Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-22
THE WATERBURY EVENING DEMOCRAT MONDAY. APRIL 2z
INDUSTRIAL DRIFT.


 PIGsKIN is now used for gloves and chil- dren's shoes.
 SIX different patents were secured on chewing gum last year.
 THE total value of vegetables of all kinds imported i q 1888 was S7 .0S1, ,758.66
 HALF million dollars worth of canned goods were shipped from this country to tropical regions last year.
 STATISTICS of the revenue department re- veal many remarkable things. In 1888 we imported of toothpicks S15. POI. IA worth.
 WE imported in 1888 S12, ,3O4, ,42S. 66 worth of tobacco in various shapes, and then will fully and deliberately burned most of it up.
 FOUR million shoe boxes were used by New England manufacturers last year. They cost from twenty-five to fifty cents each.
 A NEW watch factory has just been built at Otoy, ten miles down the bay from San Francisco. Twenty watchmakers and their families were shipped from the East.
 SEAMLESS boiler tubes are now made from solid ingots of metal by a process that twists and stretches the tibers, and is said to make tube much stronger than the or dinary ones.
 THE making of creosoted timber is one of the most promising new industries of the Southern States. Their soft 'sfat' pine is full of the oil that makes a good timber well nigh indestructible.
 AMERICAN manufacturers arc supplant- ing the English in exports to Australia of stoves, locks, cutlery, steel ware, axes, plated ware, tools, ranges, lamps and agrl- cultural implements.
 A FRENCH manufacturin 2 firm has brought out q new fabric made of the fiber of ramie, and called ramie linen, that is said to com hs {l~ l,t, ~,11 fl double the strength of linen.
 CARRIAGE manufacturers are predicting that in the not distant future wooden wheels will be done away with, and steel wheels substituted on account of the increasing scarcity of lumber for wheels.
 A CHICAGO genius announces through a reporter in a local paper that he has suc- ceeded in making Q serviceable shoe out of paper, and with considerable gravity an nounces that leather has had it's day.
 EXTRACT of bark is also coming into favor for preserving wood. 4 concern in Chicago i makes special business of putting railroad ties into tank where extract is forced into 1t. The process seems to give much satis- faction.
 THIRTEEN miles from Cheyenne is what is said to be the largest horse farm in the world. There are 10000 acres of land, ! constant attention of sixty-five men. One hundred miles of wire fence keeps the ami mals in bounds.
 THERE has been a great development ot | numbering in the South since 1880. There 1 are 16O per cent. more saw mills now than 1 then, 1O7 per cent. more hands employed i and 100 per cent. moro capital invested. | Syndicates are rapidly buying up all the Southern timber lands that they can get their hands on.
 "QUARTERED' oak, of which so much was heard during the early part of the ceiling Investigation at Albany, Is made by sawin g ! the oaklog first into quarters and the layin g the round side down and saving each quar- | ter up into boards. This method of work ing up the log give to the boards peculiar figure In the grain that IS lacking in oak prepared in the ordinary way by cutting the whole log up into strips.
 A PLAN for rendering paper as tough as wood or leather has been recently intro duced on the continent; it consists of mix 1 ing chloride of zinc with the pulp in the course of manufacture. It has been found that the greater the degree of concentra tion of the zinc solution the greater will be the toughness of the paper. It can be used for making boxes, combs, for roofing, and l even for making boats.