Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1888 — TRADE AND LABOR NOTES. [ARTICLE]

TRADE AND LABOR NOTES.

PMUde’phia Beeord, Huntsville, Alabama, promises to become a manufacturing center. The rolling nlllls at Birmingham, Ala., are to be lighted with electricity.. Cotton goods have advanced during the past year from 10 to 90 per cent. Iron and steel materials of all kinds are hardening in price in Great Britain. Architectural iron works at Dalton, Ga., are being pushed along as fast as possible. A woolen mill is to be started in the town of Union, Oregon, with a capital of $150,000. | Three Columbus, Ga, capitalists have arranged to build a S2OJ ,000 cotton fao tory in th it city. The Graniteville Cotton Company, sf Augusta, Ga., is paying dividends of 19

A woolen mi 11 that has been running at Tullahoma, Tenn., is to be removal to Anniston, Ala At this time 3,467 paddling furnaces are at work in Great Britain, and 1,036 are standing idle. During the past seven years 24.5 W oil wells have been comp'eted, of which 2,934 were dry holes or dusters. At Findlay, 0., 2,223 buildings were erected last year. Contracts have been taken oat for 4,000 for this yeah The Great Falls of the Potomac are to be used to generate electricity for meehanical and lighting purposes. If the value of natural gas at and near Pittsburg could be capitalised it would be worth at 6 per cent. SIOO,OOO. A silk factory is to be built in New York city that will have the capacity to turn out 150,000 yards of broad silk per day. The distribution of clothing has been larger than ever, and the manufacturers are preparing for as good a season as they had last year. A cotton factory at Trion, Ga., that has 258 looms in operation will doable its capacity just as soon as railroad facilities can be completed. The woolen industry engaged in making men’s wear is depressed, while tbo manufacturers of women’s dress goods do not feel the so seriously.

A cotton manufacturer at Lawrence, Mass, will soon put in 100 English looms, but made at Lewiston, Me., and 80 American looms made at Whitinsville.

The experiment of running silk mills in Pennsylvania has been gratifying to the promoters, and attention is now being given to the erection of silk-mills in the South. The machinists of the country have had an exceptionally prosperous year and their latest testimony is that the improvement in the volume ranges from 25 to 33 per cent. The industrial activity in the Southern States has made room for a good many new brick yards. One with a capacity of 40,000 brick per day has j ast been started at Talacoosa, Ga. Prices of hides, leather and boots and shoes were highest at the opening of last year, and declined steadly to the close. The shipments from Boston las year were the largest for six yeais. The southern cotton manufacturers are preparing to establish something in the nature of schools to teach the colored people how to spin and have them take the same place the Canadians occupy in the New England mills.