Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-01-05
rNjsrRrAn NOTES.

Fifty thousand employees are at
work in Pennsylvania wooden mills.
Some new mining companies have
recently been organized in Virginia
A variety of woodworks will be es-
tabllshed at Gnrley, Ala, by g. b.
Holmes.
Brewton, Ala, has a very live
movement on foot to get up canning
factory.
The Jefferson Steel Works of Biz.
mingham, Ala, are making fifty tons
OF steel per day.
The Bibbville fire brick company Of
Bibbyille, Ala, is making extensive
Improvements.
The bicycle was inventend by Ger
man baron sixty years ago, and was
first called tresina.
The Watts Steel & Iron company of
Middlesborongh, KY, will put in a
large basic steel plant.
The capital stock invested in the
electrical industries in the United
States is 1929, 10000
Of the twenty six furnaces in the
birmingham district, twenty are be-
ing operated ON full time.
English cottage aud ingram carpets
will be manufactured at the Marlett
cotton factory, Carrollton, Ky.
1t is reported that an excellent quail
lty of gas has been found in well
three miles north of Moulton, Ala
The art of stereotyping Vas invented
by a Frenchman, Didot, in 1898, and
was first brought TO America in 1873.
A soap factory has been established
at Galveston, Tex, that turns cut
$4,000 pounds of soap per month.
A syndicate OF Belgian capitalists
has subscribed 81 900, 900 cash capital
to develop coal lands in Kentucky
The Galveston Construction com
pany, at Galveston, Tex, has been
incorporated with capital of $780,
600.
The Nichola lumber company will
operate at Nichola, Ala. The capita
stock, $50 900, has ali been paid into
the treasury.
Dean Il King are erecting large cir
cular saw mills at Bibbville, Ala.
The capacity of the mills will be 3O.-
600 feet daily.
The new 100000 cotton mill al
Huntsville, Ala, has started up. Its
equipment contains $4,000 spindles
and $50 looms.
The canning industry in the south
ern states has been very prosperous.
The number of cans packed the last
season amounted to $4,000, 900.
Birmingham, Ala, will have a
chamber of commerce building.
Twenty thousand dollars have alread
been subscribed towards paying for il.
The Richmond locomotive machine
works, Richmond, Va, have con-
tract to build twenty-five locomotives
for the Baltimore Il Ohio railroad.
The only Bessemer steel plant south
of the Ohio river, has been put into
operation at Ashland, KY, and has
run day and night since its starting.
There is at present considerable &C.
tivity in the building of new cars.
The United States Car Works at An
niston, Ala. are bidding on five con-
tracts which aggregate 5000 cars
A North Dakota farmer two years
ago invested 5000 in sheep. lie has
since sold 500 worth of wool, $500
worth of sheep, and has 400 sheep
left for which he has been offered
fancy price.
The government makes no charge
for coming. The only mint charges
are for melting, parting. refining,
etc., and for alloys. A certain scale
of charges is fixed according to the
work to be done.
A new idea in distress signals for
ships at sea, or off a dangerous ceast,
is a sheet iron kite carrying. incandes-
cent lamps. The current cable is The
kite string, and so long as the ships
dynamo will work, the flying signal
Will serve to attract attention and
help.
Scneming Mexico.