The colored American., 1900-01-27
m INDUSTRIAL ARENAS

The largest grain vessel ever buflf
S.s inst been compile ed at Chicago, 43G
feet long, draft "a feet.
Within six months Buffalo will be
.,actricaIly lighted with light from
nower at Niagara Falls.
rnc1e Sam has 20 war vessels on
.bS Atlantic coast, in Europe, z on
tbo pacific, Z In Asia and one on the
lakes.
G. louis Is growing so fast that
.bsra are prospects of third bridge
t.Ing huilt over the Mississippi at that
point
The iron and steel makers are buster
.boD last month. Productive capacity
IN the west is being strained In Steel
not iron.
ten inch gun threw a shot seven
miles from Fort Washington to Alex
sndria. The gun can throw shot
steven miles If it spits on its hands, SO
TO speak.
The carpet manufacturers want to
combine and may try it at Philadelphia.
There is a rumor that prices IL bicycles
will take another tumble before sum
mer.
Invention has now gone so far thas
hot rolled seamless steel tubing In
ehes outside diameter can be turned
ont. A blast furnace that cannot turn
out 400 to 500 tons Of metal day Is
now out of date.
The British government Is now ne
gotiating with Westinghouse for 25,--
900 horse power plant to be erected at
Assouan Cataract, Egypt, to cost $780,
600, the power to be sent 100 miles or
more through cotton growing district,
And now comes a hay trust. The
American Hay Company, composed OF
100 of the largest buyers and shippers
in the United States, with headquarters
in Chicago, capital s5,00O,000, will run
up prices if they can.
The London Underground Electric
Railway Company had to come all the
way to the little town OF Franklin IN
western Pennsylvania to buy 1000, 900
pounds of castings, the heaviest OF
which will weigh thirty tons.
The Russian government wants to
buy enough aluminium to make 800, 600
pieces Of kitchen ware for its soldiers.
Each soldier will then carry his kit
chen on his back, along with his bed
room and parlOr.
The volume Of business thus far this
year has been larger by far than the
same time last year. A greater eXpan-
sion is now in sight. Retailers have
enjoyed a good winters trade and
wholesalers and jobbers are industri-
Ously pushing out for summer business.
The Carnegie Company make $780,
600 tons Of pig iron per year out Of
total OF Il, SOC, 900 tons now being made.
More blast furnaces are to be built, two
at Youngstown, Ohio. The Westing-
house companies at Pittsburg are
crowded with orders. & new company
Is organized at Pittsburg to manufac-
ture maChinists tools.
Wall paper makers count on advan-
clng prices. Wool buying will soon be-
gin IN earnest Lumber dealers have
begun to sell in big lots Of building
STUN. Leather manufacturers say pric-
IS have advanced a trifle Cotton is
MI. weak at all shipping points. The
reason Is that the masses who wear
cotton goods have not been able to
spare money for extra clothes after
laEiEg cost Of table living.
We imagine we have about all the
aae land on the western continent.
'0eIe IS Columbia, a little patch in the
NUIheFD part of South America. 1t is
te'en times as large as Pennsylvania,
W.: oggy90 square miles. 1t deserves
70 De put IN a museum, for it has every
VARIETY OF climate from the Frigid zone
o1 It's mountain tops that hide them
solNeS IN the blue vault Of the heavens