Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-03
ITEMS OF INDUSTRY.

= SEvENTY-Two MILLION square yards Of car
peting were produced in the Philadelphia
mills last year, the value of which was
about as, 600 coo To produce this vast az.
gregate required the services Of II, 800 work
men and 1850 looms.
THE Indianapolis Qnd) Car Mauufactur-
ing Company built last year total Of 4,62C
cars. The average number Of men en-
ploved was $50. In the construction of the
cars Is, 900, 900 feet of pine and oak lumber
and IS, 4s0. 900 pounds of wrought iron were
used.
THE average weekly earnings of working
women are found to be larger in Western
cities, according to Colonel Carroll D.
Wright's report. San Francisco leads with
On average of S6.91 week; of all cities the
average Is So "a. 1t may be seen that Bos-
ton pays sum slightly above the average,
s564
THE North invested last year in Southern
industries s16s, COX, 900 Nearly $50, 1000 900
of this was invested in Alabama, which
leads In mining and manufacturing enter
prises in that section. Kentucky got S2S,-
900, 600; Texas, S1s 600 600, and Georgia, 81, :
100000 The least amount invested was 81
900, 600, which went to Mississippi.
THERE is q company in Birmingham Eng,
that makes about 10, 0Co 900 of pins every
day, the weight averaging five tons per
week. The company are in possession, as
proprietors, of the privileges and rights of
the original patentee Of the solid-headed
pin. There are at least two other extensive
pin manufacturers in Birmingham, where
it is said that half the pins used in the
world are made.
To-, e%ra7
tempts were made TO preserve rabbit flesh
in tins for food. One company in South
Australia employed forty or fifty trappers,
and thus prepared COCO or 1000 rabbits a
day. But this utilizing process has been
dropped since the wholesale poisoning and
other methods of determination have been
resorted to, the public becoming shy of eat
ing the rabbits as food.
CLAUS SPaECKLEs, the Hawaiian sugar
king, is reported to have secured the en-
tire Philippine islands sugar crop for his
Philadelphia and San Francisco sugar re-
fineries. The greater part of the sugar
will go to Philadelphia when the new re-
finery is completed, as the San Francisco
refinery will get partial supply from the
Sandwich islands The Philadelphia es-
tahlishment will have capacity of one
million pounds of raw sugar per day.
IT Is feared that lovers of blanc mango
will have to go without their favorite deli
cacy another year or else pay very high
price for the material from which it is
made. Sea moss gathercrs along the Vine
yard and South shores are in despair. AL
most none is being secured. They attrib-
ute the dearth of the moss to the unsea-
sonably mild weather with no ice. Reports
from other shores more distant are of COM
plants of little or no moss at this time,
when there should be plenty.
a MANUFACTURING firm in New York have
sent to the United States Department of
Agriculture specimens Of new fiber they
are making from the stalk of the cotton
plant The samples strongly resemble
hemp, and seem to be adapted to all the
uses hemp is put to. A few fibers of it
twisted together in the hand show remark
able tensile strength, although no exact
comparative tests with other fbers have
yet been made. A collection Of the fibers
of hemp, fax, jute, rarnie, etc, from all
parts of the world is being made by the
Department of Agriculture, and a new IN
strument has been invented by which it is
expected that the tensile strength Of each
will be ascertained with great accuracy.