Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1893-01-20
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
Great Lack Of Space for Exhibits
in Machinery Hall.
AFTER GUERRILLAs ON THE BORDER
Mineral Productions Of Colorado During
Last Year Business Suspended
on the Ohio River.
AFTER GUERRILLAs ON THE BORDER

The city OF New York cares for 1900
lunatics at cost of 1926. 900 a year.
Two companies in opposition to Car
negie are to be established at Pittsburg.
Mexico is preparing to receive the inn
migrants which this country will refuse.
In trying to corner wheat the North
west is 50,0OJ, 900 short in the Chicago
market.
The United States produced 10,00O, 600
gallons more Of wine last year than Ger
many did.
The total value OF the mineral pro-
ductions for Colorado for 1892 Ia $41,-
1856, ,11s.23.
The Adams Express has supplanted
the American Express Company on the
Burlington system.
More murders were committed in the
State of Michigan last year than in any
previous like period.
The boundary line between Nebraska
and South Dakota is to be marked with
blocks of jasper stone
The Treasury Department is gradually
recovering the gold it lost by the recent
heavy shipments abroad.
The cigarette trust has blacklisted all
antitrust dealers with the purpose to
drive them out of the business.
The Order Of Railway Conductors do
not anticipate any trouble with the roads
now or during the Worlds Fair.
1t is expected that 1900 carloads of
exhibits will be received at the grounds
Of the Worlds Fair between now and
May l.
Postmaster Harlow of st. Joseph, Mo-,
has inaugurated q system of electric
street-car mail service to suburban
points.
Thirteen companies OF United States
troops, aggregating 700 men, are now in
the field against guerrillas on the Mex
ican border.
The Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio
rivers are frozen over, and river traffic
is entirely suspended for the first time
in many years.
A company is being organized in New
York city, with capital stock Of $25,-
000,000. to improve the dockage facilities
of Buffalo harbor.
]. III. Wade has presented the city Of
Cleveland, o., his father's estate known
as Wade Park, containing four acres,
valued at 500, 200.
They are talking in Washington of
lpensioning Jefferson Davis widow; not
tor his services to the Confederacy, but
in the Mexican war.
The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
has adopted resolutions calling on Con-
gress to provide for the completion of
the Nicaragua canal.
| Negotiations are reported to be under
way in Chicago for the consolidation Of
all the elevated railroads OF that city un-
der one management.
The railroad construction OF last year
in the United States is footed US as 1902
miles, which is about 10 per cent. less
than the total for 1891.
/ The packing houses OF Chicago have
reached stage Of duilness unparalleled
in years. Over 5000 employees have been
discharged recently. The difficulty is
that the houses find it impossible to get
hogs.
L. S. Coffin of Fort Dodge, Ia, states
that he has distributed $4,000 white but
tons among trainmen since last May.
The button is symbolical of total absti-
nence from intoxicants. The rules gov
erning the Brotherhood OF Locomotive
Engineers are very strict. Last month
there were nearly thirty expulsions.
The oldest whaIer in the United States
is said to be the Rousseau, now lying
This vessel was built in 1901 for Stephen
dusen, and was launched on the Della
Iko Iou ~ IL -
when it returned with 1880 barrels Of
sperm and 1S0 barrels of whale oil.
When the final permits for exhibit
space in machinery hall at the Worlds
Fair are issued storm of protests will
be heard from every section Of the coun-
TRY. Less than half the number OF firms
that made demands of Chief Robinson
for room will secure it. More than | 200
applications were received, and only 500
can be granted. The 700 disappointed
applicants, some of them the most ex-
tensive manufacturers OF machinery in
the country, will naturally object to
Chief Robinson's distribution OF floor
area, but they will not be able to change
} his plans. Machinery hall, at first con-
sdered big enough to accommodate all
, worthy exhibitors, has been found to
furnish little more than half the space
the machine builders wanted. That is
why Chief Robinson was compelled to
decline so many requests for space. As
! originally designed, the hall was 842x404
feet. 1t was soon found that q larger
building would be needed, and an annex
55l feet long was added, making the total
length Of the hall 1892 feet ami it's
i width 494 feet This was considered big
enough for all demands that would be
made for showroom; but as the appli-
Q cations came in Chief Robinson learned
8 that another extension would be needed.
' go machine shop / 1,l03 feet long and 81
: feet wide was added. Even with these
g additions the space afforded is but half