Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-11-06

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The United States produces 25 per
cent of the worlds coal.
A combine of all the peanut factories
in Virginia is under way.
Mrs. J. G. Smith will supervise tho
construction of the lake channel in the
st. Louis fair grounds for her hus-
band
During July the Pressed Steel Car
Company turned out an average of 1903
cars per day, of total value of 49,
100000
1t Is told that the gross membership
of the labor organizations who are con.
nected with the American Federation
of Labor exceeds 100000.
An attempt is being made to con-
solidate the leading malleable iron
foundries of the country, with capital
from $15,000,OO0 to $2O,O0O.OOO
One of the results for England of
the Boer war is that the wages of the
working people fell off nearly $S,00O,
GOO last year. as compared with the
previous one.
New York capitalists are promoting
$25,0OO,0O0 trust to take in all the ak
manufactures, handle manufactures
| and grindstone factories in this coun.
try and Canada, the plants to be op.
| Grated under one management.
The production of iron ore in France
is conferred principally in three districts
that of the northeast, or the Meur-
theet-Moselle, is the most important,
producing 100000 tons of the $500.
600 tons or iron ore mined in France
annually; that of the Pyrenees, pro-
ducing 100000 tons, and that of Nor
mandy, 10000 tons.
The monks who manufacture the
Chartreuse liquor in France have let
to an American syndicate for ninety.
nine years their cloister, factory and
grounds, including the mountains
where the wild plants required for the
liquor are gathered, together with the
recipes and good WILL The rental is
said to be 100000.
census report on the manufacture
of locomotives in the United States
during the census year 1900 fixes the
number turned out at 3046, of which
2,T74 were built in twenty-eight indie
pendent establishments and 272 in
twenty-six railroad shops. The indie
pendent concerns employ an aggregate
capital of $4O,S13,T93, and pay So.
ss1,614 for wages.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, the millionaire
inventor, keeps half a dozen mechan.
ical draughtsmen busy on drawings
of his inventions. When in New York
city Mr.. Vanderbilt spends most of his
time with these draughtsmen in his of
flee on the seventeenth floor of a bust.
ness block on Broadway, where NAV be
seen models and drawings of fire boxes
coal cars and other devices which he
has patented.
Statistics compiled by Carroll D.
Wright show that the business Of tax.
ing summer boarders footed up the
rather startling sum of $66O9,364 in
New Hampshire alone in 1899, and it
has, to all appearances, steadily in
creased since. Not sentimental results
alone have followed Governor Rollins
ingenious conception of the institution
of "Old Home Week" The annual visit
of so many of the sons and daughters
of the State from all over the country
has revived their recollection of the
agreeable New England summer eli
mate and has doomed the summer
boarder industry.
Ben Tillett, who has returned TO
London after tour among the labor
organizations of the United States, has
issued his report on the position of
American labor. He dwells upon the
buoyant and hopeful demeanor of the
workers, and the prevailing franke1
and more businesslike relations be
tween capital and labor than prevails
in England. The power of unionism
seemed to be growing. American en-
ployers are more scientific than those
there, and the worker does not give the
maximum of work for the minimum
of wages, as he does in England. Til
lett maintains that in England the
highest quality of skill and energy is
claimed by the employers to constitute
what they call average ability. In
America, on the other hand, superior
proficiency always received extra com.
pensation.