The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-03-10
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
THE Union Pacific, Railroad Company is
about to place an order for 1850 cars.

THE Union Pacific, Railroad Company is
about to place an order for 2, 5O0cars
ELECTRICIANS are still at work on the
problem Of obtaining electricity direct from
coal
ENGLISH steel workers are objectng to
beginning work at twelve clock on Sunday
night.
A COMPANY with 100000 capital will
run a railroad from Atlanta to East Ten
nessee.
A MANILA paper mill and sack factory
will shortly be established at Mouongahela
City, Pa.
A COMPANY with $4,000 capital has been
organized to establish another glass factory
in Washington, Pa.
A NUMBER Of new railway enterprises
have been announced since the opening OF
the year. Nearly all of them are in the
South and West.
A JOINT stock company has been formed
at Noblesyille, Ind, for the manufacture OF
pipe tools and brass fittings, and to do a
general machine business.
ISn1ASA has 220 coal mines, the annual
product Of which last year was little over
100000 tons. Natural gas has NO percepti-
BILE influence on the output.
A SYNDICATE of New York capitalists will
build railroad from Montgomery, Ala, to
Chattanoochee, Fla. 1t will run through the
richest pine forests CT the South.
TIE exports of American machinery to
Mexico, Central and South America and
Australia continue to agitate the 1nanufact-
urers OF machinery in Great Britain.
A LARGE cotton-mill at Enterprise. Miss.
called the Stonewall. turns out s.5o0,ooo
yards Of cloth per year, and it is said to DC
the best paying factory in the South.
EAST PALESTINE, O., is agitatjng the es-
tablishm ent Of a white-ware pottery there.
They want a twelve-kiln factory, and the
citizens will take $50, 600 worth Of stock.
i A NEW YORK railroad has just ordered
ten locomotives from the Rogers works at
Paterson, and the ST. Louis &; San Francis
co Company has ordered twenty from the
Baldwins.
TIE manufacturers Of agricultural inl-
nlements in the West do not speak with
much confidence i'll regard to the volume OF
business for the coming spring. A number
Of concerns have recently gone ON short
time.
THE Edison people are prowling along the
South Pacific coast trying to turn night
into day. They have captured Chill with
5000 lamps. They have an irol1-clad patent
and propose to make some money. The
city government Of Los Angeles, Chill, has
bought the Edison plant.
PERSONS fanaii1ar with mining operations
will be interested to know that in Penn
sylyania bitnminous coal mine the other
day over 1000 tons of coal were hoisted
from a shaft 42S feet deep at the rate OF
nearly four tons per minute. The coal was
raised in one-E:ar trips. This is the fastest
:;vori< of the kind on record
THE coal bills of railroad companies
amount from Q to II per cent. of the total
operating expenses 1t has been estimated
that if this item Of cost could be reduced
one-half net earnings could be considerably
Increased. IT has been estimated that the
locomotives Of this country last year burned
24000,0O0 tons Of coal, Of which only 3 per
cent Of actual power stored up in coal was
utilized.
THERE are in the United States 52.914
dealers in shoes, leather machinery, hides,
etc, OF which 1876 are in Massachusetts
and 3, 1853 in Pennsylvania. There are 10000
retailers OF shoes, of whom 1856 are il
Pennsylvania. Their, are 22,222a shoe manu-
facturers, Of whom 1,005 are in Massachu-
Sets 375 in New York, 10 in Pennsylvania.
IS in OHIO and II in Illinois. There are 2 S337
tanners and curriers', and Of these 663 are
in Pennsylvania There are about 5000
morocco manufacturers.