Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-07-14
Business and Industrial.

The Bell telephone monopoly Is payin. 26 per cent divideds.
 A new and r;ch oil territory has bee; found near Pitts5ur:.
 The rolling mills at Bi,mins ham Als.. are to be lighted with electricity
 The Detroit Unions are pushing sn in vestigation of child labor m that city.
 A great deal Of Rhode Island made machinery Is going to South America,
 The cooperative coopers of Grand Rs pids Mich, have commenced operations
 A quarter of g million dollars have been put into rich North Carolina coa mines,
 A new West Virginia railroad has up 1JO,OOO acres of fine hardwood tim. Der,
 Architectural iron works at Dalton, Ga., gre being pushed along ss fast & possible.
 The carpenters and i1irers of the countries are organizing rapidly Tn the Eastern States.
 New 3e. ssy wIre manufactures are furaiahing the Austrian cable railway with cables.
 A Madison Maine, textile mill Issi year turned cut 1.OCU,GOO yards oi lsdles' dress goods with 2jO hGnds.
 More than si0,OOOOOO worth of oys. teis were shipped from Maryland lo all pa-.s of the world this season.
 A Boston company has just put up S5JJ,OJJ to mako welding, machines to do all kinds of welding by electricity,
 krupP, the German oanuon-msker, is so rushed with business that he has to build large works elsewhere.
 A New York merchant estimates that 3,OOO,O0O bushels of peanuts were con- sumed in thIs country last year.
 The great falls, on the Potomac, are to be used to generate electricity for me chanicRl and lightning purposes. So far this season American farmers have sent l3O,00O,O 900 bushels of wheat and flour as wheat to foreign countries.
 There are about J, GOO 900 hog-raiser in the country and 46, 600 hogs raised are estimated to be worth sl96.OO00O0. Houses made of corrugated iron are being erected in England, instead of brick or stone. They are 10 be intro duced into this country.
 The garment enters of the United States and Canada have completed sr- engagements for the fOrmstion of na- tIonsl trade district assembly.
 Grand Rapids, Mich, is the great fur niture making center of ithe United States. It has forty-two furniture fscto- ries, which employ l2,0O0 men.
 Only watermelons of 20 pounds and over weight will be shipped from Geor- giR this sesson, as the acreage has been doubled and the product is immense.
 There Is now about fifty million dol lars ID financ.sl centers awaiting good chanches of investment. Railroads do uot promIse well. and, therefore, capital is seeking chanchcs in othes directions.
 The state O. New Hampshire receives S9+0,UOJ direct tsI from the savings banks C! the State. Thero is or deposit in the savings banks If Concord $6OO0, O0J. and ID the State J5,00O, GOO.
 Stating the matter on 6 cash basis, the use of natural gas is conferred on Pitts burg Rn annuity of S6,0O0000, which si 6 per cent, represents a capital of SlO0,CCO.0O0 placed at the disposal of the fortunate owners of that favo-ite To- cBlity.
 The operations Of the cooper syndi- cate have greatly decreased the con sumption. n..Americsn export of ore fell of 25 per cent, and those of ingot copper in the ratio of If to 10, against 1885. The total American production last year was l77,OO0.000 pounds,
 Georgis's commissioner of Agricul- lure, Henderson, thinks that the Span i-h peanut will revolutionize the States husbsndry, ess by means of it the farmers can raise cheaply all the meat they use. and for which they now send millions to the Northwest.
 < Montgomery county jury has decid- et, after Rn ali-night session, that the services ot E stout healthy led of eiSh- teen years of age @: general farm voTh, are worth 3Ii cents a day and board iustsal Of 7J cents a day and board, the amount which the boy sought to Tecoy- CT from his employer by legal process.
 B means of recent ImS royements made iu ihs manufacture of riies. ss many ss l5J barrels can now be rolled in aa hour by one m m.china, They are siraightenCd while cold End bored with corresponding speed, and even the rif- ing is done automatically, 70 that one man lending SIX machines can turn on; sixty or seventy barrels per day.