New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-08-23
Industrial Brevities.

a OerMan paper states that better
method for utilizing old tin cans than
simply to melt off the solder has been
devised. E. Rousset first heats the tin,
old or new. in an oxidizing flame, which
burns up all the pure tin and that COM
bined with iron. When this is stopped.
the scraps OF iron are seen to be cover
ed with brown and brittle crust, the
upper layer consisting of oxide of tin,
the lower of magnetic oxide of iron, 1t
is passed through rollers and then forms
apOwder that contains both oxides. The
iron that remains after sitting out the
powder makes good wrought-iron or
cast-iron, but is particularly fitted for
precipitating copper. The oxide of tin,
although mixed with oxide of iron, can
be easily worked into tin, and metal
obtained from it is free from sulphur
and arsenic. $
Throughout most of central Europe
fruit trees are planted by the farmers
and c0ttagers with judicious ,care and
discrimination in their fields and gar
dens. In an ordinary season they gath
+ er an abundance of luscious fruit, not
only enough to supply their domestic
wants butalso send large quantities to
market, from which they realize an &C.
ceptable addition to their income. This
is all done without losing square yard
of ground that could be proftably de-
voted to any other food crop. The trees
are planted along foadsides, on the
margins of the fields, in the hedgerows,
and other odd places and corners, where
they occupy ground that can not be
conveniently or proftably cultivated.
In Virginia yine-growing has become
. promising industry. 1t was commenc-
ed in 1869 by two Germans on favor
ably-located hillsides of the Blue Ridge
range, and the crops were disposed of
in New York. BY 1877 these pioneers
were producing nearly 5000 gallons Of
wine annually. Last year they had
thirty-seven acres under cultivation,
and turned out $500 gallons. This year
they expect to make out of their own
grape crop, combined with those Of
neighboring vineyardists, from 5000 to
10000 gallons. The two counties Of
Nelson and Albermarie at present pro-
duce together from 50, 900 to GO, 600 gal
Ions annually.
The total annual production of sugar
in the world is said to be 1920, 900 tons,
of which the United States, or rather
the State of Louisiana, produces only
125, 900 tons. OF the total amount, L.
&C, 600 tons is beet-root sugar, of which,
Germany produces 500, 600 tons; France
Az, 900; Austria 40, 900; Russia225, 900.
The United States consumes 0ne-sixth
df the total amount made, it's cOnsump-
ton being equal to 4l.75 pounds per
capita; England consumes 81 pounds
per capita, Germany 10, and Russia on.
" z pounds per capita.
1t is only few years since freight
cars were allowed to be loaded with
more than ten tons. Now but few
eight-wheel cars are built with carry
ing capacity of less than twenty TONS
The advantages and economies secured
by increased capacity are such that a
committee of the Master Car Builders
association have recommended the
building of twenty-five or thirty ton test
cars, believing that freight can be car
.ried in thirty-tori cars with as much
safety and with greater economy than
in cars Of less capacity.
Arizona covers an area OF 1Z,OOU,UOO
acres of land. four tenths of which is
mineral bearing. It is larger nan New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and
Delaware combined. Since 1849 there
has been extracted from seven States
and territories the sum of 81, 100, 600, 900,
for which California is credited 81, 49,
t3O7, 731; Nevada, 1869, ,948; Idaho,
II .549 91l. OREGON and Washington
territory, $48, 6s7 ,251; Utah, $55, S48,.
831, and Arizona, 81, 1901
At the convention Of cotton-seed
crushers in New York, statistics were
given showing that the export of oil from
the States was, for the season of 1876
~, SO, 28l barrels; 1918, IS, 354 bar.
rels; 1853, III, 545 barrels; 1890.
IA, 241 barrels; 1880 81, a, 7O8 barrels,
while exploration from Sept. 1, 1881, to
june q, 1882. was only II. 1913 barrsls.
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