Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1880-06-02

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niture for public buildings under control Of the
secretary Of the treasury was increased from
Sl7O, 900 to &250, 900. When the committee
rose, the house took q recess till evening.
The evening session was spent in discussing the
steamboat bill.
TRADE INTERESTS.
LYNcHBuRa, Va, is doing heavy bus
mess in the guan0 trade, large quaint.
ties being shipped in all directions daily.
The cotton mills at Martins Greek,
N. j., after a suspension Of three years,
will 60 into operation in few days.
T. II. McCRAY, Of Tyrone, Ark, has
secured letters patent on an improved
steam plow.
IMpoRrs of silk manufactures last year
exceeded those Of the previous year BY IS
per cent.
THE rubber company Of Sandy Hook,
Conn, recently shipped belt for grain
elevator, weighing 1900 pounds, the
heaviest ever made.
They are building steam catamaram
on the Hudson which is expected to run
at the rate of thirty miles an hour
Wearers Of plug hats will have TO nail
them ON.
A NEW and curious industry has
sprung up in Pittsburg. A glass factory
there has begun the manufacture Of glass
balls for sportsmen, and Is making TO-
600 balls day.
New ORLEANs has cork mandatory
employing fifteen men and turning out
1850 dozen corks per day, which does
not even supply the local demand. The
establishment is soon to be enlarged.
ONE hundred and thirty silk dresses
were purchased in the United States last
year, to every one hundred purchased
the year before. Which seems to show
that business is becoming more prosper
GUS.
BAsLE successfully holds her own
against all competition in hexibbon trade.
This supremacy dates from the Edict q
Nantes, in common with the Engliah silk
trade. As far back as back as 1910 there
was some 600 ribbon looms e. work in
the canton, producing annually material
valued at 81, ,25O, 900. In 1874 there was
1000 looms, employing 1900 weavers
and helpers and go designers, and con-
Stunning annually 400 tons Of silk, out Of
which a3O, ,OOO, 600 yards Of ribbon were
manufactured, valued at 412, 500, 600.
THE new process for manufacturing
steel rails which has been on trial at the
Superior mill, near Pittsburg, recently,
it is said to prove highly satisfactory,
and viii doubtless be continued. The
old plan was TO heat the steel blooms,
which came in the form Of blocks seven
inches square and about four and half
feet long, run them through . blooming
mill, and then cut them into two pieces,
each Of which was afterward heated again
passed through the rail mill, rolling into
q thirty-foot rail. The new plan dis
penses with the preparatory heating and
rolling process in the blooming mill, and
instead rolls the blooms lust g they
come from the maxket into sixty feet In
length, which are afterward trimmed at
the ends and cut into thirty-foot pieces.
THE PaciAc mills Of Lawrence manu-
factured last year GO, ,OOO, 900 yards IT
fabric. They employed : force that
win range from $500 to 300 persons
and have a. high - 3, ITO names on the
pay-rolls not long since, and the average
u about 1900. All the details a manu-
facture are carried on at these mills.
In England, It takes number Of con-
Germs to put the raw material Into shape.
The wool is washed and sorted BY ono
concern, car1ed and spun by another,
dyed by another, woven by anOeher, baled
or cased and marked BY another, and 70
ON. In the various processes of prepar-
ing goods for market the raw material
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