Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-02-26
TRADE INTERESTS.

TRADE INTERESTS.
THERE are forty-six rolling mills in
Ohio.
NEARLY 5000 plows are sold in Little
Rock annually.
An army of drummers in the southern
trade make Atlanta their headquarters.
HOUSE servants are wanted in Mon
tana and Nevada; wages $25 to $40 a
month,
ELEVEN thousand six hundred and
ninety-fve cars were handled at Indian
apolis last week.
TWENTY thousand tons of steel rails
have been ordered in Westphalia for the
American market.
THOUSANDS of tons of pork have been
spoiled by the warm weather in Texas
this winter.
The Etna furnace at Rome, Ga., is
turning out an average of twelve tons of
good pig iron per day:
A GRAIN elevator is soon to be erected
and put in operation at Huntsville, Ala,
by northern capitalists.
The Herald claims that the largest
manufactory in Texas is big saddle and
harness shop at Dallas.
A JERSEY CITY manufacturer has con.
structed furnace which burns tar for
smelling purposes instead of coal.
The puddlers employed at the Burden
iron works, Troy, have had their wages
increased from 81. so to SIS. IA per ton.
The Syracuse glass company have
leased five acres at -Four Mile, and paid
for the leasehold in advance, by which
it would seem that they mean business.
NJ. A. WILLIAMS, of Knoxville, Tenn,
has invented q machine for asserting
nails, which separates defective nails
from the perfect ones.
Ten THOUSAND dollars have been SUBJ
scribed for cotton factory at Chester,
s. g., and q company will soon be Or
ganized to begin the work.
The propr1etors of the Cumberland
IN. j. nail and iron works have raised
the wages Of their employees ten per cent,
being the fourth increase within q few
weeks.
The working force of the locomotive
works at Dunkirk has been increased
from three to five hundred. In order to
fill existing contracts it will be necessary
to construct nine engines per month for
the ensuing four months.
ABOUT $1,OOO,OOO are invested and
2,00Opersons engaged in the manufacture
of shoes in Auburn, Me-, and 1000, 900
pairs of shoes were turned out last year,
which was an increase of more than rs
per cent. over 1878.
HAT making was first begun in Dan
bury, Conn.,, IN 1870. the factory en-
ploying three workmen and turning g out
three hats a day. There are now en-
ployed 1900 persons, and they make IT,
400 hats per day.
Ar meeting of shoemakers in New
York who recently organized to enforce
an advance of wages, it was announced
that circular in which an advance OF 15
per cent. was demanded had been sent to
forty-four manufacturers, and that most
of them had acceded to the demand
without compelling the men to strike.
THOMPSON Bros, paper manufacturers
at Newburg, Ont, have received Large
order from an American firm. To fill it,
they will have to keep the mill running
on one size of paper without change fol
q year. The order asks for 426 tons. It
will require 42 cars to carry the paper to
it's destination. Messrs. Thompson will
realize $59, GAO by the order.
"CHARLEY," said good-natured Bos-
ton man to his son, about six months
ago; "there is package of railroad
bonds. the face value of which is $780,
600. As they will never be worth any
thing in my day, you may keep them for
your children" Charley put them in
his strong box. A few days ago he was
informed by broker that they were
worth just $27, $50.
A MOVEMENT has been inaugurated III
Boston, which has, however, no organi.
zation, looking to the better protection OF
large mercantile houses by refusing
credit where it is known the parties ask
ing it speculate in stocks. Among the
other good results it is claimed that such
a course, by preventing energetic men
from going into outside matters, will en-
large and give new life to trade.
IT is stated that large quantity Of
English pig iron and old rails has been
brought to Pittsburgh and stored il
bonded warehouses erected near several
of the mills. One firm is reported t.
have been heavy importer of Swedish
pig iron, but not wishing to put tot
much money in the stock at once tn
duty is paid on it only as it is removed
from the warehouse. Some iron mel
} believe the English pig iron scare il
overdrawn, as there is very little OF it a =
good as our own. Scotch iron, which
, used to be 80 largely used in Pittsburgh
, for casting purposes, is gradually belne
, supplanted by native ore.