Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1879 — The London Docks. [ARTICLE]

The London Docks.

On an average there lie in the dock at London 1,000 vessels, carring 9,000 sailors. The docks cost about SIOO,OOO, 000, and are constructed of solid granite, with huge gates, which are opened when the tide is at the full for the ingress of vessels. When the tide begins to fall, the gates are closed, and, as the ships are always at the same level, there is no chafing and no inconvenience arising from the action of the tide. The warehouses surrounding these docks are of the most colossal dimensions, and are stored with merchandise from every quarter of the globe. zThe improvement in the iron industry all over the country is very decided. At New Albany, Ind., merchant iron has gone up sl4, railroad iron $lO to sl2, pig iron $6.50 to $9, and iron ore 50 cents per ton, all within, the present year. The rolling mills age now arranging to run night and day,