The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-01-09
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

THE Bordentown, N. j., blast furnaces
will soon be In running order.
Sixty rails were rolled in forty.six
minutes In theiSuperior Rolling mill In
Allegheny, Pa, recently.
A MACHINE for making paper boxes
Just introduced at Cleveland, produces
$4,000 complete boxes In day.
THE mines at Salineville, Ohio, are all
running on full time, but complaint Ii
made of the lack of cars.
The lead mines near Phenixville,
Chester county, Pa, are again 70 be put
in operation after having been idle for
twelve years.
The Franklin wooden mills at Will
mington, Del, are very busy. The
employees are working overtime to sup.
ply the demands for their warps and
hosiery.
RYE straw Is "a valuable a. the grain
in Pennsylvania in the manufacture of
paper. With the increased acreage of
the season just closed 6, 600, 900 bushels
the yield is not equal to the demand.
A COMPANY of citizens of Allegheny
county, Pa, are arranging for the
erection of large hoe factory at Mo-
nongshels City. They will employ
about 1000 hands, and expect to turn
out !, 200 hoes per day.
THERE are 80 narrow-gauge roads now
in operation in the United States. One
line is laid with steel rail. Fifteen are
laid with rail weighing 80 pounds TO the
yard. The remainder with rails weigh
Ing from IS 10 40 pounds to the yard.
AT the recent Dairy fair in London an
American milking pail attracted much
notice. 1t has spout and strainer for
the milk, and cannot be kicked over,
because the mixer sits on q seat to which
is attached the cover.
THE Carbon Iron company at Perry.
vile, Carbon county, Pa, are so puzzled
with work that they have got to build
another foundry, no as to turn out the
work that Is required at short notice.
About 500 hands will be employed when
the foundry Is complete.
THE hat factories in Adamstown, Pa,
are buster now than than they have
been for years. Wooden goods have ad.
vsnced in price, and four factories are
kept running day and night TO fill the
orders on hand. About 500 operatives
are employed in these factories.
THE early records Of OldSouth church
at Boston have not been destroyed, rs
was thought, but are complete from the
beginning in 1869, making several vol.
umes Of manuscript. They are kept In
a fire proof safe, and are never taken
out save in the presence of an authorized
person.
TELEGRAPH operators seem TO be
largely in demand. The !. and st. l..
were inquiring for three last week. The
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago are
ABOUT to adopt the signal system, which
calls for quite number, as an operator
has TO be stationed at each signal, q dis.
lance of three miles apart.
THE fur trade in Pennsylvania has
just opened, but II Is very dull, and the
prices quoted this year are lower than
those Of the previous year. Each season
about 10000 animals are killed in that
section of the country-minks, racoons.
opossums, red and gray foxes, and
Thousands OF muskrats, but no wildcats.
These skins are dressed in their proper
form by the hunters themselves.
The lowest point to which wages have
yet fallen Is five cents an hour, and the
places where this has occurred are Hart
ford, Conn, and Providence, r. l., two
of the wealthiest cities In the country.
When the poor of those cities apply TO
the authorities for relief they are re.
quired TO earn 1t by chopping kindling
wood in the municipal wood.yards at
fifty cents day, and q workman's day
down east Is ten hours.
The full effect of our increased i'm.
ports on the foreign-exchsnge market IL
only beginning TO be felt. Take, for
instance, the iKrupp order for $4,000
tons OF Bessemer ingots When this
steel comes TO be imported. there will be
demand for exchange sufficient 40 pre-.
vent the importation Of about az, DOC, 900
In gold. At Boston alone last week the
imports were 81 ,SlS,S OF which $780,
500 came from England. Among the
items from the latter country were wool
TO the value of $3l1, 1893 and iron and
steel to the value of $l25,SlS.