Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1893-01-20
INDUSTRIAL BREvITIEs.
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 asuperabundance of shoe
makers making to measure.
A drying house for timber has been
erected at Ottawa, in which electricity
Is the heating power. This is the first
establishment of the kind in the world.
The cod-liyer.oil magnate OF the Lotto
den Islands, off Norway, is Peter Mul-
Ter, who employs 10000 people in fish
cries, factories, bottling, packing and 80
on.
Champagne owes its quality to the
sol, mixture of chalk, silica, light clay
and oxide OF iron, and to the great care
and delicate manipulation in manufact-
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
large sum.
An unsuccessful attempt has been
made in Paris to employ women in the
telegraph office in the Avenue de Pop
era, but the work was found much too
heavy for them.
The new brewery tax ia causing gem
eral depression in the beer business in
Germany. The Altoona Brewery Union
has already raised it's price three pfen-
nigs the half liter.
In England clerks OF large provincial
bank jointly own cottage by the sea,
fifty miles away, where all pass their
holidays, occupying it in detachments
during the summer.
Bishop Hurst says that ninety-two
acres, bought in Washington for a site
for the proposed Methodist University,
have increased in value until they are
worth half million.
The fact was developed at the hearing
Of case at the Tom be, New York, that
hodcarriers can be found in that city
willing to work for 25 cents q day and
work on Sunday at that.
Waco, Tex, is reported to have the
largest artesian well in the United States.
1t is $50 feet deep, with diameter of
ten inches, and throws !, 500, 600 gallons
a day OF perfectly pure but hot water.
1t is estimated that England's wheat
crop for this year is about 5000, 900
bushels, or lees than two bushels for each
inhabitant. She must buy at least 150,-
000,00 bushels more from some outside
source.
This seasons traffic through the SauIt
Ste. Marie canal exceeds by 20 per cent.
the tonnage of any previous year. In
October alone ], ,l35 steamers, 1896 sailing
vessels and II RATS passed through the
Sault.
Aluminium is found combined with
1876 other minerals, and therefore con-
stitutes large part of the crust of the
earth, but until recently has been very
expensive because of the difficulty OF
separating it.
1t is estimated that it costs the we'll
to-do people in this country $125, ,0OO, 900
annually to support charitable institu-
tions, while at least $500, 100000 is in
vested in permanent buildings where the
needy are cared for.
Elevator people in the Northwest esti-
mate that about 10000 900 bushels oil
wheat remain in farmers hands in the
Dakotas and Minnesota, against SO 000,-
600 bushels year ago.
One cause Of the sudden influx from
Europe of home coming Americans is
the current belief abroad that cholers
will break out in devastating fashion in
many European cities next spring.
1t is reported that the government has
discharged DIR. Eastman, the Sioux, and
his wife, Elaine Goodale Eastman, the
| poetees, for sending sensational reports
I fvax ho
preparing for an outbreak.
| The people of this country usfd dur
ing the last fiscal year more than IL, ,000,.
600, 900 postage stamps, and paid nearly
$50, ,0O0, 900 for them. They are all man
ufactured by the American Bank Nott
Company in New York.
1 The cotton mills of the South, as vel
as those in New England, have closeC
one OF the most prosperous years in thei
history. Within three years there hai
been development in the industr,
amounting to fully 25 per cent.
The Vanderbilts are making strenuou
efforts to extend the Wagner sleeping
car service beyond the Missouri river
Heretofore the Pullman Company ha
virtually had monopoly of the sleeping
car business west of Kansas City.
| The State of Oregon has thirty-siI
nurseries, covering 1873 acres and con
tanning about 5000, 900 young trees. ant
orchardists have upward of 100000 acre
of growing trees. 0ne-half of this acre
age is in prunes, one-fourth in apple
and the remainder in various kinds Q