Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-03-25
TRADE AND MANUFACTURES

A WEEKLY line of steamers betwoo,
New Orleans, London and Hayre :
talked about.
If the Maine papers are to be believed
the gold mines of that state pay bette.
than those of Nevada.
IT is estimated that three thousar,
additional miles of road will be built ~
Texas the next three years
SINCE 1869 the Pacific railroad bo,
landed 1881 passengers in San Fran
cisco, and brought sway $50, S63.
A MANDATORY at indianapolis turn.
out daily 100, 900 of the neat little wood
en- dishes in which butter is 80 generate
sold now
The total premium receipts for insnr-
ing buildings at Boston for 1879 wero
81 ,453, 933, the losses by fire being abont
81, 100000.
The strike at Harmony mills, Cohoes
has terminated, the men receiving II
per cent. advance and an extension Of
the dinner hour.
The Vermont Central and CONNECTING
roads have ordered estimates for an eleo'
vator of at least 500, ZOO bushels capaci.
ty, for Boston harbor.
The tendency on the part of workmen
to strike for better wages increases with
the Increasing activity in a large proper.
ton of manufacturing enterprises.
TIL increase of business and prosper;.
ty Of many of the manufacturing con.
Germs in Connecticut has warranted an
increase of about ten per cent. in labor.
ers' wages, which has been made.
A GENERAL advance of wages has oc.
CURED at Lowell, Mass, the manufac-
turers agreeing to increase of their own
motion, and without petition or demand
by the workingmen
The carrying trade of the country at
the present time is enormous and rail
roads are taxed to their utmost capacities
to accommodate the freight that comes
to them for transportation.
The wool and hide trade in southern
Colorado is increasing largely in proper
ton to what 1t was expected it would.
1t has been made necessary to multiply
the number of agencies this year.
The most extensive bee farm in the
world is probably near Becton, Canada.
1t covers four acres, and last year the
owner secured $4,000 pounds of honey
from his 5000, 900 little workers.
THE sheet iron manufacturers east
have entered heavy orders for forward
delivery. They are, on an average, prob
ably full up to July, with enough bust
ness offered to carry them to October.
J'uy, cfofo pf T.o,,,o,n,o >,,-,., =, uo...
complete outfit for a cotton goods manu-
factory at Baton Rouge. The state does
not utilize the establishment, and the
New Orleans Times says it never will.
A LARGE italian firm doing business in
Tuscany has sent to this country for
samples of cotton goods, with a view, if
satisfactory, of establishing trade there
in that may develop into large proper
tons.
The starch manufacturers held meet
ing i'll Cincinnati recently and deter
mined on an advance of half cent per
pound on the higher grades, provided
the firms not represented at the meeting
agree to the advance.
THE Canadian blue book for 1879 shows
that the foreign trade of the Dominion il
not to be contemplated with pleasure by
the financial statesmen OF the Dominion.
The falling off in exports is a subject of
serious discussion there.
A WELL drilled at Ross Park, near
Binghampton, for 100 feet has passed
through severalveins of coal and through
vein of nearly five feet of sulphur.
The persons owning it think it will also
prove natural mineral spring.
EUREKA district was discovered in
1865. 1t was as good as abandoned until
1869. Now it is the great mining centre
of eastern Nevada, producing annually
millions of dollars, and supporting a
population variously estimated ut from
5000 to 5000.
A wHEELBARRow that can be folded in
fiat package by simply removing two
nuts and a bolt has been invented by
Syracuse man. 1t has the important ad-
vantage that when not in use it can be
stored in some place where everybody
will not be falling over it.
THE glass firm Of A. J. Beatty & Sons,
of Steubenville, O., have just completed
new furnace consisting of thirteen pots,
each holding 5000 pounds of melted
glass. These pots are 4Sx70 inches This
will give them three furnaces. The old
ones, which have been il operation for
years, each have ten pots.
THE spring trade in dry goods this
year down to the present time has been
the livehest on record. The extraordi-
nary movement of ilDn and steel is par
tially Spent with ipdjrotioou Of q fresh
start by-and-by. The railroad and trans
portation companies are busy, and the
quantity of goods going into the interior