The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-28
Trade Notes.
Philadelphia Record.

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Trade Notes.
Philadelphia Record.
During the week ending Dec. 4 $3.50, 600 worth
of tin-plate was exported from Swansea alone to
the United States
The Northeastern Railway Company, Of Eng
land, has ordered 10000 steel sleepers, and if
they like them they will order so, 900 more.
Thers are 1856 firms in Michigan engaged in
salt manufacturing, operating 140 works. with
an annual capacity of over 100000 barrels of
salt
The Watson Car Manufacturing Company, of
Springfield, Mass. has voluntarily increased the
wages of its employees 10 per cent. number
of voluntary advances will be made during the
coming winter.
The labor prospects were never more encour-
aging. Flour, provisions, etc, are low, and likely
to remain SO. Rents will probably decline for
small houses in country towns Clothing re-
mains high because of scarce wool and trade
combinations of more or less strength.
The iron-makers have had no leisure time and
the English mill labor is being attracted in
squads by the high rates of wages paid on this
side. The two international iron-workers'
CARNATIONS understand each other we'll, and
they regulate emigration in their interests much
better than it could be done by Congress.
The European rail-makers have been so en-
gagged by the demand for rails and railway ma
terial that they have called meeting for the
18th of January to reorganiZe their old union
which was formed originally to keep up prices
Large contracts are coming in from the colonies
and Asia, and a reorganization of the syndicate
is desired by nearly all.
Printers might like to know that the entire
Scriptures contain 2, rs, 269 ems in diamond and
2,S07, $40 ems in nonpareil. 1t would take
printer year and half to put the Scriptures
in type at the rate of 5000 ems per day. The
quantity of metal required in nonpareil would be
about G. 500 pounds: in bourgeois. 10, 600 pounds,
and in pica 26, 600 pounds.
Southern labor, white and black has been
greatly encouraged IN the work of organization
by the expectation of equalizing wages between
the North and the South. Mechanical labor is
two ago. A good many Northern mechanics GO
ing South insist on extra pay for the supposed
risks of living i'll that section.
Another new town is to be started four miles
from Birmingham, Ala, with contributed cap
ital of So 000. 900. 1t will have water and gas
works and electric lights, and large manufactur-
ing establishments will be built at once. A
jamestown, N. Y, edged-tool manufacturer will
move his 500, 900 plant to Birmingham Hunts
vile, Ala, is after 6 600 feet of g. and 12-inch
gas and water pine. Three blast furnaces are to
be built at Florence, Ala.
An investment of 1885, 900 will be made at
Paramount Pa, to make iron and steel at an es-
tmated cost of $11 % per ton for iron and $15 40
for steel billets. The Dixon Manufacturing Com
pany, at Wikesbarre, is making a $40 horse.
power engine for parties in Japan. A 81 900, 900
plant consisting of blast furnaces, Bessemer
mills and equipments, is to be established at
Duluth where ore is cheaper and where coal can
be delivered at about the same cost as at Chi
cago.
Pittsburg has 957 pudding furnaces all of
which are running night and day, excepting
thirteen, producing daily 800 tons of muck iron.
Seventeen new furnaces have recently been
built and forty three more are building new
Bessemer mill will be erected at Sharon Pa.
and one is being built at Tammend, Ind. A
rolling mill may be built soon at Peoria, Ill A
blooming is being built at Pottsville. A
Western mill has Just ordered 9 600 tons of steel
slabs from Holland.
One reason why German manufacturers are
crowding English manufacturers s that the
average length of German working day is
from eleven to twelve hours The hours are
long in spinning and iron founding. Those in
charge of machinery and boilers work from
twelve to thirteen hours. The average in Leip-
sic is from ten to twelve hours in the Silesian
district twelve hours at blast furnaces, mines
and -four mills. In the mining industry the rule
is continuous day and night work in twelve hour
relays. two hours of rest included. In the Ba-
varian district the daily time exceeds eleven
hours
The tanners engaged in the Bermondsey part
of London are paid for the best class So, 70 per
week; second class, ST. 30, and third class. SIS CO.
The hours are nine in summer and winter
There are nearly 1900 leather firms in this To-
salty, employing 10 900 persons. Notwithstand-
ing the higher priced labor in London, neither
France nor Germany has been able to underseIl
England in sole leather. because the continental
methods of tanning are behind those in England.
1t takes two years to tan heavy leather in Ger
many, and by the old processes only twelve
months in England. but by the recent chemical
processes introduced at Bermondsey the time is
reduced from three to five months.
The spirit of combination has been stimulated
by the industrial activity of the past four or
five months There is scarcely an Industry but
what has combination of some kind or other
working within 1t. Some of them are small,
and represent but q low percentage of the
capital invested in that industry. but they are
vigorously working in the direction of control
ling the competition that has been depressing
prices Several coal combinations are nov in
progress in the bituminous and bock-coal fields
of the West. The northern Alabama coal in
terests have been consolidated and represent
200, 600 acres. The western Kentucky coal in
terests have also been organized and represent
$4,000 acres. The Iowa interests are also at
tempting an organization, as also are those Of
Pennsylvania and West Virginia The seven
btuminous coal fields along the Atlantic coast
endeavorng to initiate their anthracite
cousins, with fair prospects of success