The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-27

public will be second to none In the
state. Its surveyors are manipulating
their instruments and taking notes in
the neighborhood of Big Hickory lake,
in Wayne county. This is fine sheet
of water, in region that is matohless
for rustic beauty and fine landscape
scenery, and around are O cluster OF
lakes that cannot be duplicated in any
neighboring county. 1. is the design
of the company to make this a picnic
ground where societies or Sunday
schools can spend quiet day, inhaling
the pure air. viewing the country for
miles around and boating on the clear
waters where fishes abound.
The car repairing department. Of the
Pennsylvania railroad shops at Sun
bury has been put on thirteen hours q
day. Over 100 carpenters are employed
and the work Of refitting freight cars
for immediate and prospective use is
being pushed with much vigor Thirty
locomotives which were stored on
tracks outside the shops, are being
brought in and overhaulsd The busi-
ness of the company at that point has
trebled within the past two weeks and
is increasing daily. Long trains Of
lumber, coal, coke, machinery, grain
and merchandise are passing continu-
ally to the south, east and west. Nor
does this state Of things exist on the
Pennsylvania railroad alone. The
Reading. too. is doing an enormous
business.
MINOR INDUSTRIAL NOTES:
The net profits of the Bank Of England
for the last half year were 1851, 429. 175 Sd.
The Cramp Ship Building company paid
an extra dividend Of 10 per cent. on Sept.
10. The company has paid per cent. per
annum and 62 per cent. in extra dividends
during the past four yerrs.
The average yield of onions this year,
the American Agriculturist says, was 172
bushels to the acre, as compared with 243
bushels in 1898. The total crop is estima-
ted at 1,6S4,OO0 bushels, against 1926 900
bushels last year.
The eight carloads Of bituminous coal
which arrived in Hazleton some weeks
ago for use on the Lehigh Valley engines
have been consumed, and information from
reliable source says that no more will be
used.
The Readings coal tonnage for the week
ended September l5 aggregated 22O, SIS. 10
tons, against 255, 604.03 tons last year, q
decrease Of 34,03c,13 tons. The tonnage
for the year to that date aggregates 9, 1865, =
l5l.lG tons compared with 10, 055, 232 IL
tons in 1898, a decrease of s9O,0sO. 10 tons.
The Financial Chronicle, in its issue of
Sept. 10, shows the earnings of 1872 roads
for August TO have been $42, 799, 26i, an in
crease over August, 1893. OF $337, 24S Earn
lngs for the first seven months of this year,
S9l, 62S 32S, a decrease as compared with
the corresponding seven months of 1898 of
A1, ,940 157.
Trainmaster Barlow of the Wyoming
division of the Lehigh Valley, says he is
pestered with applicants for positions as
brakemen. Almost every hour in the day
his Office is filled with idle men looking for
work. Mr.. Barlow has posted notices all
about the station to the effect that no
brakemen are wanted.
What is known as the old tunnel work
ings in Jeanesville, which have been
abandoned for many years. were on Tues
day visited by an engineering corps and a
survey made. The intention is to strip
the surface from the old workings in order
to remove the coal which cannot be gotten
ont in any other way, and Of which an
enormous quantity still remains. At some
places the coal does not lie at very great
depth and the cost will be small.