The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-09-05
NEWS OF OUR INDUSTRIES.
Happenings OF Interest to tho Staple
Trades and Particularly to tho Trade
In Iron. Steel and Anthracite Coal.

from England In July.
Heavy steel rails are g 12s Cd at the
works In England.
The rate per ton per mile was .9S1c
against .95lc. in 1893. .y52c In 1892 and
.S57c. in 1891. -.
The Lehigh Valley Coal company has
forty-six collieries on its property with
| a daily capacity of 1000 tons.
The product of manufactured meats
I'm this country Is 30. 900, 900 weekly and
the requirement is i5.O00,000 ponds.
The Colorado Fuel company increased
its tonnage In July: Coal. 30 per cent;
coke. 40 per cent, and pig iron. 90 per
cent.
Pig iron production in Germany dur
ing seven months ending July 81 was
3.707 1867 tons. as compared with SIPS,
965 tons In 1894.
Gross earnings of 2S1 railroads for the
six months ending June 30 were 1852
443, SCI. as compared with Si4S. lO3,23S In
1894. an increase of S14, 1928
Huntingdon and Broad Top coal ton
mage for the week ended Aug. 81. 1895:
Total for week, F,S7: decrease, 1884
Year to date, 1.4S5. .7Ol; increase. 195,Sl5.
New Oreleans is to have a new COM
plete system of sewerage, which Is to
cost about $S.OOO.OOO. 1t will take at
least four or five years to complete the
work.
According to the annual report of the
mine inspector of Ohio for 1894, nearly
one-third of the coal produced In that
state during the year was mined by
machinery.
In July there were in this country
thirty-nine collisions. fifty-two derail-
ments and three other railroad acci-
dents. in which twenty-five persons
were killed and seventy-siX injured.
The most rapid growth in the exports
Of Japan is In floor mattings, which
now go to the United States and Eu-
rope In lots of 100000 bales at q time.
The second increase Is In cotton rugs.
A contract has been awarded to the
Meneely Bell company, of Troy, for
placing a peal of bells aggregating o.
700 pounds in the tower of the new city
hall and court house Of Minneapolis,
MINI.
A San Francisco stage carpenter.
Paul Breienstein by name, has invented
a boat. the only motive power Of which
is the waves. The higher the waves tn.
greater the speed of the craft Is said
to be.
1t is estimated that 30 per cent. Of
the iron manufactured by Tennessee is
sold outside of the southern states. 1t
Is said to be the favorite iron with pipe.
north.
The coal shipments over the Reading
railroad last week We're 2S5,43l tons,
an increase of 32.717 tons over the same
week last year. For the fiscal year to
date the shipments are 1867 .905 tons, an
increase of S22.274 tons over the pre-
ceding year.
The advance in steel billets to 500. so
renders 1t practically certain that an
other advance will be made In steel
rails, which are now selling at $24.
When the present movement started in
March billets were selling at $l4.7
against $22 for steel rails.
Coke Bros. & Co. have issued orders
to put their Tomhicken colliery in
readiness to start up by Sept. Is. This
colliery has been idle for eighteen
months and the people in that vicinity
hail the announcement with joy. WILL
lam Jones has been appointed to su-
perintend the colliery.
A dispatch from New York yester-
day says: "A fair business is reported
in the anthracite trade on about 50 f.
o. b. basis of stove. The views of pro-
ducers are very firm, and any further
Increase In business Is expected to be
met with higher prices. There is a
clearly defined feeling that there will
be no permanent Improvement until
the Reading reorganization plan is an
nOunced."
The Lehigh Valley railroad Is plan
ming new route for its line, which will
make unnecessary the use of twenty
six miles of New York Central track
between Batavia and Tonawanda. To
accomplish this the Lehigh Valley pro-
poses to extend the Depew and Tona-
wanda railroad. which 1t owns, from
TNa, 70 1n t,tn 49,
miles. This new route will enable the
Lehigh Valley to use its own lines to
Suspension Bridge, with the excep-
tion of that part of the New York Cen
trail between Tonawanda and Snspen-
sion Bridge. All business between Sus-
pension Bridge and Buffalo can he
handled by the I.ehigh under this new
arrangement without the delay hitherto
attendant on business over the New
York Central tracks.
Wilkes-Barre Record: The Red Ash
Coal company's two collieries on the
mountain back of Georgetown, which
combined employ nearly 500 men and
boys. shut down Tuesday and will re-
main so till further notice. These col
lieries have been in operation about
twelve years and never have suspended
for any length Of time. The suspen-
sion Is expected to cover the whole of
September and possibly longer.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says that
the reports that plan has been formu.
lated for settling the anthracite coal
differences are pronounced to be abso-
lutely without foundation. The idea
cntert8ned In New York. Is that Presi-
dent Roberts. of the Pennsylvania, has
proposed to ]. p. Morgan that new
allotment of percentages be made and a
commissioner appointed to see them
carried out. money pool being estab.
lished into which roads shipping less
than their quotas shall be paid. A CEN
tral selling agency Is another part OF
the plan. Mr.. Roberts Is out Of the city
and has been for some time, but no
plan of this kind In known here. 1t has
not been proposed to the large COM
panies in this city nor to at least some
of those In New York. The idea Is be-
lieved to have originated in the minds
of Wall street Spectators. as some fea-
lures of the plan are known to be con.
trary to the views of Mr.. Roberts has
always entertained about the anthra.
cite trade. 1t is possible. however, that
some effort will be made this fall to ad-
just the differences I'm the trade
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