The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-21
INDUSTRIAL NoTEs

n ship railway over tho Panama
Isthnius is the latest proposition of
French engineers to utilize some part of
the enormous expenditure on tho
Panama canal scheme. AS proposed by
M. Amedee Schillot and worked out by
the Societe Gail, tho railway would ex-
tend OF the Culebra from the 26-mile on
the Atlantic side, to the 3S-milo on the
Pacific side. The estimated cost is $50
O00,000, and the time Of execution three
years. The railway would be lG miles
long, and would carry two ''docks,"
weighing 1000 tons, propelled by 1.-TWO
locomotives of 2,40O tons" The scheme
rs yet has not passed beyond the pros
pectus stage.
Tho Oxnard Beet Sugar Company, of
Grand Island, Neb., has passed long
way beyond tho experimental stage OF
manufacture. white granulated sugar
beet of the best quality is turned out in
large quantities by this greatest Of
American beet sugar refineries. What
is being done i'll Nebraska should be
done, and upon large scales, in Iowa,
Kansas, Illinois, Wisconsin, the Dakotas,
and the other States of the West. So
great is the success Of the Grand Island
enterprise, and so certain is it to DO
followed by success in othor States, that
Il large manufacturing firm, to which we
are indebted for a sample of the Oxnard
company's sugar, has gone largely into
tho construction of beet seeders. beet
harvesters, and other agricultural ma
chinery specially needed in the new in
dustry which the manufacture of the
beet sugar opens to American farmers
Mr.. r. Hunt, manager of the Ilinklc
N bn bar pf,nl CT mt AcLl nd
Wisconsin, owned by the Ashland Iron
and Steel Company, reports that the
seven days ended October 4th. his fur
naces turned ont l,009 gross tons of pig
iron. The best days run was $50 tons.
The stack of this furnace is 60 feet high
and the diameter of the boSh is H. feet
The work was done with all ores, no
scrap or mill cindcr being used. The
ores came from the Gogcbic range. This
without doubt, surpasses the record of
any other charcoal or coke furnaces of
equal size. The average consumption OF
ore per ton was 4,0al pounds; OF char
coal, Il little over 81 bushels of - pounds
to the bushcl: of limestone, ia pounds
London must soon have new source
of water supply, says Mr.. A. X. Binnie
chief engineer to the London council
This may be obtained from the Upper
Wye, the Upper Severn, or from Dart
moor; the latter supply is especially
commended. 1t is now thought that the
council will not agree to the arbitration
clause in the city bill, and that the
council will introduce new bill pro-
viding, as far as they can, for new
source Of supply. The estimated cost
of the Upper Wye system is S45, 900, 900.
to provide 23O, 600, 900 gallons daily. The
Upper Severn scheme, for the same
quantity, would cost S57, 100000
a church on wheels has been built ut
the Pullman Works for the Rev. Wm
ID. Walker, Episcopal bishop of North
Dakota. 1t is intended for use in the
small villages along the railroads in
that section. The car is GO feet long by
10 feet wide. will seat 40 persons. CON
talns chancel. altar, baptismal font,
organ, etc, and is furnished in oak in
the gothic style. We noticed short
time ago similar railway church built
by the Russians for use on the Batoum-
Baku railway, in Trans-Caucasia.
The following statistics relating to the
tin trade in England are from il reliable
authority; Number of tin plate mills in
England, $50; number Of hands en-
y
tin mines. 1927; output of the Corn
wall mines. 1850. $500 tons; output of
the Straits settlements, 1889. 900
tons; wages paid miners in Straits set
Elements. 12l3 cents per day. This is
the source from which comes our tin
Two wire cables, weighing 10000
pounds together, were shipped on one
car last week by the Frederick IL Bas-
com Rope Co., of North St. Louis. The
cables were sent to the Cleveland City
Railway Co. of Cleveland, O.. and the
claim is made that this was the greatest
single carload of freight ever carried by
railroad company in the United
States.
The Tradcsman reports for the third
quarter of 1890, Lila new enterprises in
The Southern States against IN in the
corresponding quarter of 1889. These
reports are compiled from carefully pro
pared data secured from accurate sources
from every point in the Southern States
Among the new enterprises are rs cot
ton and WOODEN mills, IL congresses. 40
electric light works, % flour and grist
mills, SO foundries and machine shops.
tl4 Of which latter were in Virginia.) IS
ice factories, and 19l wood working es-
Establishments. this industry taking the
lead in new enterprises in the South for
the past quarter. Tennessee having 20,
Georgia 2S, Virginia 2S.and Alabama %.