The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-01-30
BUSINESS AND MANUFACTURES.

10, 900 sets Of croquet.
Corn is worth three and four cents per
pound ut Clarendon, Texas.
The rolling mill for rolling rails, at
Grand Island, Neb. is working.
The OxmoOr furnace, ut Birmingham,
Ala, yields eighty tons of iron, and is
netting 81, 900 per day.
GOVERNMENT Typographical surveyors
report wonderfully great veins of silver
i'll tho newly-opened ore districts Of |
southwestern Utah.
MAINE ship building does not prosper.
The total tonnage for the lust three years
is as follows: 1877, 7G,30S; 1873, IL ,0G0;
1879, 35,4lG.
THE working time has been increased
from eight to ten hours in the Philadel- !
phia and Reading round-houses and East
Penn shops, and thirty-thrce additional
hands have recently been taken on.
THE protection of cotton has become
matter of consideration in cotton circles.
We have shed room for some forty thou
sand bales, and we have nearly one hun
dred and twelve thousand bales on hand.
-Mcmphis appeal.
TIE American Union telegraph COM
pany have abandoned the plan of run
ming their line between Indianapolis and
Lafayette by the way of the railroad, and
are now putting up their poles along the
state road.
The Warrior Mower company of Lit
tie Falls has capital Of $1G2,00O, of
which $GG ,3i9. 90 has been paid in. The
existing debts amount to $3S, 1892
The annual meeting of stockholders will
be held in Little Falls, January 28th.
AUGUSTA must depend for her future
progress and prosperity upon her manu-
factories A factory like that the Sibley
Manufacturing company proposes to
erect will add Mt least 3, 900 people to the
present population, and give q new i'm
pctus to trade. -Augusta (Ga.) Chroni-
etc.
IT is said that there are 100000
working women i'll our country dependent
upon their own resources for Il livelihood
and such home comforts and surround
ings as they can create This list in
cludes vast army of teachers, sewing
women of all grades, domcstics and girls
employed in factories and other business,
who are wrestling with tn" world for
living.
A GENTLEMAN brought III bundle of
seventy dollars per hundred pounds.
Intrinsically it did not seem to be worth
one dollar. 1t was without body, had
but trace Of coloring matter and but
the slightest fragrance, hut it was as yell
low rs gold and small-tibre. 1t was
cured thus bright and solid by some pat
ent process, and, although very light,
produced considerable money.-Ly"ch-
bury (Ta.) Ne"%.
The yield of anthracite coal in the last
year is put at q, 300, 900 tons, the largest
on record and over 5000, 900 tons larger
than the flush years before the panic.
The production of bituminous coal has
increased in an even larger proportion
and il estimated at 81, 100000. 1t APP
pears to be doubtful whether taking the
whole year through all the coal compa-
MES have made money. 1t is said that
the Delaware and Hudson have not and
that the Lehigh and Jersey Central have
only come out even, but this is mere
guess work.
TENNESSEE gets $4,000 yearly from
the lease of her convicts, 100 of whom
work mines in the eastern part of the
state, Il few arc employed on Il cotton
plantation in West Tennessee, and 3lj
run the coal mines and coke ovens ut
Tracy City. The bosses are fortunately
so humane that many of the convicts re-
main with them ny free lab0rcrs after
their terms have expired, but it is claimed
that the system fails to bring the convicts
under reformatory Influences, and there
is talk of abolishing it after the presen,
lease expires, four years hence.
THAT the United pipe lines aro making
the most strenuous efforts to supply the
wants of their patrons, by furnishing
adequate storage facilities, is apparent
from the work they are doing in the way
of building new pump stations and en-
largimg the old ones. Anew pump house
has just been completed at the Third
!, warl station, in which are two pumps OF
1000 barrels per day capacity each, and
many other engagements and improve
ments are making. Saturday these new
pumps were engaged i'll forcing oil from
this city to Scrubgrass. The managers
certainly deserve not II little commenda
. ton for their continuous eXertions t
meet tho requirements of the trade. OH
city Derrick.
LARGE amounts of rich iron ores are
being imported mt Baltimore from the
, island of Eliza. According to the Bali
more JOur3iat Of Commerce these ores
, board, and the charters are made mt L.
i, Ia Ii, ,h,llsnr
per ton to load, which is done by the
natives, Italians, with hand-baskets
holding about shovclful; but with the
, large force employed, $50 tons is about
/ the average days's work i'll fair weather
J On arriving Mt Baltimore a steamer o.
, 1000 tons is allowed eight days to dis
, charge, or at the rate of $50 tons per day
, These ores are hoisted from the ships
hold and lowered on to cars alongside a
Locust Point, and go directly to theil
destination in the west.
THE ring Of the ship-carpenter's ham
, mer will be heard ut several points along
the banks of tho Cuyahoga this spring
, and much more work is to be done thar
} was anticipated. No less than five
/ steam barges are to be built, and all u
/ them are to be of the largest class, rang,
ing from two hundred and twenty to two
: hundred and fifty feet keel. 1t is n sig.
: nificant fact that none of them are sailing
+ craft, indicating that this branch of the
lake marine is fast giving way to tho
steam and tow barge. There is now IN
: unusually bright outlook for the ship.
ping interests of the lakes, and already
u number of season contracts on orc have
, been closed Mt 81. IS from Escanaba and
So. IS from Marquette to this port. Chi.
, cago is crowded with grain, and 6! and Z
cents per bushel is paid for storage and
freight to Buffalo. These rates pay q
good round percentage on the capital III.
vested and have, i'll measure, stimulated
our ship building interests into renewe,
life.-Gcrciand Hcraid
; A Woman In Bonds.
A fashionable lady of San francisco
attired herself in party dress, and had
a full-length photograph taken. Envel-
} oping her tightly-laced finery i'll bal
loon cloak, she descended to the street,
: hailed street car, and seated herself
within. When her street was reached
she motioned to the conductor, and at
tempted to rise. But so tightly was the
poor thing harnessed that she couldn't
get up, and blushing scarlet, she told the
conductor that she would so few blocks
! further. When the terminus of the line
was reached and the last gentleman had
left the car, the conductor asked her il
she wnntcd TO ride back, A" No. sir,