Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-03-20
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Hay is the most profitable crop in
England.
The United States now uses more
raw silk for manufacturing than does
France.
Mexico buys IS per ZEN of all it's
imports from the United States and
sells 80 per cent of all it's exports to
the United States.
The child labor law of Tennessee
went into force recently. All children
under the age of IA were discharged
from the factories.
A child labor law is in force in Iowa
which forbids the employment of a
child under II years Of age in any
manufacturing plant.
The A~malgamated Society of Rail-
way Servants is practically the only
union of British railroad men, and is
II of the biggest in the world.
In round figures, $500, 900, 900 gold is
he amount Of American capital in
vested in Mexico by LII American
companies, firms and individuals.
England buys from the United States
III q year more than 500, 900, 900 worth
OF wheat and flour, meats to the same
amount and &C., 900 bushels Of corn.
In Liverpool alone there are four
shops that sell American boots and
shoes exclusively and half a dozen
others that make a speciality Of them.
Brewery workmen at Milwaukee.
Wis, have had their hours reduced
from nine and one-half to eight hours
a day, with a 10 per cen increase in
wages.
Detroit's leading retail stores have
signed an agreement with the Retail
Clerks Association to close their stores
at q O'Clock every night, including Sat
urdays, from Jan. 1. 1903.
American manufacturers are said
positively to have stripped the Euro
pean markets of hides. From the
point Of view Of Austrian shoe manu-
f%acturers this is a skin game.
Germany, through it's imperial sta
tistical bureau, is to issue q labor ga
zette, giving full information of the
labor market and also to fulfill the
functions Of a labor employment bu-
reau.
Completed interurban electrical roads
in the States of Ohio and Indiana are
now averaging $4,975 per mile per an
mum. The cost Of operating them is
stated as 50 per cent of the gross re-
ceipts.
A dredge recently built for levee
building at the mouth of the Sacra-
mento river has a "clamshell' SCOOP on
a boom 155 feet long, which raises %
tons Of earth in each bite and depos-
Its it on the bank in one minute.
The most remarkable feature of Brit
ish foreign trade is the largest proper
ton of it which is done with the
United States, this Anglo-American
trade being larger than that between
any other two countries in the world.
No two contiguous countries equal it.
1t is estimated by Lord Cromer, the
British agent in Egypt, that the AS
souan dam, which has cost about $12,-
100000, will increase the agricultural
earning power of Egypt $13, 10000 600
every year - in other words, that 1t
will pay a percentage of over 100 ev-
cry twelve months.
A new labor organization, intended
to better the condition of lumbermen
and men In kindred occupations. has
been organized with headquarters at
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. The ~organiza-
ton is to be known as the Brother
hood Of Woodsmen, and begins it's ca
reer with forty-seven charter men,
bers. Subordinate lodges will be Or
ganized throughout the lumber region.
and the promoters hope to make the
organization a strong one. NJ. Fraser.
Of Sault Ste. Marie, Is Grand Presi-
dent, and David McNee, of the same
city, is Secretary and Treasurer.