The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-21
The DAILY ARGUS.
LABOR NEWS.

kansas.
There are 6s nail factories in the United
States.
In 1879 Ireland's iron product was 1885,
1913 tons.
Ireland's coal yield amounts to 10000
tons annually
There are 253 furnaces in the steuben-
vile, o., district.
Randleman, n. c., has built mill which
runs 1900 spindles.
The glass works of Pennsylvania are
booming with business.
Trade is reported fair to good in the silk
mills at Patterson, n. J.
Brooklyn, N. Y, has the only needle
factory in the United States.
Carpenters and masons are in good de-
mand at Chattanooga, Tenn.
The 10000 locomotives in use on Amer
lean railroads cost $165, 100000
There are So, 800, 10000 invested in
the railroads of the United States,
The mills are busy at Biddeford, Me-,
Lawrence, Lowell and Fall River, Mass.
An Atlantic, Iowa, canning factory
turns out 5000 cans of corn and tomatoes
daily.
Bessemer steel works number Is in this
country, and have capacity of 2,250.0O0
tons.
The wealth of the United States has
multiplied twelve-fold during the past
forty years.
There are 400 rolling mills in this coun-
try, with an annual capacity of seven
millions net ton.
The San Francisco marble cutters have
resolved that nine hours shall constitute a
days work.
Eight hundred thousand pounds of but
ter is the estimated annual product of the
United States.
The machine shops of New York city,
Brooklyn, Jersey City and Philadelphia re-
port trade as fair.
The hardware factories of New York
city, Brooklyn, Cleveland, Worcester and
Philadelphia, are busy.
There are $50 blast furnaces in the United
States. Their united capacity is 100000
net tons per year.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers held their annual convention at
Terra Haute, Ind, recently.
Atlanta Ga, is building an oleomarga-
rine factory. 1t is to be an immense af
fair. The enterprise is backed by $780,
900 capital.
There are seventy cotton-seed oil mills
in the south. In 1881 their product was
1000 900 gallons, valued at three million
dollars.
Georgia is looking up. Within the past
year her wealth has increased sixteen mil
lion dollars, which is about S11 for each of
her inhabitants.
The annual value of the products of the
United States are estimated at ten million
dollars. The value OF our exports last year
were 1888. 100000.
A thousand men were thrown out of
employment in Worcester, Mass, recently
by the breaking of a shaft in the estab-
ishment where they were employed.
Railroad prospects are bright indeed, |
with a crop of over 500, 900, 900 bushels of |
wheat, 100000 bales of cotton, and |
!, $780, 600, 900 bushels of corn, waiting to be |
moved. |
Upwards of forty thousand farm wagons |
are made annually at Racine, Wis. On an |
average there is a farm wagon made in |
every eight minutes of each working day. |
The carpenters union of San Francisco |
has established the eight hour rule on Sat |
urdays. All the leading employers con-
coded the demand of the union without a
strike.
Knoxville, Tenn, is fast becoming la
Dor centre. There are located there, car
works, three furniture factories, one barrel |
factory, one handle factory, three iron !.
and six Touring mills.
Two thousand moulders employed by |
Sargent & Co, New Haven, Conn, are on
a strike. Cause, a reduction of 90 per cent
ia their wages A compromise of 10 per
cent is thought to be probable.
Manchester, N H, has $S000,000 cap
tal invested in cotton and wooden facto-
ries. There are 400, 900 spindles in opera
ton; 10, 700 operatives are employed whose
pay roll aggregates 100000 monthly.
William Ell. Vanderbilt's wealth meas
nred in gold would, it is said, weigh nine
ty-three tons. The same estimate puts his
income at 80 per second which is the av-
erage wages of workingman for days
labor
The Boston Chief of police in threaten
ing the boys who struck for an increase of
wages at the Somerville Glass Works to |
compel them to go to school unless they |
to work, invented new phase |
of bulldoZing.
Crossley & Sons the famous carpet weav
srs of Halifax, Eng, have nine mills which
cover sixty acres of ground. They employ
nearly 5000 persons whose wages amount
20 9180,000 annually. The products are
7alued at 81, 100000 yearly.
Tbo oooI ,,7;rarc of Ohio .ro 70 hold a |