great Britain. Four
vessels, laden with over 5000 tons of pig
iron and rails have sailed from Leith for
New York.
1T is estimated that the consumption
of writing paper in the United States IS
about one and three-quarters tons daily
to each one million inhabitants, or about
eighty tons day for the whole country.
THE monthly wash list of Pullman
palace car is about 5000 pieces, and the
bill is upwards of $40. Each car has q
total equipment of 100 sheets, 100 pill
low-slips, 80 hand-towels and 10 roller
towels.
FROM 5000 to 10000 pounds of oleo-
margarine are sold in Philadelphia daily,
and other lare cities doubtless use a
proportionate amount. It is said that
it can readily be detected when applied to
buckwheat cake or hot biscuit, by the
difficulty with which it is melted.
The Denver, Col, Eueniag Times
states that party of four French noble
men whose agent is now in the city, con-
template the outlay of two million dollars
in this city. The principal enterprise is
the establishment of clay works, and to
this is coupled the plan for building a
large number of residences.
THERE are about 125 acres of straw
berries planted in Florida this season
for the market. The yield ranges from
1000 to 5000 quarts per acre would
make the yield 5000 quarts. The
growers are negotiating with the Florida
Dispatch line for the movement of the
crop.
TAKE the business of making watches
and clocks. A heavy duty was imposed
on the import OF these articles to Amer
ca. This led many to engage In the
business. Machinery was soon invented
which at once reduced and perfected the
cost of production, and at present the
American clocks and watches are sold for
less than those Of English and Swiss
manufacture in England and IN Swltzer-
land. And yet suppose that the skilled
labor in this business IS not cheaper IN
America than with us. Therefore, by
sheer superiority of intelligence and OF
perfection of machinery, we have been
cut out by the Americans of q trade In
which we formerly held our own. The
same may be said of dozen other
trades, In which we have stood still while
the Americans have progressed.
don Iralth.