The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-31
IllE BOON OF 1871.
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Philadelphia letter IN Columbus O.,
plspa.ch: The prospects an, that spring
will develop the Creates, trtdn this couR.
try hiss ever seen. The gold mines arr
thriving, the manufacturing plants urr
getting ready for . blk yrlF. MCchanI.
cal appliances arc being CONTACTED for
Tor spring delivery. The masses viii
probably earn Is per cSni more In 1897
than Ia 1895 Estimating their earnings
at $4,000 Nl In good times they will be
over $S.UON. 90, 900 thiS year, This means
croWdlng and busiling activity all over
the country, better Wages, fewer debts,
more luxutic5 more enjoyment, less
heart suffering. E1
The Nicaragua canal Schenie Is going
TO pass Congress TITS year. Thy EoyCrn-
ment does not appropriate money but
simply aErCsS to pay Interest on the
bonds sold In case the earnings OF the
canal are not enough,
Our great electric companies arr es.
tnblIShinE agencies In japan. China,
Mexico and several South American
countries, Ht.
An eight horse power engine has Just
BEEN completed In Chicago 10 be used in
balloons. 1t weighs "9's pounds
Our naval engineers expect 10 adopt
LIQUID fuel on our wacShipS1"
The Erandest ships and blrFAS In the
world will be found OF the. sneat lakes.
The ships WILL not be - bis .a3 the ocean
liners. but they Will be mora powerful
and inner specimens OF naval'rngtnccrs
skill EEg
Last week four car loads OF Iron tcle-
graph poles were shipped TO Mexico It
will take about FOXY car lUads 10 fill the
order. .rt
Immense quantities OF cotton are now
being shIppEd from san Franclsco to
China and japan. tsCre 90 be worked up
into cloth. This demand Is Increasing
very rapidly. rsu
In view OF the probability OF strikes
all over the country rs soon us times get
permanently better. Congress IL SuIng to
pass law arranging for the arbItrat ion
OF Disputes between capital and labor
Thcre are Sood signs fuT It's passage It
will have TO be just 10 labor 70 amount 10
anyEhinS
The Eric canal IS ASrand thing Tor the
people. There should be more canals
last year the shipments OF -four and
wheat were double those OF the previous
year.
The Philadelphia Locomotive Works
have Just received orders from Japan for
thirteen additional locomotives. six pas
senGcr and seven freight The Rogers
works nj Paterson, y. Y, are az work on
eighteen more OF ~ feet Gauge. The
Chinese have just ordered eight Phila-
denh!a locomotives.
They say the iron trade Is the baroE1c-
ter % business. X 80. business will soon
begin 10 boom. Within ten days enOr-
nous sales OF material have been made,
including 5000 tons bIlletS. OvC= lG0. 600
tons steel rails, enormous quantities OF
pig Iron and plate iron and structural
steel. For time years every interest
that useS steel has been econo:nlzing, the
railroads worse than all. Engine build
. ing has been rcduced to 4 low eho. Big
machinery plants nave been running
low, -
Il now looks as X there would be @
grand rush fo- \ while Il would be
guess work to say how long. Railroads
have not been making money for years.
but X they had there would now be such
a rush for work as has not been seen for
ten years. .
Cncle Sam Is doing 1 land oftlcc export
business. Fo= eleven months he has
sold to foreigners $685.. CO. 900 more than
he bought from them.
Our government Is resolved 20 exclude
all illiterate foreigners. Amther law
VIII be passed this winter TO tina: effect.
The past year has been che creates;
year in English ship building. The yards
have been crowded and still are. Ships,
big and little are wanted faster than
they can be built People are travelling
Z to all quarters OF the globe. $500
~ Ia -, u.Sn =
n all countries OF the world except the
United States, Germany and aSwitzer-
lend. Seventeen bills have been intro
Guecd In Congress looking 10 the estah-
liShrent OF such 4 system There ara
100000 people OF this country working
for wages and II there were postal banks
most Of them would deposit pars Of their
earnings
The Mollie Gibson. the biggest silver
mine IL the world IS going 10 resume
A new Silve- concentrating process has
been found by which silver can be pro-
duced az a much lower price than at
present and q good many silver mines
are preparing 10 start up The gold out
put OF Colorado for 1886 was SIS, 500. 40.
The silver production was $lS,ej0, 600:
lead s3.sis, 49,
Shafts which drive ships and beats are
now being MADE hollow. An Ohio river
boat was furnished last week With q pair
y te+: long. with n Finch hole through
the center. These shafts are 3, 500 pounds
lighter and three and one-halt times
StNESer than the shafts ordinarily
: PLACID in such a vessel. An river and
lake steamers will soon be built this way
Twenty car loads OF machinery 20
South Africa In one shipment IS big lot
hu; that IS the amount OF machinery that
left Hamilton, Ohio. last week Tor the
gold mines OF South Africa sz
The New York banks have larger re-
serrc fund than they have had for two
years The financial condition OF the
banks Is better than for n long time hut
borrowers have 20 do with less and give
7 better security.
English railway managers are now
adopting American railway car&
The Use OF Tnolass4s as q fuel Is 10 be
introduced IN the shelters OF Colorado.
Some OF the dye factories of Germany
employ 5000 ren and pay IS pr cent
divtcnds- Zach one IS managed by
chemists who are always experimenting.
Nine tenths OF all dyes made In the
world are made there.
The gold output OK the Black Hills IN
1896 vas si2,G00.010.
Business prospects have wonderfully
improved in a week. Proprie.ors OF ships
are increasing purchases Raw material
OF all kinds is being bought More men
are being put on. Electrical appliances
ere being ordered for equipments In large