The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-13
ENERA[. NEWS
Of INDUSTRIES

W huOSS " thSS
The exports of American manufac'
lures during May reached $l5, 1919, 4O2,
and constituted 25. .72 per cent. Of our
total exports The exports for eleven
months ending with May have been
$l6S. 5O6 57l. or 207l per cent. OF the
total exports Of the period. The ex-
ports for the corresponding eleven
months ending in May, 1898, were only
$l42 $50. 639. or Is n per cent. OF tho
Total exports. The exports for the en-
tire twelve months OF the fiscal year
will reach about SlSs 600 O0O which
will be larger by $l3 600. 600 than the
highest previous year, and larger by
much greater amount than any other
year of American exports of manufac-
lures. The percentage Of manufac-
lures to other exports will also be lar
ger than in any other year, unless pos
siply in 1877, when the total exports
were only S632, $50, S54. against prob
able total Tor the present year OF $780,
600 600. Shipments Of cotton cloths
advanced from IS, 142 1874 in eleven
months of 1893 to $40, 567, AGA in eleven
months for 1891; scientific and electri.
cnl apparatus, from Sizes. 29S to 81, =
4l2 CPS: household furniture, from 49,.
SlS 26l to $30G4, 1913, and books and
printed matter. from 81, $50 729 to 81. q.
Alb, 2G6. The total loss on dutiable nr
ticles for eleven months is from $3S9. {.
65t OIL to $3.50. $50, TAB, while on ar
tices free OF duty it is only from S407. &.
1907 to $Si9 301, 35l.
The appearance of 4 galaxy Of Read
ing officials at Tresckow Tuesday is
reported to have aroused a great deal
Of excitement in that quiet neighbor =
hood. The party went over the Jersey
Central road from Silver Brook and
their errand to the place above named
is puzzling many. inasmuch as they
hal never any business in that neigh.
borhood to claim their attention. But
from what can be learned it is posi- BILE
that the Reading intends extending a
branch TO Beaver Meadow and Van
Wickls's Coleraiue collieries The
party embraced all the leading officials
of the Reading and the private car
Transit" was their mode Of convey
ance. ]. H Warg, the Jersey Central
dispatcher. pilOted the party from Sill
Yer Brook to Trssckow.
Work on the new slope of the West
Side Coal company, according to the
Carhondale Leader, will be renewed in
few days. The sinking Of the slope
has been suspended for soma time for
want Of hoisting engine. and an en-
gine has now been put in place and op
erations began again yesterday. The
slope has already been sunk to the
depth of 10 feet. and coal was reached
at this point. The rock and dirt has
been deposited along the interior Of the
slope, aud as soon as this can be re.
moved with the rscently placed engine,
the active mining Of coal will begin
Three shifts will be put on and the
work will be pushed rapidly forward.
1t 10 estimated that there is at least
100. 900 tons OF coal in the tract topped
by this new opening, and employment
will be given TO number Of men and
boys as soon US the place is put in op-
Grafton.
Concerning tie return Of Arch F.
Law, OF this city. from brief pleasure
trip to Liverpool, the Pittston Gazette
notes the fact that while in Liverpool
Mr.. Law had an interview with James
Balm, chief engineer of the Cuuard line,
in regard to his fathers patent elec.
trollic cartridge. and received an order
to ship by the Campania, which sails
next Saturday, some samples of the
improved cartridge to be tried on the
Lucanis and Campania, as they have
been tried in other places with great
success
One Of the unpleasant possibilities Of
the use Of culm as railway ballast is
thus illustrated in a Hazleton paper
which notes that portion of the fiji
ing under the L,high Valley railroad
east OF Audenriei was recently discov-
cred to be on fire. Road Foreman Car
lin and Outside superintendent Hayes,
Of the Yorktown colliery, blended
forces and began at once shovellinI
the burning culm and ashes from be-
meath the track The fire had already
burned to depth of twenty feet and
extended for distance of fifty feel
along the roadbed. Elgine TO- of De.
lano, with a good supply of water, was
dispatched to the scene aud the greater
portion OF the burning culm having
been shoveled out, water to the thou
sands OF gallons was poured in the
oDenin0 nntil NOT a shark nf fire conI6
be seen. The fire originated from u
number Of ties that were used as crib
bing being ignitei by sparks from
passing locomotives. Had the fire re.
msined undiscovered for week or a
few days it would doubtless have madt
its way down to the crop of the vein fol
the filling where the incipient sparks
multiplied extended into the mines and
was used to block large breach.
While the travelling salesmen have
committee at Washington trying 10 In
ducs congress to pass a law 10 permi
the railroads to issue interchangeable
mileage tickets, a half dozen roads il
Indianna and Ohio which have hat
such tickets on sale for several year.
have gotten tired of it and are aban-
doning the practice. The only line alb
solutely sure of its revenue, it is de-
clnred, is the one selling the ticket
The roads are inclined to be incredu-
lous concerning the promise of tht
commercial men that il allowed the tic
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