Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-06-10
TRADE INTERESTS.

TRADE INTERESTS.
The Michigan Car company of Detroit
now employ about 1900 men.
WELLS, FRENCH & Co., of Chicago.
have contracts on hand for cars amount
ing to over 81 10000
The Mohawk Valley cotton mills at
Utica have increased the stock $50. 900.
making it now $500, 1000.
COTTON seed oil is one of our STAPLES.
No country produces it but ourselves.
Last year we made about 1900, 900 gal
Ions.
OREGON is becoming heavy wheat
exporting state. Since last July her
shipments have been 4, 00O,O 900 bushels
OF wheat and 150, 900 barrels of flour.
The capital of the Canastota knife
company is being increased $50. OOO.
There is to be new and larger building
south of the present one, and both will
give employment to from 200 to 800
hands.
A FIRM which has employed gang of
choppers at Bethlehem, N. H., this win
ter has shipped 70 teams with men to
Minnesota, where they own 1000 acres
Of railroad land, which thew will SOW
with wheat in the fall. They will return
to New Hampshire when snow flies. and
Will alternate western farming with east
ern numbering.
A GENTLEMAN of this city hands us a
Glasgow, Scotland, paper, of recent date,
in which we find "prime American
cheese" advertised at retail at I'D per
pound. His query is, how can Ameri-
can cheese which retails at 10 cents per
pound here, where it is made, be re-
tailed at Sd per pound in Scotland? p
OsaOego Times.
HE imports of silk manufactures dur
ing the past year exceeded those of the
previous year by nearly 80 per cent
their total value amounting to nearly
$26, 100000, paying revenue to. the
United States of $15,OOO,OOO. The
American mills are kept actively at work,
and their business is hourishing.
TALKING of big mills, there; for in
stance is the new mill at Willimantic,
Connecticut. 1t is thread mill. In
verifying the levels slight discrepancy
was discovered that at first could not be
accounted for. Investigation showed
that the mill was so long that. the c1lrva-
t1re of the earth made an apparent dis
crepancy.
The Oswego Palladium says tina
about 1000 pounds of sugar-beet seed
have been distributed in it's locality this
spring as against $50 pounds last year.
A determined effort is making in Oswego
to establish beet mandatory there
A good many beets we're raised last year,
but the attempt to get the works for the
manufacture Of sugar into operation
failed.
THE paper collar was introduced as a
novelty in 1858, and there was only a
limited production for considerable
time; but as improvements were made
spies increased and the annual product
is now estimated at one hundred and fifty
millions of collars. There are nineteen
establishments engaged in the manufac-
ture, and twelve of these have recently
formed protective union.
A NEW branch of labor is opening to
women. Fifty young women are en-
ployed by the Esey Organ company at
Battleboro, N. Y, from the families of
the best farmers of the surrounding
towns. This is said to be the only
organ company in the country which
furnishes work for women. They must
have mechanical skill and an ear for
music, and are employed in filing and
tuning the instruments.
WORK in the principle Philadelphia
iron mills has ceased, and about !, 400
men heretofore employed in this branch
of labor are idle. The trouble las been
brought about by the notification from
the manufacturers that on and after
Monday last they would be compelled to
reduce the wages Of puddlers from IS. 25
to 1926 per ton, with the proportionate
reduction in the wages of all other en-
ployees. The manufacturers claim that
this reduction was made necessary by
the present low price Of iron, which in
the past month has declined from 4 cents
to q cents per pound. They say that
even it the men consent to work at the
reduced wages there will be little or no
profit in the manufacture.
The report of Mr.. Swank, secretary of
the American Iron and Steel association,
says that Of all the years since the panic
of 1873 that of the least production of
iron and steel was 1876. Prices were
also down that year, but they went down
still more in the next two years. At the
close Of 1873 there was a change. In
the spring of 1879 there was sudden
demand. Mr.. Swank says that the late
advance of prices was not due to the tar
if nor to any combination of American
makers. It was due to the hard times,
lasting five years, which caused falling
off in production, and left the makers
unprepared to meet sudden call for
iron. The wild scramble of the railroads
for iron was not expected, and when it.
came, it created an excited condition of
the market.