The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-05-21 00:00:00

THZ NORTRERN PACIFIC RAILROAD LAND

GRANT.

The Land Grant by United States to this greet com•
pany has something of an imperial charachar. It la
larger than the whole of France, and aa rich in material
wealth es any part of the keo an world. Be it wood,
Belt= Minnesota and Washington Tarritory sumo;
Is eurpare.4 I be it fertility of god, what eau surpass
Western Minnesota for wheat growing I be it pastur-
age, what district so rich in nataral greases se Dakota I
bets tatnerals,Montano Territory is now giving forth to
Us enterprising cwmpanies. tuitions of dollar, worth of
the ions metals annually I Krell so with Idaho I
lo them empire lands, agricultural labouren eon
MAY eight dollars per day and are band in board. In
Montano miners eara EL per day.

THE BUSINESS OF MR. J. B. LAWES,
FORMATION OF A COMPANY.
RETURN OF TEN PER CENT.

The prospectus has been issued of " Lewes"
Chemical Manure Company Limited." It states
that the Company is formed for the purpose of
acquiring and carrying on the extensive business
of Mr. J. IL Lawes. The Capital is £600,000,
in 60,000 shares of £lO each. For the extensive
plant, manufactories, freehold premise. and
goodwill of the business Mr. Lewes is to receive
£300,000. The directors (most of whom are
ymotically acquainted with Chemical Manure
Manufacture) report that • strict investigation
Into the past year's transactions show that air.
Lewes' profits exam led £63,000. The increas-
ing consumption of Chemical Manures, assisted
as it is by the decreased supply of Guano from
the Ohincha isles, and the uncertain quality of
that from the new Guanappe Island, the
Directors have secured the services of Mr. Chas-
ka, who for the past fifteen years has managed
the business, aud as they propose to make little
or no alteration In the existing business arrange-
ments, the whole slier will be taken over in its
present exodlieut working condition. It is
understood Mt. Lswes now retires from business,
but will for • time give Ina successors all the
kelp necessary in the still further consolidation
of the business ;in addition to which he sap :
"It is my intention to devote the remainder of
my life to Scientific Agriculture, and I purpose,
at an early period, to place in trust my Labora-
tory and Experimental Fields, with the sum of
£lOO,OOO, the interest of which, after my death,
will be applied to the oontinuanoe of the investi-
ptions which have been carried on for so many
pars at Itotharnated."

MARKET REVIVAL AT SHERBORNE.

• Sew Wet 1(4 ago tt we. reaulved to be expedient to
twesteblisli Shelburne markM sad belt • Corn Ea.
ehanp end • new Town tisk, and • oominittes we
eppotsted. Lest Thursday about upwards of • huodred
*Memnon and agneulturima met et the Digby-hotel
to hem what we oonassittee had done. The Igoe.
W. H. Lyon presided. It was reported that the oom-
minim had laid plans for proposed balltings before
Digby, 'Minuted to met £4,500. He approved the
sehmas, though h • thought double that amount ought
to be expended, but he could not jointo the work of
to, for the prewar the Corn Exehantm project
The committee Men inquired nbout fortnightly
of stock la • Acid nest the Digby-botel, and Mr.
Symonds, of Smiling, mid he mould hold sash
@Mee provided the egrictiltitriste would support Mei.
Mr. Drake said the farmers iroind all support the
whet if re-established, and, ea to the corn market, he
mid the old plum would be tallithim to it-oommenee
fa, sad he sated that the tectotalera ta whore it had
seen given up, should be asked to quit. Mr. Petah
aim pomp/Lined of the farmers being driven swig from
the men market, but he said a market would be sup-
Crdif establialned. Gloat* sod other& also said
the market would be a meows and would be
eepponed.—Mr. Sealy thought that the mutts; would
wee be • MOONS in sooseqnsnos of the ashrams of
Salisbury, Dorchester, and Yeovil ; but he was the
cmly gentleman who gave expremion to • enatrery
eplawa.—A resolution wee thou unanimously carried
—"Thai it is expedient that • repository ask be
established at Sberborne, end that • committee, with
pewer to add to their number, be appointed to establish
sub repository mile." The proceedings than ter.
abated.