The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-03-20
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LARGE quantities Of agricultural imple-
mentS are being shipped TO Japan from
San Francisco. r5e =
ST. PAUL has shipped 4O9, ,3O2 pounds of
Venison from Minnesota to the East this
season. .... ........
p WHALING on the Lower California coast
Is reported to bein prosperous condition.
A GERMAN business house in San Fran
cisco is preparing to send railroad train
OF California wine to the East.
RESOLUTIONS have been introduced in
the California Legislature, asking Congress
to repeal the act giving the monopoly Of
the fur business in Alaska to one firm.
Last year the importation Of raw fur from
Alaska to California aggregated $2,OO0,-
600, one steamer alone bringing $4,000
worth.
The fish oil and guano manufactures of
Long Island, during the past year used
1859, 114,3O0 fish, yielding 756, ,789 gallons
Of oil, and making 1G,4OS tons Of guano.
The value Of this business is estimated ut
$5S74O7. About 100000 fish were
caught and used as manure. 'rNt "a
T.
lN1sSO the total production Of print
cloths in this country was Is, 600 pieces per
week: Now the weekly production is
100000 pieces. OF these about $4,000
pieces are used for other purposes than
printing, leaving 125,000 for printing.
There are in the country 245 printing ma.
chimes adapted to the printing Of cotton,
4O OF which are idle for want Of cloths.
THE oyster packers OF Baltimore have
recently held a meeting TO devise some
way OF restoring the prosperity of the
trade, by preventing the packing Of eight
weights" There was some diversity of
opinion, but majority seemed to prefer q
law by Congress to compel all houses to
place their own true label on their goods.
A committee Of six was appointed 10 take
the matter into consideration. The evil is
certainly one which needs correction, and
one in which dishonesty seems to have all
the advantage, while honest packers are
injured and consumers arc deirauded.
Few persons have any adequate idea of
the enormous proportions of the lumber
trade of the Dominion. Take, for in.
stance, the trade Of the valleys of the st.
Lawrence and the tributary valleys. The
Ottawa valleys produced during the past
season l00,0O0,000 feet of sawn deals,
2S5 100000 feet oil sawn boards, and the
ST. Lawrence valley produced 225 600 900
Ieet OF sawn deals and 150,0O0,O0 feet OF
Sawn boards In the Ottawa valley the
proposed get out ol logs was 100000,
and the st. Lawrence 2,350, 900. The ex-
ports for the years 1870 and 1871 show q
Iavotaole condition Of affairs. and tend
sun further 10 impress one with the mag
nl!uae OF the lumber interest Of the Do
miniOn. - w -
AN Invention is announced by q North.
ampton, Mass., man, which, in the opinion
OF those VINO have observedits workings,
will meet the long.desired desideratum of
n steam canal.boat, He has Constructed
small model Of his boat, about twenty
inches long, and furnished with apparatus
complete, which, under a motive power
OF six or eight pounds Of steam, perform.
cd most admirably at a recent trial, NOT
only throwing no wave 10 the shore, hui
scarcely rippling the water. It Is propos.
cd to put upon the Erie canal, this sum.
mer, n canal.boat constructed upon this
model, and II II should succeed In meeting
expectations, the inventor will probably
receive the reward Of 100000 offered by
the New York Legislature for q steam
canal'boat Of this description.
TnE earnings OF the Milwaukee s. St.
paul road for the month Of February,
1872, were 1887 ,525; Tor February, 1871,
were 1897 ,4Sl.
PEORIA Is talking about new elevator,
with capacity Of 100000 bushels.