Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-08-10
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.

! NovA SCOTIA coal has been successfully used in coke making.
 THE production of the sOO0,OO0 acres oi cotton in Texas is ], 500, 900 bales. M GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, has forty-two flk niture factories. They employ 12,oo0 per sons.
 AT Saratoga, N. C., farmers and wage workers get what they wear and eat-noth- ing more.
 THE members of the Southern Society of Plaid Manufacturers operate g 900 looms and employ II 3S0 persons.
 TIE Government of Chih has ordered six locomotives of home manufacturers. They will each cost S21, 900 in gold and will be like our engines.
 IT IS predicted that cypress wood from the South will be largely used in Northern buildings in few years in consequences of the exhaustion of the fields in the North and West.
 THE Pittsburgh Steel Casting Company has the contract for making some of tho large steel beams, rudder posts and ribs for the cruiser Maine. The cost will run froza S60,0O0 to S70,000.
 THE Japanese arc extensively developing their coal lands. The output, which in f68 was 100000 tons, has been increased every year. The apparatus is from Europe, e. pecially Germany.
 HE French Canadian Society of Stone cutters, of Montreal, is enforcing the rule in practice in some of our cities makinR stone-cutters from Great Britain pay eSa for initiation to the union.
 IN Bohemia the spinners make the best wages. Men get from $1.90 to $3 per week and boys from 76 cents to S1.50. Carding masters, spinning bosses and clerks make from $3.S0 to S11. 50 per week.
 STATE STATIsTICIAN LAMB, of Minpesota. complains of the number of girls looking for work who are not fit for respectable family and of the numerous families i'm which no decent girl would stay. DRILLING is going on near Ponca, Neb.. and 1t is claimed that 4115-foot seam of good coal will be found at depth of 800 feet. If 1t be so it will be of everlasting benefit to the whole of Northern Nebraska.
 ABOUT 50O0,OOO sponges per year are taken from the sea around the Bahamas Their value is S250O00. Twenty-foot poles with hooks on the end are used to pull the sponges from the rocks. The article feeis and looks like liver, and the color is from dirty purple to chocolate before it is cleaned.
 GREAT FALLS, M. T., expects to be a great 1 coal-shlpplng center ere long. The Montana central road made most exhaustive test. haVlng present locomotive experts from various roads, and the universal decision | was that no better steam coal came from any mine, being superior to the Ohio coal
 A SYNDICATE is bonding large body of coal land near Reddiclk and Campus on the | Three road, Illinois. It is said by men who ought to know that In that vicinity lies the richest body of coal deposits in Illinois. It is another outcropping of the Streator and Grape Creek coal vein, and is from six 1 to nine feet deep.
 HE following in regard to the coal indus try of Osage City, Kan, is gleaned from the | Topeka Capital: The great company engaged ln mining here is the Osage Carbon Com pany. 1t has the exclusive right to the min ing privilege of 6000 acres of land It's output for 1887 was 269,00O tons, and the number of employees averaged 62O. The average monthly pay roll was S90, ,G00.
 BY the men who are the best informed as to the industries of Denver, Col, it is esti- mated that the increase in manufactures Tor the year past is 20 to 9 per cent In 1So5 the total value of the products of man. l ufactUres in Denver was S20, ,295, ,65O In 1886 the total value was $24, ,O45, ,OO6 an in- crease of 1S.4 per cent For the year just | past it is estimated that the total value will be close to S30, 100000.
 MIR. KOCH, in an address before the So- siety of Engineers of Western PennsyI- vania, stated that he believed the reason why American plate was so much better than English was because it was rolled in both directions at the same heat, and as a consequence the tensile strength of cross section of our steel was almost the same as a longitudinal one, while the English plates showed a great difference that way, the cross sections not being able to stand any thing near so much as the longitudinal when put to the test.