New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-06
FRESH TRADE DEIELOPMENTS.

American wholesale purchasers OF quInno have
long wished to become Independent of the Euro
pean market. which is controlled by trust The
chance is at last offered. The producers IN Java Java
nnsT decd 9[e 10 pn up their 9unne at auction
in Batavia this winter. The sale VIII probably &C.
GIn,ted states Consul there urges Americans to
make the most Of this opportunity
Provision is being made to food the market in
England next season with domestic bicycles Of a
medium to cheap grade Hitherto few homemade
wheels have been sold there. except machines
bringing from $50 to 500 The Coventry, Humber
and Raleigh which grade with the American 80
or $50 wheel sell well, and will be pushed vigorous
ly The United States Consul at Nottingham says
that if American makers will advertise judciously
and steadily and engineer their sales with care
they can compete successfully with the English
machine British soil. The English preference
for a substantial machine must be consulted. now
ever.
To promote the development OF the refining OF
nickel and its manufacture into armor plate the
Ontario authorities have issued an order in Coun-
ell prohibiting the expectation OF nickel matte
and ore.
The British Colonial Office has favored the
tablishment of a subsidized steamship line between
England and Jamaica for the transportation OF
fruit But at present none OF the shipping people
satisfied with the terms proposed, and they
seek better offer.
production Of tin in the Malay Peninsula next year
will amount TO twenty three hundred tons in Aus
traa to twelve hundred and in other places enough
10 make total gain Of five thousand tons. In
only half as great Engineering believes that the
recent tumble in prices is not likely to be followed
that the Uniied states. which bought considerably
in excess Of its needs this year has ceased TO make
further purchases Is also regarded as Il sign that
the market Is soon to be overstocked.
Germany is waking up to the value OF this coun-
try's advance Sheets Of Consular Reports for
the benefit OF manufacturers and f. about to issue
similar Information for her exporters.
The Boston and Maine Railroad Company. after
advertising for bids for a steel bridge TO span a
roadway thirty four feet wide. has decided TO
build with wood and not metal The price of the
latter is too high at present.
Referring to the adoption Of electricity az a
tive agent. Burton Ellinwood Greene tells THE
Electrical Review that It cost 1900 a car for
equipments few years ago when certain other
roads were experimenting. whereas to-day better
apparatus can be had Tor @D
When the Boston and Maine Railroad Company
logan to use cheap coke in It's locomotives II
feared that the intense heat produced might make
II necessary to employ n water CRATE; but trouble
nan. with quarter inch Jets issuing therefrom
These cool the CRATE sufficiently 10 prevent harm.
The Cuban steel ore Company. OF philadelphia.
has purchased 900 acres OF iron lands In Eastern
Cuba. and expects to ship large quantities OF
Bessemer next spring to Philadelphia for dis
tribution among the iron furnaces OF Pennsyl-
vana. The IS the finest found I'm Cuba. The
mines In Guiana. \ railroad H. being con-
structcd ChiriNi. the southern coast, about
thirty miles west of Santiago.
SO rapid has been the development Of cotton
mills In Alabama that II Is thought the whole
amount Of fibre grown there will be consumed at
home inside Of year or two.
Excavation Of the canal for the power plant at
Massena up in ST. Lawrence County. y. Y. was
suspended on the first OF the month for the winter
Construction has also stopped the power house.
The contractors Will employ "A number OF men In
other ways during the cold months.
Ropes are used extensively In England In place
Of betting for the transmission Of power Cotton
is the favOrite material, but experiments have
recently been made with paper ropes. and they are
said to give satisfaction.
The paper mill up in holyoke. which makes
Japanese napkins. Is said 10 be the only one OF
its kind in this country, and Its business Is grow
ing so rapidly that enlargement OF the mil mas
become necessary.