The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-27
Labor and industrial Notes.

RECORD.
At big mass meeting held at San Francisco.
| Cal, last week, women representing nearly all
| the trades In the city formed an organization.
1t is claimed that 30. 00O. 900 acres of land in
| Colorado can be irrigated. The Denver Repub-
| lican claims that the State can accommodate a
population of 10, 600, 600.
The Pine Lake saw-mill, Amsterdam. N.
Y. has been shut down, owing to the exhaus-
ton of the wood lands. The mill has often cut
LOO, 900 feet of Ium Der in day.
The Philadelphia Natural-gas Company, of
Pittsburg. Pa. controls 75,0 900 acres of territory
on which 125 wells are in use. and have pro-
duction of 400. 600. 900 feet per day.
Eugand's railway earnings during the last
half of 1887 were 81. SOC. 900 more than during
the corresponding period of 1856. The increased
British ship tonnage was 2, 100. 600 tons.
California has 100. 900 acres in grapes It has
been estimated that in 1890 the production will
be as follows: Table grapes, 40 900 tons; brandy,
100000 gallons; wine $4,000, 600 gallons.
The report of the Midland iron trade wages
board showed that wages for pudding in Stat
fordshlre, Eng, during the year remained at 6s
Cd per ton-the price fixed by the arbitrator.
A steam logger or snow locomotive. lately
constructed is In use IN noRhern Michigan,
where it draws, with ease. sleds holding 800
feet of logs over snow sometimes foot in
depth
Says the Manufacturers Record: s'Never be-
fore. not even during the marvelouslv active
times of the winter OF 1856 81. was the prospect
for the prosperity of the South SO brilliant as
to-day"
Some. of the engravers employed at the
Dueber Watch case Companys factory at New
ark, N. j., were laid off in order TO cut down
expenses and six<v engravers quit ia
quence
The Cigar-makers International Union regards
as a bluff the threatened removal of Boston
manufacturers to New York with their capital
of So, 600, 900 and facilities for the employment
OF 5000 persons.
The plant of the United States Rolling stock
Company, at Admission. Ala, is the largest
works in America. twenty-five freight cars can
be made there in day, and from i've to ten
passenger coaches every month.
The Standard Steel casting Company, of Thur
low, Pa. near Chester, has just 124-ton
inch ball 1000 yards per second with 100 pounds
of powder. the gun will cost So, 300.
It is believed that the oil pipeline from Lima,
O.. TO Chicago, Ill. covering two hundred miles,
will be in operation In Two months. The pipe is
of the six and eight-nch variety The capacity
of the line will be 200, 900 barrels day.
The output of the tomato canneries of the
United States and Canada during 1887 was
81, 651. 162 cans. New Jersey took the lead.
The industry is conducted in twenty States
The 1888 outlook indicates as good year as
1887.
The building trades section of the Central La.
Dor Union, of New York city. has expressed it's
disapproval of Standard Oil Rockefeller's action
in mploying stone-masons and brick-layers from
Scotland on his Yonkers IN. Y. house
The California cottor-mills at San Francisco
from Texas but cotton has lately been success
fully cultivated IN few California counties, and
its looks as if its cultivation would incr ease.
Enginser Robert Gardner. as he lay dying in
the recent wreck at Huntingdon, refused TO
take drink of liquor. This reminds one of the
fact that nearly all of the railroad engineers
abstalners or else temperate to a marked degree.
Il. A. $3.50, Z. of L., of Pittsburg has re-
quested the contractors who are build the
cable railway that city to employ none but
citizens IN Its construction It has been rumored
that Italians would be employed. This assem-
bly, has 10. 600 members
A Cleveland. o., steel mill has put MP big
magnet" extended chain from a crane
which, when charged with electricity. does the
work of fifteen who formerly en-
ployed in lifting biliets TO railroad cars A boy
can run tbs new labor-saver.
Gold is often carried away by streams near
the mines. Colorado man places a number OF
hides on the surface of a stream out there. and
as the water passes over them 1ue gold LAYS on
the hides. Every two weeks he burns his hides
and is rewarded with about $50 or 500 worth of
gold.
River. Mass. With a capital stock OF s1S 548 OO0
who run the Gfty-seven mills. which employ
over Is. 600 persaps, on 1913 72 spindles and
l.2l9 looms. The payroll amounts TO S1lS, 005
week The weekly production is 175. 900 pieces
of print cloths, or 4S0, 500 900 yards per annum
The Chicago Journal of Commerce says:
During the next ten years the southern States
will make their cotton into cloth for export in
stead or exporting the material; will have a
sugar product times the present; will raise
and make the juts baggine for their cotton; will
prooucs ramie for product rivaling silk: Will
produce raw silk for our silk mills aud 8 900 900
tons OF iron, and have new process for produc-
Ing their own structural and railway steel.
The Catholic bishops in the South have on
hand colonizing scheme. They intend TO form
company. with capital of So 600. 900, with
which land msy be bought in Georgia. Alabama
Tennessee and North Carolina and sold IN lots
| Of from ten 10 one hundred acres No one will