INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3558, 10 August 1905, Page 4

INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION.

On® of the largest sewing machine plants in the country is to be immediately erected on Long Island, A new fust I rain ha a 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 gallon* daily, but the consumption isi only 158,000,000, or 115 gallons per capita. The drift of the times ia in the direction of putting tiie locomotive power in the end of a car in small compass instead in 100 to 150 ton* of steel at the front end of a train. Among the grand railroad scheme* 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 large capacity will be built at St. Clair mid 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 ami mechanical engineer* are deeply intereatel in the work of the Simplon tunnel, the greatest engineering work of the age, as measured by difficulties encountered, chief of which was and is the matter of ventilation of a hole 12 miles long, through rock. The two rivers. Rhone and Diveria, supply the irameii.se hydraulic works with 3,-AO-horse power at present, 3,600 r are on gaged and the Work il to b>. done by .May 1, 1904.