The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-10-21
INDUSTRIAL ARENA.

| industrial revival.
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
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 S1,000,000 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,075 pounds. Last year 1t 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 a concern in Tennessee, price
S2,000,000.
government scheme is on foot TO
greatly increase our exports of agricul-
tural products, especially dairy pro-
duction, cheese and butter.
There is probability of a 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 thrty-five 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 |
saloon is thirteen feet long, four and
feet wide; fuel, gasoline.
party of st. Louis commercial trav-
elers to save hotel bills have chartered
railway car fitted up as a hotel and |
salesroom for seventy days trip. For
~ stops at towns will be made and |
merchants will come to the car to buy.
This is new wrinkle.
In Egypt all the way out to the pyra-
mids the road is good macadam. It
Is sprinkled not too often, is never
muddy, and is kept fairly clean, though
it is infested by hordes of brown ba-
oles chewing sugar cane, by camels.
polo ponies, donkeys, caravans, oxen |
and buffaloes.
California company has taken to
Trying potatoes before shipping them.
BY this process four-fifths of the
weight can be dried out of them. They
ire watered up and cooked and are all
light again. A company is now dry
ng 100000 pounds of potatoes into
100000 pounds.
Fifteen turbine wheels of 5000 horse
)ower each are to be put up at Masse- 2
Ia, r. Y, where the st. Lawrence ,
alls fifty-six feet in seven miles. A
,apital OF S3,000,000 is secured, a ca
ial connecting the two makes avail
'ble large power. The proposal is
o cut this canal three and one-half
niles long, 22O feet broad and twenty
TX feet deep. With a working head
II forty feet it could send enough wa
er into the Grass river to develop 15O.- [
100 horse power. The canal to be built r
Viii furnish 100000 horse power. and
# that $4,000 is to be developed by the
machinery now being contracted for.
The turbines and generators will be h
'iaced on horizontal shafts, the unit Y