Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-07

the press of orders, cannot shut down for
more than one day during the holidays
ABOUT 2, 800 persons are employed at
Jones & Laughlin's rolling mill and
workshops, Pittsblffg, and 235 tons of
furnished rails are turned out daily.
CHIoAeo's receipts of lumber the past
year have been greater by rs per cent
and its shipments by 154 per cent. than
any previous year.
AFTER an idleness of twelve years,
the Camden Tool and Tube Works, 8
branch of the Reading Iron Works, have
resumed work.
FOURTEEN furnaces are now in blast
in the Shenango valley, Pa, with pros
poets of four being added to the list of
the Gins" before the close of next Janu-
airy.
The North Chicago Rolling Mill COM
yearly 10000 tons fsh-plates, 10000
tous merchant bar, and 10000 tons of
steel rails.
ONE hundred coke ovens are in full
blast at the works of the Mahoning Coke
company, Dunbar, Fayette county, Pa.
All of the productris used at their fur
mace.
THE Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin
says: "The movement of freight over
the Philadelphia and Erie railroad never
was heavier than at the present time,
and all the available rolling stock is
brought into requisition."
The Carbon Iron company at Perry
vile, Carbon county, Pa, is 80 pushed
with work that it has got to build an
other foundry, 80 as to turn out the work
that is required at short notice. About
500 hands will be employed when the
foundry is complete.
The management of the rail rolling
mills in the Middle and Western states
are endeavoripg to fix upon some plan
by which the price of rails shall be more
uniform. Doubtless meeting will be
called at some central point within few
days to confer about the matter.
THERE are in Pittsburg and its imme-
date vicinity rs glass works, "a of
which make tableware, "a window glass
8 fruit jars, 10 green and black glass
bottles and phials and chimneys. The
factories contain 700 pots, employ some
$500 people and turn out product
Ndluou dt dDOFS TO,UOO,OUU.
SIXTEEN pudding furnaces are run
day and night at the Altoona, Pa, roll
ing mill. The Johnstown Tribune, which
furnishes the above, also says of these
works: "They are running two heating
furnaces and one set of new bar mill
rolls. By new machinery they can now
run the twelve heats in twelve hours,
where formerly it took twenty-four."
TIE Pittsburg Clay Pot Company,
Limited" is the name of corporation
that hiss just been formed in Pittsburg,
the object OF which is the manufacture of
pots for glass works. The capital stock
of the company is $4,000, and it COM
mences with an assured business Of $780,
900 per annum. The company will use
German, Missouri and other clays.
A COTTON Comprising company in
Louisville have just completed ware
house in Louisville. near the Louisville
and Nashville railroad with capacity
of storage of $4,000 bales of cotton. In
connection with the warehouse they have
erected Taylor hydraulic and steam
press, which, it is claimed, can press 800
bales of cotton in ten hours. The Louis
vile papers say the good results arising
from this enterprise are already mani
tested.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat says:
printing paper is sharing the fate Of
other manufactured articles at the
present time in experiencing very de-
cided boom. A continuance of the rise
in price which has been going on for 8
few months past will seriously contract
the profits of publishers, unless inven-
ti0n shall come to their rescue in the
mean time with cheaper methods Of
production and new fields for capital"
Ex.Gov. BULLOCK, of Georgia, is in
New York for the purpose Of purchas
ing additional machinery for the Atlanta
cotton mill, of which he is treasurer.
This is the first steam mill started in the
cotton belt, and has a capacity for TO-
900 spindles, $4,000 being now in opera
ton; the full number will be at work in
a short time. It is now running night
and day. Gov. Bullock speaks encour-
agipgly of the growth of industries and
lettering condition of people and affairs
south.
THERE is a great field of industry in
the manufacture of linen in this country
comparatively unoccupied which is
worthy of the attention of Irish manu-
facturers. For many years Ireland has
surpassed both England and Scotland in
this branch of manufacturers, but lat
terly Scotland has been pushing toward
the front rank, and the prospect is that
she will soon occupy it. Ireland does
not raise more than half the fax she
spins. The high rental for land is as
signed as the cause of this. The United
States consumes large PERCENTAGE of
the 1rish-made linens. If manufacturers
in Ireland will investigate the subject
they will find it to their interest to es-
tablish linen factories on this side of the
water, where land is cheap, and where
they will find plenty of fax, without
depending on supplies from abroad, and
a home market for their linen.
Separated.
The Rock Island <Ill.) Argus recently
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