The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-12-01
ENTERPRISES EXPANDING.
Era of Railroad Buildings Is
Now Approaching.
Immense Coal Shed on Lake Superior
Mills Run by Elcctricity--Fire
Losses Decreasing.

production of pig iron was $4,000
tons, now it is 100000 tons, just
double. A year ago eastern freight
shipments from Chicago were ~
600 tons q week, now they are 55,-
600 tons. Production is steadily in
creasing, not to stock up but to
meet orders. Prices are low and
weak in all markets, but an inn
proving tendency is apparent.
The losses of fire during October
were So, ,1s6,7OO, the smallest month
ly fire loss for three years. So far
this year the fire losses are $25, 5,000,-
900 less than same time last year.
1t is a strange sight to see an i'm
mense wire mill run without belt,
steam, shafting or noise, all by elec-
tricity. The wire claiming, galvan-
izing, spinning and barb fencing
machines, overhead locomotives
cranes, hydralic pumps, draft fans,
lathes all are driven by a 600 horse
power dynamo with fifty motors,
ranging from five to forty horse
power each.
Electrical and mechanical engi-
neers here and in Europe favor put
ting another story above the pres
ent elevated roads of New York
with light steel frames, for a rail-
road to run express trains, drawn
by electric locomotives. 1t is said
this plan will work.
Chicago tanners are going to
spend 100000 on a large tract of
California land to raise clock weed
and works to squeeze the acid out
of it to tan leather with, because it
is better than anything else.
Nine people out of 100 in the Uni
ted States own $71 on every 500 of
the wealth. 1t is an evil that the
American people will some day be
called upon to uproot, not by TAX
ing dollar from the people who
have it but by making it possible
for all who earn money to get what
they earn.
Railroad companies are begin
ming to put their hands on full
time. There will probably be
gradual resumption of work. For
the past 13 months the ship-yards,
machine and car repairing shops
only worked five days each week,
while the trainmen worked only
half time.
The biggest coal shed ever built
is now about completed at the head
of Lake Superior. 1t will hold $780,
600 tons of hard and soft coal and
will cost 100000. 1t is of steel,1OO
feet high, $50 feet in diameter. In
genious devices will be used to lift
the coal from the vessels and cars
into the shed. The coal will be 80
feet deep in the top and 20 feet at
the edge of the pile.
Chief Melville, u. s. NJ, says the
"Columbia" and the minneapolis"
stand unrivaled and unapproached
in point of speed by any vessels
afoat.
A new steel bridge to be a half
mile long and costs 100000 is to be
erected at Pittsburgh.
The Russian Government will
soon build two large locomotive
works. The japanese will spend a
few millions on machine shops and
mills. The Turkish Government
is opening up maganese mines. A
large ship yard is to be built in
Italy.
There are over one million miles
of telegraph wires up in the world,
enough to go around it forty times.
Projects are now on foot for the
construction of about one hundred
thousand miles more.
Ten years ago steel rails weighed
Sc pounds to the yard and were 80
feet long. The Pennsylvania Com
pany has ordered that all rails laid
between New York and Pittsburgh
hereafter weigh 100 pounds to the
yard and be go feet long. Other
railroads are doing the same.
Heavy locomotives and high speed
Is the cause.
New York bankers have more
money than they know what to do
with. Money is flowing thither
from hundreds of interior banks.
There was never as much active
mining preparations in Colorado
as now. One blast last week in the