The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-04-23
TIE BUSINESS ouILOOK.

the special Gnlladelpnla correspond |
ent of the Sunday Budget summarizes
the prospect of the seasons trade in the
pungent paragraphs:
After six months of uneasiness in bust |
ness and monetary circles we have started
into the spring trade with good prospects,
but not much business ahead. Almost
all buyers are afraid to launch out, |
There is a suspicion that things may
brighten up again. Then every one
wants to be assured there will be no labor
distractions. So far the miners seem to
be the only organized body that will
strike. Railroaders are dissatisfied in
several directions, but they are afraid,
Two or three shoemakers' strikes that
have been going on for several months,
are over. The bankers are lending
money, and have twenty millions less
than three months ago. Manufacturers
are not generally running full time.
The ship builders are very busy.
American capitalists propose to build a
pair of vessels that win eclipse anything
ever yet built
The valley of the Amazon is as large
as that portion of the United States East
of the Rocky Mountains, yet is it not de-
veloped.
Newark, New Jersey is to be supplied
from this out with $4,000 gallons of
water per minute.
There are only 1900 Chinese in Cali
fornia.
Out of the Peabody fund over 5000
homes have been furnished to wage
workers in London.
During the first three months of this
year 1880 Italians landed in New York.
The IRON trade does not improve. Fur
mace output is declining. There is not
very much railroad building projected.
Bridge builders will be busy all the year,
and so will pipe line men, stove manu-
facturers and builders of elevated rail
road work.
New York engineers are still at work
devising some better methods of rapid
transit.
The deepest copper mine in the Lake
Superior region is 5000 feet. Within
nine square miles there is more copper
than in all the rest of the world.
A car works is to be moved from Roch-
ester, n. Y, to johnson City, Tenn.
An immense ship yard is to built at
Norfolk, Va.
Car works are to be established at
Memphis, Tenn, and horse and mule
shoe factory at Strasburg, Va.
There is growing disposition among
thinking public men to favor the pooling
of railway earnings as the best solution
of railroad wars.
The British Government is trying to
keep the Brazilian Government from
granting any favOrs to the United States
that would increase the trade between
those two countries.
The Boston Il Albany Company are
going to use ninety-fve pound steel
rail.
Another tunnel is to be built under the
Detroit River.
An English firm has just secured an
order for $50 freight cars for a Mexican
road.
The Southern Pacific has orders out
for thousand cars; most of them will
be built at Sacramento.
All the Locomotive Works are busy
huTying out engines for railroads.
A dry dock 800 feet long to accomnu-
date vessels drawing thirty feet is to be
built at Puget Sound.
Canal building is coming into vogue.
A ship canal to connect Venice with the
ocean to be 17j miles long is to be built;
it will be 246 feet wide, have seventy
three locks, and cost S2G0,000,0O0.
All Russian railroads are to have
| freight cars increased in capacity in or
der to reduce freight rates to develop an
export trade. In Tunis, 220 miles of
railroad are to be built to develop the
neglected portion of the earth.
A slide railroad two miles long is to
be built on the Chicago Exposition
grounds. The cars slide on a film of
water propelled by jets of water thrown
out by pillars along the track.
At Clifton Forge, Va, 2000 men are to
be set to work in the c. IL o. machine
shops.
A rolling mill is to be built at Wauke-
gan, III
1t costs one-half cent to carry ton of
flour each mile between Spokane Falls.
Washington and Boston.
The Russian Government has started
to build a Siberian railroad beginning al
the Pacific coast end: California is the
basis of supplies for it; it will run
| through vast wilderness.
Never was there as much stir as at
present in the outside world, in the con.
struction of railroads, bridges, tunnels,
canals, telegraph lines and in the erection
of machinery to multiply products. Civ.
ilization has taken gallop, and we arc
making almost alarming Roadway.
1t will take 1900 tons of steel to build
a Worlds Fair tower, ll5j feet high. II
will cost S3,O00,0OO
American machinery is in great de.
mand in Australia, and other foreign
countries. New South Wales wants l75..
600 tons of steel rails, but they must be
made there.
Naval engineers have turned theil
back on enormous guns and enormous
warships.
The Hudson River tunnel is being
bored at the rate rate of ten feet per day
1t is now 3400 feet.
Last year 1900, 900 carrots Of diamonds
were found in Africa, and there 10, OOO, OK
carats in sight.
There are inexhaustible OIL fields for z
distance of 300 miles east and west from
Albuquerque, n. NJ. In Southern Cali
fornia 1900 barrels of oil per day are
pumped, and the output is being rapidly
| increased.
Steel chains are to be now welded witt
electricity. Electricity is passed through
wine in French wineries to increase il
keeping qualities.
There are 100000 telephones in the
United States. France has only 1000.
Silver bronze wires weighing only
thirty-six pounds to mile are now used
in London instead of wires weighing %
pounds per mile for telephoning pur
poses.
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Happy HOosIers.
| VIM. Timmons, Postmaster at Idaville