INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3560, 15 August 1905, Page 3

INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION.

' Ome of tho 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 Sen Francisco by three hours and ten minutes. Boston has a waterworks that could •apply over 7,000,000,000 gallons daily, but the consumption is only 58,000,000, er 116 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 bow arousing the attention of grain shippers ami importers abroad is one proposing to loti (I 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 Edward. At Portland. Ale,, 15,000-ton steamers will receive the grain and sarry it across the Atlantic. Civil and mechanical engineers are deeply 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 13 miles long, through rock. The two rivers, Rhone and Diveria, supply tho immense hydraulic works with 3,250-horse power at present, 3,500 men arc engaged and tho work is to be done by May 1, 1904.