The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-02-11
rntereatiug rnauatrial Notes.

Sixteen pudding furnaces at the Altoo-
ma Rolling Mill are running day and night.
Seven machines in Pittsburgh, Pa. pro-
duced. last year. over 1908, 345 kegs or
nails.
Steam and horse railroads in this coun-
try require 100. 900 men to labor on Sun
day.
One firm of Ludington, Mich. has pur-
chased 400, 100000 feet of standing pine
timber.
There are made yearly in Reading and
Berks counties, Pa. over 100000 WOOL
len hats.
Brocton. Mass, shoe shipments arc al
most four times as great as they were a
year ago.
The Camden Tool and Tool Works have
resumed work after an idleness of twelve
years.
All the wooden mills 10 eastern Connect
cut arc running, some of then night and
day.
A project is 90 foot for the establish
ment of a large WOODEN mill at Fort Worth,
Texas.
The West is not able to supply coke fast
enough for consumption 10 Eastern iron
furnaces.
The rolling mills Of Chicago now employ
over 1900 men, and are running night and
day.
In the car shops in Middletowp, Pa,
which are soon TO resume work, 300 men
will be employed
A silver mine has recently been discov-
cred 10 Garrett County, Md. The ore
yields $ll3 to the ton.
Arizona has produced a quality of cot
ton equal to the Sea Island cotton from
seed brought from China.
The fifteen car manufacturing establish
ments in this country turned out $1,000
cars in eleven months,
The lead mines near Pheoixviile, Pa,
that have been idle for twenty-five years.
are now being worked.
Over l 800 persons are employed In
chair making in Gardner. Mass. turning
out over s2 900, 600 worth annually.
The Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
road is building new bridge over the
Minnesota River that will be 1000 feet
long.
The Southfeld corset shops at New
Marlboro, Mass, are running night and
day, aud are turning out $50 dozen cursets
week.
The Delaeare Rolling Mill at Phillips
burg. \. j., which has been idle for many
years. is again in operation under a new
management.
In Vineland, N. j., the wages of the
shoemakers have been increased fifteen
per cent, aud the factories are running on
full time
A large grain elevator and freight depot
is il course OF erection ia Atchison. + an
sas. IL will employ about 500 hands
when finished.
The January dividends in Boston aggre-
gate $lS649,734, Of which the railroads
pay $I,S74,375. and manufacturing COM
panies 1888. $40.
Fhe packages of tomatoes put up last
gear in the United States reached the total
of l9, 96S, 900, of which New Jersey put
up 5 1872, 900 cans.
1t is estimated that $4,000 men and
women are employed in Philadelphia in
the manufacture of clothing, making co.
900, 900 suits year.
Chicag o's lumber reoeipts the pact year
have been greater by Is per cent. and its
shipments by l53 per. cent, than 10 any
previous year.
Illinois farm products amounted to
5000, 600 900 last year, which is double
the product of all the gold and silver mines
in the United States.
Chicago packed last year 5,l0o,O0 hogs,
being an increase Of 10 per cent eyer 1878,
and rs per cent. over 1877. Over 10000
men are employed.
The grape islands of Lake Erie have
4. coo acres of vines, and the yield in 1879
was l6, GOO, 600 pounds. The wine pro
ductioD was $4,000 gallons
An order that cannot BE- filed ia less
than one year has been received by the
Marlborough Woollen Company. The
company will turn out 800 yards day.
All the iron mines in the state of New
Jersey are being worked thoroughly and
ten of her fifteen blast furnaces are
running, with three to be lighted up 5000
PIMA County, Ariz,ua. has sig saw
70 lis. all running up To their full capacity,
and unabie to supply the demand at
prices ranging from $40 per NJ upward
The Union Steam Forge Company OF
White Hill, n. j, have INCREASED the
wages OF their men thirteen per cent. aud
their works are running night and day.
Manufacturing clothing in Chicago gives
employment to $4,000 people, and the
value of the goods made at $4,000, 900.
This industry has doubled in four years,
The wages of the Cumberland Nail and
Iron Works, in Rridgeton, Pa, will be
increased ten per cent on Feb. L. This is
the third advance made within few
months.
The Hudson Highlands and Catskill
Mountains contributed 100000 evergreen
trees and 100000 yards of evergreen
roping. which was sold In New York city
during the holiday season:
Less than fifty years ago one man could
not make over II pins a minute; now he
can make more than 1,400. Then one
girl could stick on papers about l0, 900
pins day: now fair days work is from
100000 to 100000.
Oshkosh, Wis. has the largest match
factory in the world. It cut up 1000, 600
feet of logs into matches. and used $780,
900 worth of revenue stamps during 1879
Besides, it manufactured one-fourth of all
the merchant work sash, blinds and doors
made in the United States.
The new ferryboat for the Central Paci-
fc Railroad Company now being built 10
San Francisco will be the largest in the
world, and will have greater breadth of
beam than any vessel afoat. Its length
will be 424 feet. width 1l6 feet, aud the