Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1888 — TRADE AND LABOR. [ARTICLE]

TRADE AND LABOR.

■ ■ 1 - ' ~ A Philadelphian has agreed to establish large agricultural dron-works at Dalton, Ga., to employ ,100. if the people there wilDput >IO,OOO toward it. A good deal of Western mechanical labor has been drifting southward, and 200 or 300j»hops have got to work within rhe past sixty days there. A new gas-fuel process has been brought out at Bethlehem by which petroleum is employed as fuel. It is Lein/' introduced in a large number of mills. Never in one season was there snch a demand for oak to go into house finishing and furniture as there is now. Red and white oaks ajrt particularly wanted. Florida hotel-builders are ordering shingles, lath and lumber in, large quanrifies. From Fernandina, Florida, 11,000,000 feet were shipped during November. Large purchaaes of timber land have recently been made in Virginia, and orders have been placed, witnin a week for saw mill machinery and tor dryiugkilns.

There are indications that manufacturers in a good many branches of'trade will askdheir workmen to accept lower wages Blaet furnace employers will begin it. With the n w machinery in the Edgar Thomson mill, near Pittsburg, ten men will be able to roll l,0(X) tons of rails in twenty-fo’rir hours, five men working at a-time. A young lady, Miss Ella Nelson Gaillard. of New York, has introduced a system of electrical lighting on the stage. The battery will run thirty hours, and the effect is good. The manufacturers cf hosiery would be glad to try a reduction in order to offset German competition, but the difference U .too great for any possible reduction in wages to,Mplj) them, , will be pleased to kjaow that lithographic stone is found 5K Dallas,. fully equal to the stone imported fartm Europe. It eosts froftt S4O to $56 for a stone 10x40 ,4. Brooklyn man has bough£-tvjarge Amount of mining machinery go to put up smelting work® Af’El Paso. Coal is $lO per ton, but good fuel will be mined on the spot at half that price. A Kentucky has been or ganized at Day ton build Abuses workingmen sh two or three mhriffig and manufacturing counties iigßh&t State- It expects xp doubld A large amount of hard wood wilrnb shipped into the Philadgupifi'a next year by rail ~and North Carolina. Agents are endeavoring to take contracts now toV'' delivery next Spring. Hiss >ury!6pp|/mjde|miat have been idle for (wo or three years are being opwrat^ff, »r<vrilniff)lfr- bodies —of ore are being dpened rip. Foreign eapital has recently taken hold of several neg- — the dullness in •woolen manufacturing, a great many companies are enlarging their companies and. plants. The manufacturers are not acting" as though anticipating a prolonged dullness. So far this year New Orleans cotton receipts have gained 200,000 bales over lUat Yviify HLiti ilnllS -CiVariUgß BtiuW HU increase in ratio of from 8 to 10 in twelve months. Several manufacturing enterprises are being established there. Philadelphia buyers have been ordering such large pieces of plate-glass that it has been found impossible to get rail transportation for them. Two piateanre LAby lSfeet. and are to be shipped by water to New Orleans, thence by sea to this city. \ Pillsbury mill “A” grinds 7,000-barrels of dour daily, which is enough for New York, Brooklyn and Jersey oßy\ It is eight stories high, and wqrk is never stopped. It keeps two hundred railway cars busy. An electriciii apparatus enables a watchman to.Jocate a heated box any where in the mjft. A northern mrin just from North Carolina says, jri speaking of .shop and mill labor there, that labor is easily controlledjjnd exceedingly cheap. The Wing mi id and the days long, much work can be accomplished at smah-Tost. Cotton factories are paying frqp 10 to 35 per cent, and during the factories have started ¥n the State. The roof of the Providence locomotive works, of Rhode Island, is being removed, and the worss will be covered with canvas with several coats of metallic pkint. This is a departure which might pay other manufacturers co - serve. A New York architect is building an immense hotel, with 1,100 feet front, fire-proof, at Tampa, Fla., and quite a number of buildings are being erected in St. Augustine, the largest of .which is to cost HE.OOO.'dOO when completed. The total.outlay for buildings under contract in the f Sta e is J4,(MX),000. North Carolina is coming to the front as a manufacturing State. A new gold mine opened at Prosperity, yields |7O to S2OO per ton, a knitting mill has just been built at Wilmington, an ice companv has started at Nashville, 1 a $75,000 cotton mill has been put up at Gastonia, and there are new planing mills, grist mills and saw mills in various parts of the State. , New York electricians are greatly pleased with the experiments thus far made with the Julian system, but competitors are crowding close upon each

other’s , hetffs-for recognition. A new elieetricsl'sytdem, known «s the R. T. K. will soon Imj introduced, and four or five thousand lamps will be lighted by it in London. Cypress is being much morq largely used for interior house decoration than heretofore, and the. attention of architects and builderajS being directed to it. The objectio.n**m those who have not Used it is that, being a Southern wood, it is more iikely to be affected by heat, drought and moisture than Northern wood. At Cohpes more machinery has been running, more people have been employed and more goods sold during the past year than ever. The product of the knitting mills of Cohoes and Waterford amount to $5,287,000. During the 18,800 bales of cotton were z Worked t .tfpThe extraordinary demand for lumber is bringing out a great variety of drying processes, covering cold air and hot air methods. It pays to expel moisture in order to save freight. Slow seasoning is out of date. Improved methods in the preparation of lumber are appearing Everywhere, and tire better prices realized, Are stimulating, the demand for dryers. _ - v■' ’ The State convention of Ohio miners will be held Columbus on Jan. 17, and a friendly settlement of the wage question for the coming year is expected. Zfhe miners are everywhere proposing arbitration, State conventions will be held in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.