The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-17
Industrial and Labor Notes


y Philadelphia Record.
Huntsville, Ala, promises to become manu-
featuring center.
The large woolen-mill at Knoxville will be
doubled in capacity.
The rolling-mills at Birmingham. Ala, are to
be lighted with electricity.
Cotton goods have advanced during the past
wear from 10 to 20 per cent.
Iron and steel materials of all kinds are hard
ening in price in Great Britain.
Architectural iron-works at Dalton. Ga. are
being pushed along as fast as possible
WOODEN mill is to be started in the town of
Union. Oregon, with capital of $3.50. 900.
Three Columbus. Ga. capitalists have arranged
10 erect 5000, 900 cotton factory in that city
The Granitevile Cotton Company of Au
gusta, Ca, is paying dividends of 10 per cent.
woolen-miil that has been running at Tulla-
homa, Tenn, is to be removed to Admission, Ala.
At this time 3.467 pudding furnaces are at
work in Great Britain, aud 1856 are standing
idle.
During the past seven years "a, 597 oil wells
have been completed, OF which 1894 were dry
holes or busters
At Findlay. o., 1928 buildings were erected
last year. Contracts have been taken out for
1900 for this year.
The Great Falls, on the Potomac are to be
used to generate electricity for mechanical and
lighting purposes.
If the value of natural gas at and near Pitts
burg could be capitalized it would be worth at
per cent, $1G0.000,0 00
The tendency at present in machine shop la
Dor is downward. owing to great many shops
and mills having shut down.
A elk factory is to be built in New York city
that will have the capacity to turn out $50, 600
yards of broad silk per day.
The distribution OF clothing has been larger
than ever, and the manufacturers are preparing
for as good a season as they bad last year.
A cotton factory at Trion, Ga, that has 258
looms in operation will double its capacity Just
as railroad facilities can be completed.
The wooden industry engaged in making mems
wear is depressed, while the manufacturers of
womsn's dress goods do not feel the depression
SO seriously.
cotton manufacturer at Lawrence. Mass.
will soon put IN 100 English looms, but made at
lewiston Me-, and so American looms made at
Whi,insville.
sylvania has been gratifying to the promoters,
and attention is now being given to the erection
of silk-mills in the South.
The machinists of the country have had an
exceptionally prosperous year, and their latest
testimony is that the improvement in the vol
ume ranges from 25 to 33 per cent.
The industrial activity in the Southern States
has made room for a good many new brick yards.
One with a capacity of 40. 600 brick per day has
just been started at Talacoosa, Ga.
Prices Of hides. leather and boots and shoes
were hiehest at the opening of last year. and de-
cllned steady TO the close. The shipments
years
The southern cotton manufacturers arc nra-
pairing to establish something in the natura ~
schools TO teach the colored people how to snin
and have them take the same place the Canadi-
occupy in the New England mills
The Lowell manufacturers of textile goods
say that their mills, without exception, are run
ming to their highest capacity. and that they
have little manufactured goods hand
They make the strange statement that men are
plentier than girls.
Interested experts who have been examining
the prospects for supplanting coal with petro-
leum regard il as most profitable. Petroleum is
now largely used in the making of iron, steel.
fre-orIck, crockery, stone ware, sewer-pipe and
tile. and is constantly making further inroads.
There are forty manufacturers of rubber
clothing ia the UnitedlStates $50 000 000
OF the best equipped mills have been obliged TO
30 into liquidation. Two associations have been
formed one TO make gossamer goods, the other
vulcanized goods per cent. advance in
prices has been made for the ensuing year
Arbitration will never be prominently accept
ed by employers as q means of settling disputes
because Of the inevitable reactions and dspres-
sions, which create a bitter competition among
laborers for work Employers know that no
matter how high wages should go in n great
many branches the next depression would lower
The standard OF wages. because of the greater
number seeking employment
The new pudding furnace which masters
are talking so much about abroad promises to
upset all previous calculations il reports be
true. The latest statements concerning recent
tests 10 that four men can do by this new pro-
cess as much as nine men by the old process
and the cost is only one half From a half to a
ton OF iron can be made every forty.hve Ernin-
utes with the consumption of 500 pounds of coal
charged In a rapid cupola; then il goes into =
w0gelYeE order To be separated from tha