Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-02
LABOR AND LABORERS.

FIFTY coke ovens are being put up at VII
keson, w. T..
JAMES MANN, the axe manufacturer at
Lewistown, Pa, has given his employees
notice Of ten per cent advance of wages.
1T is stated that the Alabama Iron Smelt-
ing Company will at once begin work on the
foundation for their rolling-mill to be built
at Talladega.
The Saginaw Coal Company, Flushing,
Mich, think they have struck it rich, hav-
ing got thirty-three-inch vein. Expect to
be mining coal in April.
On for fuel, which has been largely in
troduced in Chicago, is now being discon-
tinued owing to insurance companies ad-
vancing rates one per cent.
THE Union Iron and Steel Rolling Mill
Company, of Kansas City, Mo-, has received
charter. This company will remove the
Henderson rolling-mill from ST. Louis.
THE Southern rolling mills at Birming-
ham, Ala, will soon be ready to go to
work. They have capacity of 65 tons of
rolled iron per day, and will employ 200
men.
THERE is considerable excitement at AS
toria, w. T., over the reported finding of
coal near that city in paying quantities, and
about fifty persons have filed claims aggre-
eating 5000 acres.
Two NEW coal banks have been opened on
Boughan's farm, sixteen miles northeast of
Nevada, Mo- The coal is being shipped to
Kansas City, Mo-, and about forty men are
being worked at present.
The Apollo (Pa) Iron & Steel Company
will erect one additional sheet mill and
possibly an additional steel furnace The
pay-rolls of the two iron plants there now
run over $4,000 per month.
THE Milwaukee bridge and iron works
have received the contract to build $685.
600 bridge across the Saginaw river at Bay
City, Mich. The bridge will have four
spans of $50 feet each, and a draw of 240
feet.
ACCORDING to the customs returns the
quantity of anthracite coal imported into
Canada during the fiscal year ending June
80, 1887, was 1,024, 154 tons, and during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1888, 2, 49,, 304
tons.
TWELVE HUNDRED furnace employees oper-
atlng fourteen furnaces in the Shenango
valley received an advance of 10 and Is
cents day in their wages. The increase
was voluntary on the part of the manu-
facturers.
The American Wire Nail Company.
Covington, KY, will break ground at once
Tor wire nail manufacturing plant, in
GLIDING rod and wire mill at Anderson.
The wire-mill will be S5x2S5 feet; naiI-mill,
lOOx200 feet; rod-mill, 100x260 feet.
WILLIAM WALSH, of Stanford, is opening
up extensive coal mines near Lily Ky for
Pennsylvania company, OF which he is a
member The company own 10000 acres of
eeal land. The mining plants are being
| constructed to cost 81, 600 each.
THE car works at Michigan City, Ind. in
addition to the immense woodwork shop
they have just completed, will soon erect a
blacksmith shop 164 feet long by 1870 wide.
1t viii be built of brick and will accommo-
GATE forty forges, trip hammers and presses.
HE car-wheel foundry projected near
hammond, Ind, is now in course of con-
structlon. The principal owner is c. a.
treat, OF the G. A. Treat Manufacturing
Company, Hannibal, No. The capacity of
the foundry will be from 200 to $50 wheels
daily.
The subscribers to the 500, 900 prize Of
Tered for plan by which the water-power
OF Niagara falls can be used have formed a
Joint stock company with a capital of s125,-
UUO. under the name of the Niagara Fails
Improvement Company, of Buffalo, limited.
The prize IS TO be gwen to the success ful
competitor IN consideration OF his transfer
ring his entire interest TO the company
A BIG project is on foot among the cap
italists of Cleveland, o., to supply the cities
and towns of OHIO with water from Lake
Erie. It is designed to run the water-pipe line
direct to Columbus, aid thence to Cincin-
natl, giving force to the supply by pumping
engines. Reservoirs are to be constructed
for securing an uninterrupted low in case
of accident. The main line will be TAPPED
10 supply smaller cities.