The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-04
INDUSTRIAL NOTES


Siberia has two silver deposits,
Chicago gets gas from Indiana.
England made POI vessels in 1897.
Mexico railroads cover 1866 miles.
The States have II beet sugar mills.
France has 10000 lace operatives.
The south has over 300 cotton seed mills.
No New York town owns its own gas
plant.
City of Mexico is to have bicycle works.
Madisonville, Tenn, is to have wooden
mill
Berlin's underground railroad is to be
extended.
America is credited with $4,000 hand
loom weavers.
Mexico's expectation of tobacco approx
mates s., 00OOOO
OF the 81 silk mills erected in 1897, SO
were in Pennsylvania
Vanilla bring into Mexico a million dol
lars or more per annum.
The rubber shod horse and the rubber
tired buggy have appeared in Washington.
The Transvaal produced last year $40, =
COO tons of caol and 23S6, 186 ounces of
gold.
A concession has recently been obtained
from the Mexican government by parties
residing in Kansas City, Mo, for the cree
ton of a smelter in Villa del Carmen, in
the state of Coahuila, for the treatment
of ali kin Is of ores
The 'cial ptoaUcticn Oh conner from
all countries in 1897 was approximately
Ss'VVt tons. The production in the United
States for this year was 217,0OO tons. Out
of this enormous quantity of metal we ex-
ported l2S,S50 tons, or about 60 per cent.
of our production.
There was recently opened at Leiscester.
England, a new municipal technical art
school, in which there is a department
devoted to instruction in hosiery and knit
ting. AT present this department consists
OF two rooms ,one for the machinery and
the other for class purposes.
The probabel value of the silk manu-
facture in this country is $12O. 600 900. to
which may be added the impor IS of 1897.
valued at $25, 900, 900, making the total con-
sumption in this country of silk manufac-
lures at $l49, 900. As will be seen, about
II per cent. of the domestic consumption
consists of imported goods.
Machinery in the Quaker City is idle
not for lack of orders, but because the
operatives who are trained in the rnanipu-
lation Of the newest machinery are too
few. Here should be an opening for the
New Bedford mill operatives and a better
one than is afforded by Canada, wither
they are now being urged to return.-Dry
Goods Economist
The hincaid Manufacturing companv.
Griffin, Ga, will probable double the ca
pacity of its cotton mill, which now oper-
ates $40 spindles and 2lO looms. A new
mill may be built. The Sterling Cotton
mills, Franklin. n. c., will add 1000 spin
dies. The Anchor Cotton mills company.
n. c., will increase the size
Of its plant to make room for 100 more
looms and $500 spindles.
The cotton mills of Mexico, says Wade's
Fibre and Fabric, conduct one of the most
prosperous industries in the country.
During 1897 their output was greatly in
creased and improved in many ways.
The result has been 10 decrease the
amount Of foreign textiles used in Mex
leo, a decrease that amounted during the
year to . per cent. on the other hand.
however. the imports of textile machinery
have increased considerably.
Which is the richest milk? Experiments
plainly show that the last milk from the
udder-the ''strippings' much richer
in fat than that first drawn. Several tests
in this country have demonstrated that
fact, and recently, in New South Wales.
cow was MIXED until the udder was COM
pletely smpted all milk being weighed. /
The milk was divided into three lots and
tested for butter fat. The first milk con-
tanned only 90 per cent. of fat, the second
200 per cent. and the third lot 406 per
cent. At the New York station an expert |
ment was made. the first milk containing
emily three-teuths of per cent. OF fat and !
the second SIS per cent. two lots only /,
being used, the whole milk averaging 255 |
per cent.
Good carpets should be brushed daily |
With an ordinary sweeper. and once 3 1
week With a common broom.