Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-22
Riffs in the Clouds.

Inc commercial Dunk Oh STEVENS
Point. has resumed business.
The Oregon National Bank, OF Port
land, resumed business last week.
The Crompton Co., OF Crompton, Il.
l., closed since Aug. It'll, has resumed
work.
The Illinois Glass Works, at Alton,
H., are getting ready for a resumption
OF business.
The Buck Stone and Range Co., of
st. Louis, Mo-, employing 800 men,
has resumed business.
The First National Bank, OF Nash
Vile, Tenn, has resumed business,
after months suspension.
The Cumberland Steel and Tin
plate Mill, which has been closed three
months, has resumed with $50 hands.
The Erie, n. Y, Forge Works has
begun work, after a suspension of sew
eral weeks, with full complement Of
men.
The Watson Paper Co., of Erie, an
immense plant employing 900 men,
has resumed operations with a full
force.
The Western National of Pueblo,
and Bank of Florence, Florence, both
in Colorado, have re.opened their
doors.
The Collins mills, OF Collinsville,
Massachusetts, have started up with all
hands at work, after suspension of
four weeks.
All the factories of Peck, Stowe &
Wilcox, at Plainsville, East Berlin and
Southington, Conn, have started up
on full time.
The Pittsburg and Lake Angelina
Mine, in Michigan, which has been
running on two-thirds time, has gone
back to full time.
Bay City Industrial Works, at Bay
City, Mich, will start up next week,
after six weeks suspension. The works
employ 300 persons.
1t is reported by the officers of the
suspended Tacoma Merchants Ma
tional Bank, that it will be enabled to
pay dollar for dollar.
The satisfactory OF J. F. Budd, at
Burlington, N. j., resumed operations,
a few days ago. with a payroll aggre-
eating $4,000 per week.
The East Chicago foundry, at HAM
mond, Ind, employing large force of
men, which had been closed for some
time, resumed work last week
Brown & Co.'S Wagon iron works
of Pittsburg resumed operations Mon
day, employing 600 men. The old
employees reported for duty to man,
waving the firms refusal to sign the
amalgamated schedule.
At Wheeling, Va, an effort was
made by about 20 Hungarians to pre-
vent the big Riverside mill, from en-
ploying Americans. A fight ensued
and stones and clubs were freely used,
but the effort was not successful.
]. w. Cases bank, at Astoria. Ore
gon, will pay 100 cents on the dollar,
on the same terms as the Commercial
bank of Portland. Five per cent.
interest is paid on all debts, and the
plan is to make gradual payments
to depositors.
The New York banks and trust COM
panies are looking for customers 10
take money on time at 6 per cent. on
prime dividend-paying stocks. Thus
the position of borrower and lender
has been reversed completely in the
past few days.
The Sharon Estate Company is the
name of an organization which will
begin business this month with cap.
ital Of $S,OOO,OOO, 100000 of which
is paid up. The directors are: d. o.
Mills. Henry B. Laidlaw, and other
prominent New York capitalists. Its
object is to foster all sorts of indus
trial enterprises, all over the Union.
New York Sun of Wednesday said
that the banks of that and other cities
have practically resumed the payment
OF cash on demand. Up to that date
within the past five or six weeks, it i:
estimated that the available money in
the country has been increased fully
1000, 900 by importations of gold
and by the issue OF national banl
notes.
An Elwood, Ind, dispatch OF the
Goth states that the business situation
is growing brighter, and that among
the works now running are McBert'i
mill, $50 hands; Radiator factory, full
capacity; tin-plate mill, full force
behind in orders; bottle works OF Ne
vison & Waiskopf, 200 hands; Mccoy
chimney-glass factory, 500 hands
The plate-glass factory will start Octo
Der l with 500 hands. The Akron
steam forge works is nearing compile
ton and the construction OF the Raul
locomotive works will begin in tn
next 80 days.
CLOUDLETs.
The Henry Snowden Lumber Co. O
Philadelphia has assigned owing $50,
600, with ample assets.
The Port Townsend National bank
OF Port Townsend, has suspended tenn
porarily, with ten times the amour
of assets as liabilities. The director
expect to resume within 80 days.
Mast, Bufford & Burwell, one of tn
largest firms in wagons and carriage