The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-03-03
WORK AND WORKERS.

HUNTSVILLE. Ala, promises to become |;
manufacturing center.
Il TIE rolling mills at Birmingham, Ala
are to be lighted with electricity.
The cooperative coopers Of Grand Rap
Ids, Mich, have commenced operations.
ARCHITECTURAL iron works at Dalton, Ga
are being pushed along as fast as possible.
THE carpenters and joiners of the coun-
try are organizing rapidly in the Eastern
States.
A MADISON (Me,) textile mill last year
turned out 100000 yards Of ladies' dress
goods with $50 hands.
THE Great Falls, on the Potomac, ere &c
be used to generate electricity for mechan.
zeal and lighting purposes.
AN IRON plant at Christy Park iMcKees-
port, Pa has been projected by Councils
vile and Fayette County men.
If the value Of natural gas at and near
Pittsburgh could be capitalized it would be
worth at six per cent. :1o0,00o,0oo.
II is estimated that the loss by the Read.
1ug strike is s4.OO0.OUO a month, divided
about equally between the road and the
men.
1aE trouble between the employees Of the
1ron works at CatasauQua, Pa, and their
employees haye peen satisfactorily adjusted
and the inen have returned to work.
Inc Pennsylvania Company has recently
ordered $50 box cars and $50 gondoias, to
pc divided among its four shops at Altoona,
Allegheny, Columbus and Fort Wayne.
TnE Spanish Government had proposed
t. advance the export duties on iron ore,
but strong delegation of ENglishmen in.
,3,,oc2 l,n ~ =
CARGO sales Of timber at Chicago aver
aged 100000 feet per day last year, The
receipts last year were l,SlG,O00,Oo feet
The stocks there at this time arc nearly
tsDG000G0 feet
IKE a,acilinists Of the country have had
IA. exceptionally prosperous year, and their
latest testimony is that the improvement in
,bs volume Of business ran ycs from twenty
net to ihiity-three per cent.
Ill rojl,ng mill and nail works Of the Ok
t''i iron Company, at Oxford, n. j.. have
Ii down Indefinitely and hundreds OF
s-,t;is arc thrown out Of employment. The
,lruages aud ruiacs are still cunning.
CoLonAro produced 1891 ,77yY5 tons OF coal
sv 1887; average value ut mines, 2.2C per
ton; Average thickness Of veins, feet Z
inches, ranging from 3 tect to Is feet. Aver.
age pricc TO miners, screened, s915 cents.
The dcuand for general machinery
throughout the Middle and New England
States is SO active that six large !nanufact
1?ing establishments will be Started early
in the spring. One with O. capital Of $780,.
go viii! be started at Troy.
THE Southern Pacific management saws
sNat The company is about a year behind in
Ats business, and that the order put out
for Cars and locomotives q year ago ought to
have becl for double the number. AT pres
snt it aceds fifty more locomotives than il
hes.
TaE operations IF the copper syndicate
Nave greatly decreased the CONSUMPTION
American exports OF ore fell of twenty-five
1ser cent. and those of ingot copper in this
y&tio OF fourteen tt, ten, against 1855. The
sotai American production last year was
s,oG0,CtU pounds.
Al Marissa, ILL.,, at a depth Of onc hundred
feet, She drill: passed through the vein of
coal that is being mined liz the various
zainea there: sixty-fve feet further down
&aother vein Of excellent coal, Ave or six
feet Ghick, was discovered, supposed by
some to be the Big Muddy vein.
IKE garment cutters Of the United States
end Canada have completed arrangements
Coy The formation Of National trade dis
trict assembly. Abont fifteen local assem-
blea have decided to Join the new orgas1i.
xatiol, and The application for the charter
has been made to the general secretary.
NOTWITHSTANDING lie prospects Of. les.
seneo railroad construction, u good many
saew roads AFRO projected. Most OF them
are short lincs to develop territory here.
sofors out Of reach OF railroads. One line
vii, eta:s at Quincy, lii, and run
through several counties and cost 81 OO0,-
800. Several short roads are to be built in
Kansas. a i{jS-mie road will be built
Through Louisiana, Surveys are being made
foy another Mexican railroad. A railroad
Is to be run from Knoxville: Tenn, to Green.
vile, s, c. A Texas road is 10 be built
lsshich will bring the Panhandle lC6 miles
Aearer San Antonio than to Dallas E.yi.
slences Of this kind couli. be- multiplied to
very great extent.