The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-01-29


tractors OF Forty Fort. have taken the
contract for erecting a breaker OF i'm
mense proportions for the Summit
Branch Railroad company at Williams
town. Dauphin county It's dimensions
are 800 feet by $50 feet and it will con-
tain one and one-half million feet OF
lumber, thirty-eight screens. forty jigs.
twenty-five sets of rolls and all the
latest improvements in breaker build
| ing. land will be one of the best equipped
In the state. Work will commence Feb.
l and 1t Ii to be completed in eight
months. Mr.. Lamoreoux was foreman
for number Of years for the late A.
b. Tyrrell of Kingston and Is famous
for building some of the largest break
ers In Wyoming Valley.
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| The report Of the operations OF the
Cambria Iron company for 1895, at
Johnstown, shows that six per cent.
was earned on the old capital of $5,0OO.-
900. When 1t is considered that during
most of the year the company carried
a floating debt equal to the increased
capital issued in the fall. the net re-
suit Is equal to six per cent. earned on
all the capital, old and new. The COM
pany has no floating debt, pays its
bills every thirty days and has put a
large amount of cash into improve
ments that was put into operating ex-
penses instead of the construction ac-
count. The company has paid divi-
dends regularly every year since the
war.
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The electric motor has invaded the
rolling mills. and in one 20 k. W. motor
Is connected directly to the rolls. This
machine has been built to reverse every
10 seconds. At the Carnegie Steel
works, at Homestead, Pa, motors oper-
ate small buggies, which carry the hot
billets from the heating furnace to the
rolls. The motors are placed on each
buggy. one operating the buggy itself.
the other driving rolls on the buggy, to
place the billets on the transfer table
carrying them to the large shaping rolls.
This buggy Is operated entirely from a
distance, current being led to the mo-
tors by means Of swinging cables.
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A curious form Of life Insurance Is
springing up in French manufacturing
| towns under the name of La Fourmi
(the anti. The peculiarly Is that the
| longer q man lives the less he becomes
entitled to. The payment of 81 a month
assures the. payment of $1,000 to the
heirs Of a man dying before the age Of
80, the payment diminishing propor-
tionately to $50 at 81. The idea seems
to be that If a man dies young his chill
dren are likely to be in want. but that
han ha 10 na, ,xill h., oh IN anp
their own living.
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Huntington and Broad Top reports
coal tonnage for the past week amount
| ing to 1929 tons, compared with 81, 1Gs
tons for the corresponding week of
1895. The total tonnage for year to
date amounts to 1877. 1884 tons compared
| with III ,565 tons for the corresponding
period of 1895, an increase Of 1913 tons.
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The United State furnished In 1890 2S
per cent. or nearly one-third. of the
total amount Of gold produced by the
world. Its leading competitors are Aus
tralia and Russia. the former in the
same year producing about $4,000, 900
and the latter producing about s2l ,OOO,
000.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
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Among projected conveniences at
Primrose colliery, near Shamokin, is
telephone line within the mines. 1t
will connect the first slope and the Of
fees and perhaps line to town, so that
the foreman in the bowels of the earth
may phone the executive offices in
Wilkes Barre or Hazleton.
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The attorney general Of Ohio has de-
cided that electric cars in that state,
carrying passengers, express and mails,
ARE under the Jurisdiction of the rail-
road commissioner and subject to the
same regulations that govern steam
railroads"
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The Reading railroad reports that its
coal shipment (estimatedD for last
week, ending January 20, was 500, 900
tons, OF which $4,000 tons were sent to
Port Richmond and 100000 tons were
sent to New York waters.
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After an idleness of two months, the
Reynolds and Meyer washeTy. in Plym-
outh, has resumed operations.
RAIL ROAD NOTES.