Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-02-12
TRADE INTERESTS.

OOU 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 @, 600, 900 fsh-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
taua 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, j.,
has been fred 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
IL, ,OOO, 600 of the population live by agri-
culture, and 5000, 900 by manufactures.
PREPARATIONS are actively going on at
the Philadelphia and Reading shops, in
the latter city, to build ], 1000 freight cars.
The Baldwin Locomotive works now
employ 2,371 men, being about double
the number employed a year ago.
THERE are ffty-one furnaces in blast
in the Lehigh Valley, Pa, with an
annual capacity of over 100000 tons of
pig iron.
THE exports of the port Of Savannah;
Ga.. the past month show all increase OF
$3.50, 900 over the same time last year.
Ho1YoKE, Mass, is one Of the chief
centers Of the manufacture of writing
paper in this country, over one-half the
whole production coming from there.
A BELFAST Qreland) company manu-
factures collars and cuffs of thin wood.
They are almond-colored, finely polished,
and bound with scarlet ribbon.
The American demand for iron is caus-
ing great activity in Great Britain. -Four
vessels, laden with over 5000 tons of pig
iron and rails have sailed from Leith fol
New York.
IT 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.
TIE monthly wash list of q Pullman
palace car is about 6,000 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 q
proportionate amount. It is said that
It can readily be detected when applied tc
a buckwheat cake or hot biscuit, by the
difficulty with which it is melted.
THE Denver, Co.., Evening 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 il
the establishment of clay works, and tc
this is coupled the plan for building {
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 6,OOQ quarts per acre woule
make the yield 725,000 quarts. Thu
growers are negotiating with the Floridf
Dispatch line for the movement Of thu
crop.
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., is quite fishing
port; vessels arrive, almost every week
with fares ranging from 100, 900 to 130,
600 pounds of fsh-cod, haddock anG
halbut. Local firms buy whole cargoes
Goldfish, weighing 10 pounds each ar,
sometimes caught, and the Portsmouth
Times tells the names of the vessels tina
bring in such m 1onsters. ~.
TAKE the busf mess of making watche
and clocks. A heavy duty was imposed
on the import of these articles to Amen
ca. This led many to engage in tn
business. Machinery was soon invented
which at once reduced and perfected tn
cost of production, and Mt present tn
American clocks and watches are sold TO
less than those of English and Swis
manufacture in England and in Switze1
land. And yet I suppose that the skille
labor in this business is not cheaper i
! America than with us. Therefore, b
sheer superiority Of intelligence and {
7 perfection Of machinery, we have bee
cut out by the Americans Of trade
which we formerly held our own. Th
4 same may. be said Of q dozen othe
trades, in which we have stood still Will
!. the Americans have progressed-Lof
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