The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-25
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NOTES OF INDUSTRIES.
New York pays 100000 a. year for
perfumery.
Blumenthal Bros, of New York City,
may build a silk mil at Athena, n. j.
a company is being formed at Almonte.
Ont, to start up the Frazer knitting mill.
West Virginia is now producing more
high grade petroleum than any other
state in the union.
At Undertook, 4. Y, the Lindenwald
knitting mill will soon build a large ad
dition TO their mill.
The Gloversville, \. Y, knitting COM
pany has increased its capital stock from
| SO, 900 to 500. 900.
The cost of maintaining cavalry SOL
der and horse in the British army is
about $500 per annum.
Atlanta city council last week passed
an ordinance entirely prohibiting the use
or sale of trading stamps.
1t is reported that a new carpet mill
may be built at Gaffney, S. c., by ]. A
Carroll. H. D. Wheat and others.
| At Belair station, near Augusta Ga, a
new knitting mill will be established by
the Georgia Mutual Colony association.
| A $4,000 company may be formed by
W. L. Mcdaniel of Sulphur Springs, Tex,
| to esta blish a cotton and wooden mill.
The GAINESVILLE, Wis, Rock River Wool
en- company viii biuld a two stroy addi-
ton and will spend about $1,000 in improve
ments.
An orange orchard of 80 acres at Their
malito, Cal, has been decided to the Vol
Unteers of America by a woman who con-
ceals her identity.
| The working of iron is the most adj
vanced art in Central Africa. The ore is
mined, smelted and fashioned by the ma
tives with great skill.
The Maryland silk mill at Hagerstown,
Nd, will soon be enlarged, and the plant
| of Collinge, Nolan & Co.. Paterson. will
be removed to Hagerstown.
The Tronoto city council has resolved
that no alien, and particularly no citiven
of the United States. shall hereafter be
employed on civic work in that city.
The total number of locomotives built
in the United States in 1897, says the Man
ufacturer's Gazette, is placed at 1251, of
which $50, almost SO per- cent, were for
export.
The Russian photographers to punish
| those who having received their picture
do not pay their bills, hang the pictures
of the delinquents upside down at the
entrance to their studio.
In ten years the receipts of barley at
Buffalo have increased from less than
| 100000 to nearly 1900 900 bushels per
annum. This makes Buffalo the center of
the barley trade in the east.
The Montreal Cotton Co.. of Valleyfeld
employs 1900 of the 1000 inhabit of the
town. The VaHeyfield mills are operating
10 cards, $4,000 spindles and 1850 looms
The company is capitalized at $1,000, 600.
| The cod fisheries of Newfoundland have
| been followed for nearly 400 years. They
greatly exceed those of any other country
in the world. The average export of cod
| is about 1,S5O0OO hundred-weight per an
mum.
| Africa's monkeys are giving out In the
neighborhood of the Gold Coast they have
| been exterminated and last year the colony
at s2O5, 600 were exported.
| Great Britain and her colonies, which
| have hitherto had almost a monopoly of
! the Persian market for shirtings and
! sheetings, are being left behind by Russia
| whose shipments into Persia are gaining
as steadily as the British manufacturers
are losing.
1t seems probable that the plan to build
mill to supply cotton yarn to several
wooden mills in the south will be carried
| out two-story mill 110x500 feet NAV
| be built and equipped with 10000 spindles
at first. John A. and w. A. Campbell,
of Chattanooga, Tenn. are interested.
1t is said that the mines of the world
produce every year $40, 900 900 tons or ore.
| coal. etc, Of which the United States pro-
duces $50. 0OO,O OO The greatest record
| ever made, perhaps, by any mine was that
| of the Comstock in 1874, when nearly s25.-
| 000 900 worth of gold and silver was taken
| out
The organization of the New Albany,
| Ind, Wooden Mills company has been
| completed with the election of W. D.
Grant, of Louisville as president; Joseph
Sabel. of Louisville. secretary and treas
urer, and ]. F. Gebhart, of New Albany,
general manager. The mills will begin
| operations at once with nearly 500 en-
ployes.
The Lannet Bleachery and Dye Works,
| West Point, Ga. get their water supply
from four artesian wells yielding $50. 90
| gallons per day. More wells are being
bored that will nearly double the capacity
The concern is bleaching ten tons per day,
and dyeing 5000 yards.
There are half a dozen large wooden
mills in Oregon. Salem mills manufacture
| serges, cheviots. tweeds, worsteds and
| cloths of all kinds, besides fine blankets
The Klondike excitement on the western
| coast is of such a nature that all the wool
en- mills are running night and day, and
they could sell three times as much as
their present output
English manufactures pay not less
than 30 per cent more to their employees
than the German manufacturers do. says
Arthur Parkinson. THE cotton weavers
Of Lancashire are paid the highest II
the world for the amount Of work they
produce. and consequently Inc Engiisf
methods Of competition for the world 5
markets are not known as fully as they
might be by American manufactures, q
there would be better opportunities for tbs
/ advancement OF the cotton industry II
/ this country.
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