Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-02-04

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people get their moneys worth out Of the
convicts.
The English %collicrs are at restriction
again. In Northumberland they want a
III per cent. advance, seven hours per day
under ground, eight hours a day for sur
face WORK, an idle day per week, and a
weeks holiday at some time to be fixed
hereafter; nothing else.
A twenty mile electric railway system
10 to be constructed from Detroit, Michi-
gan. to a fashionable resort. There will
be three motors, and $50, 900 worth Of
half.inch copper wire conductors will be
used. There will be three closed cars for
winter and three open ones for summer.
British shipbuilders are anticipating a
general increase in the tonnage require
lnents OF the world. consequent upon the
flow OF population from the overcrowded
countries to the un~dercrowded ones.
They, therefore. anticipate a steady de-
mand Tor a year or two.
The consumption of coke will shortly
increase throughout the west. A great
many manufacturing concerns are alter
ing their machines to depend upon coke
rather than upon coal, in the behalf that
the supply will be more regular and the
cost ultimately lower.
A new combination has lust been in
vented by a Lynn manufacturer, in which
tho block OF the last can be withdrawn
without unbuttoning the upper. 1t is a
great economy in time and money. and
tho concern making 1t is overrun with or
ders.
The spirit OF trade organization ia ex-
tending into every channel. Some twenty
representatives. OF thrashing machine
establishments between Ohio and Wis
consln have organized an association to
prevent cutting of prices.
The representatives of over 100 rail
road coal mines in the Pittsburg district
elected delegates to the joint convention
to be held on February 7 to fix upon IA
minimum basis. The Ohio miners held a
convention at Stcubenvillc on January
18th.
Philadelphia users of kaolin are in
Georgia trying to get control Of 14O acres
of deposits OF that material, which is
twenty four feet thick. They will put
a pottery somewhere near. A great deal
OF the kaonn can be mined above the
water Level.
The eighth annual session OF the Ohio
institute of Mining Engineers me, at Co
lumbus last week, at which papers were
read on various coal mining questions.
The institute wants u representative in
the state university.
The numerous projections of pipe lines
are leading to inquiries for pipe iron. A
New York report says hat "a, 900 tons Of
iron have recently been sold to pipe man
ufacturers. The guess is probably not
far out of the way.
Four hundred men are mining granite
in two quarries in Georgia. They cut on
an average 30, O00 blocks IL day which is
equal 800 square yards, About o, 900
square yards of granite will be used in
Atlanta.
Railroad managers are discussing the
economy Of high steam pressure. II has
been estimated that an engine made ac-
cording to recent Improvements in this di-
rcction can save from $50 to 800 a year.
Strikes have stimulated the building OF
coke ovens in numerous localities, and in
all sections Of the country where coking
coal can be found In, erection of s.ch
ovens will go ahead Of last year.
New England boot and shoe manufac-
turers say that a larger number of orders
than usual is coming in for fine shoes.
and the manufacturers are encouraging
this trade because of the larger margin.
a New York hardware man has Just
raised the capital at Chattanooga to start
an establishment for turning out fine
hardware for builders. Several land own
crs are after the site Of the factory.
4 sudden demand has been sprung up
on the Shcihld steel manufacturers. and
the birmingham metal goods manufactur-
ors have advanced everything from 3 20
10 per cent.
The representatives Of twcnty-four
coke works met at New Haven, Pa, last
Monday, and called upon all the men who
work in and about the coke ovens to Join
their union.
The municipality OF Knoxville seems
to be oepning its purse to the railroad
builders and saying: Take AL you want"
subscriptions have been voted to four or
five lines Of road.
Ohio miners want semi monthly pay,
no truck stores, mine examiners, and their
coal weighed. This latter measure would
be the hardest blow to the mine owners.
Out Of the 2.9i2 actual fires in New
York city, only twenty-five have been at
tributed 10 electricity. while 414 have
been put downt to kerosene lamps. matches
and tapcrs.
The first payment Of $50, 900 has been
made by the oil well drillers' o~rganiza-
ton to those who did not pump oil, SO
that those who did could sell it for more
money.
There is an underground fire in . Pitts
burg mil'. which is living on cinders.
Water is kept running through trenches
and holes that are cuG all through the mill.
Miner Mcbride. Of Ohio. has put him
self on record as against the 20 icy Of
demanding higher prices for mining in
that state under present circumstances.
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