The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-11-06
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
st. Paul, Mimi, has put up 81 ,87s,0 o

st. Paul, MINI, has put up 81 1863 0
worth Of new buildings the past season.
Norfolk, Va, truck farmers value the
production for the season at very nearly S. =
$1,000.
The Milwaukee and st. Paul is to ex
tend its line from Rockerton to K0nkakec,
nearly 100 miles.
More than 100000 postal cards were
shipped from the manuiactory at 1Iolyoke,
Mass, one week lately.
There is said to be but one concern in
the world that makes fish hooks 10y machin-
cry, and that is located at New Haven.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
put up 300 miles of wire in the southern
part Of Dakota in the month of September.
France has 5000 miles of canal, costing
$l57, 200, 900. Nearly all the rivers have
tow paths along the banks, and boats loaded
with coal are towed along them.
The Baltimore Sun describes cotton
press now being put up in that city which
will compress an ordinary bale Of cotton 10
the thickness OF seven inches.
There are six cotton factories at Peters
burg, Va. Five of these have 2s, 900 spindles
$50 looms, and give employment to about
700 operative. sh,eting, shirting drillings
yarns, etc, are made.
An invention to utilize the same steam,
which advances the locomotive 10 relard ia
progress, making brakes unnecessary, has
been successfully tried on the Delaware and
Laclawanna Railroad.
"A company which has been experiment
ing in Florida with the palmetto as a mate
rial for paper has met with such success thai
about twenty paper mills are tc be erected
in the State for its manufacture.
during last year il is estimated that th'
amount of lumber alone manufactured anC
| handled in Norfolk, Va, reached s3,272,
| 572 feet, as compared with 4s,lj0,O ,O0O esti
mated as being manufactured aud haudleC
the previous year.
The impossiblily Of filing present or
ders at American mills is sending the bulk
Of orders for steel rails u England. At pre-
sent prices this description, as well as iron
can be imported at smaller cost than the,
can be bought here.
1t 10 reported that stock company
about to be formed to build a railroad, ,regu
lation gauge, from New Florence, MongCm
cry county, ONO, to Fulton, and from Full
ton to ST. Louis. The original purpose is
then extend through to Boonyille via Co
lumbia and Rucheport.
French railway companies are placin
on their night trains much handsome
and larger type of irst-elass carriage tha
has heretofore been in use. But they hav
not yet made up their minds to make sleep
ing ears either numerous or cheap. Fin
lamps and tables in these new carriages vii
allow one to sit up and read at night, bu
most tired travellers would prefer a comfort
able bed
The indianapolis, Bloomington an
Western Railway, the Cincinnati, sandusk
aud Cleveland Railroad and the Columbu
Springfield and Cincinnati Railroad are
be consolidated into a new company, 10 !
known as the Ohio, Indiana and Wesier
Railway, which will build a new line Of 8
miles connecting the other roads, giving tn
new company 543 miles Of road from sar
{ dusky, Ohio, TO Peoria, III.
1t IS claimed that men born blind ney'
learn to smoke, We think this claim
good one for It is but little comfort to sqol
! ! in the dark.
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