INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3554, 1 August 1905, Page 4

INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION.

One of the largest sewing machine plant* 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 San Francisco by three hours and ten minutes. Boston has a waterworks that could supply over 7,000,000,000 gallons daily, but the consumption is only J 56,000,000, or 11C gallons per capita. The drift of the times is in the direction 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 a train. Among the grand railroad schemes now- arousing the attention of grain shippers and importers abroad is out proposing to load wheat at Duluth and Port Arthur and deliver it at Leith Scotland. Eight steel boats of very large capacity will be built at St. Clair and a $1,000,000 elevator at Point Ed ward. At Portland, Me., 15,000-tou steamers will receive the grain and carry it across the Atlantic. Civul and mechanical engineers are deeply interests in the work of the Simplon tunnel, the greatest engineering work of the age, as measured by difficulties encountered, chief of vvhich was and is the matter of ventilation o' a hole 12 miles long, through rock. The two rivers, Khone and Diveria. supply the immense hydraulic works with 3,250-horse power at present, 3,500 men are engaged and the work is W he dene by May 1, 1904.