Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-21
ALMOST A LOST ART.
A Big Tumble in Exchange Member
ships Within Three Years.
HOPEFUL TALK OF AN IRON MAN.
Sickness and Death Traced Directly to Sew
age and Surface Water.
A LOCAL ESTIMATE OF THE WHEAT CROP

Three years ago membership in the Pitts
burg Petroleum, Grain and Metal Exchange
was valued at about 81 100. Yesterday one
was sold for S475. This shows that the spec
ulative interest here is in comatose condi-
| ton, and there is no prospect Of speedy
revival.
This fact should give greater value to
our bank clearings than is accorded them in
some quarters. as it bears out former state
ments that nearly all the business done here is
legitimate.
The following legend is displayed at the
cashiers window in one of the leading banks OF
the city:
"The Lord helps those who help themselves,
but the Lord help those found helping them
| selves here"
The problem of water supply at West End
Pace has been solved. mentioned few days
ago that a well had been bored and good sup
ply of the natural beverage attained. Since
then two other wells have been put down,
making three in all. They are 129, 80 and IS
feet deep respectively. The diameter of the
bore is six inches. They are cased with iron
down to the rock, which is found at a depth OF
Is or 20 feet. This makes it impossible for sur
face water to get into them. Bored wells are
coming into favor hereabouts.
Pure water is necessary to good health
Where wells are used too much care cannot be
taken to keep out the surface water. The
typhoid epidemic which decimated Williams
port, in this State, few years ago, was caused
by impure water. About nine years ago an
alarming sickness broke out in our handsome
suburb of Williamsburg. The sick list num-
bered 800 or 400 and the death roll was very
large 1t was traced to sewage and surface
water getting into the wells.
The ancients were great well diggers. Their
wells were Is or 20 feet in diameter, from so to
20 feet deep, and cemented from top to bottom.
The we'll at which Isaac's commissioner met
Rebekah aud the one where our Savior talked
with the woman of Samaria, are still in good
condition, and in daily use. The former is
more than 5000 years old.
asked an iron worker yesterday to give me
his opinion of the condition and prospects Of
the market He replied:
prices are no higher but they are little
stronger. The mills are hard at work to exc
cute their orders by the end of the present
month. At the beginning of July there will be
general shutdown for two weeks or longer to
make necessary repairs, and to settle the wage
question. This may cause some trouble, but
do not look for a strike. The workers know
that trade has been dragging for long time,
and think they will be reasonable in their de-
mands. They have always been paid consider
ably more than Eastern workers."
"Why?"
because in the East the manufacturers are
organized and the men are not. Here the re-
verse is the case. This shows the power of Or
ganized labor"
He added that the orders the mills were now
working on were for regular sizes to supply
anticipated wants before operations were re-
sumed.
How do you think the fall trade will be ?''
II think it will be brisk. The prospect is
favorable for a good demand for almost every
thing, and think prices will be advanced"
A Pittsburg grain broker, taking the Gov
ernment crop report as basis, has figured out
that the wheat crop this year will be $4,000, 900
bushels.
SIT is more likely to exceed than to fall
under this estimate he added.
FXPIORER