Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-05-04
THE LABOR WORLD.

An Alviso Cali box factory is filling an
order for POO, 600 fruit boxes.
THE. maple sugar crop of New York for
this season will be larger than usual.
SIxTY-TwO wholesale sugar dealers, OF
Toxic, Japan, have formed . Trust"
The production of the gold mines of Nova
Scotia in 1887 was worth about 100000
THE production Of minerals in the United
States is twice the output Of Great Britain
The output of the 1O3 salmon canneries on
the Pacific coast last season was 99I 900
cases.
the different locomotives by the sound OF
their bells.
A ST. CHARLES (AIo) firm is filing con
tract for 500 cars for the Mexican National
Railway.
PITTsBURGERs are shipping natural gas i'll
steel cylinders to other cities for illuminating
purposes.
A NEWARK Conn mill is making III
foot belt that is to be ~ inches wide and Will
weigh half a ton.
THE cow catcher was first introduced
about the year 1888 on the Columbus and
Aenia Ohio Railroad.
IN Massachusetts alone between 259,000
and 300, 900 women are earning a livelihood
in industrial occupations.
THE largest milk condensing factory in the
world is at Cham, Switzerland. Its output
is %, 100000 cans per annum.
STEEL rolls being made by a Pittsburg
firm will weigh twelve tons each. These are
said to be the largest ever cast in this
country.
THERE are fifty eight cheese factories and
twenty-five creameries in Chautuaqua cOun-
ty, n. Y. Last years production brought
S725, 900.
THE national convention of the millers of
the United States will be held in Buffalo, n.
Y, in June. A European delegation is to
be present
CoAL-MINERs in the Hooking Valley, Ohio,
are paid 20 cents per ton from September
to May l. and 10 cents between May l and
September L.
KENTUCKY's whisky industry produces
sc, 600 900 q year and gives employment to
3O0, 900 persons. Fifteen million gallons are
produced every year.
THE glass works just established at Athens,
Ga, are so successful in producing the finest
quality of plate, that large plant from
Pittsburg is to be Immediately moved
thither.
A COOPERATIVE glass factory is being
erected at Stoneboro, Penn. The town
donated site and loaned the operators ST.
OOO This is said to be the first cO-opera-
tive glass works.
A NORTHERN textile manufacturer says
that Eastern Tennessee is to be the greatest
cotton manufacturing section Coal IS $40 a
ton Some wooden mills there have made
81 per cent. Labor is cheap and abundant.
THE mineral development In Great Britain
during 1857 was 173, O49, 795 tons. Over 800,
600 people were employed, nearly 5000 OF
whom were women, and OF the latter lou we're
under 10 years of age. Nearly 1000 persons
were killed during the year while at work
ALARGE number of English railway COM
panies frequently employ engineers and fire,
men for eighteen hours and upward; Slgnal
men are also frequently employed Tor elghC.
cen hours If, through the negligence OF
such signalmen, accident should happen,
the companies employing them ought to be
held responsible.
THERE are forty-Uwo cruclble steel plants
in This country. half of which are located in
Pennsylvania, thirteen being at Pittsburg.
Pennsylvania has fifteen of the thirty-elght
BeSsemer steel plants. seven OF which are IN
Pittsburg. There are are also nine Clap
Grifiths steel works in this country, all but
two those at West Wareham, Mass, and
BallevilIe, Ill, being in Pennsylvania