The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-01-14
HOOD RIVER OREGON, SATURDAY. JANUARY a. 1893
INDUSTRIAL BREyITIES.
The Aluminium Works In Switzerland
the Largest In the WorId-BusI.
ness In the South

There are b73 newspapers In India.
The electric snow plow is promised.
Germany has i,00O-ton forging press
NJ. Louis will have q 70, 900 pound belt
Japan mines have 100, 900, 900 tons o
coal.
The Chesapeake oyster crop will bt
light.
The Central Pacific has l23, 1000. pound
locomotives.
II takes twelve tea plants to grow q
pound OF tea.
There are 460 electric railroads In the
United States.
Manufacturers Of school furniture have
formed trust.
RanBaa la the only State In the Union
that produces reeled silk.
The Congressional library building will
contain 25,000,OO bricks.
Bridgeport, Conn, is to have electric
power furnished by water.
Minneapolis is making 5000 barrels
OF Hour on an average day.
This country has 70, 900 lawyers, II 900
OF whom are In New York city.
Very good clothing for South Sea Isl.
anders Ia 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 $1,000 persons.
A New York bridge company Ia to is-
sue bonds that are to run for 2, 45O years.
The smoky taste in Scotch whisky is
due 10 the use OF peat in the manuiact-
ure.
In 1860 our product Of hardware was
valued at 100000; In 1888 at 1910, ,0OO,-
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.
900 year.
A man in Maine has built an immense
lobster pond, and will put into it about
70 900 HOLSTERS.
A mixture OF rye -four and peanuts
has been recently used by the German
health authorities in bread-making.
About 9,6j0,000 kids are slaughtered
in Europe annually to supply the one
town in France where gloves are made.
The last census places the number of
miles OF railroad in the world at $40 $50,
OF which 4i.lS per cent. are in the United
States.
Thirteen million tons OF coal are
burned in London yearly. About 4,0O0.-
900 tons are utilized by the gas manu-
featuring companies.
The report Of the Michigan State Salt
Inspector shows that last year 1872, ,054
barrels OF salt were inspected, 1887
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,
iermanv, where 1000 wires are con-
nected with the main office.
There are 100000 locomotives in the
world O3,UOJ oil them run in Europe, |
10000 in America, $500 in Asia, 1000 in
Australia and 700 in Africa.
Probably the heaviest rudder on rec
,rd is that made for the torpedo boat
Vulcan. 1t was forged in single pieces,
md weighs twenty-five tons.
Somebody has said that if Pasteur
we're paid royalty on all the money he
las saved to the commercial world he
would be the richest man on earth.
Business operations in the South con-
inue to feel the spur growing out of the
Use in cotton. Goal, iron, steel and
umber industries are particularly active.
The aluminium works in Switzerland,
he largest in the world, use a water
power of l,500-horse power, and turn
,ut about 100 pounds of the metal
laily.