Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-02-18
TRADE INTERESTS.

Florida is successful.
OVER a thousand men are choppinp
logs in the vicinity of Pittsburg. y. II.
THE apple crop of New Hampshire.
is estimated this year at 250,0O barrels.
A ToY-MAKER of Montrose, Pa, uses
600,O feet of Eastwood every year.
The Newport pipe foundry is turning
out some water-mains forty-two inches In
diameter for the Cincinnati water works.
BURNLEY weavers, representing 80, 900
looms, demand ten per cent. advance In
wages or they will strike.
SEVEN machines in Pittsburgh, Pa.
produced, last year, over 1,063, 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 Phonixville, Pa,
which have been idle for % years, are
now being worked.
THE 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 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 49,
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 pilots in New York harbor earn
an average income of $4,000 a year; it
costs more to bring large steamer
across Sandy Hook bar than to hire the
captain for the remainder of the voyage.
THE Standard Oil company have made
q contract to furnish foreign manufac-
turers with 500, 900 tons of hoop iron, to
be delivered in monthly instalments for
two years
The stockholders of the Piedmont cot
ton mills, at Greenville, s. c., are con-
sidering q proposition for doubling the
capacity of the mills They are to have
%, 900 spindles.
LESS than fifty years ago one man
could not make over Il pins minute;
now he can make 400. Then one girl
could stick on papers about 10000 pins
day; now fair days work is from S00;-
900 to 10000
The Harrisburg Patriot says the pro-
! duct of the Bessemer department 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 7, 623 tons of finished rails.
AT Kolomna, Russia, they have just
celebrated the completion, In the ma
| chine shops Of that place, of their FIVE
hundreth locomotive and ten thousandth
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.
IT has been discovered that the South
Carolina willow, which grows very plen-
tifully In that state, is equal to the best
imported basket willow, and it is thought
the cultivation and shipment of this ma
serial may become an important indus
try.
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 1860, 1885,
523.
THE biggest thing in Little Rock
promises te be the Arkansas Manuf.lc-
turing company, which has been organ
lied with $4,000 capital, divided into
$500 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 a 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 FORCES,
furnaces and mills, and then I'm 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 a late
meeting of the trade society they offered
the employers a reduction of Is per cent.
on all other grades of handmade shears.
But the manufacturers cannot now recede.
They have found American competition
driving them out of their own home
market, besides easily diverting foreign
trade. They must keep up with the
times or abandon their business. The