Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-06-09
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, 100000
The Mohawk Valley cotton mills at
Utica have increased the stock $4,000,
making it now 100000.
CorToN seed oil is one of our staples.
No country produces it but ourselves.
| Last year we made about 100000 gall
| Ions.
OREGON is becoming heavy wheat
exporting state Since last July her
shipments have been A, 100000 bushels
of wheat and $50, 900 barrels of -four.
The capital of the Canastota knife
company is being increased $4,000.
There is 10 be new and larger building
south of the present one, and both will
give employment to from 200 to 300
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 they will SOW
with whest 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
Glasgow. Scotland, paper, of recent date,
in which we find ''prime American
cheese" advertised at retail at Sd per
pound. His query is, how can Ameri-
can cheese which retails at Is cents per
pound ne.e, where it is made, be re-
tailed at Sd per pound in Scotland p
OsaOego Times.
The imports of silk manufactures dur
ing the psst year exceeded those Of the
previous year by nearly 80 per cent,
their tota value amounting to nearly
! 100000, paying a revenue to the
United Safes of $15,OOO,00O. The
American Mills are kept actively at work,
and their BUSINESS is hourishing
TALKINt of big mills, there, for in
stance is The new mill at Willimantic,
| Connecticut 1t is a thread mill In
verifying 5he levels a slight discrepancy
was disco-ered that at first could not be
accounted for. Investigation showed
that the mill was so long that the curva-
ture of tie earth made an apparent dis
crepancy.
The Owego Palladium says tina
about LOO pounds of sugar-beet seed
have beer distributed in it's locality this
spring as against $50 pounds last year.
A determined effort is making in Oswego
to establih a beet mandatory there
A good mny beets were raised last year,
but the attempt to get the works for the
manufacture of sugar into operation
failed.
novelty IL 1858, and there was only
limited Production for a considerable
time; but as improvements were made
sales increased and the annual product
is now estimated at one hundred and fifty
millions d 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 fling and
tuning the instruments.
Work m the principle Philadelphia
iron mills has ceased and about 1,40O
men heretofore employed in this branch
of labor are idle. The trouble has 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 81 25 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 declinedfrom 4 cents
to q cents per pound. They say that
even if the men consent to work at the
reduced wages there will be little or no
profit in the manufacture.