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

LABOR AND LABORERS.
A no1n1NG-M1LL is projected at Grapeville
Pa.
KANSAS people are pushing coal develop
mcnt.
WELLINGTON, ILL.,, has a six-foot coaLvel1
at 125 feet.
TEE coke production of Colorado last veal
was a little over 10000 tons.
In Europe a brickmalher makes 500 bricks
per day; here one makes 1900.
LAST year over 10000 stoves and ranges
were manufactured in Taunton, Mass.
TIE average weight of a locomotive anc
tender is seventy tons, and the average
price 10000.
LAST year "a 900 miners and mine labor
ers mined III, 600 worth Of coal in the
State OF Ohio.
TIE Scotch steel masters arc introducing
Russian Polish labor, which is paid fifty
cents per day.
A PENNSYLVANIA gas expert says that
vast reservoir Of gas underiies portion OF
the Ottawa valley.
Tue Canadian Pacific Railroad Company
will have 200 additional locomotives as soon
as they can be made.
A ST. LOUIS steel company has just
Carolina, and is looking for site for it's
works.
'I'nr Scotch miners have asked for an adj
vance Of IL cents day, and at two coal re-
gions a strike was nverted by the grant
ing Of q 12 per cent. advance.
IT is said that enough Bcssemer ore mas
already been located in this country to sup
ply its wants for one hundred years, and
more is being found every month.
CHARLES GARRISON, an experienced me"
chanic at the National rolling mill, Of Nc
Kcesport, Pa, has made and patented a
nail machine which, he claims, will turn out
moro nails than any machine in use.
TEE spirit of radc'organization is extend
ing INTO every channel. Some twenty rep
rcscntativcs OF thrcshing machine nsau"
uiacturing establishments between Ohio
and Wisconsin have Organized an aSsoc1;r
ton to prevent cutting of prices.
THE consul, ption Of coke will shortly III:
crease throughout the West. A great many
manufacturing concerns are altering their
machines 10 depend upon coke rather than
upon coal III the behalf that the supply will
be more regular and the cost ultimately
lower,
A TwENrY-MrLD electric railway system As
to be constructed fro1n Detroit, Mich, to G
fashionable resort. There will be three
motors, and 100000 worth Of half inch
copper wire conductors will be used. There
will be three closed cars for winter and
three open ones for summer.
TUE State Of Alabama has rented G,000
F.. 4 4 m
dig coal in tho Pratt mine, which produces
5000 tons of coke per day. An inspector OF
convicts is there with his gang OF Whippers
to sec that the Pratt people shall get their
moneys worth out Of the convicts.
Ir is said that syndicate OF four men
who have s25, 0oo, 900 invested in manufuct-
uring establishments, namely, Conger, Fay
mond, Perkins and Barber, the latter Of
matchmaking fame, are now examining the
natural gas fields of Ohio and Indiana.
They are credited with the intention OF
locating important manufacturing enter
prises.
A NEW device for saving fuel and I'M
proving iron was tested at the Chester pa
mills recently. The result showed a saving
of between 40 and so per cent. in coal. Il say
ing Of 50 per cent. in the time Of heating
VIC 1uIuIC0 duQ jill iAuPI1'SGG Iuslilty VI
iron. The process is simply Tic spraying
of fine coal, reduced by tho cyclone pui-
verizer to o. POWDER into s. chamber at
tachcd to the furnace, III which the COM
bustion is SO perfect that all the waste
hitherto occurring in smoke and ashes is
entirely obviated.
A TEw years ago mechanics cared very
little about winter work o. any kind. They
rather looked forward with pleasure to tho
prospects Of q long rest Things have been
cllangin recently, and the tendency now
is to secure all the winter work possible.
One reason Is there are more building
and loan associations, more insurance So
cictics, more lodges and more organizations
of ono kind Or another, all Of which must
be kept up Besides, there is an increasing
amount of work that has heretofore been
done in summer.
Bozu branches of mclders @general cast
ers and stove founders, are making prepa
rations for what just now promises to be q
very busy year. In New England quite
number of extensions Of fourdries have
been made. New processes have been in
troduced. In Pennsylvania and New York
large amount Of foundry work is o come
in shortly. Some f it is high priced and
heavy. Ihc demand is ior heavy castings,
or rather, tho proportion OF foundry work
for heavy castings is increasing. Within
the past year over two hundred Sc}all foun-
dries have been started in tho States west
Of tho Mississippi.