Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-12-12
THE WORLD OF LABOR.

THE Federation of Labor in Connecticut
has . 600 members.
The Soap Greek Coal Company, Ottumwa,
Ia, capital $4,000, was recently char
tered
THERE has been a large increase of sor-
ghum strip this year over last years pre-
duction.
NEARLY all the clay used in the manufact-
ure of clay pipes is obtained at Woodbridge
and Amboy, n. J.
A TRACT of 625 square miles in RI Dorado
County, Cal, covered with pine, bias been
bought by San Francisco lumber syndi-
cate
THE report that the United Book binders
Of New York were about to withdraw from
the Knights Of Labor is proved 70 have been
false.
THE tanning of boa constructor skins
forms q branch OF industry in Hamburg,
N j. They arc made into pocket-books
principally.
THE coal sixty miles south of Texarkana
IN Texas, is 70 be developed. big com
pany, TO be called the Mt Pleasant, is TO be
Incorporated in the near future.
THERE has just been completed at Clinton,
Ia, what is claimed to be the largest saw
mill in the world. 1t has capacity of go
600 feet Of lumber in ten hours.
EAU CLAIRE, Wis, has a cooperative
store that recently declared a dividend of
| 1Ol2 per cent to purchasers. Ii has pa-
tronage of nearly two hundred families
TIE car-builders' union of New York City
has ordered fine of 81 to be imposed on all
members who, knowing of a Job that is
| open, do not notify their idle colleagues
THE iron furnaces of Ensley, Ala, a small
town near Birmingham, are now said to be
the largest in the world and with the in
creased capacity will employ fully s, 1000 men.
! NoN-UNIoN carpenters are referred TO in
Denver as "bushwhackers," in Pittsburgh
as "jayhawkers," in Texas as punch and
Judy showmen," and in California as
''traveling chips"
A TEsT-wELL at Erie, Pa, now going down
for gas or any other valuable subterrauean
deposit, is over 1000 feet deep 1t will be
bored TO the depth of 5000 feet, or nearly q
mile, if necessary
AN English paper states that the modern
labor-savlng machinery introduced INTO
foundries and machine shops has resulted
in fifty men producing as many castings IS
were formerly turned out by 200 men.
TIE Baldwin Locomotive Works recently
| received an order from the Northern Pa
cifc railway for eighty-ewo new locomo-
tives, one of the largest single orders, #
not the largest which has ever been placed
by road in operation.
TIE indianapolis Rolling-Mlp Company
will probably change to wire mih. 1t has
4 double and single pudding furnaces, 8
heating furnaces, trains, 9 fifteen gross
tons Sienens furnaces Product, 10000
tons Of light and heavy rails,
The proposed substitution Of india rubber
for metal in the manufacture of horse-shoes
| ia haSad aJx
one Of these being that the former enables
a horse to go easily over all kinds Of roads
and rough or slippery ground without slip
ping.
A New YORK mining expert took four
skilled men to China and has 200 natives
at work developing silver mines for the
Government 300 miles northwest of Tien-
Tsin. Fifty thousand dollars worth of ma
chlnery has been brought from the United
States.
ENGINE No. 80 OF the Union Pacific road
that is NOW employed in transferring cars
across the Omaha bridge, has record OF
having run l,140,625 miles. 1t has been il
use for twenty-five years, and was one d
the first locomotives used west of the Mis-
souri, river.
AN ingenious inventor has devised new
screw-half nail and half screw: two blows
driver and it is in. Its holding power in
white pine is said to be $50 pounds, against
29S pounds, the holding power of the pres
ent screw.
ORDERS have recently been given by The
general superintendent of the Santa Fe rail
road system to reduce the working hour
16 per cent The reduction is made by cut
ting of one hour each day and half day or
Saturday. The order affects 10000 men
and will reduce the payroll $4,000 week
An extensive branch foundry is to b
erected at East Chicago by the c. A Treai
Car Wheel Works, of Hannibal Mo- It vii
have a capacity of 400 wheels per day
which means the melting of 100 tons Of iron
The foundry will cost $50, CO., and will b<
one of the most complete of its kind in tn.
West
COOPERATION merely from economy in
the use of materials ought to pay, says tAe
Boston Commercial Bulletin, especially ia
competition with the wasteful handling
, common at many mills. That it has moi
paid is due somewhat to the timIdty of cap
ital, more TO inefficient management, but
most to the lack of real cooperation of the
workmen themselves.
AFTER trip on the Pacific coast Henry B
Williams, of Rochester, tells that carpen
tiers out there get $3.50 per day. He say.
that Calfornians want no more Chinese, bui
that they need the ones already there. Ii
> the Southern part of the State the weather
is too hot for any Caucasian, and here the
Chinaman works in his bare head, while hi,
Indian cO-VyOr ker wears "A Dalmeffo hat