Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1893-01-13
INDUSTRIAL BREvITIEs.
The Aluminium Works In Switzerland
the Largest in the World-Busi-
ness In the South.


The electric snow plow is promised.
Germany has 1000 ton forging press.
St. Louis will have a 25, 600 pound bolt.
Japan mines have 10000. 900 tons Of
coal.
The Chesapeake oyster crop will be
light.
The Central Pacific has 1923. .OOO-pound
locomotives.
1t takes twelve tea plants to grow a
pound of tea.
There are 400 electric railroads in the
United States.
Manufacturers Of school furniture have
formed o trust.
Kansas is the only State in the Union
that produces reeled silk.
The Congressional library building will
contain Is, ,000, 900 bricks.
Bridgeport, Conn, is to have electric
power furnished by water.
Minneapolis is making 5000 barrels
OF -four on an average day.
This country has 70, 900 lawyers, IL 600
OF whom are in New York city.
Very good clothing for South Sea Isl
anders is made from palm trees.
The electric sleigh is announced for
use in the snowy Northern States.
Restaurants will be provided in the
Worlds Fair TO seat Al, 900 persons.
A New York bridge company is to is
sue bonds that are to run for z, ,450 years.
The smoky taste in Scotch whisky ia
due to the use of peat in the manufact-
ure.
In 1850 our product OF hardware was
valued at $lOO, 600; in 1888 at $970, 0,00O, :
900.
Scandinavian sailors are said to pre-
dominate on vessels OF nearly all nation
alities.
The profits from the sale of the works
Of Charles Dickens still amount to $40,-
600 a year.
A man in Maine has built an immense
lobster pond, and will put into 1t about
75, 600 Holsters.
A mixture Of rye -four and peanuts
has been recently used by the German
health authorities in ead-making.
Abo.. {, 800. 600 lids are slaughtered
in Europe annually to supply the one
town in France where gloves are made.
The last census places the number oil
miles of railroad in the world at $40, ,289,
OF which ALB per cent. are in the United
States.
Thirteen million tons of coal are
burned in London yearly. About 4,00O.-
600 tons are utilized by the gas-man
featuring companies.
The report of the Michigan State Salt
Inspector shows that last year 3,812, ,054
barrels OF salt were inspected, 1857
barrels less than In 1891.
One Of the most extensive concerns in
Maine has been experimenting on an
ingenious process of burning lime with
oil instead of with wood.
The largest telephone center in the
world is that in the exchange in Berlin,
Germany, where 1000 wires are con-
nected with the main office.
There are 10000 locomotives in the
world; $1,000 Of them run in Europe,
1900 in America, $500 in Asia, 1900 in
Australia and 700 in Africa.
Probably the heaviest rudder on rec
ord is that made for the torpedo boat
Vulcan. 1t was forged in single pieces
and weighs twenty-five tons.
Somebody has said that if Pasteul
were paid royalty on all the money hs
has saved to the commercial world hs
would be the richest man on earth.
Business operations in the South con
tinue to feel the spur growing out of tht
rise in cotton. Coal, iron, steel anG
lumber industries are particularly active
The aluminium works in Switzerland
the largest in the world, use a watel
power Of 1,5O0-horse power, and turr
out about 1900 pounds of the meta
daily.