Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-09-11
INDUSTRIAL ARENA.

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Exports to foreign countries are in
creasing at all southern ports.
Glasgow, Scotland, streets are being
paved with American asphalt
Uncle Sans new torpedo boats will
go thirty-five miles an hour.
The Danish army is to hereafter be
supplied with American meat.
The new elevator at Buffalo will
hold 100000 bushels of grain.
Another immense deposit of coal has
been discovered in Colombia, S. A.
The st. Lawrence river is to be deep
ened to fourteen feet at an immense
cost. e'et~
Apples are scarce because the Euro
pean markets gobbled the bulk of our
| crop.
The Japanese have contracted at
Pittsburg for the erection of tin plate
mills.
A sugar beet company with capital
of $1,O0O,0O0 tons has started in Wis
consin.
| Two carloads of horses recently were
shipped from the Cumberland Valley,
Pa, to London.
| In 1891 the production of aluminium
was 16S,O75 pounds. Last year it was
| 100000 pounds.
Over 100000 was spent last year in
Australia in trapping, packing and
shipping frozen rabbits.
| Several idle blast furnaces in the
Mahoning and Shenango valleys north
of Pittsburg have started up.
| Within two months American cigar
| ette-makers have exported 100 900 900
cigarettes to India, China and Japan.
| Another submarine boat has been
launched at Oshkosh, Wis, five feet
long and seven and one-half feet deep
| California proposes two and one
half cents tax on all property with
which to build good roads all over the
State.
| The Italian government has purchas-
ed $4,000 hogshead of fine dark tobacco
from concern in Tennessee, price
100000.
| A government scheme is on foot to
| greatly increase our exports of agricul-
tural products, especially dairy pro-
duction, cheese and butter.
There is a probability of boom in
steel railway building in all the cities
of Europe. The people there are get
ting buster and want to ride more.
1t costs from thirty-fve to fifty-fve
cents ton to handle the coal at most
Of our cities. By system of ma
chinery the cost is to be reduced to
three cents.
Instead Of having the great bulk of
our fruit put UP in tin cans, they are
going to be made of paper They are
made out of wood pulp and dry in
twenty-four hours.
A boat sixty-seven feet long, five
and one-half feet draft is being built
that Is to go forty miles an hour. The
ealoon Is thirteen feet long, four and
o.Ie-half feet wide; fuel, gasoline.
A PARTY of st. Louis commercial tr-v-
elers to save hotel bills have chartel I'd
a railway car fitted up as a hotel and
salesroom for seventy days trip. For
ty stops at towns will be made and
merchants will come to the car to buy.
This Is a new wrinkle.
In Egypt all the way out to the pyra-
mids the road is good ma.adam 1t
is sprinkled not too often, is never
muddy. and is kept fairly clean, though
it is infested by hordes of brown ba-
bies chewing sugar cane, by camels,
polo ponies, donkeys, caravans, oxen
and buffaloes.
A California company has taken to
drying potatoes before shipping them.
By this process four-fifths of the
weight can be dried out of them. They
are watered up and cooked and are all
right again. A company is now dry
ing 100000 pounds of potatoes into
100000 pounds.
Fifteen turbine wheels of 5000 horse
power each are to be put up at Masse-
ma, N. Y, where the St. Lawrence
falls fifty-six feet in seven miles. a
capital of 100000 is secured, a ca
nal connecting the two makes aysil-
able a large power. The proposal is
to cut this canal three and one-hdlf
miles long, 220 feet broad and tweGty-
six feet deep. With working head
of forty feet it could send enough wa
ter INTO the Grass river-to develop 150-
600 horse power. The canal to be built
Will furnish 100, 900 horse power. and
of that $1,000 is to be developed by the
machinery now being contracted fer.
The turbines and generators will be
!. placed on horizontal shafts, the unit
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