Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1888 — TRADE AND LABOR. [ARTICLE]

TRADE AND LABOR.

Philadelphia Record. Boston buyers have asked Michigan farmers to wash their wool. ,7 ' At Rusk, Tel., a fifty-ton charcoal furnace will be established. Forty German families have established a colony at Marienfeldt, Tex. The employes of the Joilet, 111., steelworks were granted a 10 per cent, advance last week. Foreigners have so overarowded the building trade# in New York city that many mechanics find themselves idle. Nearly 150 wholesale dealers of San Francisco will close their stores at 2 o’clock on Saturday, during June and July. A Lincoln, Neb., firm with a capital of $5,000,000, will develop coal lands and establish furnaces near Alva, Miss., and will put up an iron and steel plant at Omaha, Neb. During the first quarter of this year English ship-yards have had orders for 380 vessels. The capacity of these will be 594 tons. Up to March 31,1887, the output was 327 vessels, with a capacity of 440,000 tons. There are 163 cigar factories in California, where only white men are employed, and 144 factories where none but Chinamen can get work. Of the former 118 are in San Francisco and Oakland, and there are 114 Chinese places in the same cities. Large copper smelting-works have just been established near Prescott, A. T. This firm’s output is not controlled by the French syndicate which has charge of almost the whole outputs of this country. W. A. Clark, an Arizona miner says that copper is the hardest thing in the world.to form a “trust” on, as the copper beds are almost unlimited