Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-03-04
TRADE INTERESTS.

SIX miles of railroad were built in New
jersey last year.
The South Carolina cotton factories
give support to 10, 900 persons.
TIE total home clip of wool last year
amounted to 292, ,000, 900 pounds.
THE wholesale oyster business of New
York amounts to $25, 600, 900 yearly.
FROM 6, 600 to 10, 600 pounds of oleo-
margarine are sold in Philadelphia daily.
ALL the brick works at Pittsburg have
as much work as they can attend to.
The iron industries of Niles, Pa, pay
out about 81, 900 month to employees.
The hoe factory at Monongahela City,
Pa, is turning out 100 dozen hoes day.
Four double pudding furnaces are
to be added to the Keystone mill at Pitts
burg.
THERE is only about half supply of
logs at the mills in the Lehigh valley, or
little less than II, 600, 900 feet.
The Pittsburg manufacturers have
given the lamp-chimney blowers an ad-
Vince of Is per cent, bringing their
wages up to 81 day.
The Canastota, N. Y, Knife company
are trying to buy buildings in Cazenovia
for branch factory to employ 70 or so
men.
PREPARATIONS are being made at the
rolling mills of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad company at the latter
place, to manufacture steel rails.
The increase in the dressed cattle bust
ness at Brighton, Mass, has been such
during the last year as to require an en-
largement of the abattoirs.
THERE are $4,000 house servants in
New York, receiving from $40 to 20 dol
lars a month and living on the fat of the
land.
GEORGE D. MAcKEY has just finished
q new furnace at his smelling works III
Jersey City, which burns tar instead of
coal.
A ROLLING mill now building in con-
nection with the nickel works at Camden,
N. J., will be finished by the first Of
March.
A BRADFORD, Pa, correspondent says,
"The hammer and trowel, during this
good weather, keep up continual clat-
ter, evidencing the improvements going
on"
The movement for an increase of pay
is very general among nearly all classes
of working people in New York. It is
not, apparently, the result of secret
movement, but of the general upward
tendency in prices.
AT the Plympton stamped envelope
works about $50 hands are employed.
The establishment turns out from 700,
600 to 1000, 900 stamped envelopes and
stamped Wrappers daily. During the
month of January the daily average was
1000, ,000-for the month 81, ,00O,O00
A PARTY from Boston is building an
oyster packing factory, 100 by 40 feet,
on piles near the railroad piles at Ok
ford, Talbot county, Nd. The piles are
driven and the lumber is there to build
the house. It is expected that the rail-
road will be rebuilt and the cars running
to Oxford in the course of few weeks.
The Golden Gate Woolen Manufacture
ing company has been organized under
the laws of California, with a capital Of
5000, 900, divided into 1900 shares Of
500 each, and has for it's object the
manufacture of woolen goods, such as
blankets, cassimeres, tweeds and broad
cloths. A factory is in course of erec-
ton at San Francisco.
The Delaware Beet Sugar company
are now engaged in manufacturing sugar
at their new factory near Edge Moor,
Del. The present capacity of the works
is Is tons of green beets per day, and it
is expected to increase this number to
200 as the cultivation of the beet in
creases throughout the state. The pro-
duct 80 far has been from eight to over
eighteen tops per acre and the price real
lied was about 81 per ten.
The provinceof Ontario contains forty
four woolen mills, twenty-seven of which
are engaged in the manufacture of gen.
eral line of WOODEN goods, while seven
teen produce shirts and drawers. The
aggregate value of their product for the
past year is placed at So, ,395, 900. The
province of Quebec has twelve woolen
mills, four of them making tweeds, one
blankets and tweeds, two fannels, three
shirts and drawers, and two general
woolens. Their product for the year is
valued ut 81 100000.
THIRTY years ago there was but one
pottery in this country making white and
yellow ware, and not one mill to grind a
pound Of material of any kind. All the
flint and stone required in the manufac-
ture at the time was imported from Great
Britain in sailing ships. The potteries
Of all kinds now in the United States
number about eight hundred, with q
capital of over Sc, 900, 600 invested. Of
the whole number of kilns about thirty
were erected during 1870, and these, it is
estimated, increased the production by
about 81, ,00O, 900.