Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1886 — INDUSTRIAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

There are at present 310 blast furnaces, with a capacity of 121,650 tons of pig-iron, in operation, and 335, with a Capacity of 68,015 tons, out of blast. While, the demand is restricted, and stocks at the furnaces have been increasing since March, the weekly production of pig-iron is reported greater than ever before. The employes of all the blast furnaces to the Pittsburgh district have decided to demand an advance in wages of twenty per cent .... The International Bimetallist League, at a ’ueeting held in Cincinnati, passed resolutions asking that the coinage of silver dollars be suspended until concurt rent action can be taken by the great' commercial nations, as the Bland law has proved a failure. Returns to the Department of Agriculture for- July show the com crop of the West in medium to high condition, the prospect growing better from Ohio to Kansas. .. .The clearing-house returns show an increase, and business through . the country seems well sustained. There has been a falling off in the number of failures as compared with last year, and the record of the past six months has been the best that has been shown since 1882. Railroad earnings give evidence of the general pros peri tv of the country.