New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-18
FRESH TR4DE DEVELOPMENTS.

The American vice-consul at Copenhagen says
that ready-rnade shoes are becoming popular IN
Denmark and that goods from the United STATES
ought TO find ready sale there The Danes have
large feet and do not fancy pointed toe But as
American manufacturers able 10 suit the tastes
of Germans they can also without doupt pea =,
the scandinavians Machinery for making shoes , Is Is
the duty shoes Is low Ssf there ERE d Il S
featuring industry gets firm footlng
It is asserted by Boston paper that the move
ment for a concentration of the business of max
ing rubber tires for vehicles Is likely TO succeed.
and that the centre Of production will be Boston
for traction purposes are said to be behind the
scheme.
Textile America is inclined to place confidence
in the rumor OF plan 10 combine the textile in
dustres OF the country, both cotton and wooHen'
under one management. Six trusts now existing
are mentioned likely to be included In the dea /
the american Woollen. the National Woollen. the
Cotton Yarn. the Worsted Yarn. the Carpet and
the Knit Goods companies.
number OF independent telephone exchanges do
ing business in places not more than fry miles
from PIttsburg are to be combined under one
manage:nent-that of the Home Telephone and
Electric Company Western newspaper man
who caught Professor A. Graham Bell on the wing
las, week represents the latter as saying that he
did not regard telephony without wires as an I'M
possibility. but he was not prepared 10 go INTO
details
The Messrs Harmsworth. OF London publishers
Of The Daily Mall" are said TO he on the poin. Of
establishing their own mills for the manufacture
of paper out in Oregon a 10. OF the paper mills
are using ordinary hemlock for wood pulp the
supply OF white fir and balm having become ex-
hausted.
Herbert Lang writing for THE Engineering and
Mining Journal" says that the great Iron Noun
tain mine of California contains about $4,000 short
tons of metallic copper. $4,000 ounces Of silver
and gold to the extent Of 100000 Altogether he
estimates the deposits as amounting 10 soSCOoOO in
value The mineral Ia suphide or pyrte. IN
which the copper varies from TO II per cent In
abundance.
The use OF Wesbach burners In large chande-
Iers where a match cannot easily be applied to
them has given rise to invention for lighting
the gas with electricity. Two wires mounted on
an insulator and carrying current are brought
close enough together 10 produce spark. The de-
vice attached to the upper edge or the chimney.
and the points between which the spark Is gener-
ated reach downward 10 the top OF the burner
Canada is showing a lively interest just now In
the development of the le-iron industry. 1t Is now
announced that a blast furnace Is about TO be
established AT Toronto with capital OF 2OOO,WO
behind IT, and capable OF putting out 200 tons OF
iron day; the Hamilton Blast Furnace Company
has enlarged it's capacity about 200 tons day; the
Radnor (Quebec) Company and two concerns IN
Nova Scotia also increasing their product; ana
in addition these ventures Mr.. Whitney Is build
Ing I'D an entirely business in cape Breton.