Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-06-25

Er-~,au ey.er"melt VAS placed an
order for 1000 ears with the Pressed
steel company
Receivers for the Chicago, Rock
Island q Pacific railroad have de
cided to purchase 1000 freight cars
at cost between s3,50O,000 and
81 600, 600.
An order FOR 1000 tank cars has
been placed by Union Tank line With
Standard Steel company. Orders for
1000 freight cars, costing approx
mately $1,000 each were placed in
this country last week.
Exports of munitions of war in
April are estimated to have had a
value close to s30,00O,000 with every
indication that the totals for May and
this month will be greatly in excess
of the first month named.
The Russian governments car
order has been distributed, the num-
Der of cars for this side being 5000;
of this total Pressed Steel Car gets
1000 and American Car & Foundry
company, Canadian Car & Foundry
Company and Eastern Car company
1000 each.
Fore River Shipbuilding company,
at Quincy, has been awarded contract
for building schooner for Edward F..
Luckenbach Steamship company of
New York city. The schooner, which
is to be a freighter. will be the
largest vessel of it's kind built at the
Fore River works. The contract
calls for delivery in IL months.
1t is estimated that if the business
now offered the shipyards could be
booked it would require $4,000 tons
Of steel plates and shapes to meet the
requirements Of the builders. The
demand comes principally from do
nestle merchant interests who are at
present inquiring for 40 vessels rang
ing from 1000 to $4,000 tons bur-
den. Foreign interests also are ne
gotiating for 10 boats with American
builders. These vessels will require
from 1900 to $500 tons Of steel each
, II the contracts can be placed.
One hundred and two million and
ninety-hve thousand dollars in gold
has been imported into United States
since January /.
= Scoyille Manufacturing company of
waterbury, Conn.,, has increased the
number Of employees from 1900 to
10000 because Of large war orders.
Pittsburgh advices say that the
steel ana iron industry continues to
! improve ana the mills are overloaded
with orders in nearly all kinds Of ma
terial.
Waterbury Clock company, which
has been running on short time for
several years, has begun night and
day operations with q force of 5000
employees. Activity il due partly to
cutting on Of supply Of German
clocks for this country and South
America.
In addition to $50 locomotives
bought by Russia from Baldwin Lo-
connective company last week. Russia
has also placed order for 100 engines
with American Locomotive company.
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= THE DEEPEST WELLS IN :.
4 THE WORLD. i
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The deepest well in the world is in
Upper Silesia, in the German Empire.
It is diamond-drill hole in a coal
field and is 1850 feet deep. A we'll
In the United States which may go
deeper. according to the United States
geological survey, is 4 miles north
west Of Mcdonald, Pa, and about Is
miles west Of Pittsburgh.
This we'll, which is being sunk to
the Medina sandstone bed that
elsewhere contains oil and gas--is
7,174 feet deep. Some gas and oil
were struck in the upper part of the
we'll. Between the depths of $3.50
and 100 feet rocks bearing rock salt
and salt water were encountered.
These are regarded as Of Salina age,
the same as those carrying rock salt
in western New York. The tempera-
lture in this well at the depth of GIFTS
feet. as recently determined with
great accuracy, is 1853 degrees
Fahrenheit.
At Derrick City. Mexican county,
Pa, near Bradford, there is a we'll
$500 feet deep. which is probably
the second deepest well in the United
4 States. Another deep we'll is on
Slaughter Creek, Kanawha county,
w. Va; it is 5,595 feet deep. It pen