The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-30
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

y paint factory is to he established in
Bedford City by Shaw & SON
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Calloways. comtcmplatcs erecting
flour mill.
a business block is to be erected in
Basic City by Mr. Gold. OF Lancaster
Pa, u cost Sl0.0OO.
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1t has been calculated that it would
be possible to take from Il section OF the
River Nero lakes. occupying about nine
square leagues upward of ..000. 600 tons
of salt.
narticle in the Allahabad Pioneer
gives some interesting particulars con
corning the tunnel that has been com
pleted through the khojak on the rail
road from Quota to Candahar. The
Nhoiak Pass is 80 feet above the level
of the surrounding country. The tunnel
pierceS the range at right angles. and
its course is therefore due east and
west. and it enters the hill about | 900
feet below the crest of tho pass. The
length of the tunnel is l?.G0O feet. or
two and half miles approximately,
and it will carry Il double line of rails.
For the first half the floor ascends
about in 1000. and for the second half
of the journey it dcsccnds AT an incline
of in 40. There are two main shafts.
one BIS feet and the other $50 feet deep.
which were sunk in order to facilitate
the construction of the tunnel. The
chief obstacle to progress arose from
the flooding of the tunnel at more than
one point A large spring was cut and
the water flooded the shaft on the Can
dahar side to the depth of $50 feet. 1t
took ten weeks to pump out the water.
and in the western heading as much as
fifty gallons Il minute We're constantly
rushing out of the west mouth.
Tho Glasgow Real Estate Exchange
contcmplatcs erecting Il building To COS;
from >S,OOO To SlO.Ouu.
c. n. Morrison will erect = !ox $50 feet;
factory for the manufacture Of mineral
fibre from clay at Pulaski City.
The contract for the stone work ON the
new rolling mill at Glasgow has been
awarded to Mcasrs liam x Anderson
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The Gallahcr Shoe Manufacturing
/ Company. of Childs. Md. is 10 move its
shoe factory to lIarrisonburg, where it
will erect Il building l0Xl25 feet.
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| 1t is announced in West Virginia.
without contradiction. that the Davis
/ Elkins syndicate. which has been build
1 ing and buying railroads, and LAYING Is
| hands on all kinds of valuable timber.
coal and iron lands. has no less scheme
in view than the building up of ii trunk
+ line railroad from the Chesapeake Bay
I To Pittsburg and thence West TO the
/ lakes. Tho Washington and Cumhcr-
land road. which is to occupy the old
! Chesapeake and Ohio canal. if il is ever
occupied by anything, is the eastern
section, and it in turn connects with the
| Western Virginia Central. which is be-
/ ing extended at this time still further
! into the interior of the State. with the
! probable intention Of connecting with
/ the Pennsylvania system at some point
near the State line. Such plan con-
suinmated would open up an almost UNI
! limited field Of coal. iron and timber to
the central and Western market, and
would place West Virginia coke in di-
rect competition with tho Connclsyillc
article almost in its own home
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The capacity of the rolling mill Of the
Portage Iron Company. limited, at Dun
cansvillc. Pa. has been enlarged by the
addition of seventeen more pudding
furnaces and another train Of rolls. The
works now contain thirty-scvcn single
pudding furnaces six heating furnaces
and six trains Of rolls. The nail-platc
train has been taken out and a 2O-inch
muck train and finch hoop train put
/ i'll. The company is now prepared TO
make cotton ties as well rs bar, band,
! hoop. scroll and angle iron and steel.
/ Cut-nail making has been given up. The
additions to the equipment Of The mill
| increases its capacity from S.C0O to u 900
| net tons OF finished iron and steel