Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-12-18
Industrial Notes.


The paper wheels on the New
York. New Haven and Hartford
Railroad cost 800 each. Steel ones
cost little more than half that
sum.
Georgia is rapidly developing a
great lumber business The esti-
mated product for this year will
comprise 800, 900 900 feet, valued
at more than SIS, 600, 600
The Atchison. Topeka aud San
Ia he Railroad Company recently
bought of the Joliet (Ill) Rolling
Mills 5000 tons of steel rails, de-
liverable in 1881, at $50. cash at
the mills.
The number OF loaded cars
handled AT Indianapolis last week
was as follows Received, 1913;
forwarded, ZAP; total 1000; de-
crease from Gh, movement OF the
week preceding, 385 car.
The interesting exp. ritnent of
running the fires OF locomotive
by gas burned from gas bags in
the tender is tr ed on IA haif-mile
strip Of railroad il England
known as the Hyde Per Rail-
road.
The people Of Bloomington are
much eIated that the Chicago and
Alton Company has decided to
enlarge its shops ut that point, and
commence the building Of engines
entire as we'll ~ cnrs.
In consequence Of the Use in the
prices of rags and other flores the
price of Sodth Carolina clay, used
by paper makers to increase the
weight Of their goods, has lately
been advanced s. per ton.
Maryland is looking up as a cot
ton manufacturing State. Recent
statistics show that she has TWEEN
ty-one cotton mills, Ia, OLA spin
dies, 1926 looms, and 4l50 en-
ployes. l. gear 40,379 bales of
cotton were consumed,
Iron building is becoming no.
table in China. Oae thousand
ou3 hundred Workmen are now
employed in a shipbuilding yard
at Shanghai, that was established
several years ago by Scotchmen,
The Northwestern Telegraph
Company has built 2000 miles of
new line this season, and is put
ling up masts 175 feet high at
Running Water. ID. r.. TO get the
wire across the Missouri River out
Of the way of steamboats,.
The increase in the furniture
manufacture of Cincinnati will be
% to So per cent. for this year
over 1879, and the total will aggre-
gate nearly $4,000 900. The new
palatial Hotel, Vendome, in Bos-
ton, has $50 rooms Furnished
from Cincinnati.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says
that the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad has just decided to order
fifteen hundred additional new
freight cars. These are to be built |
by Indiana and st. Louis firms, and
are unusually strong and have an
increased capacity.
The Union Pacific Railroad has
reduced its passenger rates from
Omaha to Ogden. 1888 miles, from
$3.50 to $62, or from "A cents TO
6 cents per mile. In the settled
portions of Nebraska, where local
travel is considerable, q general
reduction 10 cents per mile has
been made.
The capacity Of the pig.iron
furnaces in this country is about
$4,000 ond the present produc-
ton at the annual rate of 100000
ions. 1t is estimated that 3,500,00O
or 1886. 900 tons will be used dur
ing the current year. The con-
sumption in 1879 amounted to
about 100000 tons.
Says the Scientific american:
THE enormous advance in the
cost of paper may be in part at
tributed to its extensive use in the
various arts and manufactures
not connected with printing. The
last application of paper is the
conservation of an astronomical
tower 80 feet in diameter at the
Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. j."
Proposals have been made for
starting the disused Woodruff &
Beach Iron Works and Poundery,
in Hartford, Conn.,, with about
800 men employed in the mann
iacture of the Buckeye engine.
The Woodruff & Beach Works are
most favorably situated, covering
i've acres of ground near water
and railway communication, for
manufacturing purposes.