Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-01-18
TRADE AND LABOR NOTES.

SEVERAL large stove foundries will short.
" be put in operation in the West.
TEXANS are prospecting for coal at all
probabie points of discovery in the State
THE Brotherhood of Carpenters have now
$50 local unions, which is double the number
it had in August 1886 Nine were addedin
October.
MARTINS FERRY, o., is TO have a new $75,-
600 pottery plant, to be located on the site
of the stove-works destroyed by fire last
October.
TIE Leavenworth Coal Company has
given the miners their demand of an in
crease of one cent bushel and a check
weighman.
CLINTON COUNTY, No, has found e-foot
vein of camel coal at a depth of S5 feet.
Seven car loads have been sent TO Kansas
City, which sold at pic bushel.
THE patents of the stylographic pen, the
telephone, the sewing machine, the gimlet.
screw and the rubber pencil tip have netted
their inventors enormous fortunes.
FoUR new railroad lines are being built in
Arkansas, two of which viii be open for
traffic in the spring. Their building has led
to great deal of land speculation already.
THE process of manufacturing gas from
water at Los Angeles. Cal, is magnificent
success. It's bright, steady light has been
pronounced great improvement over cleo
tricity.
PRACTICAL cooperative enterprise of
members of the X. of l.. is the Cooperative
Shoe Company, of Lynn, Mass, which man.
ufactures about thirty cases week Of
women's and misses shoes.
THE miners throughout the Western
States are preparing to hold convention
at Pittsburgh to arrange scale of wages
TO be paid in the various districts through
out the country from and after May l.
CANADA makes about $l50,000 in value of
pottery though it consumes S2,00O,000 worth
annually. There are only two potteries,
both at st. Johns, Province of Quebec, and
their product IS of cheaper descriptions.
THE Barbers' Association does not at
tempt TO regulate wages, but has been of
great benefit to the craft in securing re-
duction of the hours of labor, the abolition
of Sunday work and the adoption of equitable
shop rules.
A POUND OF ten-penny cut nails will do as
much work as two pounds of wire nails
Taking the averege of all cut nails they are
worth nearly double as much as the wire
nails, according to tests made at the Water
town Government arsenal
THE bricll-makers' convention at Chicago
agreed that American bricks shall be S1i
inches long, inches WIDE and 2lt inches
thick. This gives twenty bricks for a cubic
foot of wall Two hundred years ago Parlia-
ment endeavored to regulate the size of
bricks.
A GREAT many new lines of business here
tofore confined to the East have, during the
past two or three years, been moving West.
Western newspaper claims that more
cloaks and suits are made in Chicago now
than in any other city in the country. All
kinds of manufacturing are springing up
throughout the West,
THE Missouri Pacific is reported to have
decided upon the construction of new line
through the southeastern portion of Colora-
do and the southwestern portion of Kansas.
which will enable il to obtain portion of
the coal traffic originating at and around
Trinidad, Col. Surveyors are preparing to
locate the route and graders are likely to
speedily follow them.
MANUFACTURING towns are sDringing up
all over the vast region west Of the Missis-
sippi, and there is a great scarcity of ma
terial in many of them. Labor is in demand
to hurry along building operations, and
there is no appearance Of a surplus of labor
anywhere in the southwest. Mechanics arc
earning very good wages, and instead of
returning East for the winter they expect
to remain where they are.
INDUSTRIAL enterprise seems to be gain
ing courage in the South as the season pro-
crosses. A new silk factory is to be erected
at Wadesboro woolen factory at Fayette-
vile, cotton factory at Abbeyville, $. c.,
and several furniture factories A dozen
or more cotton gins are projected in
Georgia, and even in Florida good deal of
manufacturing capital is finding employ
ment. The same activity is seen in Ala
bama, Mississippi and Louisiana.
THE best information to be had concern
ing next years probabilities is that work of
all kinds will be abundant. No changes in
the hours Of labor or it's wages are antici-
pated Employers believe that no extreme
steps will be taken unless an attempt shall
be made to equalize the rates of wages in
different branches of trade There is
possibility Of trouble with the brick makers.
but efforts are to be made this winter to
oAi inc oil Il