Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-03-04
TRADE AND MANUFACTURES

CHIcAGo's cloth manufacture last wear
amounted toSl00, 900, 000
The wholesale oyster business of New
York amounts to S25, 600, 900 yearly.
RETAIL cigar dealers in New York are
combining to advance the price of cigars
FROM 5000 to 10000 pounds of cleo.
margarine are sold in Philadelphia daily.
The Flint and Marquette Railway and
the Mackinaw division of the Michigan
Central are running long trains daily.
FIVE acres of land have been leased nt
Four Mile Run, McKeon, county. Pa.
upon which glass works will be erected
THE Erie blast furnace Is ut present
engaged in filing bill of 1000 tons Of
iron for Cleveland parties. The sale was
remarkably good one.
IT is stated that the Amoskeag, Man.
chester and corporations of Manchester
will increase their rate of wages ON March
]st, from Six 10 ten per cent. The same
is reported of the Derby mills.
BEssEMER steer rails in 1878 could be
bought in England for go per ton; Jan.
uary l, 1879, they were selling at S42 Der
ton; now they are quoted ut about $40
per ton, and the price is upward
The Chain and hinge works at Beaver
Falls, Pa, are working to their full ca
pacity. A correspondent writing from
that pointto the Pittsburgh Commercial
gazette says that things are just hum
ming there.
IT Is rumorcd that the Philadelphia
and Reading Coal and Iron company
has leased the Pennsylvania iron works
at Danvllle, and will soon assume charge
of them. These works give employment
to 1000 men,
THE Springfield Republican notes the
advance of 40 per cent. in Tie stock of
the Willimantic linen company Of Hart
ford in one week, and it says that another
manufacturing company has declared a
dividend of 50 per cent.
IRE speculative fever pervades all
classes in Boston, even the women yield
ing to its influence. A gentleman who
has been in business on State street for
~ years says he has seen nothing to
equal 1t In all his experience.
The tobacco crop in Pennsylvania is
of greater consequence than may gener-
ally supposed. In Lancaster, York and
Lebanon counties, to which the bulk of
tue tobacco culture is confined, no less
than "a O00,00 pounds were produced
last year, valued at So, 900, 900.
The town of Cohoes is unfortunate in
the execution of its new fire limits law.
A manufacturing firm took umbrage at
interference with their plans for build
ing long wooden extension, and are
transferring their rolling mills to Albany.
The firm already employed 500 men and
disbursed 49, 900 monthly among them.
The various manufacturing establish
lishments in Columbus, Ga, give en-
ployment to 1901 adult males, 100
females and e2S0 children--a total of
2,64l persons. This is the number
steadily employed. In times of unusual
activity it is frequently doubled The
population of Columbus is about $4,000.
THIS was the sage remark of an old
Boston merchant: 1--we stood here on
State street for ten years, and / have
seen men accumulate fortunes by specu-
lation, and I've seen these fortunes dis
appear. | have seen men go up in
worldly wealth, aud down, and I've al
ways noticed that those persons who were
content with slow gains and per cent.
interest came out ahead in the long run"
A COOPERATIVE boot and shoe factoIy
scheme is reported on foot at Milford,
Mass, in which the workmen viii share
profits and losses with those who furnish
the capital, according to a regulated
schedule. The capitalists will select
manager, who will engage the work, bry
the necessary stock, superintend the
manufacture and sell the goods, either
through himself or through statesmen.
Workmen to receive four-tifths of their
earnings only, rs wages, the remaining
fifth to be reserved rs q fund to insure
the capitalists against loss
SPEAKING of the rise in the price of
white papers, the Hartford Courem
SAYS: 1.-The fact is there la nothing
sold 80 cheap as the newspaper Of to-
day. 1t is barely possible that the very
low price at which it is bought tends to
lessen the public estimate of its value.
Year by year the expenses OF newspaper
publishing has increased. Take n paper
of to-day and compare it with one Of ten
years ago and the change If wonderful.
With one of twenty-five years ago there
il practically no comparison possible, as
there is no ground to put them on. The
labor on the present daily paper involved
in type-setting, printing, reporting,
editing, correspondence, and the thou
sands of incidentals, is greater than any.
body outside on Office can imagine. The
telegraph bill OF to-day would have made
a manager faint few years ogo. There
has been steady and amazing improve
ment in newspapers during the past de-
cade, with no increase whatever of price,