The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-01-02
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

A MICA mine was cold recently i'm the
Rockford district, Dakota, for 5000
cash.
The soap mine near Eureka, New, is
turning out hundreds of tons Of sspon.
aceous quartz.
/ THE fifteen car manufacturing estsb-
/ lishments iI this country have turned
out $3.50 cars in the past eleven
months.
! THE substitution of American hard
ware for II glish in Australia and other
markets is having a serious effect on the
Sheffield trade.
FIFTEEN ses-going vessels cleared from
New Orleans on the Goth, including
eight steamships. Exports, cotton, i63,.
600 bales, the largest on record in one
day.
The furniture factories of Union City,
Tenn, have asked permission from in.
sursnce companies to run their machine
ry after night, as they are unable to fill
their large orders by day work.
The nail manufacturers at their meet
ing at Wheeling, Va, on the Goth, adj
vanced the card to Si.25, with the usual
discounts. The pressure of orders at
he mills is universally strong for this
esson of the year.
A THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOL
LAR sewing machine company has beer
organized at Hartford TO make a book
sewing machine. II il about feet high,
feet wide and .! feet deep, and will
make perfect lockstitch at the rate of
70, 900 TO 81, 600 signatures q day.
/ A SUBSCRIBER of the Tribune, living
in Newtown, Penn, noticing paragraph
in relation TO cylindrical railway cars,
writes: "Some twenty-five years ago n
Maryla land man conceived this same idea.
He had his car made, and loaded it with
bituminous coal, on tho Baltimore and
Ohio railroad. 1t came through al.
right, only that, when it was opened at
Baltimore, the coal was an impslpsble
powder. 1t never made its second trip"
. A STOCK company is being organized
in San Francisco for the cultivation of
coffee in the state o! Colima, Mexico.
There are vast areas of idle land on the
western coast of Mexico and Central
/ America admirably adapted to coffee
culture, and this pioneer company may
| be the commencement OF great enter
prises in that direction. The coffee trees
are planted 600 to the scre, and the
average crop is said to be 81 pounds per
! tree.
RUTLAND, VT, has new marble
working machine which chips the stone
at the rate of 10000 strokes per minute.
| The wheels are set at various angles 10
the line of the spindle, depending upon
the work required 10 be done, and, rs the
arrangement will channel, turn and flute
column, countersink, mould, panel,
letter and do tilsgree work, quite num-
! Der of different settings are required.
Each spindle has about Ihirty-eight CHS
els or teeth, and revolves from 800 to
5000 times minute.
WITHIN the past few days there has
been much excitement among the dealers
in India rubber in New York and
throughout the country. The extreme
speculation had its rise in Liverpool,
and the market was broken to the extent
of thirty per cent. in one week. The
transactions in Liverpool aggregated
1000 tons, taken mainly by ore firm
there. Prices in consequence advanced
rapidly in New York, aud manufactur-
ers here purchased heavily at advanced
rates, lest prices should again be forced.
! kilograms from Brazil stated that the
crop of rubber would show slight de-
crease, and this fact having been known
( 10 those who control this article enabled
them to make their bold movement with
the certainty that the trade Of the
United States in India rubber, which
shows twenty-five per cent. increase in
the year, would help to carry out their
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