INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3611, 18 January 1906, Page 4

INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION.

One of the largest sewing maehinc 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 Sau 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 58,000,000, 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 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 I and" a $3,000,000 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 b\ difficulties encountered, chief of which was and is the matter of ventilation oi a hold 12 miles long; through _ rock The two rivers, Rhone and Divcna 1 supply the immense’ hydrau.ic work.with 3,250-horse power at- present. 2,500 men are engaged and the wort- ... to be done by May 1, 1004.