INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3616, 24 February 1906, 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 Ims been put on to shorten the time between Chicago and San Francisco by three hours and tan minutes. .Boston has a waterworks that could supply over 7,000,000,000 gallons daily, but the consumption is only 58,000,000, or 116 gallons per capita. The drift of the times is in the direction of putting the locomotive power in the end of a car lit small compass instead in 100 to 150 tons of steel 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 buiit 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 was and is the matter of ventilation of 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 to be done by May 1, 1904.