Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-01-15
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

OVER 600 persons are employed in thu
Bloomingdale, N. j., rubber works.
THE keystone Bridge works, Pitts.
burg, are building SIS, 900 Lighthouse
ter the Mexican coast, near Tampico.
OVER 100000 pounds of butter and
over 1900. 900 pounds of cheese wers
shipped last month to the effete despot.
isms.
A TOY maker at Montrose, Pa, saw,
that since last Christmas he has used
900, 900 feet of Eastwood in cutting ont
toys.
A BERLIN dispatch says twenty thou.
sand tons of steel rails have Just been
ordered in Westphalia for the American
market.
a sTAT1sTICIAN computes that $500.
900 watches and 1000, 900 clocks ara
annually turned out in different parts Of
the world.
THE Pullman car shops in Detroit
have just completed ten very handsome
cars for the Metropolitan Elevated road
in New York.
IT is estimated that in this country
100000 men are compelled to work on
Sundays by the running of steam and
horse cars on the first day of the week.
Dry goods merchants in New York
propose to organize trade association
for protection against dishonest dealers,
and for the economical collection Of
debts.
THERE is combination of pin manu-.
factuTers, so that the price of standard
makes, which was about twelve cents
early in the year, is now forty-four
cents.
THE Pittsburg Steel Casting company
are meeting with grost success in their
steel casting cross-heads for Locomotives.
The Rogers locomotive works recently
ordered o. weighing $50 pounds each,
and the Chicago and North western rail.
road has had about 800 of them.
THE management of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad look complacently
upon loss of over a million dollars q
year in running their two steamship
lines to Europe, believing that the loss
has been more than made up by the
development of their railroad traffic,
BOSTON and all of New England will
be much benefited by the entrance of
the Erie road into that territory. In
the Erie connection over two thousand
stations, which now depend upon one
line, will find anew outlet, and the COM
petition will prove advantageous to the
business interests of the New England
states.
A LITTLE more than forty years all
the table cutlery used in the United
States came from England. At present
out of an annual consumption of nearly
SO, 600, 900 worth, England supplies but
8 per cent, and this country not only
manufactures nearly all that is needed
at home, but ships large quantities to
South America, Australia, and Europe.
THE prevailing stagnation in ocean
freights, says the New York Bulletin,
ia the general topic in ship brokers cir.
cles. The number of sea going vessels
of all classes in port is 82l, and though
the total may have been exceeded in
times past, yet rarely has there been 80
many vessels waiting for business. OF
course the more bottoms seeking freight,
the more difficult it is for their owners
to obtain living rate.
THE fumes from the smelling of lead
ore are now passed through very long
line of pipes and wooden bags, and con.
densed into lead again SIS steam is con-
verted into water. The lead thus OBJ
tanned is powder of exceeding fineness,
which makes an excellent blue paint.
An intense heat melts this powder, and
by similar process of catching the
fumes, a white powder is obtained, which
makes a superior white paint.
THE Philadelphis Press ssys: "The
general revival of business, which has
been enriching almost every interest ex-
cept che coal, has at last unfurled the
silver lining to the anthracite men,
and promises in 1880 to compensate the
patient operators with harvest sufi'
Gently profitable TO place them on bet
ter financial footing than they have ever
before BEEN" The silver lining is de
rived largely from the suspension Of
mining now observed.
AT Milwaukee (Which is rapidly be-
coming an important center OF the iron
industry the various mills are doing the
largest business ever reioem bered there,
all of them having been run continuous
ly day and night for some time past
aid We. the accumulation of work is 20
great that orders have to be refused
daily. Among the work now being exc,
cuted is large order for Bessemer steel
pillow beams from a Pittsburg house.
which is too busy on other work to az
tend to it.
BUSINESS improvement was tel IN
every branch of industry in st, LOUIS
last year. A local journal reports: Inc