The Irish standard., 1889-01-19
WORKSHOP ECHOES.

WORKSHOP ECHOES.
PROSPECTING for coal at Monticello, Mt
has been abandoned.
PORTLAND lOre) Chinese laundrynsa
have organized and raised prices.
TIE Riverside iron works a. W heefssE
contemplate doubling their capacity.
The Lake Superior ore mines Will be oe-
yeloped to the extent Of $1,000, 0o0 this year.
A PUBLIC library for the exclusive use Ct
| factory workn.en has been established In
Houtzdale, Pa.
THE Kansas penitentiary mine is raising
lO, 900 bushels OF coal day, and reputable
mine owners are wrothy.
THE daily increase in the wealth Of the
States is S2,5o0,ooo. This sum is one-third
of the gain in the rest Of the world.
| A sAnpESrER's union which has baen
formed 10 Birmingham will shortly build
itself hall 10 be used only by labor unions.
| A COOPERATIVE cotton mill is being baht
at Atlanta, Ga, for S250000 There ere
$500 shares at $100 per share, payable 81
per week.
TIE Building Trades Council OF Richmend,
Va, will ask Congress to discontinue the
granting OF contract WORK on Government
buildings
TIE Union Malleable Iron Company, Nc
line, ILL.,, has started its shops again after
wears inactivity. The capacity Of the work
is Is, 900 tons.
TuE bric,xlayers, plasterers and stone
cutters are not in the Central Labor Unlon
Of New York. They fix wages and Other
matters by the year.
WHAT is thought to be natural gas well
~ ,r.tya y.yt
| ILL., The flame is thirty feet high and u
great brilliaucy aud heat.
IT is reported flint the ceal companies tn
which the Fennsylyania Railroad Company
owns controlling interest will not 1:estr!es
production duSing the winter.
! A PITTSBURGH company grinds blast fnr-
race Stag into natural cement aud makes
Mret-class cellar ana factory aoosB, siaes
walks, pathways, stc., OF the product.
EVERY Important state in Europe has tss
forestry department, WHICH yields q ntex
revenue saxony gets a revenue of t*ak5
/ from every acre OF forest, and Alsace~Aos-
| raine about as much.
A GREAT many Kills ana factories il the
| West Virginia and Ohio gas districts hn7e
! had to discontinue the use OF natural gas Ola
account of the poor supply and Fave ra"
| turned to the use Of coal.
! NEGROES used to be about the cnly
BARRIERS in New York Germans HAYES since
almost worked them out OF the trads, 2nd
lately Italian BARRIERS ere shaving for i've
cents and gaining large custom.
II is reported that the Burlin gton road IL
to open mp "a new coal field in the BLACK
Hills. The coal is said To BIC Of excellens
quality and easily mined a. branch Of JOG
! railas will have 20 be built to reach tbs new
field
THE 1jrsu yard o. cotton cloth ever voqcn
In Iowa was turned out at Des Moines re-
Gently. it bcin;; a superior quality OF broTM
aheetius. TIE mill has capacity OF 1o,oC4
yards day, sand will employ frop 151 to 2}s
bands.
AT Ashland, Wis, tee Minneapolis IL
Gogebic Mining Company have just opened
up vein of quartz fourteen feet IN width
and there is NO doubt but that it is several
hundred feet in length. The quartz rUns
high III galeua and silver.
THIRTY years ago the redwood belt II
California contained by far toe most yalua
abIa body Of soft timber III the world. RaS
it is doomed by the manner in which it has
been treated, and nothing can dow save its
forests f.om exterminaton-
AN English syndicate Will shortly de-
velop recently purchased tracts Of coa'
lands In Fayette, Walker and Tns&alocga
counties, Ala, and another English cors.
pany is about erecting extensive WORKS Oh
the FeliSner farm, seven niles west OF
Centervjlle, Ia, on the Milwaukee, railroad
one Of The newest devices for utilizing
saw0ust is tire scheme OF "a Canadian uls~
chanic. he claims that by grinding the ref
use into uniform iiEeness, mixing 1t VIA
the refuse gas tar froza the gas-house aos:
comp pressing the substance into cakes, ss
fuel can be made IN every way superior to
soft coal for open fires.
TIE combined carpentars' unions OF thu
Brotherhood in ST. Louis anG vicinity have
made a formal demand for eight hours as a
days work. and s3.25 "a dag as the MINIMUM
wages, to go into effect April I: 1889. Cir.
cular notices to the above efec5 have been
sent out to 1853 contractors and builders,
and to II architects. The ST. Louis unions
are all growing splendialy.
M1cAJAH HENLEY, of Richmond, Ind, "a
wood-sawycr, improved & crude rolier-skatse
made by poor fellow Iownsnlan. He pat
ented it, aud after hard coaxing got some
moneycd men 10 build a factory for the ruan-
utacture Of the skates. IN two years he
was worth S250OG0, and owned a big housa.
About thirty factories were erected at Eicb.
uond to supply the demand. To-day al. the
shops are closed except o1.a, and it is ouly
making q few.
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