The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-29
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The Ollefinolicc Swamp Improvement
Co. is preparing to go to work on this
Georgia improvement. whereby 300.O0O
acres of land are to be reclaimed. Col
:. Ii. Carter. the chief engineer of the
company. is now sounding along the line
OF the drainage canals. a main canal :
miles long will empty the swamp water
into the st. Mary's River: and to this
main canal many lateralS will lead
Tho Diamond Shoal lighthouse. off
Cape liattcras. lately let to Mcssrs. An
dcrson n Barr. has progressed sufficient
~ for Il call for bids for 2l5 tons of mild
steel, TO be used in the lower 80 feet of
the caiSSonS.
English mining statistics. as given IN
the report of the inspectors of mines
Tor 1852. show 4S0.1T9 people employed
underground; 1906 above ground and
about the mines; output of coal 49,
9l6,724 tons as compared with 1863. 935,-
219 tons in 1883. The output of iron ore
in 1889 was S,2T0,5i3 tons. against
S,635,032 tons in 1855, and an average of
1O,906,233 tons for the fifteen years of
lS73-S7. During 1S75-77, inclusive, the
output was about 1000, 900 tons per an
mum. The accident list includes SIS
accidents and 1,04S persons killed in
1889. The ratio of fatal accidents to
persons employed was one for every G65
pcrs3ns, against one to every co. per-
sons employed in 1888; one to 63i in
1887, and one to 6i4 in 1856.
Stettin cement, according TO the re-
port of United States Consul A. +. Fay,
is made by six separate works in the
neighborhood of Stcttin. The total out
put OF these companies is about I.OUO,-
600 barrels per annum of 80 pounds per
barrel About 100000 barrels are sold
for domestic use. The cost of manu-
facturc, including labor, is about TWEEN
ty-three cents per 100 pounds. The raw
materials consist of 90 per cent. chalk
and about 10 per cent. of argillaceous
earth, or fatty blue clay. This mixture
is allowed to slack for few days. then
dried, burned and pulverizcd. The
companies arc said to be in prosper
GUS condition, and the Stettin Portland
Cement Company had just declared a
dividend of - per cent. on the amount
invested.
The Irish channel tunnel project is
being again revived. and at public
meeting held in London on Oct Is. En-
gincer Barton submitted plan for a
tunnel costing about 100000, 900. 1t
could be finished in II years. and COM
mittce, headed by the Duke of Abcrcorn.
is to bring the matter before the English
Government
Tho annual report of the commits
sinner of the General Land Office states
that nearly 10000. 600 acres have during
the year been transferred to settlers.
The area of coal and mineral lands
patented has been largely, incrcased over
that OF the previous fiscal year.
In filling out the statistical sheets to
he forwarded to the bureau at Washing
ton 1T is found that there are ten public
parks in Oakland, Cal, with a total
area of 1S1 acres, of which seven are
improved, with Il total area of nine
acres. One hundred and sixty acres are
i'll the water park of Lake Merritt.
The United States have 776.5OO miles
OF telegraph wire, and in 1889 no less
than 56,000,000 messages were sent
through the country France has eco
500 miles of wire. ON which in 1852 were
transmitted 30,050,000 dispatches
Great Britain has $50, 600 miles of metal
line, and in 1889 sent 30, DOC, 900 mes
sagcs.
The Railway Age, of Chicago, reports
BIS: miles of railway constructed in
this country during the first nine
months of the year. or 40 miles more
than in the same period last year The
South leads in the way of railroad con-
struction, and Georgia takes the palm
with 1928 miles.
1t is now more than 1000 years since
1T was first proposed to cut a canal
through the Isthmus Of Corinth, but the
work is at last under way. directed by Il
Polish engineer, and promises to be
completed in 1892
Mu,spI Shoals Canal n,o,,