The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-01-23
INpUsrRIAl NOTE 8.

NORTH CAROLINA has ffty.fve cotton
mills.
The guano trade In Georgia promises
% be lively this year.
SIXTY miles from Winnipeg ID val.
liable deposit Of hard coal.
RAILROAD projects are now heard Of
from Maine to California.
SEVEN machines In Pittsburg pro. |
duced last year 1,06o,S45 kegs Of nails.
OVER one thousand cheese factories
are operated in the state Of New York.
THERE 10 o tea plantation in George
town, 8. O., which 10 paying Its owner
profit.
The GOTTEN trade OF Charleston, 8.
G., amounts to go, 000, 900 q year, and
the rice trade Is $4,000, 900.
A LARGER number of men than ever
before employed are hurrying orders at
the Pennsylvania File works.
The lead mines of Chester county,
Pa, that have been idle for twenty years,
are soon to be put in operation.
IT Is impossible to get cars enough to
haul iron from Geargia and Alabama to
fill northern and eastern orders.
SINCE March last one OF the Lewis
town, Pa, mills has made $4,000 pounds
of wool into yarn and stockings.
The fifteen car manufacturing astab-
lishments OF the United States turned
out last year 1880 pieces Of rolling
stock.
THERE are more men now employed
at the Remington armory at Ilion, N.
Y, that at any time in the past five
years.
ONE hundred thousand needles are
stamped and bored in day Of ten hours
by q new machine just perfected in
Westphalia, Conn.
For the first time in many months
the Pennsylvania and Reading Railroad
company are paying their employees in
cash, instead OF scrip.
The American demand for British iron
has diminished recently. One year ago
25l furnaces in America were in opera.
ton; now 337 are running.
PIG iron Is produced at Birmingham,
Ala, at a cost of $40 per ton. The ore
Is extremely rich, and lies in immediate
proximity to coal and limestone.
Sr. LOUIS zinc interests are advsnc'
ing, and the demands for the metal are
greater than the capacity Of the mills,
which are running night and day.
IT Is said that 10000, 900 paper col
lars are annually made in the United
States, the greatest number of which II
manufactured In Springfield, Mass.
The profits accruiug from the express
business done by the Union Pacific road
are now over $40, 900 monthly, while the
entire expenses are but IL per cent. OF
the receipts.
OVER 800 persons are employed In
chair making In the town of Gardner
Mass, yielding over 81, ZOO, 900 worth OF
stock annually. They required sixty
i've new houses last year.
AFRO PARDEE and f. P. Wilbur, Of
Bethlehem, two of the largest stock
holders in the Union iron works Of Buf
falo, will put the works in operation al
soon as they make arrangements with
the bondholders.
READING employees over 500 persons
in hat making, who turn out l, 700 dozer
hats daily. To produce these hats ovel
1000, 900 pounds of secured wool are re
quired, most of which Is grown in Texa
and California. All the manufacture
are running on full time.
The heavy failure of an iron contractor
is reported in New York. This Is thu
sort of thing to be expected from
return of active business. People witt
made long contracts for future worl
when iron was down to half cent ,
a pound can hardly keep their heads VI
with the raw material bringing three
times that price.
The millers are astir in regard to thei
proposed international exhibition mex
June. 1t is hoped that excursion ticket
will be issued by most of the ocean steam
lines, at low rates, for foreign millers Il
come, and that cong ess will exemp
from duty foreign machinery brOugh
in for the exhibition. Mill products ant
mill machinery will form the bulk o
the show.
MARBLE working has been reduced h
an exact science by machinery. A
Ruthland, VT, a new machine Is IL
operation which chips the stone at tn
rate of 10000 strokes a minute. By
setting the wheels at different angles t,
the line of the spindle, according to tn
work required to be done, the machin
will channel, turn and flute column
counter sink, mould, panel, letter ant
do filagree work. Each spindle has abou
SO chisels or teeth, and revOlves from
800 to 5000 times a minute.
The "bszaar" system is steadily in
creasing in the retail trade of New Yorl
and must work very badly for the small
dealers. At Macy's you can buy almos
any thing In the shape of merchandise
and If the comprehensiveness of tn
system keeps increasing we shall soon b
able to buy shawls and steamplows a
Stewards and other great bazaars tina
were once merely dry.goods stores. On
of the curious phases of the system !
that one can buy many articles at lowe
prices than Wholesale dealers can pui
chase them for at the factories. At on
of these great bazaars you can buy 70
Is cents 4 magazine for which the trad
price (that is, the publishers wholesal
price) is 81 cents. Books for which tn
regular dealers ask 81 so are sold at 8
cents to $1.20. The object of selling tn
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