Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1879 — BUSINESS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

BUSINESS NOTES.

Philadelphia’s produce merchants report a fair trade. Ice factories are being built in many of the Southern cities. The boot and shoe trade of Boston is unusually active for this stage of the season. The coal product of the Schuylkill region for the year thus far is 9,329,900 tons, against 5,150,418 tons for the corresponding period of last year—an increase of 4,177,482 tons. The Cincinnati Times prints a series of interviews with the iron men of that city. Some of them take a rosy view of the situation, but a large number of them are far from being satisfied. The Philadelphia Bridge Works recently shipped ten iron truss bridges from seven to fifteen feet in length, built at their establishment, at the eastern end of Pottstown, for the Caibairien and Espiritu railroad, Cuba. The Boston 'Traveller says: “The demand for labor at the West has materially reduced the volume of unemployed labor here, while the demand for our products to meet the wants of the West is causing most of the New England manufacturing corporations to work on full time.” According to the Biddeford (Me.) Union, the large cotton factories at that point are full of operatives, running on full time and presumably making fair profits. The machine shops and foundries are hives of industry, employing full forces, and turning out a large amount of machinery. The shoe factories were never doing a larger or more prosperous business than at the present time.