The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-02
THINGS WORTH NOTING.
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II YIIEN wage enrncrs are tempted to
\AI envy the millions which the
w stockholders of the United States
Steel corporation are receiving.
we must remember that before those
| many thousand stockholders got any in
| come from, their investment. they Uhe
wagc-carners) received last year s1i2, $780,
900. BESIDES this immense sum. our rail
roads were paid s5iiiLooo for frcights, of
| which fully sixty per cent. was paid out
| again by those railroads for wages.
| The output of the United States Steel
| corporation for the fiscal year ended
March 81 was,
| Ore mined ...................13. IL. .327 IO5 tons
Coke produced ................ o,0T50O0 tons
| Steel ingots made ............ 9.O35O1O tons
Entire steel output ...........1 1853 900 tons
| Gross proceeds of products. 1853, 900 900
Which latter was only little less than
three-quarters of the entire steel business
| of the United States.
Americans. with their familiarity with
billion-dollar corporations and scores of
multi-millionaires, unhestatingly class
the United States M the wealthiest of
nations According to the London Daily
| Mail yearbook. this popular opinion is
well founded. 1t is estimated that the
| wealth of this country is equal to the
| combined riches of France and Germany.
nearly three times that OF Russia and
about twenty-five billion dollars more
| than the wealth of Great Britain. The
| national wealth OF the several nations,
according to this authority, is aa follows:
| The United States .............ssl GAO, 900 900
Grcat Hrltaln .................... o!Vo1"oOotO
France OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 4Sd5O, 0O0OOO
Germany ......................... aozoo,oVVoCO
Russia AZ 125, 600 900
The United States is encumbered with
| the smallest debt. estimated at Ia per
have
Many new iron mines are being opened
by parties Independent of the United
States Steel corporation. The Great
Northern railway has done much by ad
vancing money and in other ways to Sc
cure development of the central and wes-
tern Mesaba. Nine new mines will be
shipping over the Great Northern by July
at rate of 100000 tons a year. Lake
shipments continue heavy.
"In machine shops and factories the use
of the best machinery is understood and
appreciated by the men, but the success
of the American manufacturer would ap-
pear to be owing not to the machinery,
but to the system OF shop management.
Every man appears to be fully aware
that success depends upon his doing his
best work, and no ideness is tolerated in
anyone. The highest positions In a shop
are OpcI W any oIc WIN 'dh pioNc
worth and every man works with this in
centive.
"Many visitors from the United King
dom blame the men there because the
same results are not obtained from ma
chnery as is done here, but the more the
factories are seen. the more certain 1t
becomes that it is the incentive to work
and the energy of the managers, super
intendents and foremen and the example
set by them that has the wonderful ef-
feet on the output. This holds good in
every kind of trade and business. In one
factory. the manager, in six months,
doubled the output at an increase of 5
per cent. expense by rearranging the
machinery. British Consul Wydham, of
Chicago.
Kansas farmers have made systematic
arrangements for the importation of 10000
men, 1000 women and 5000 teams to reap
| this years crop. Last year Kansas paid
out half million dollars for this extra
| help. but the result was crop of 10000
| 900 bushels.
The following compdrisbn of the one
years production of each of the princi-
pal steel producing countries, is interest
ing:
| Great, Britain ................ 4,S50,OOO tons
Germany .... .................. ,394, 900 tons
France NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. l.465,OC0 tons
12,7O9. 900 tons
United States Steel corpora
tiOn alone ....................l .lo,3O9,OuU toIlS
Entire United States about. rs, 800, 900 tons
The United States. our doubly-united
states, bounded on the north by the Arc
tic ocean. on the south by the torrid
zone, on the east by the China sea. and
on the west by the setting sun. Long
may we prosper.
In the sixty days ending with April l.
the railroads brought 10000 home-seekers
| from the eastern and southern states to
the northwest
These figures as compiled indicate a di-
vision of traffic to points in the north and
west, thus:
North Dakota ..........................a $1,000
Washington. Idaho, Oregon ......... $1,000
Northern Minnesota ................. $4,000
South Dakota Observation-Disclosures. l2,5o0
Manitoba OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ''Voo
Montana ........................... 4'Voo
Iotil 'loo'oVo
1t is estimated that 1000 cars of freight
belonging to these homeScekcrs We're
| transported, so that the traffic OF home
| seekers for the railroads of the northwest
has been no inconsidcratc item fn SWELL
ing the earnings of the roads.
| Treasury Secretary Shaw said mt Pitts
burg: Not as the crow flies, but us ships
sail, it is nearer from Liverpool to Saii
| Francisco via Cape Horn than from New
| York to the same port via the southern
extremity.
Start two ships of equal speed from
Liverpool, going to our Pnciiic coast, one
| through the Suez canal and the other by
| Cape Horn, and two vessels of the same
speed from New York, one going west
ward and the other eastward, and both
English vessels will reach San Francisco