The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-02
LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

Between $4000 GEO and So, 000, 900 are annually
paid out in the United States as wages in the
American potteryginterests.
The demand for American plate glass is so
heavy that the workers are unable to keep up
with it by working night and day.
The demand for tubing and piping for natural
gas purposes is so heavy that prices has been
advanced and mills are now sold three months
ahead
The other dav q steamer sailed from New
York loaded with agricultural implements, hard
ware, machinery, nails, cutlery and manufact-
ueing iron for Buenos Ayres. This is the first
extensive shipment to that couatry.
Twenty eight new divisions of locomotive en-
gineers were organized last year, making the
total number 32l, and the membership over
$1,000 The organization has paid to widows and
orphans nearl9 81, 000, 900 in benefits.
A large amount of capital, estimated at $780, .
100000 has emigrated southwark during the
past twelve months. Mechanics and working
men of all kinds are in demand there, but the
position should be studied carefully, as the de-
mand is growineelowly but steadily
Several Western railroad companies are pre-
pairing to build 900 miles of railroad next year
in the Northwest besides large depots, docks,
warehouses and bridges The demands for all
kinds of railroad and bridge iron next year will
exceed anything ever known In the history of the
country.
sion throughout Great Britain will come to an
end at an early date. Already the demand for
iron and steel products is improving, but there
Is still feeling of apprehension grounded in a
doubt over the question whether the British COM
mercial policy Is proper one.
The consumptive capacity of our people is alb
soronR the entire production of the country, and
although 200, 900 laborers have landed our
shores from Great Britain alone within the past
nine months this great influx has not made
L1~ oka 80 A.
ployed. 1t is probable that during the next nine
months no less than 5000 900 more persons will
land from Great Britain alone, to say nothing
of an increasing influx from Germany
The general indications are that the winter
will be much buster one than last winter; that
strikes will be of rare occurrence, and that
building operations will be conducted in a very
lively way. The building trade prospects and
the manufacturing prospects for the coming
spring are believed by the best informed arch-
tects and builders, manufacturers and investors
to be better than they have ever been In our
history.
Natural gas has already been found in half q
dozen cities, and one large we'll has just been
struck in Indiana. project is on foot to pipe the
gas to Chicago There is another scheme on foot
to pipe the gas over the Allegheny mountains
eastward. Mechanics and chemists are endeav-
oring to solve the difficulties in the way of long
lines. The Pennsylvania Natural Gas Com
pany has seventeen wells connected its
line to Pittsburg. One of the largest gas
wells in the country Is four miles east of Spring
field O. They will bore $500 feet for natural
gas at Cam berand, Md A company has just
been organized at Harrisburg, Pa. with a
capital of 81. 900, 900, to supply twenty towns in
eastern Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio with gas.
An eighteen mile line has been built from Wash
ineton county the Ohio river to supply sew
erai manufacturing towns in that region with
European manufacturers are reading ac-
counts of our natural gas with wonder and ad-
beginning to count upon the possibilities of such
reductions will enable many of our manu-
featuring interests to enter into successful COM
petition with them in the markets of the world.