The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1893-01-14
INDUSTRIAL BREvlTlEs
The Cotton Mills Of the South and New
England Close One Of the Most
Prosperous Years.

Very few boots and shoes are imported
into Mexico. There are many tanneries
in Mexico and supsrabundance OF shoe
makers making TO measure.
A drying house for timber has been
erected At Ottawa. In which electricity
Is the heating power. This 10 the first
establishment Of the kind in the world.
The cod liver oil masnsts OF the Lotto
den lslands, off Norway, 10 Peter Null
Ter. who employs 1900 people in fi'h.
cries. factories, bottling, packing and 30
on.
Champagne owes its quality to the
soil, mixture Of chalk, silica, light clay
and oxide OF iron, and to the great care
and delicate manipulation in manuiact-
ure.
Mrs. Increase Sumner OF Starke, Fla,
raises her own tea. She gathers three
crops year, and the bushes furnish her
tea which in China would cost her u
arge sum.
An unsuccessful attempt has been
maie la Paris to employ women in the
telegraph office in the Avenue de 'Op-
era, but the work was found much too
heavy for them.
the new brewery tax 10 causing gem
erat depression in The beer business in
Germany. The Altoona Brewery Union
has already raised its price three pien-
nigs the hat liter.
In England clerks OF a large provincial
bank jointly own cottage by the sea,
hfty miles away, where all pass sheir
holidays occupying it in attachments
during the summer.
Bishop Hurst says that nine y two
acres. bought in Washington for site
for the proposed Methodist University,
have increased in value until they are
worth half a million.
The fact was developed At the hearing
OF case at the Tombs, New York, that
hodcarriers can be found in that city
willing to work for 25 cents = day and
work on Sunday at that.
Waco, Tex, is reported to have the
largest artesian we'll in the United States.
IL is $50 feet deep, with = diameter OF
ten inches, and throws 500, COO gallons
= day OF perfectly pure but hot water.
1t is estimated that England's wheat
cr,p for this year 10 about $500, 0tS
bushels, or lees than two bushels Tor each
inhabltant. She must buy at least $780,
OOl.OOO bushels more from some outside
source.
This seasons traffic through the SAult
Ste. Marie canal exceeds BY 20 per cent.
the tonnage OF any previous year. In
October alone ,l35 steamers, 800 sailing
vessels and u RATS passed through the
Sault.
Aluminium is found com bined with
1876 other minerals, and therefore con-
stitutes a large part OF the crust Of the
earth, but until recently has been very
expensive because OF the difficulty OF
separating il.
1t Is estimated that it costs the we'll
to-do people in this cou 1try tl25, ON, 900
annually to support charitable institu-
tons, while at least $500. O0D,00o is in
vested In permanent buildings " here the
needy are cared for.
the people OF this country us dur
ing the last fiscal year more than Il, 900, =.
uoO.otO postage stamps, and paid nearly
$50, 0OO, 900 for them. They are all man
utacGured by the American Bank Note
Company in New York.
The cotton mills OF the South, sswell
as those in New England, have close
one OF the most prosperous years in their
history. Within three years there ha.
been development in the industry
amounting 20 fully IS per cent
The VanderbiIts are making s.renuou.
efforts 10 extend the Wagner sleeping
car service beyond the Missouri river.
Heretofore the Pullman Company has
virtna iy mad a monopoly OF the sleeping
car business west oil Kansas City.
The State OF Oregon has thirty. six
nurseries, covering ,575 acres and con
tanning about 9,U 100 young trees, and
orchardists have upward OF lOo, 600 acres
OF growing trees. One half Of thus acre
age is in prunes, oue-fourth in apples
and the remainder in various kinds OF
fruits.
l.. 5. Coffin OF Fort Dodge, Ia, states
that he has distributed 50. COZ white but
tons among trainmen since last Nav.
The button Is sym boiical OF total ab~tI-
hence from intoxicants. The rules gov.
rrning the Brotherhood OF Locomotive
Engineers are very stric'. Lust month
there were nearly thirty explosions.
The oldest wha er in the United States
is said TO be the Rousseau, now lying
dismantled at New Bed ord wharf
this vessel was built l-0l for Stephen
Gtrard OF Philadelphia by y cholas Van
dnsen, and was launched on the Della.
ware. Its last voyage was made in 1866,
when it returned with $50 barrels OF
sperm and lSJ barrels OF whale oil.