The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-25
OUR FOREIGN TRADE.

The American Steel and Wire company
exported about $500 tons Of wire and wire
nails during the month Of May.
The Harrisburg Foundry and Machine
company is now executing large order
for engines destined for Japan.
A o5-ton refrigerating plant has been
sold by the York Manufacturing company
of York. to parties III London. England
The American Pulley company has Sc
cured large contracts for shipment of its
specialties to Mexican and Australasian
ports.
The Morris & Tasker company is about
to make a shipment of 1000 iron trolley
poles which are to be used on an electric
railroad in Toxic. Japan.
The Crane company has made shipments
of ten carloads of pipe, ETC.. to East Lon
don, which will eventually be used III the
mining district of Johannesburg.
Trucks manufactured by the ]. &. Brill
company will be used on the electric trac-
tion system about to be constructed with
American equipment in Adelaide, Austria
liza, at a cost of $35Oo,000.
A large order for rock drilling machin-
cry has been secured by the IngersolI
Sargent Rock Drill company, of Easton,
tion, Limited, of London, England, for
use in Norway.
Many thousands of cattle will be need
ed to re-stock the Boer farms. The bulk
OF this business will come to us. In fact,
it has already begun, our first shipment
of 600 head of Texas cattle having just
left Pensacola. Fla, for South Africa.
Tho American Steel and Wire company
has shipped within the past two weeks.
via Eastern sesboard ports. about 1000
tons of wire and wire nails to various
Ant1 s,.1l H.,
South Africa, Europe, China and Japan.
The Austrian minister of finance has
awarded to the Smith Premier Typewriter
company. of Syracuse, N. Y, an exclusive
contract for the supply of typewriting
machines to the finance ministry and its
subordinate branches throughout the en-
tire empire.
Tho Elliott Hatch Book Typewriting
company, of Harrisburg, has received
substantial orders for book typewriting
machines for German state railroad Of
fees: also for the United States military
authorities in the Philippines, and for the
Mexican government.
The ability Of American shoe manufac-
turers to place their wares in the conti-
mental markets is past the experimental
stage, and nearly every European capital
and many of the smaller cities now have
one or more shoe stores stocked with a
large per cent. Of United States goods.
Short as the time has been since the
declaration of peace In South Africa. or
ders have been given to American archi-
tects for the designing of extensive brew
cries for the Durham Breweries and Dis
tillerles company. limited, of Durham, Ma
tai. Everything outside the bricks and
mortar is to be shipped from this coun-
try. The machinery will be operated by
electricity, One of the breweries will cost
over $25O.0OO and the plants are expected
to be In operation within nine months.
The exports from San Francisco of
hardware and machinery have been large
of late. and are steadily increasing. Mex
leo and Central America especially are
taking large quantities of general hard
ware, as also are the Hawaiian Islands.
A great deal of pipe and machinery is
also being sent to the islands. the former
principally for irrigating purposes. Con-
siderable machinery has Of late gone to
China and Japan and especially to Aus
tralia. A good many gasoline engines
havo been shipped to Australia and New
Zealand. and this department of the
manufacturing business here is at present
very prosperous. The engines shipped are
generally not very large and cost few
hundred to perhaps G,0oo-Iron Ase.