New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-16
BOON ~ THE SCHUYLKILL VALLEY.
NEW INDUSTRIES sPRIN SING Up AND OLD
ONES INCREASING THEIR FACILITIES.

NEW INDUSTRIES sPRIN SING Up AND OLD
ONES INCREASING THEIR FACILITIES.
Reading Penn. Oct. u (SpeciaD. The re-
vlval OF business new industries are springng Up
in the schuylkn Valley. and from Philadelphia TO
Pottsville. Z distance OF over u hundred miles
there is renewed activity in oil lines OF trace Yes
terday morning az O'Clock the fires were lighted for
the first time in the Reading Carw heel Works. The
plant occupies four large buildings. and the work
OF getting tho machinery IN readiness has been 60
Ing for some months. Everything Is operated
by electricity over two hundred carwhcels VIII be
turned out daily. and hundred will be
employed. The president Of the company is r. H.
Hewett. who holds similar office with the Union
Car Company. OF Depew. n. Y. The product Is sent
TO many States and foreign countries
Select Councilman II. l.. Johnson purchased a lot
6cyls5 feet. on which four-story building will be
erected for the Boss Knitting Machine Works. TO
manufacture textile End other machinery. The
firm occupies rented quarters. with limited
number OF employees. but In the new building two
hundred hands will find employment
Alexander e. Co. fur hat manufacturers have
rented another large factory building and will run
BOTH thus doubling their capacity. all due to the
trade revival In the opinion Of this firm. prosper
ity has to stay and they look forward 10
big season.
There are four or Ave large woollen mills in this
section. and they are running full-handed and on
full time. People are investing more money IN
American-made clothing. and these plants are
catching tho benefits Of this trade. iona g.
Leinbach one OF the leading manufacturers. said
to-day: "Our trade IL 500 per larger than a
year ago | can't recolect when business was so
good. It's due 10 returning prosperity"
The hosiery mills OF this section are pushed WIN
orders and are employing more hands than at any
previous time In five years. For the nrst time
they obliged to advertise for employees. and All
the plants OF this city have over one thousand h!e
hundred names on their payr)lls The same can be
said OF the cigar factories and there are no longer
any idle cigar-makcrs. The firms are advertising
alone now employ over one thousand eight hundred
hands
\ year ago farmers received m and 63 cents a
bushe for wheat. Mers are now paying % cents
10 those anxious to sell. while many are holding on
for a higher figure II is estimated by an authority
that the sed price will put an average over
sOo coo into the hands OF the farmers OF each
Of the wheat-raising counties OF this end of the
State. -,
Many New-York houses have their travelling
agents making regular trips through the SchlNhih
Valley which. outside of the city OF Philadelphia,
contains an Industrial and agricultural pcpuat ton
OF over half million. and they unite In saying that
four or FIVE years. There Is no better barometer hv
which to gauge business than the Shareholders IN
the small towns and boroughs. and this iaH they
have been sending in orders with confidence that
Is most assuring nd a strong belief that prosperity
has come with the Dingley Tariff bill. This county
(I}erksl has for several generations been known as
the Gibraltar Of Democracy. and as long PACK AZ
fifteen and twenty years ago gave the party OF
Jefferson and Jackson 800 10 5000 majority In the
last few years the candidates have been well salts
fed with 400 and the majority has fallen as 10" AS
. 800 and 1900