The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-01-26
LABOR AND LAeoRERs.

LABOR AND LABoRERs.
FIFTY coke ovens are being put up as WI
keson, w. 7.
JAMES MANN, the age manufacturer a
Lewstown, Pa, has given his employee
notice of ten per cent. advance OF wages,
II is stated that tho Alabama Iron smelt-
ing Company ,v,l at once begin work on tho
foundation for their rolling-nliu to be hult
at Talladega.
The Saginaw Coal Company, Flushing,
Mich, think they have struck it rich, hav.
ing got u thirty three-inch vein. Expect to
be mining coal in April.
Or. for fuel, which has been largely IN
troduced in Chicago, is now being discon-
tiuued owing to insurance companies ed~
vancing rates one per cent
TIE Union Iron and Steel Rolling-Alu
Company, of Kansas City, Mo-, has received
charter. This company will remove the
Henderson rolling-rnin from ST. Louis.
TIE Southern rolling mills at Birming"
ham, Ala, will soon be ready TO go 70
work. They have capacity OF eS tons OF
rolled iron per day, and will employ 10
men,
THERE is considerable excitement at A.
"
coal near that city in paying quantities, and
about fifty persons have filed claims agersp
eating 5000 acres.
Two NEW coal banks hays been opened OK.
Boughan's farm, sixteen miles mort beast *
Nevada, Mo The coal is being shippea II,
Kansas City, No, and about forty men are
being worked at present.
THE Apollo pa Iron & Steel Company
will erect ono additional sheet mill aud
possibly an additional stec! furnace. Tie
pav-rolls Of the tive, iron plants there now
run over 900 per month.
The Milwaukee bridge and iron worlzs
have received the contract to build "a 12s5Str
600 bridge across The Saginaw river at Bag
City, Mich. This Bridge with have tout
spans Of $50 fest each, and o draw OF az
feet.
ACCORDING to the customs retarrs the
quantity Of anthracite coal imported inta
Canada during the fiscal year ending Juns
80, 1882, was l,tG4. La tons, ano during tns
fiscal year ending June 80, 1855, 2,ls2 .'lE
tons.
TWELVE HUNDRED furnace employees caes>
ating fourteen furnaces in She Shenangs'
valley received an advance Of 10 and LIS
cents g day in their wages. The 'ncreass'
was voluntary on the part Of tho asshnu~
factIrers.
TIE American Wire Nail Company;
Covington, KY, will break ground at once
for q wire nail manufacturing plant, ia
GLIDING rod and wire mill at Anderson.
The wire-rnll will be S5x:2a5 feet; uail~uiu,
l0Ox20G feet; rod-ulill, 10Gx2Go feet.
WILLIAM WALSH, of Stanford, is opening
up ex tensive coal mines near Lily, KY, for
~ Pennsylvania company, Of which hs Ia
coal land. The mining plants are being
constructed to coss s25, 0kn each.
TIE car works 81 Michigan City, Ind: In
addition to the immense woodwork sl.up
they have just completed. will soon erect 60
blacksmith shop lftt feet long by 100 wide
1t will be built ofhrick and will nccomuos
date forty FORCES, trip hammers and presseas
TnH car.vl1eel foundry projected near
Hammond, Ind, is now in course Of con-
struction. The principal owner is G. K.
Treat, Of the G. A. Treat Manufacturing
Company, Hannibal, NO. The capacity OF
the foundry will be from 200 to $50 wheels
daily.
TIE subscribers 10 the 100000 prize Of.
tered for plan by which the w2ter-poweE
OF Niagara falls can be used have formed q
joint stock company VIII, {. capital OF $685.
900, under the name Of the Niagara Falls
Improvement Company, Of Buffalo, limited.
The prize is to be gwen to the successful
competitor in consideration OF his transfer
ring his entire interest to the connpaay.
A BIG project is Cd foot among The CAR
icalists Of Cleveland, u, to supply the ciSies
and towns Of Ohio with water from La&e
Ere. 1t is designed to run the waterpjpe lins
direct to Colum ous, and thence to Cipcin~
nat,, giving force to Che supply ny pumping
engines. Reservoirs are to be constructed
for securing en- uninterrupted flow il case
Of accident. The nlain lime will be- tapped
to supply smaller cities. -.
THE Fort Payne 'Ala.) Coal u Iron COM
pany has been organized, with capital o?
100000. The. company has purchased H.,
600 acres of coal, iron and town site lands "a
Fort Payne. One million Of the capital
stock will be held in the treasury. In add
ton to the coal and iron industries, the fire
brick, lime, silica and granite properties In
which the tract ahounds viii ultimately l3a