The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-02-10
TIE lABoa W0RlD.
DRIFT orEvENr,sI IN rHELABop
WORLD.

DRIFT orEvENTs IN THELABOR
WORLD.
Mechanics and Winter work-Ar.
fairs Among the Mincrs-Natural
Gas and Electricity.
A few years ago mechanics cared very
little about winter work of any kind.
They rather look forward with pleasure
to the prospects of a long rest. Things
have been changing recently, and the
tendency now is to secure all the winter
work possible. One reason is there are
more building and loan associations. more
insurance societies. more lodges and more
organizations of one kind or another, all
of which must be kept up. Besides,
there is an increasing amount of work
that has heretofore been done in summer.
The cost of labor in u good many voca-
tions is less in winter than in summer,
owing to the small amounttO he done and
the greater number seeking. it.
Both branches of molders, general cas-
tiers and stove founders, are making prep.
arations for what just now promises 10 be
a very busy year. lnNew England quite
a number cxtentions of fOundries have
been made. New processes have been in
troauccd. In Pennsylvania and New
York a large amount of foundry work is
to come i'll shortly. Some of 1t is high
priced work. Within the, past year over
200 small fOundries have been started in
the western states.
Wonderful reports come from Arkansas
about the large supplies of ore for every
purpose. Fifty mines of magnncsc lie in
proximity. Two roads are being built
through some of the valuable mineral
land, and it is expected that it will soon
sell for five times its cost. An cnthusi-
astic writer says the rugged mountain
sides will soon he dotted with towns and
Villages. with thrifty people and new en-
tcrpriscs, and the roar of the torrent will
sound in unison with the locomotive, the
pioneer of development and the great
civiliZcr.
a youngstown firm has the contract for
making thir,y-fivc tubes, each twenty-five
feet long and sixteen inches in diameter,
which will have Il strength of 1000
pounds tn the square inch, and will he
used to convey compressed air to 81 new
gnn, which, il has been stated. will he
sixty feet long. 1t will throw adynamitc
cartridge accurately seven miles, if all
this be true. The Cramps have the con-
tract for the boat.
The nine bosses are interested in COM
pany stores in the Pittson region, and
with things running in the usual way and
labor plenty, il is IL difficult thing for Il
single ma to get work, as the married
men with the biggest families arc pre-
fcrrcd, because they will be the best Gus
toners. Nothing of this kind is talked
about. but the miners show that the men
representing thu biggest families get the
first work.
II is said that ~ syndicate of four men
who have S25, COO. 900 invested in manu-
featuring establishments, namely, Con
ger, Raymond. Perkins and Barber. the
latter of matchmaking fame. is now en-
amining the natural gas fields of Ohio
and Indiana. They are credited with the
intention of locating important manufac-
turing enterprises.
Only one bale of cotton raised in tho
county of which Huntsville is the county
seat is worked up in that city. The other
twenty-nine bales go elsewhere.
Old Clickamauga soldiers will he sur
priscd to know thnt u street railway to
cost 500. 600 is to be built from Rossvillc
to the foot of Missionary Ridge.
District Assembly No. 16 met on Janu-
airy Goth at Pittston That district has
already sent in TO the general secretary OF
the Knights S11 ,2257.
The National telephone company. oi
Scotland, has several submarine cables of
seven, eight and nine miles in length,
which give perfect satisfaction.
The Scotch miners have asked for an
advance of 12 cents a.day, and at two
coal regions a strike was avertcd by the
granting OF a 12 per cent advance.
1t is said that enough Bcsscmcr ore ha.
already been located in this country tt
supply its wants for 100 years, and more
is being found every month.
The problem of obtaining electric cncr
gy from carbon without heat is quite n,
interesting subject for occasional discus
sion among electrical engineers.
The new consolidated natural gas com
pany of Wheeling has twcnty-cight goot
wells, and two ~twelve-inch mains lealin.
to Wheeling and Bcllaire.
A new system for rolling iron to max,
pipe as we'll ms sheet, plate and tank irol
quicker and at reduced cost is TO be intro
duccd at Pittsburg.
Last year over 80, 600 stoves and range
were manufactured il Taunton. Mass
The machinery and cotton goods indus
tries are very prosperous.
Cash for Dead Hogs, Dead Sheer
and Dead Cattle.
Railroads agents at all points tributary 3
Sioux City are instructed to rec tive above O
freight ana give special rates on Same, SO cor
sign samc to STRANGE Bros,
Office on Pearl street.
"A citizen Of Brunswick, Georgia, propose
to paint his house black and ornament th
roof with representations Of collins rainte
: white.
!. The success of some of the agents employee