New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-28
NOTES on IYDUS7RY IND TRADE

HON Observation-Disclosures the fact
that a great number Of furnaces AID mills are idle,
notices of the building Of now works or of enlarge
mcnts, are frequent. The substitution Of new, i'm
proved and larger works for those which fall be-
hind in the race goes on when prices are very low
with great rapdity. st Pttsburg Carnegie Broth
crs are charging the Lucy furnace as to make
% tons daily, instead Of co. additional pudding
furnaces are also to be built At their Union mills
il is thought tic number viii ultimately be IN
creased to fifty. The Coal and Iron Company at
Cranberry, y. c., started furnace on the l4th,
and others are projected. Two now furnaces are 10
be erected by K. H. Coleman at Coiebrook. Lebanon
County, Penn. The big Etna furnace at lronton,
Ohio under repairs is ont of blast for some months,
but nearly all the other works there are in opera
tion again. the Iron and steel Company, the Belle
fonte and the Lawrence on dOuhe-tITn, except the
cOuon-tie mill OF the latter which has been Idle
over year. The Kelly nail mill is at work
nd doing we'll The forge department of
the Akron Iron Company, Ohio, is at
work again. and the rolling mill on single
turn. The Solid Steel Casting Company, OF
'ewark, has broken ground for the building of
large mandatory near the river. At Greenyile,
o.. twelve of the twenty-3T furnaces at the rolling
mill have been lighted All these evidences Of in
creased production, present OF prospective, are III
spite of very low prices which do not improve.
Scranton company is said to have taken an order
f5l steel rails at 1913, and a Philadelphia dispatch
mentions P32 as the price in a recent transaction.
RAILWAY POOLs.-Judge Cooley, of the Supreme
Court of Michigan, has written article for The
Eaj,ray RerieC in which he takes the ground that
courts cannot be expected to enforce any contracts
made to prevent or limit competition between
Transporting companies; that no penalties can be
collected by law for disregard Of such oOmpacts
that the companies and the public constantly suffer
by frequent changes of rates and Unrestricted com
petition, while Olly the gamblers and few of tho
largest shippers gain that boycottng
road for cutting rates might easily
prove a failure and arouse public sym
pathy; ard that legislation is therefore essen
tial to give the protection and enforcement of law
to such compacta as the railroads may make. The
article embraces much that will attract public at
tention.
COAL DisTRIBUuoN.-An important statement,
showing the distribution Of anthracite coal in 1888,
has been prepared by the official accountant. OBJ
serving first that the output in that year was the
largest on record 81 1913 OBS tons, against 30 120-
O96 in 1882, -, 5OO,0l6 in 1881, aud 23,437 ,242
in 1osO-an increase of over 80 per cent in three
years we find that the different roads moved Just
the same proportion of the whole in 1883 as in
1852 except that tho Pennsylvania took 40 of
1 per cent moro than its previous share, the
Pennsylvania Coal Company LILO OF / per cent
less, and the Lehlgh Clio of 1 per cent less The
changes in percentages for the four years have not
been important; they are thus computed by The
Ey0jyceriu1 and NiHiRG journal.