The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-02
FINANCE AND TRADE.
FiunncinI and Commercial.


The hog crop Of Iowa is smaller by
10000 than last year.
Sugar cane seed is made into flour in
Texas.
1t is calculated that the Indian wars
of the last forty years have cost this
country eight hundred millions of dol
lars.
Austria has started out q fleet to cir
cumnavigate the globe, for the purpose
of advancing her commercial and man
ufacturing interests.
The ship owners of Great Britain
seem to think they have cause to COM
plain of the Alabama treaty, as failing
to do Justice to British claims.
AS an inducement to capitalists to
build some extensive manufacturing es-
tablishment at New Lisbon, Ohio, it's
people propose to give $4,000 to $4,000
to any company who will engage III
such an enterprise.
The cigar makers strike in New York
has ended by compromise between
the Manufacturers Association and the
Cigar Makers Union. The latter are to
allow their members to work with nom
union men, and hereafter all differences
will be settled by joint committee of
arbitration.
Low fares on railways, according to
the English Quarterly Rerie,C, have al
ways resulted in filling the treasures
of the companies. For the last two
years Belgium has been trying the ex-
pertinent of reduced rates, and the sue
cess of the plan of cheapening travel
has had, it is asserted, great influence
upon the fares of other countries of
Europe. France, and especially Prus-
STA, are mentioned as having reduced
the price ofrailway tickets with beue-
fetal effects. In this country, although
competing lines have reduced the fare
for short time, yet no trial has been
made for period long enough to give
tie cheap fare system fair test.
The calico interest of the United
States is an important one. The total
product of printed goods in 1896 was
about 5000, 900 yards. In 1886 it reach
ed l20,OO0,OO0. In 1856 there were
twenty-seven print works in the United
States, which produced in the aggre-
gate S9O,OOO,0OO yards per year. This
amount, at an average of ten cents per
yard, was worth S35 100000. In 1854
our exports of printed goods amounted
to S3,000,000. Our imports of printed
cottons in 1856 reached Sl9, ll0,752.
Our exports in 1857 were only Sl,755,-
6S5 worth. The total production of
printed goods in 1860, according to the
census of that year, was S7,74S, ga.
There are 100000 cotton spindles now
in operation in the United States, of
which over 100000 are running on
cloths for printing, and produce $780,
O00,O 900 yards.
Mr.. A. Thomas furnishes the Southern
Star (of Smyth county, with the follow
Ing statement of his manufacturing OPP
etations in that county and Alexandria
since the close of the war:
Inc number of yards of goods made
at the hoistOn mill, in Smyth county,
of all grades, namely, cashmere. doe,
skin, plaid flannel, satinet, bianke Is
linsey, &c, approximate near 10000
yards.
Taxes paid, both United States and
State taxes, $4,000 up to August LIST.
1868.
From May, 1866, to August LIST, 1868,
the Mount Vernon mill, at Alexandria,
turned out goods, out of which the pro
ceeds of the sales amounted to $50
S35 40. United States taxes, sl5, 80 50.
paid to operatives, S6o,302 W.
aggregate amount of taxes at both