The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-02


London, report the imports into Holland.
antwerp, Hamburg, Havre, Trieste and Lon.
hon, for 1875, to August 81, as 243,OOO tons,
8gainst 1888 200 tons TO same TOR same time
last year, and the amounts in stock and atioat
far same places September l, as lib, 300 tens,
against 103 500 same time last year.
Our sources of wealth are remarkable. Inc
gold and silver product Of the United states
IN 1874 was so, 600, 600. OF this, California FUR
nished $40 500, 600: Nevada, $35, 452, 900;
Utah, SIS, 900 600; Colorado, 81, 191, 600; Mon
tana, So, 439 600, and Idaho, oOO.
Nearly all of this went abroad to pay for I'm,
pcrts We fatter ourselves that our gold ana |
silver mines are an important source 10
to wealth, but, comparing their yield with
some other products, the mistake is found. |
The United States corn crop is worth four
times as much as the gold and silver crop, and
the whea crop five times as much; the cotton
crop more than three times as much, and the
hay crop four times as much. California, with
ali its gold, would be poor State but for its
wheat crop.
According to q statement in the English
Engineer, a weeks work in Birmingham COM
prises, among its various results, the fabrica-
ton of ii. 600, 900 pens, 5000 bedsteads, 1000
guns, 300, 600 600 cut nails, loo, OOO, 900 but
tons, 1000 saddles, 10000 600 copper or bronze
coins, 20, 900 pairs Of spectaces, tons OF pa
pier mache wares, $50, 600 worth OF Jewelry,
1000 miles of iron and steel wire, 10 tons OF
pins S tons of hairpins and hooks and eyes,
100, 900 gross of wood screws, 500 tons OF nuts
and screw boots and spikes, 500 tons OF
wrought iron hinges, $50 miles length OF wax
for yestas, 40 tons Of refined metal, 40 tons OF
herman silver, 1000 dozens of tenders, 35OO
IONS of brass and copper wares These, with
" multitude of other articles are exported to
lmost all parts of the globe.
The great advantage of extending our sys-
b of meteorological observations over the
|ole world, thereby enabling the observer
trace the rise of storms and atmospheric
xDhapges from the outset, has led to the first
kttempt being made to realize this object, and
Gen. Meyer, of the Signal Service, has just
published bulletin Of International meteor
illogical observations, taken simultaneously
at various stations in Algiers, Austria, Bel
gium, Great Britain, Sweden, Switzerland,
ITurkey, Syria, Canada the United States,
France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands,
Norway, Portugal, Spain and Russia By
these means it will be possible to prepare
daily weather map after the manner OF those
issued for the United States, including the
whole of the northern hemisphere, and by
the reciprocation of this intelligence the
whole world will be able to share in the bene-
fit of the observations taken 1t is evident
that to be thoroughly effective, the system
must prevail uniformly over all portions OF
the globe, and as this is approximately being
brought about, we may expect greater results
than have hitherto been afforded
The Value of Our Crops for 1874.
The total value Of all agricultural products
in the United States for the year 1874 was
S2,447, 53S, $50. The products derived, d.
rectly and indirectly, from the grass crop, are
estimated at 81, 292, 000 600, itemizsd as fol-
of
$500, OOO OOO live stock, 81, 525 900, 900; ami
mails slaughtered for food, 5000, 900, 600; but
ter. 1914, 600, 600; milk, S25 900, 600; wool,
S25, 900, 900; cheese, $4,000. 900. The esti-
mated total derived from grass is probably
too large, for the reason that the hay crop, the
value of which is given as one OF the Items,
must have been used to some extent in swell
ing the other values Still it is doubtless safe
TO say, allowing more than half the value OF
the hay to go to this account, that IN round
numbers the value of the pro iuctions depend
ING upon the grass yield tor 1874 was 81, 600,
600, 900.
American Edge Tools In Favor in England
Edge tools of American manufacture are
entering into successful competition with
those OF English manufacture, both in British
markets and those tributary to it. American
firms, taking advantage of the steadily I'M
proving facilities for working steel, both
smear and cast have made such improvements
as to bring thsir products into general favor
on the other side, and the Wolverhampton
people appear to be quite uneasy about 1t.
The most important movement, however
towards making the competition etfectual Ii
the proposed establishment of branch factories
in England.
By this means it is thought goods can be mar
keted at less expense than by shipping then
from one country to the other. A firm OF cast
steel shovel makers at PittsbuIg, who have
recently brought out shovel in which thu
straps, though of iron, are compacted with
the steel during the process of casting, ant
who al making, at a very low figure and will
very little manual labor, shovels that are get
ting very rapidly into use throughout thu
States, are now making movement in tina
direction.
Insu ance.
A paper read at the late convention of tn
Northwestern Insurance Association present
comparative statistics which form singula
commentary on the generally accepted theor
that fire insurance risks diminish in har
times and increase in years of business az
tiyity. Notwithstanding the facts that rea
estate has greatly declined and that merchant
have been carrying smaller stocks OF good
than usual it appears that the insurance bust
ness in the Western States has been lncrea
. ing its volume.
Trade in New YO- k.
The New York dry goods merchants, 9
will be found by referring to an article frol
the Herald, published in these columns. al
most agreeably disappointed by the handsom
developments of the fall trade. Some OF IL
most extensive dealers declare that the trad
is the largest and best known for three to nv
wears. The former comparison would carr
us back to the year 1872, before business ha
felt any serious premonitions Of the breal
down which occurred in 1873, and the latte
runs back to 1870, including several years {
eager activity and immense operations bot
in legitimate business and in speculation
We are scarcely prepared to credit assertion
which imply SO sweeping revolt
ton in the business aspects OF tt
times but allowing for some e:
sggeration into which the merchan