Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-02-08
rae LABOR WORLD.

DRIFT oFEyENTsiN riIE LABOR
W0KhB.
Mechanics and winter work AZ.
fairs Among the Miners Natural
Gas and Electricity. IS
IS a few yeafa ago mechanics cared very
little about winter work Of any kind.
They rather look forward with pleasure
TO the prospects Of . long rest. Things
have been changing Recently, and the
tendency now is to secure oil the Winter
work possible One reason is there ars
more building and Demonstrations more
insurance societies, more lodges and more
organizations Of enc kind or ahethsr; all
Of which tiiust Be kept up, besides,
There is an increasing amount of work
that has heretofore been done in summer
The cost of labor in good many yoca-
.tions is less in winter than in summer,
owing to the small amount to be done and
the greater number seeking Ii. ~ Mg
Both branches of molders, general cas-
tiers and stove founders, are making prep
arations for what just now promises to be
a very busy year InNeW England qaite
a number extentions of foundies have
been made. New processes have been in
tYoduced. In Pennsylvania ssd New
York large amount Of foundry work is
to come in shortly. Sonic Of it is high
priced work. Within the past year over
200 small .feundries have been started III
the western states. 1850 1s' !
80 iIlfsi = S : / 9-sss ra@ ses.s \.
Wonderful reports came frem Arkansas
about the large supplies Of ore for every
purpose, Fifty mines Of maganese lie in
proximity. Two roads are being built
through. seme ii tie valuable mineral
land, and it IS expected that it win soon
sell for five times its cost. An enthnsil
astic writer says the rugged mountain
sides will soon be dotted with towns and
villages, With thrifty people and new en-.
terprises, and the roaEof the torrent will
sound in unison with the locomotive the
pioneer of development and the great
eiyiliZer. sasst 81 5aTa 7aF3;zH So.
A youngstown firm has the contract for
making thirty.five tubes, eechswents-five'
feet long ana sixteen inches in: diameter,
which will have, a strength of 1000.
pounds to the square inch, and will be
used to convey compressed air to a new
gnn, which, it has been stated, will be
sixty feet long. Itwillthrow dynamite
cartridge accurately seven miles, if all
this be true. The Cramps have the con.
tract for the boat. sss'ss' s4a
The mine bosses are interested Id com.
pany stores Ia the Pittsen region. and
with things running in the usual way and
labor plenty; tits difficult iiiihE fora
single man to get Work, as the married
faen with, the biggest families are pre-
ferred, because they will be the best Gus
toners Nothing of this kind is talked
about, but the miners show that the men,
representing the biggest families get the
FIRST Work ses u a5lt CO..
tits said that syndicate of four men
who have s25, 600, 900 invested in manu-
featuring establishments, namely. Con-
ger, Raymond, Perkins and Barber, the
latter of matchmaking fame, is now sex-l
aiming the natural gas fields of Ohio
aad Indiana. They are credited with the
intention of locating important manufac-
turing ehterprises. 1a5 Is eai, III. +
Only one bale Of cotton raised in the
county of which Huntsville Is the county;
seat is worked up in that city The other,
twenty nine bales 90 elsewhere.
Old Chickamauga soldiers. will be, sur.
prised TO know that street railway to
cost 800, 600 is to be built from Rossyille
10 the foot of Missionary Ridge. -
District Assembly No is met on jana
ary aeth at Pittsten. That district has
already sent in to the general secretary Of
the Knights s11, a57.
The National telephone company, of
Scotland, has several submarine cables of
seven, eight and nine miles in length,
which give perfect satisfaction. -
The Scotch miners have asked for an
advance of IL cents a day, and at two
coal regions a strike was averted by the
granting of IL per cent advance. 3tl
1t is said that enough Bessemer ore has
already been located in this country to-
re- 100 ond
is being found every month.
The problem of obtaining electric ener
gy from carbon without heat is quite an
interesting subject for occasional discus;
sion among electrical engineers.
The new consolidated natural gas COM
pany of Wheeling has twenty eight good
wells, and two twelve-inch mains leading
10 Wheeling and Bellaire.
A new system for rolling iron to make
pipe as well as sheet, plate and tank iron
quicker and at reduced cost is to be intro
1uced at Pittsburg.
Last year over 60, 900 stoves and ranges
were manufactured it Taunton, Mass.
The machinery and cotton goods indus
tries are very prosperous.
Cash for Dead Hogs, Dead sheep
and Dead Cattle.
Railroads agents at all points tributary to
Sioux City are instructed. to receive above as
freight ana give special rates on same, SO conf
sign same to STRANGE Bros,
Proprietors City Rendering Works.
Office on Pearl street.
"A citizen of Brunswick, Georgia, proposes
10 paint his house black and ornament the