The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-14

transportation. the pipe to be from four tc
eight inches in diameter. The Cambria Iron
Company has just received an order for thir
| teen miles of twelveinch pipe to convey natural
| gas.
| The New York workingmen are doing far more
| than the temperance people ever did to make
| Sunday day of rest, as they have taken strong
| grounds against Sunday shop and store selling.
/ Thep keen away from saloons. and thus act, at
least with consistency, and are earning the good
opinion of the intelligent public.
Things are booming all through northern Ala
bama. Philadelphia firm has twenty mine ew
| Gordon stoves In and near Birmingham. They
| have contracts for seven blast furnaces and
/ eight steel plants, and have inquiries in hand
which show that an enormous amount of blast
furnace and rolling mill machinery will be want
| ed next year A two-ton Bessemer plant is to
be erected at Centralia, Ill.
The demand for knit goods in the South Is so
active that Columbus concern has just doubled
its capacity, and is turning out what to them is
a big product, but to nothing. namely. 100
dozen halfhos daily. The Newtown IN. G }
| cotton-mil people are filing up their works with
q lot of new Lowell Mass machinery, ana a
company has just been formed to build waav-
| ing mill at Hickory, n. c., for colore6 goods
| The Huntsville people will soon have one of the
| finest cotton mills in the South, and new cot
| ton mill will soon be In running operation at
| Lexington, N. c.
| London paper once more warns English
manufacturers that American agricultural ma
chimes are crowding them out in Norway, and
| says the English machines want that combina-
ton of lightness adaptability and strength that
is the result of thought and skill. 1t stands on
! Its hind legs and hows: I'VE have been nearly
| driven out of all the continental markets for
most articles of iron mongery," and wipes its
| tears by saying: "Surely the foolish system of
| sending any rubbish abroad and to the colonies
| is exploded by this time, and if Englishmen are
| to be beaten by foreigners they had better shut
| up shop at once"
| revolution is threatened in the use of fuel
| in Europe. recent pamphlet there talks about
the coming deluge of Russian petroleum, and
says that in the near future an abundant supply
OF Russian petroleum will be utilized for fuel at
a very low price. A system known as the Tar
butt system has been introduced and used in
| vessels, locomotives, ETC. 1t consists of brick
work reverberating combustion chamber, fur
nished with a superheater in which steam or
air is raised to high temperature. and with a
special form Of burner in which this steam or
air is employed. first. to heat the oil to its burn
ing point, and then to diffuse 1t in regulated
quantities in the furnaces.
A cooperative underwear factory will De put
in operation this week at Richmond The Prem
ton Cooperative Society has purchased loca-
ion for SIC, 600; one-fourth cash, one fourth to
be paid In year, and the other half optional.
The lot is twenty-five feet front by one hundred
feet deep Over twenty cooperative schemes
have been heard of during the past few weeks.
There is an anxiety to try this system of pro-
duction. A good way to start would be as the
Rochdale pioneers did, whose historical wheel
barrow contained their first supply. few de-
termlned men accomplish more than capital
and organization A cooperative box factory is
to be started in Cincinnati with So 900 capt.
tai
The Columbus (Ga.) cotton-mil people will
build fourth mill and put in $25, 900 worth of
machinery in their other three mills A Griffin
(Ga mill company has just received large
order from China. This company will put in
$13, 900 worth of new machinery to make checks
in cottonades. The Atlanta cotton mills have
been reorganized by Lowell, Mass, company,
by which cheaper and far better work can be
done. The newest machinery has been put in.
and the oldest put out to sell to some starter
Southern cotton mills have sold all the stuff
they made and things are booming that they
are like the Pennsylvania iron men, refusing
orders for new goods lest prices advance before
they are able to deliver. They all look for an
advance shortly.
There is wonderful development of coal
property throughout the United States Pros
pectors speak in glowing terms of new develop
ments in dozen States All around Burling-
ton, Ia, shafts are being sunk. General Burk,
authority coal, says that the demand all
through Alabama, Louisiana Arkansas and
Texas is twice as great as the supply. Away
out in Clifton, Kan, several beds of valuable
coal have just been struck. Away off in Mani
toba valuable beds have also been developed.
Coal very like anthracite" is being mined in
Illinois. A nine-foot vein has just been devel-
oped near Fort Collins. Col, $50 feet below the
surface; and a two-foot vein has been found in
Centraia, Mo-, fourteen feet below the surface.
Even in Indiana county. Pennsylvania, a nine
foot vein has just been unearthed.