The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-14
SIGNS OF PROSPERITY.


B-a5s-reet's.
TIE Elliott car works. 1t Gadsisn- Afs-.
have resumed operations
The Somerset potfars' works. al Fan Rtv-
er Mas have started up on full time.
Several cotton mills Il and about Low
eli. Mass, have resumed within the week.
Operations have been resumed by th4
Read Carpet Company, or bridgeport.
Conn.
work has been resumed IN the Brstson tin
plate nil and Union rolling mills. of
Cleveland. o.
The Androscoggin mills. Of Lewiston.
Ne. which have been shut down for a
week and q half. have resumed.
The Girard mill Of the Union Iron and
Steel Company at Youngstown. o., has
started up after a long shutdown
Japan IL reported 70 be n the American
market with contracts for is9 90 tons Of
track materials and thirty locomotives.
According TO the Chaftanooga Trades
man, all reports from Southern msnafae-
turers and business men continue sncou--
aging
The HslI=boro. n. H, wooden mills have
30 hands and have been on short time all
summer.
On Monday the plant OF the Washington
Steel ami Tin Plate Company. az WASH
ington, Pa, started up al double It's former
capacity.
cage. Rock Island & Pacific Ralirosa Com
pany mas put on thirty additional clerks in
It's auditing office In Chicago.
Ship charges are still on the increase at
San Francisco. and rs Sd from that port 20
Europe has been reached. Three vessels
have been engaged a. this rate.
All the Columbus. Hooking Valley & To-
ledo railroad shoas are working on ten
hcgr schedule. Prior to Wednesday the
shops were running on half time.
Orders have been issued 10 the Juniata
locono,ivs shops Of The Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company, az Altoona. Pa, to work on
ten-hour schedule until further notice.
The Illinois Steel Company has signed
the Au1algamated scale. and the big mills
at Milwaukee, Chicago and Joliet will
start up after nearly two months OF Idle
ness.
Notice has been posted In the National
tube works at McKaesl,ort. Pa, announc-
ing an Increase OF wages after August 5e
practically restoring the reduction Of 10 per
cent. made March last.
The employees OF the Lawrence. Mass.
hosiery mill have been notified that tho
plant viii be started August 30. At this
time the mill has been shut down about
four weeks. The mill employs about 2.ooo
people.
Leaf tobacco in Kentucky has advanced
s. per 100 pounds. At sale held In Louis
vile on Wednesday the tobacco offered
brought the highest prices received in any
price received In four years.
The Haskell g. Barker Car Company's
works. al Michigan City, Ind. posted no
tice on Wednesday that sufficient orders
had been received 10 run the plant twelve
hours daily for period OF two years Fiji
teen hundred men viii be employed.
Owing to the great increase in traffic all
the railroad shops In Birmingham. Ala,
and It's vicinity have been ordered 10 work
ten hours daily. Inquiry for pig iron, es-
pecially for export. Is 50 great that TWO
more furnaces are about to be put in blast,
making sixteen in operation.
Some surprise has been occasioned In the
silk trade by the announcement that
leading Swiss silk manufacturing concern
had decided 70 transfer its plant to this
country in the near future because of the
rates Of duty on silk fabrics provided for
by the Dingley tariff law.
After a shutdown Of more than month
the four large mills of the Fall RIVER.
about 100 hands. have started up on fun
time. The American Printing Company,
also of FAN River, which has been run
ming five days week. is expected TO re-
sumo work on full time next week.
What might properly be taken az good
indication OF increased business is afforded
by the record of sales of stamps and pos
tai cards at the postoffice in New York
city. A comparison OF the sales at The, gen.
eral postoffice for the first three weeks of
the present month shows an. Increase of
13 per cent. as compared with the corfe-
spending period of last year.
Mr.. Hugh F. Fox. OF New York city.
writing on hops, says that 'it Is safe TO
predict that the new crop will be much
larger than the requirements for home con-
sumption and that prices will be moderate.
In New York, California and Washington
the outlook for a good crop Is favorable.
The crop in Oregon Is infested with lice,
therefore the quality win be variable"
Window glass has gone up I per cent. In
price TO the public. The JobberS Associa-
ton met at Chicago Wednesday and were
officially informed by the manufacturers
combination, which was completed in the
same city on Tuesday, that the price TO
them was raised per cent. The jobbers
promptly raised this per cent. asserting
that the per cent. advance did no. restore
TO them the proper margin OF profit The
new rates of discount under the Increase
are 90 and 20 per cent. The increase at
fects ali grades of window glass.