Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-12-05
THE WORLD OF LABOR

THE Federation of Labor in Connecticut
has 900 members.
The Soap Greek Coal Company, Ottumwa,
Ia, capital s250,OO0, was recently char
tered
THERE has been large increase of sor-
ghum strip this year over last years pro-
duction.
NEARLY all the clay used in the manufact-
ure of clay pipes is obtained at Woodbridge
and Amboy, n. j.
A TRACT of CPS square miles in ri Dorado
County, Cal, covered with pine, has been
bought by San Francisco lumber syndi-
cate.
THE report that the United Book-bnders
of New York were about to withdraw from
the Knights of Labor is proved u have been
false.
THE tanning of boa constructor skins
forms q branch of industry in Hamburg,
n j. They are made into pocket-books
principally.
THE coal sixty miles south Of Texarkans
in Texas, is to be developed. A big coru-
pany, TO be called the Mt. Pleasant, is to be
Incorporated in the near future.
THERE has just been completed at Clinton,
Ia, what is claimed to be the largest saw
600 feet Of lumber in ten hours.
EAU CLAIRE, Wis, has a cooperative
store that recently declared dividend of
I0l2 per cent to purchasers 1t has O pa
tronage Of nearly two hundred families.
THE car-builders' union of New York City
has ordered fine of 81 to be imposed on all
members who, knowing of job that is
open, do not notify their idle colleagues
THE iron furnaces of Ensley, Ala, q small
town near Birmingham, are now said to be
the largest in the world and with the in
creased capacity will employ fully {, 200 men,
NoN-UsIoN carpenters are referred to in
Denver as "bushwhackers," In Pittsburgh
as jayhawkers," in Texas as ssPunch-and-
Judy showmen," and in California As
''traveling chips"
A TEsT-wELL at Erie, Pa now going down
for gas or any other valuable subtsrranean
deposit, is over 1000 feet deep. 1t viii be
bored to the depth of s, 900 feet, or nearly q
mile, il necessary.
AN English paper states that the modern
labor-savlng machinery introduced INTO
foundries and machine shops has resulted
In fifty men producing as many castings as
were formerly turned out by 200 men.
THE Baldwin Locomotive Works recently
received an order from the Northern Pa
cific railway for eighty-two new locomo-
tives, one of the largest single orders, If
not the largest, which has ever been placed
by road in operation.
THE Indianapolis Rolling-Mln Company
will probably change to wire mill 1t has
double and single pudding furnaces, 8
beating furnaces, trains, 2 fifteen gross
tons Siemens furnaces. Product, 10000
tons Of light and heavy rails
THE proposed substitution Of india rubber
for metal in the manufacture of horse-shoes
is based upon various supposed advantages,
one Of these being that the former enables
horse to go easily over all kinds Of roads
and rough or slippery ground without slip
ping.
A NEW YORK mining expert took four
skilled men to China and has 200 natives
1T work developing silver mines for the
Government 800 miles northwest of fien-
Tsin. Fifty thousand dollars worth of ma
chInery has been brought from the United
States.
ENGINE No $40 of the Union Pacific road,
that is now employed in transferring cars
across the Omaha bridge, has a record Of
having run l, l40G25 miles. II has been In
use for twenty-five years, ana was one Of
the first locomotives used west Of the Mis-
souri, river.
An ingenious inventor has devised a new
screw-half nail and half screw; two blows
OF the hammer, two turns of the screw
driver and it is in. Its holding power in
white pine is said 10 be $50 pounds, against
PCS pounds, the holding power OF tho pres
ent screw.
ORDERS have recently been given by the
general superintendent OF the Santa Fe rail
road system 10 reduce the working hours
-
ting OF one hour each day and half day on
Saturday. The order Affects 1000 men,
and will reduce the payroll $1,000 a week
AN extensive branch foundry Is TO be
erectea -. 4. I--t Chicago by the G. A Treat
Car Wheel Works, of Hannibal, No. It will
have a capacity Of 400 wheels per day.
which means the melting of l30 tons OF irnn.
The foundry viii cost $50 000, and win be
one Of the most complete Of its kind ia the
West.
COORDINATION merely from economy in
the use Of materials ought to paw. saws the
Boston CoRmerciaI ElIlletfn, especially in
composition with the wasteful handling
common at many mills. That it has not
pald Is due somewhat TO the timidity of can
ital, more to inefficient management. hut
most to the lack Of real cooperation of the
Forkmen themselyes.
AETER trip on the Pacific coast Henry \.
Williams, Of Rochester, tells that carDeu.
ters out there get $50 per day. He saws
that Californians want no more Chinese. hut
that they need the ones already there. In
the Southern part of the State the weather
Is too hot for any Caucasian, and here the
Chinaman works in his bare head. while his
Indian eo-worker wears palmetto has.