Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-03-31
BUSY LADOnERS
A Five CT Industry III Which
no DroneS BUZZ.
inFcntions and Progressive Ideas
opportunities for Workers
Pennsylvania Labor.

ON ClgaI las been invented and ~ II
successful operation IN leading New lorl
factories. The Inventor claims that 1000
cigars may be wrapped Wy THIS mlcEin,
at a cost Of ST. -. Heretofore the worn
has been done hy men at g per 1000
Women can run the new machines
Thus, if this invention she'll be generally
used, women Will cuter another brancl
of the trade. They have already founc
employment on punching machines, or
which one woman now does the WORT
previously done by several men. and or
The cutting machines, Which cut 400.
wrappers IN the time that a man formerly
cut 900.
Denver, Col, knights have discovered
that the boss over the trackmcn was il
league with an employment agency whicl
procured positions under him for 81 4
head. The men We're discharged afteI
working II few days. The supcrintcnd
eHt of the company has put a stop 10 this
at the request of the Knights. the hos,
Was paid ~ for each man hy the employ
ment agency ~ bis share Of the div
The san Francisco Nullc,in says: 1T
is a fair inference from the reports that
come in from al! parts Of the state float
more capital will be employed IN con
struclion than in Any former year II
that be 50, then the demand for skilled
labor will be greater. 1t viii follow.
also. that the demand for oil sorts Of
building material will bc greatly in.
creased,
Herr f. A. Krupp, after having wit
messed the working of the hydraulic forg
ing press in use at the Atlas Iron and
Steel works, in Sheffield England. or
dcred one exactly like it for his arsenal
at Essen, Prussia. This forging press cx-
crts a force of over 1000 tons, and is
manipulated by two men. !! is believed
to be the largest IN eXi tenCe.
Leon, the greatest manufacturing town
in New Mexico, has no large factories.
Nearly all the work is done in the homes
Of the makers. There is "A weekly pro
duction OF 10, 600 saddles. %. 900 ordinary
blankets, 5000 fine blankets, %, 600
pairs Of mems shoes. 20, coo pairs of wo-
mems shoes and 80, 900 pairs of childrcn's
shoes.
DeWarman's Investigations in Europe
show that operatives in American pot
teries enjoy better health than their Eu-
ropcan brothers and live longer. He ac-
counts for this by the fact that the mills
here are of more recent erection and more
work is done by machinery. Besides,
our climate is dryer than that Of Europe.
Thirty German families have Just gone
from Stoneviilc. Pennsylvania. to the
mines al Brockton, three miles from
Birmingham. Alabama. where employ
ment has been secured for the men Of the
families, who have been on strike AT the
Alice mines at Stoneville. Ii is said that
sixty other families will emigratc from
Stoneville TO Brockton.
The Warren, Idaho, Chinese mining
camp is said to employ more Chinese
than any mine in the country. The
white miners abandoned these mines
some time a@n, yet somc o. the China
men go home every year with from
-, 0G0 10 IS 600 to live in ease the re
maindcr Of theirlives.
California almonds, walnuts and raj
sins are meeting with great favor, and II
New York dealer thinks that in q few
wears they will drive the imported article
out of the market. The production of
California raisins amounted to 5000
boxes in 1913, and that Of 1887 10 SOC, coo
boxes.
English ship builders have enough or
ders at present to indicate the best season
for many years. Clyde builders have or
ders for 40 vessels representing 20G, Oh
tons. The iron plate mills are getting a
share ofthis boomsa the steel plate works
cannot supply the demand.
Pittsburg and eastern capitalists will
erect a steel plant costing $1,000. 900 a.
Penn Station near Pittsburc. The com
pany will also erect water works at u cost
of 500, 600 to supply the works and the
dwellings Of the employees of the firm
which the projectors intend TO build.
One of the big hosiery mills is expert.
mcnting in the use of cops instead OF bob
bins with success. The cops hold mater
ial for one and a half stockings and the
bobbin for one half stocking. The cops
will also deprive bobbin- winders of their
occupation.
On one operation a Buffalo, New York,
contractor saved S40S by sending to New
York for the stone. Buffalo people com
plain that a rust has been formed by en-
ployipg stone-cutters. who only pay 50. so
to their men, while "a lis paid in New
York city.
Germany's output of coal during the
last quarter Of 1887 showed q large in.
crease over the corresponding time Of
1886, and the coke production was % per
cent lager in 1887 than in 1885. The
people cannot supply the demand at
present.
Blast furnaces in operation in this
country on March | had a weekly output
Of 1l7.j79 IONS. and those not in blast u
capacity Of 81 s32 tons.
President Compers, of the Federation
of Labor, has finished his western lecture
tour and reports trade unionism TO be
growing.
The Granite Mills, at Fall River, Mass,
arc replacing their 200 print cloth looms
with 40.inch looms. Twills will be man
ufactured.
Thora wore 2 600 shopmakcrs in attend