Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-27
Rnsiness and Industrial Items.

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 The pecan crop on the Mississippi
 coast promises to be plentiful this year. A PIttsburg firm IS turning out glass
 slabs for use on furniture in lien of ! marble. The Dallas Times rejoices over the | fact that the penny Is to be added to the | currency in use in Texas.
 There are seven thousand five hundred ! men employed in manufacturing and
 mining in and near Birmingham, Ala. | The first appearance of cotton as an | article of commerce was a shipment of l seven bales from Charleston, 5. C.. in | 1757.
 Two of the largest irrigation canals iu the United States can be found at Lakin, kearney county, Kan, and they cost Sl150O0.
 \ recent pay bill of John Elder * Co.,,
 the Clyde shipbuilders, amounted to over Sll5,OOO for fifteen days labor. Nearly 6,OUO men are employed in ;le yards.
 The total annual production of sugar Tn the world IS said to be 5.S20,OOO tons, of which the United States. or rather the State of Louisiana, produces only 12j,- O1O tons.
 The iron manufacturers in Pennsyl- vania are engaged in a simultaneous e. fort to start their works with men from outside the unions, and have thus far met with success.
 The city of Boston by establishing its own shop for the repair of apparatus be- longing Co the Fire Department has re- duced the yearly expenses from S60,0O) to Sl2,OOO.
 Since the spring of 1880 Memphis has ! paved eight and half miles of stre ts ! and put down forty miles of sewers and | forty miles of subsOn pipes. The cost ! was SjUO,OOO.
 4 canal to be built from Rome. Ga. l on the EltOwah river will be fOur and a | half miles long, 2629j horse power. anu ! have fall of over 25 feet. It Is intend . ed for manufacturing purposes and vii | cost S3j1.OOO.
 The extent 1.-the manufacture of OleO- margarine will doubtless surprise the ordinary reader, and perhaps alarm the average hOusekeeper. Upward of Sj, ,0Uu,- VJl worth was made in lSsU by four es- tabhshments in New York alone.
 Ice frozen by machinery is now used almost exclusively III Southern cities, as II k cheaper than that brought from the North, except at seabOard places. The retail price has fallen from s per hun dred pounds, before the war, to Sl JO.
 \ new article of paper is called death eroid, and Is made by winding thick nesses of cotton paper over each other on cylinder. The material IS made tough by passing through ] chemical bath on its way tO the cyliu- der. It Is nodded wet, and cuts like rawhlde when 1t has been dried.
 The Enghgh did not build up their . Eastern trade until comparatively late ID the day. Even after the defeat of !, the Armada nothing was done until the wreck of a great Portuguese Indiaman with cargo valued at S7o00OOl on the , DevonshIre coast, awoke the ambition 1 Jf BrlstoIs merchant ventures ;
 It IS expected that the four mauufac- n -ures of Montgomery, Vt, will turn out n 100000 butter tubs the present season. n )f all sizes. 4 larger proportion of ten, n twenty and thirty pound tubs are called f. Tor than usual The material for hoops f las become exhausted in that region, m
 
 There Is a sudden and curious demand q Or English cotton goods from Western b Asia What are known as mulls and (, anglbs are sand tO be in immense W iemand, while of fancy stripes" the upply Is wholly inadequate to meet he popular wishes. In Persia new otton goods are becoming more 'Opular. At present black cambric are l " n much request.
 4 report inst issued by the American II ,Ilk Association shows that ISSI was c- he best year the American factories yer had, and also that in the trade. C { IS estimated that the American peo- V. le spent over Sl0j,OOO.OOO for silk in 0' he fiscal year ending July Ist. one lird of this large sum going Co our di atIve manufacturers. aI One of the curious industries of the ountry has its principal home at New oI erne, \. c. This Is the manufacture of To ooden platters, plates and trays. The mbrr used for this purpose is sup CT, lied by the neighbOring camps \ wo 1ge log IS rounded by a circular plane ld then put into a machine. which. -y lth great accuracy and swiftuess, cuts ri, [ thln strips of wood. When these rips have been cut into square pieces ". ld thOrOugly dried they are made .e... liable by steam. In that condition "7 ley are moulded in the shapes desired he factory k now making luO.OOOplate- pr day, according Go a report. which It i- He' ird Go believe
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