The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-31
Labor and Industrial Notes.

Philadelphia Record.
A Pittsburg firm has just secured contract to
supply ST. Louis with $780, 900 bushels Of coal.
From 1901 900 to $1,000 tons of iron rods
imported annually which pay duty of $12 per
ton.
A great deal of textile machinery is going
from Rhode Island and Massachusetts works to
the South.
Omaha capitalists propose to spend So. ooo. 600
railroad to start at Omaha and run north
ward toward the boundary.
The Magiuns cotton mills at New Orleans
have doubled their capital 81 900, 900, and the
Lane mills have also increased their capital.
The growth of the business in tropical fruits
has led to the trod uction of new refrigerator
car, which keeps things fresh longer and better
than any in use.
A large cotton-mill at Enterprise, Miss, called
the Stonewall turns out 900. 900 yards of cloth
per year, and it is said to be the best-paying
factory in the South.
The exports of American machinery to Mex
leo. Central and South America and Australia
continue to agitate the manufacturers of ma
chnery in Great Britain.
A syndicate of New York capitalists will build
a railroad from Montgomery. Ala, to Chatta-
hoochee. Fla. It will run through the richest
pine forests of the South
There are daily utilized in Chicago from s. 900
to 10, 900 gallons of blood, which is evaporated
and used to manufacture buttons, cheap jew
elry, belt clasps. and hair ornaments.
American hardware is finding ready markets
ended Jan. 81. amounted in value to S23. 900 to
thirteen countries. Shpments were made to
London, Liverpool and Hull.
patent thread extractor is having a large
sale among cotton manufacturer The builders
are sending a great many OF the machines to
England A good many of our home manufact-
urers let the thread go with the waste.
In 1850 there were but fifty-eig power looms
in Ireland, but about %. 900 are now used in the
product of linen fabrics for home and foreign
consumption, besides several thousand hand
looms scattered throughout the country.
A $3.50, 900 cement manufacturing company has
just started in business at Chattanooga to man
ufacture a cement that will stand the regulation
test of 300 pounds to the inch after being
twenty-four hours in the air and six days in
water.
A machine company i n Lewiston, Me-, is turn
ing out immense presses weighing forty tons.
which are capable OF giving pressure of 1000
tons. They are used in making tusk, cotton
paper rolls, and in bleacheries dye works, fin
ishing and paper mills
The Edison people prow1ng along the
South Pacific coast trying to turn night into
day. They have cantured Chill with 5000
lamps. They have an iron-clad patent and pro-
pose to make some money. The city govern
,nent of Los Angeles, Chill, has bought the Ed-
son plant.
The screw auger invented by Thomas
Garrett about 100 years ago. He lived near Ok
ford, Chester county, Pa. The single screw
anger was invented by a Phladelphian, and it
is said to be the only one used with any satsfac-
ton in very hard woods where the double screw
augerS become clogged
Persons familiar with mining operations will
be interested to know that in a Pennsylvania
bitumnous coal mine the other day over 2. 900
tons of coal were hoisted from a shaft 42S feet
deep at the rate of nearly four tons DER minnie.
The coal was raised in one car trims. This is
the fastest work of the kind on record.
Mining engineers irving to solve the prob
lem, How the bituminous slack of our coal
mines be utizedq" They say that could manu-
facturers alone be induced to substitute gaseous
al ~ al, al
practically wasted could do much creator work
than is now done with 100000 tons of lump
coal
A remarkable invention has been introduced
by which gas and the incandescent electric light
can be made TO give much light in ordina-
~ sixteen candle power lamp as is now given By
two such lamps The rays from the light are
thrown against the silver and reflected against
ground glass, which breaks up the rays, creating
a mass of light
high shoe authority says there is now every
reason TO believe that tins will be successful
season. both in point of quantity of product and
amount of profit. Indications point to re-
duction in the price of boots and shoes of from
seventy-five cents to 81 per case. In some East
ern factories one operative two shoe
buttonhole machines, making 1000 holes nor
day
The coal bills of railroads amount to from 9to
IL per cent. of the total operating expenses II
has been estimated that if this item of cost
could be reduced one half net earnings could be
considerably increased. 1t has been estimated
Inat the locomotives or this country last year
burned "A, DOC, 900 tons of coal, OF which only 3
per cent. of actual power stored mp in coal WAS
utilized Inventors are at work trying TO devise
some method by which the coal bills can be re-
ouced cne-half.
There are in the United States 50 GA dealers
in shoes, leather, machinery, hides, etc. of
which 3. $40 are in Massachusetts and 3. lo9 in
Pennsylvania. There 80 900 retailers OF
shoes, of whom l, 756 in Pennsylvania
There are 2,229 shoe manufacturers. of whom
.006 are in Massachusetts, 375 in New York,
ITO in Pennsylvania So in Ohio and IL in lii
nos. There are 9, S37 tanners and curriers', and
of these 663 are ia Pennsylvania There are
about 5000 morocco manufacturers
Trade, manufacturing and commercial Stats
tics all snow that the full average winter volume
business is being transacted IN nearly all
parts of the country. There is no disposition 10
slack up except for accidental causes. Produc-
ing capacity is being kept at a high average in
ali the larger industries. Some contemplated
improvements in each Of the industries win not