The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-28
NOTES OF INDUSTRIES


Photographers earn on an average Of $3.50
a year in China
Missouri has the greatest bodies Of lead
ore in the world.
Central African natives mine, smelt
and fashion iron very skillfully.
About s2,OOO,0OO in gold was taken out
of Tuolumme county, Cal, in 1897.
Ninety per cent. of floor mats exported
from Japan come to the United States.
Two counties in Kansas raised over
1000 900 bushels of wheat each last year.
The out put of coal in Maryland last
year exceeded that of 1896 by 10000 tons.
Pensacola, Fla, imported from Spain
4,791, 1895 pounds of pyrites last month.
In 1897 Kansas produced 152,14 1888
bushels of corn the market value of which
was $2S, 1928.
Baking powders containing alum, If
sold in Minnesota, or Wisconsin, have to
be conspicuously labeled "alum."
The reorgainzed Laconia Car company
of Laconia, n. H, will resume operations
Feb. l. after a<two years shut down.
The Chicago board of trade recommends
that congress impose license of $500 up
A wealthy merchant of Mexico says that
the linen industry of that country now
surpasses that of Ireland in its palmiest
days.
1t is estimated that the mills in Snoho-
mish county, Wash, about forty in num-
Der, cut 100, 600 900 feet of lumber annu-
ally.
The flour exports from San Francisco
for December were only $500 barrels,
against ,569 for the same month last
year.
A Winnipeg leather firm received last
week an ordr from New Zealand for fine
harness, etc, aggregating $500. 1t was
trial order.
Slot machines have been ordered out Of
Medina, n. Y, saloons. Louisville, KY,
city council last week rscinded its order
for their determination.
At Franklin, Ind, the Quick City Glass
works will build two more large contin-
uous tanks and will run day and night.
One hundred men will be employed.
More than half enough capital has been
scured to build 5000 spindle cotton mill
at Bessemer City, N. c. ]. A. Smith will
probably be president of the company.
An effort is being made by members of
the Baltimore city council to compel the
street railway companies to pave the
streets entire where they lay new tracks.
Berlin's servant girls are losing the
steady habits of the German Dienstmad-
chen; their average time of service in
one place is only nine months and half.
Sixtee nthousand dollars is the record
price paid for cablegram, that price
having been paid for a message sent by
Heniker Heaton to Australia, in behalf of
the British parliament.
At Guilford, Ne, the Piscataquis Wool
en- mills have orders enough to keep them
busy for six weeks, running until Il
D. m, on spring goods. Ordrs have also
been received for heavy weight goods.
The Westbrook Cotton mills, West
brooke, Me, so long idle, are to be utili-
zed by the Haskell Silk company in the
| silk industry. Twenty-four silk looms will
| be put in Immediately, and that numebr
! increased as demand warrants.
The Brooks Locomotive works of Dun
| kirk. n. y. is just about completing a
| shipment of 81 cars of locomotives, boxed
| in pieces, for Japan and Korea These
| latter are the first engines ever sent &c
| Korea and are for the first railroad built
| in that country.
Last week a contract was signed al
San Francisco for 800 additional stamps
! for the great Treadwell mines, on Doug
las Island, opposite Juneau. Alaska
| When these are added to the present bat
terry the mine will have $50 stamps. the
/ largest number on a single ledge in the
world These stamps will crush ESQ tons
of ore daily. or S5S,o00 tons in a working
| year. The Treadwell company has alsC
under consideration a 100000 electric
| plant.