Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-15
INDUSTRIAL T

The msllesble iron works with q capital
Of 500 have established works at Du-
buque.
A Touring mill with q capacity of $50
barrels per day will be built at Ashton,
ID. T., in the spring.
In Baltimore 25 vessels were built last
year, with an aggregate tonnage of 3,l52,
at a total cost Of 1885,, 900.
The new mills ct Fall River, Mass, now
building, will require about 1000 opera
tives. and those in New Bedford about l.
500.
The tonnage of vessels launched from
Maine ship yards last year was 81, 567 tons.
while the vessels still in the stocks aggre.
gate 23,016 tons.
The Southern Scale Company of Chata-
nooga, Tenn, now has its works in full
operation. All kinds of scales of an excel.
lent quality are made.
There was manu-. ctured in st. Paul,
Mimi, last year Z, 301, $50 barrels of four
vIlued at S13, 500, 902. and SO, 500, 600
worth of other mill stuff.
The Elizabeth pool mill at Taunton,
Mass (, have q new nap Ding and cloth 70 m
about completed. 1t is 156x40 feet in area
and one story and basement in height.
The manufacturing establishments In
Dubuque, Iowa, are exempt from taxation
for a series of years. The people there
believe in inducing capital in that man.
ner.
An agricultural implement mandatory
is to be established at Eufaula, Ala, with
a capital of S65, 900, to be increased to
S100, 0C0, as the growth Of the business re.
quires.
A new cottonseed oil mill is to be started
at Forsyth, Co., with o capacity of using
1000 bushels of cotton seed daily. The
city will exempt the mill from taxation for
ten years.
One of the largest and best equipped
foundry and machine shops in the s nth is
that of Lombard & Co, Augusta, Ga. The
works have recently been enlarged and are
very complete in all details.
The new Bourne mill at Fall River.
Mass, hos its card room machinery about
all in, and its engine set up. The New
Laurel mill in he same place is nearly
ready to run.
The main building of the extensive tan.
merry of the Milwaukee hide and leather
company was destroyed by fire January
7th. The loss on the building and ma.
chinery was 500, 600.
The machinery for the ~50O.barrel -four.
ing mill, now in the course of erection, at
Salem, Oregon. was bought in Chicago,
The freight bill on the machinery already
received IN Portland amounts up to date
S10,7l5.50.
Rockford, Illinois, with q population of
about 1900. has nearly S5,741,0 GAO in
vested Ia manufacturing interests, which
employ 1920 skilled %workmen. and turned
out last year over 50, 533, 600 worth of
manufactured goods.
As indicative of the growth of me.
chsnicsl industries in Sioux City, Iowa,
one OF the local papers gives a list of thirty.
four new buildings erected during the past
year for manufacturing purposes, and three
factory buildings enl irged, the whole cost
ing $40, $50.
Ship building in Cleveland last year was
active. Two iron vessels were launched
one of z, 164 tons, the other of 2,40O tons.
Three propellers were launch d 1924,
l, 500 and 1889 tons respectively. In ad-
dition to these, quite a fleet of schooners
and tugs have been built at the yards.
The new mills at New Bedford, Mass,
are all progressing rapidly towards compile.
ton, The Grinnell is entirely enclosed,
and h machinery being put in; the
Acushnet is even farther advanced; the
Oneco wooden mill is we'll under way, and
the yarn mill Of the New Bedford manu-.
featuring company is ready to start up.
The Vermont marble industry is in q
fourishing condition. The number Of
workmen employed in the quarvies and
mills exceeds over {, 300 who received over
81, 600, 600 in wages last year. The aggre.
gate product last year was LOCO, COO cubic
feet valued at over 50, 000. 900. Over 10, 600
cars were required to transport the marble
from the State.
There are now eleven large distilleries in
Peoria, H., which have an aggregate
capital Of $40, 900, O0n, and which contri.
buted to the revenue of the country last
year, $13, 267, 9SS. which would indicate a
product of IA, 742, 209 gallons. The value
of the product of the distlllery and brew.
cry industries Of Peoria last year was $780,.
4S5, 600.
The manufacturing business of Cleveland
for last year is ss follows: Iron and steel
products, s., 800, COO; nut. and bolts. 49,.
300, 900; machinery, S42, 600 COO. manufac-
lures of brass, $3.50, 600; crude petroleum
refined into various products, |. 200, coo
barrels; paints and ~varnishes, $500, 600;
coopersge, 1900 600 barrels; tobacco manu-.
featured, 1,S0O, COO pounds; paper, 4S9
tons; four, S25, 900 barrels; clothing, a..
500, 900; cars and bridges, 1906, 900.