Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-02-19
TRADE INTERESTS.


Florida is successful.
OVER q thousand men are chopping
logs in the vicinity of Pittsburg, n. 81.
The apple crop of New Hampshire,
is estimated this year at 250, 600 barrels.
The coal mining interests of Arkansas
are looking up. Few veins of excellent
steam and gas coal are being opened
TIE Newport pipe foundry is turning
out some water-mains forty-two inches in
diameter for the Cincinnati water works.
BURNLEY weavers, representing sc, 600
looms, demand ten per cent. advance in
wages or they will strike.
SEVEN machines in Pittsburgh, Pa.,
produced, last year, over ], ,063, ,345 kegs
or nails.
The rolling mills of Chicago now en-
ploy over 5000 men, and are running
night and day.
THE Hazard Manufacturing company
will start up their wire mill at Wilkes
barre this week.
The lead mines near Phoenixville, Pa. :,
which have been idle for % years, are
now being worked .a
TIE Southfeld corset shops in New
Marlboro, Mass, are running night and
day, and are turning out $50 corsets a
week.
ABOUT 500 postal orders per day were
sent from this country to Europe last
year-indications of the amount OF direct
trade that is carried on in small way.
The Japanese have started q nail
factory at Osaka, and it is said that that
the nails made there are as good as those
imported.
The value of imports of eggs and poul-
try into Great Britain amounts to $4O,-
600, 900 year. These products are said
to come largely from France.
The Harrisburg car shops were re-
opened recently, and will give employ
ment to 1000 men. The shops have
been closed to make alterations.
The Standard Oil company have made
contract to furnish foreign manufac-
turers with 800, 900 tons of hoop iron, to
be delivered in monthly instalments for
two years.
The stockholders of the Piedmont cot
sidering a proposition for doubling the
capacity Of the mills. They are to have
$4,000 spindles.
LESS than fifty years ago one man
could not make over IA pins minute;
now he can make 400. Then one girl
could stick on papers about 10, 900 pins q
day; now fair days work is from 800;-
900 to 100000
The Harrisburg Patriot says the pro-
I,>o% ~ Tho Pouoov,oor dawn of the
Pennsylvania Steel works for the month
of January was 9, TIA tons of steel ingots.
The rail mill for the same time turned
out z 1928 tons of finished rails.
Ar Kolomna, Russia, they have JUS:
celebrated the completion, in the ma
chine shops of that place, Of their five
hundreth locomotive and ten thousa1 b
railroad car. The first engine was built
there in 1853, and is still in active use.
EVERY month or two there is furry
about Arkansas silver mines, but the
! boom, won't stick. The six hundred
thousand bales of cotton grown on TOP
of the ground in that state last year dis.
counts all the silver that Will ever be dug
underneath it.
THERE was more business done in the
commercial and financial circles of this
country during November, 1878,. than
during any month before in the history
of this country. The bank transactions
of several cities for the month foot up
the enormous aggregate Of 81, 800, 255,
523.
THE biggest thing in Little Rock
promises te be the Arkansas Manufac-
turing company, which has been organ
lied with $50, 900 capital, divided into
5000 shares Of $25 each. Of this amount
$72, 900 have already been paid in. The
corporation is formed for the purpose Of
manufacturing cotton cloths, yarns and
other articles, and the manufacture OF
oils from cotton seed or otherwise.
That is good news that comes from
the upper valley of the James. The
iron men of Pennsylvania are pouring in
there buying our specular ore lands and
making handsome "spec" at once out
Of their investment. The ores are
taken from the state now, but it will not
be long before we have our own forges,
furnaces and mills, and then an new era
will open up for Virginia's INDUSTRIES
Virginia, Va., State.
THE introduction of American ma
chinery by the shears manufacturers Of
Sheffield, England, is causing dismay to
the operatives, who were but lately the
most arrogant of strikers. At late
meeting Of the trade society they offered
the employers reduction Of IS per cent.
on an other grades of handmade shears.
But the manufacturers cannotnow reoede.
They have found American competition
driving them out of their own home
market, besides easily diverting foreign
times or abandon their business. Tht
forging machines have exceeded the most
sanguine expectations, and have dispen.
ed the most inveterate doubts, and the
success of the grinding machine is equal
" unquestionable.