INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3541, 1 July 1905, Page 4

INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION.

[ One of the largest sewing machine plants in the .country is to be immediately erected on Long Island. | A new fast train has been put on to | shorten the time between Chicago and I Ban Francisco by three hours and ten minutes. j Boston has a waterworks that could supply over 7,000,000,000 gallons daily, but the consumption is only 58,000,000, or 118 gallons per capita. The drift of the tirats is in the di- , rection of putting the Locomotive power in the end of a car in small compass instead in 100,to 150 tons of steel at the front end of & train. Among the grand railroad schemes now arousing the attention of grain shippers and importers abroad is one proposing to load wheat at Duluth and Port Arthur and deliver it at Leith . Scotland. Eight steel boats of very I large capacity will be built at St. Clair and a $1,000,000 elevator at Point Edward. At Portland, Me., 15,000-ton steamers will receive the grain and carry it across the Atlantic. Civil and mechanical engineers are deeply interestel in the work of the Simplon tunnel, the greatest engineering work of the age, as measured by difficulties encountered, chief of which I was and is the matter of ventilation of a hole 12 miles long, through rock. I The two rivers, Rhone and Diveria, SUppl> ’.he UUUlrli.-: ' with d.-'OU-hurse power at pre*eu. 3,500 men are engaged and ;hc work is to be done by May 1, 1904,