The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-11

| abroad were s57, 49,, S72 value. almost $500
| 900, 900 Of a balance in favor of cotton as
| an export material In a few years would
the country have any foreign trade bal
ance in its favor if cotton and cotton fab
| RIGS were not exported?
NOTES OF INDUSTRY.
Mexico buys Alabama coke.
Krupp has made $1,000 guns.
China raises hogs for their furs.
Arizona has 10000 wild horses.
Prussia has 200 technical schools.
Londoners spend S6000,OO0 a day.
Europe has Sunday textile schools.
California has one glass factory.
Charlotte, N c.. has u cotton mills.
Montreal anticipates an ice famine.
India cotton mills are multiplying.
Schffield boasts an 1880 blade knife.
Germany has schools for shoemakers.
Electric cabs gain favor in London.
All Louisville wooden mills are busy.
North Carolina has six saving banks.
Rhode Island has $4,000 textile workers.
Montgomery, Ala, has two cotton mills.
Norfolk is to have a peanut oil factory.
In Switzerland laborers work IL hours
a day.
Frenchmen used 10000 tons of tobacco
in 1897.
A good sized whale yields about one
ton Of whalebone.
IA the wooden mills in Holyoke, Mass,
are running on full time.
a Menominee, Mich, firm owns $4,000
acres of pine land in Louisiana.
The women employed to bind Bibles in
Scotland receive from 81 TO $3.50 per week.
The Plymouth. Mass, Wooden company
is making wooden cloth for Klondike wear.
The Memphis, Tenn, Cotton Mills COM
pany has been chartered with capital Of
s12O,O
Mexico is now siad to be the second
largest buyer of electrical machinery from
the United States.
During 1897 more than 100000 frozen
United Kingdom.
The Providence, R. L, board of trade is
endeavoring to bring about a state exhibit
at the Paris exposition.
There is not a Southern state" says
Abrain S. Hewitt. (which I have not Wis
tied, and no one in which 1 have not in
vested money"
A recent days fog costs London $780,
900 for gas alone. This was exclusive of
the cost Of electricity and oil and the loss
Of trades people by the stoppage of traffic.
The town of Chicago Heights, H., has
growing hopes of soon being known as
1.-The Manchester Of America by becom-
ing center of the manufacture Of cot
ton fabrics.
1t is reported that w. L. Mcdaniel is at
the head of a concern to be known as the
Texac Wooden and Cotton Mills company,
to establish a manufacturing plant at Sui
phur Springs. Tex.
All the go textile mills in the Carolinas
with the exception Of half a dozen tied
up in legal technicalities) are said to be
running on either full time, extra time,
or double time.-Wade's Fibre and Fab
ric.
There's a coal mine in the yard Of a
cotton mill at Cardoya, Ala. THE coal
used by the New England mills" says the
owner Of the factory, costs 81 a ton, and
for 80 tons used per day we save sos on
caol alone
Total output of the United States Of tax
paid tobacco during the fiscal year ending
in 1897 was 26O 1881 pounds, of which
the st. Louis district manufactured 2212
per cent, or nearly one-fourth of the en-
tire production of the whole country.
Baltimore canned goods packers are
again putting up peaches with fictitious
California labels andwithout their own
names and addresses, as required by the
Maryland state law, for neglect of which
two of them were fined not long ago.
The silk produced in Lombardy and
France is better and finer than the Nea-
politan and Sicilian, Broussa silk is better
than Syrian, Canton silk is not as good
as the product from Shanghai, and Japan
silk. says Textile America, is better than
either.
Mills & Wachter have prepared plans
for large factory to be erected adjoining
the Baker Bros foundry at Toledo The
factory is to be built by the Toledo Glass
company, and Will be one of the largest
Of the kind in the country.
One of Lewiston's (Me) cotton manu-
featuring concerns is using a system of
pneumatic tubes for delivering the cotton
fibre to the dyeing department, where the
process Of dyeing is done before spinning
in order TO give greater softness to the
textile.
1t is being urged from London, Eng,
that it be made compulsory by legislation
that all Canadian cheese shall be brand
ed with the name of the province in which
it is manufactured as well as with the
month of the make and the registered
lumber of the factory.
The contract of the big sugar factory
at Guadalupe Lake, in Santa Maria Val
ley. Cal, has been filed for record. The
contract provides for the construction of
a factory TO cost SlS4.760 and the work
shall begin at nee and be completed by
Sept. 8.
4 bill has been introduced in the Mass
achusetts senate providing for the appoint
ment Of a commission OF five by the gov
ernor within 80 days. two representing
manufacturing interests and two labor,
to investigate the subject of cotton manu-
featuring in Massachusetts,.
Take Greencastle. s. c. as the central
point. SAYS the Southern correspondent of
the Journal Of Commerce, and include the
country around for radius Of some 20
miles. and you viii set greater aggrega-
ton Of spindles and looms than contained
in a like area anywhere in the south.
From figures compiled by the Bureau Of
America Republics the Latin American
countries in 1897 imported 1924. S5S. e54 worth
Of goods Of which only $640Ss.3S2 came
from the United States. while OF the ex-
ports, amounting 10 S54S.564 So. only SIS
So. il6 were received by this country. OF
which SIS S2l.4-6 came from Brazil and So
90 qsS from Mexico.