The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-04
Industrial Notes.


All the New York and New Jersey mills. ex.
reptiue two which have been obliged to shut
down for want of stock. are very active.
The total value of the mineral products of the
United States has been estimated at $3.50, 0OO,-
600 an increase of $50. OOO, 900 as against the
previous year.
A Western railroad company has just pur-
chased 5000 acres of coal land, which it will de-
velop. Another is prepared TO ship 300 cars Oh
coal per day.
Hamilton, O., company has built mutable
machines which punch eighty five holes in tank
iron at once and use shears that make an eight
foot cut at once.
Farmers in and around Omaha are selling
corn and hogs at advanced prices. and store
keepers handling large Quantities OF East
ern merchandise.
Reports from 326 cities show that the car
penters will have little more to do than usuai,
and that there is large amount OF work IN
readiness for the spring.
The boot and shoe factories in Massachusetts
are all running full time. and most manufact-
urers have enough business on nand 10 Keep
them busy three months.
English ship-builders have been greatly en-
couraeed at the receipt of large orders Tor ton
mage. During November the orders footed up
100000 tons OF shipping.
The Cotton-seed Oil Trust, by its improved
machinery in the pressing of cotton-seed. saves
in the aggregate from 10000 to 10000 bales of
cotton which has heretofore been lost.
The earnings of farmers do not appear to be
Government reports show a decline IN farm
values from $l4 and $l5 to s.54 per acre In
1886
The latest reports from the lumber regions of
the Sou "A Atlantic coast point to a very heavy
increase in the supply OF yellow pine, sap ana
cypress, and hard woods Of all kinds, for
both the Northeastern and Northwestern mar
kets
The boot and shoe manufactures of New Eng
land are rather gleeful over the crippled condi-
ton of labor organizations, and in some cases
fae al
Indifferent to the enforcement of rules which
were made during the plenitude OF labor
power
A new nall ia coming on the market to make
more trouble 1t is claimed the nails will run
20 per cent. more to the keg in number than the
ordinary nail. and not one imperfect nail Is to
be found in a key. They are to be sold at cur
rent prices German steel isl imported to make
them, and Chicago Arm has the monopoly.
A Cleveland firm is manufacturing petroleum
fuel by a new process. The inventor says he
can make gas from oil at the rate of 1000 feet
from one gallon of crude Ohio distillate. Ii the
generators be heated to 70o he claims he can
make 30, 600 feet from one barrel pressure
of air of nine pounds TO the square inch Is nee
essary.
The Crefeld silk manufacturers of Germany
have so perfected the art Of mixing cotton with
silk that the cost has been greatly reduced, and
the trade has recently grown to enormous ol-
mansions. Through their skill in putting pure
aIl-silk on the face and fine-spun cotton on the
back of the fabric, the prices OF veivets ana
frequently imagine they are buying all SILK
The spirit of labor organization develops itself
very slowly in the Southern States Inc Or
ganizers find the workingmeu there divided IN
opinion as to the benefits of organization, and
besides discover that negro labor, as rule. 10
indifferent Another drawback is that labor is
scattered througha large number Oh towns ana
cities and is not like it is in the North, concen-
trated in large cities, where trade spirit Can DC
aroused and maintained.
The total production of the oil-felds of the
United States. since the first discovery OF oil IN
Pennsylvania has been 3l7. 035. 623 barrels, OF
which Pennsylvania and New York have pro-
duced 307 Cos 293 barrels. The total production
OF oil in the United States for 1856 was "a, no.
lI5 barrels an increase of % per cent over the
production of 1885. Pennsylvania gained "a
per cent The displacemant OF coal by natural
gas has been put at 6, 463, 600 tons.
The total number of coke ovens in the United
States, w to the time when last noted. was D.
597: building, 154 The production of coke for
1886 S45, 1863 tons, costing at oven 81 63 per
ton. six years ago there were only IA. LIZ ovens
and the cost at was then 81. SO per ton
Pennsylvania has produced 70 per cent OF all
the coke made in the United States. The con-
sumption of coal for 1856 was lO,6SS,9'2 TONS
New coke-works are still being projected.
There are 433 roilnc-mils in the United
States and twelve building. containing 49,
pudding furnaces and 1855 heating furnaces
There 1,4S6 trains OF roll The rolling
capacity of the mills of the United States is
1865 900 tons. Eighty-oue rolliug-mills have
machinery for making cut nails. there being
Do
use natural gas in whole or in part, of which 81
are located in Pittsburg and Allegheny county.
According to the latest repors from the South
Ihere is an increase in the projection of new
industrial establishments. Little industries are
Eprineing up, with capital ranging from 81. 600 to
$40, 900. Coal and water-po are very cheap,
aud negro labor. where it is possible to utilize it,
Is employed. but it is not always profitable.
Many colored laborers work only TO pay debts or
buy some bacon, and thensleave Steady white
labor is considered worth from . to 40 per cent.
efficiency
liability.
There are number of wooden mills and knit.
ting factories in operation in Utah where
hosiery, p1ittens, leggiugs. ladies' knit skirts
and mems knit underwear are turned out in
large quantities. These goods are exported
throughout the entire mountain region. In one
OF these M ills the output is !, 600 yards OF mate
rial per day. Thousands OF dozens of hand made
scarlet and mems gray hose are sent into Colora
do and Montana Their carriage robes and
blankets find ready market IN chicago, ane
the orders for these goods are often fully up ts
the capacity.
Architects will begin earlier than usual this
winter upon spring work in both Eastern anc
Western cities and 1t appears from best autnori
ties that much work will be entered upor
next spring as Last. Neither builders nor archi
tects entertain any other opinion than that there
will be as much building activity this year az
there was during the past year, and that enter
prise will be greatly encouraged by the moder
ate prices of all kinds of building materials Th'
labor question will probably be settled, SO tina
there will be no afterclaDs when work shall
have been begun.
The growth OF industries south of the Ohit
river is shown in the following summary: Agri
cultural implement factories %; breweries 3
bridge-works. 8: car-works, %: cotton anc
Eoolen mills. 147 electric-lieht- works, %; fou
ina grist-mills 1T; foundry and machine shops
1874: blast furnaces 70; gas companies az glass
works, IL; ice factories 80; mines and quarries
jO4 natural gas companies, Ill., oil-mil1s, a.
pine. works. a; potteries II: railroad companies
,g2 rolling mills %; stamp-mills and smelters
l3: steel plants, 10; street railways. 1885, water
works. 135; woodworking establishments. Gao
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