The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-11-09
company and the Garth Lumber COM
pany have each put on 100 new men.
WES.rERN ENTERPRISES.

company ana tne 6drtn LumOer COlIl-
pany have each put on 100 new men.
WESTERN ENTERPRISES.
Detroit. Mich. Nov. S.-From the
manufacturing concerns on the Lake
Michigan shore of the state, from the
mines in the Upper Peninsula, and from
the mills and factories all through the
eastern and central portion Of the
state. come the same reports, Of in
creased work from the laborers and a
demand for help. The Standard Box
company and the Alaska Refrigerator
company. Of Muskegon. have published
their intentions of starting up Monday
in full force after idleness of several
months The payroll of each concern
Is over 100000 year. The Round Oak
Stove works started yesterday, and the
Dowagiac Manufacturing company, In
the same city, will start tomorrow.
Banks which withdrew their funds from
Detroit are sending them back In lots
Of $4,000 The force in the mines at
Iron Mountain will be doubled Monday,
and largely increased a the Chaplin and
Pewabic. Berkey & Gray, and Nelson.
Matter & Co. furniture manufacturers
at Grand Rapids. will take on fifty new
men each Monday, and the Grand Rap
ids Brush company has opened after a
long shutdown. No less than half
dozen wagon and wheel works will open
in Kalamazoo, employing hundreds OF
hands. Simon Brothers, with orders
for 25O,0OO feet of lumber received the
last three days. have advertised for
men, and will open their mills as soon
as possible. The Benton Harbor and
Eastern railroad will be built at once,
and a part Of 1t be running in ninety
days. The reports from every small
manufacturing sown are Of the same
nature.
Antwerp, ~ Y. Nov. S.--The st. Law
renee Marble company. Of Gouverneur.
which has been shut down over year.
has decided to resume operations at
once, with full force Of 100 men. 1t
is due to McKinley's election.
Cleveland. Nov. S.-Frank Rockefeller
has gone to the Lake Superior mining
district to arrange for an immediate
resumption of work in all departments
Of his extensive mining interests there.
Among the iron mines which, beginning
within a few days, will be operated full
force and full time, are the Franklin
Bessemer No. l, Bessemer No. and
the Victoria on the Mesaba range; the
Zenith on the Vermillion range, and
the Atlantic and Pence on the Gogebic
range. They employ 1900 men. 1t Is also
expected that within the next few days
orders will be given for resumption
of work at all the mines controlled
by John D. Rockefeller and which give
employment to even a greater number
of men than those owned by his broth
er, making altogether 5000 men who
will be put to work.
The Cleveland. Lorain and Wheeling
Railway has ordered that its shops at
LOrain, Ohio on which operations had
been suspended, be completed at once.
In this city the commercial travellers
of nearly all the big jobbing houses
will be sent out on the road Monday.
The Lamson 4 Sessions company.
nuts and bolts, which has been work.
ing on half time, next week will work
full time.
The Otis Steel works will at once
start all its departments.
The Wellman-Seaver Engineering
company will start at once on contracts
calling for $4,000 worth of work. Sew
eral new business blocks will at once
be begun.
Amesbury, Mass. Nov. S.-The
Briggs Carriage and Cab company, one
of the largest concerns Of the kind in
New England, is arranging to start up
its works Immediately, feeling that
business prospects have improved as
result of McKinley's election. Work.
men have been put at work enlarging
the plant.
Findiay, Ohio, Nov. S.-lThe Dalzell,
Gilmore 4 Creighton Glass Works
Globe Window Glass Works, Tindlay
Clay Pottery Works. Bell Brothers
Pottery and the Findlay Table factory
have started up on full time and with
an increased number Of hands to fill or
derS which were received contingent
upon McKinley's election.
Dayton, Ohio, Nov. S.-Intervews
with manufacturers show that nearly
factories with a full force on full time
within ten days.
Shelby, Ohio. Nov. s.-The Shelby
Steel Tube works, which employed
only 800 men all summer, have thired
100 more since election. The Shelby
Cycle works Is increasing its force.
Cleveland, Nov. S.--The announce
ment is made that orders have been
placed by the railroads of this country
since the election for $4,000 new traffic
cars and 200 locomotives.
Denver. Col. Nov. S.--The Colorado
Fuel and Iron company will start its
big plant at Pueblo. Monday, with 1000
men. Contracts for the construction of
the Colorado Springs. Pixies Peak and
Cripple Greek railway, twenty-five
miles. were signed yesterday.
Birmingham, Ala. Nov. S.-Besides
the Birmingham rolling mill, which has
resumed operations with LOO employees
and the Gale CITY rolling mill. which
will put on SOC men to work on Monday.
arrangements have been made 70 start
the Bessemer rolling MILL which has
been idle for long time. The Howard
Harrison Iron Pipe works at Bessemer.
the largest in the SOUTH have put a
full force of men at work and the Ala
bama pipe works at the same place
have received orders sufficient to put
on full force for some time. Iron has
advanced one dollar a ton over the panic
prices of last summer. and Is within
fifty cents of the point where the miners
who are paid on that basis will get an
advance of 2la cents a ton.
Terre Haute, Ind. Nov. S.-The two
rolling mills here. beginning tomorrow
will give employment to 400 more men
than have been employed in the past
six months.
The Standard Wheel company which
has the larger share Of the output of
the wheel trust. yesterday bought $780,
900 worth of malleable iron which is
three times as much as used during
the past year and more is to be bought
Malone, n. Y. Nov. Son Monday
next. it is reported that Lawrence
Webster & Co.. whose looms have been
operated at less than their full capaci-
ty for considerable. time will begin
working at full force to fill large orders
previously received contingent on Nc
Kinley's election. A single order so
conditioned comprises 5000 pairs of
pants. The Chautauqua Ore and Iron
company has resumed work in the
mines at Lyon Mountain, which have
been closed long time.
Harrisburg, Pa, Nov. S.-Tomorrow
morning the Chesapeake Nail works will
resume operations after a suspension
of several months. Over three hun
dred men will be given employment.
The Central Iron wt1xs will also 20 on
full turn and time with plenty of or
ders ahead. Other industrial plants of
the city are feeling the effects of better