The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-28
COMMERCIAL MATTERS, Etc.

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Among the California exhibits at the Cen
tennial will be building contracted OF pine ,
cones.
The Cortland Journal informs us that nail
factory there has received an order tor 3UO,-
600 tons of horse shoe nails.
A cargo of ship spars are being delivered at
Olympia, Washinton Territory, tor shipment
direct to Newburyport Mass.
Another rich gold mine has been discovered
in Cherokee county, Ga. 1t is said to Yield
$500 to the ton.
Mushrooms weighing from six ounces to
two pounds each, are a staple article IN the
Bakersfield (Cal.) market.
The ST. Louis Life Insurance Company will
pass into the control of the directors OF the
Life Association of America, and the two
companies will be hereafter conducted under
one management.
The twenty-seven salt furnaces at Pomeroy,
O., will be stopped in few days, not to re-
sumo operation before spring. the market
being oversto locked and prices ruled down be- |
low cost. The average.capacity of these fur
naces is one thousand bushels per twenty-1our
hours and each employs not less than forty
hands
A plantation of four thousand acres on the
Ogeechee River, Ga, was sometime ago pur-
chased by firm, who intend working tne
place permanently with one hundred Georg
colored convicts sent to the penltentlary Tor
trivial offences.
The Mobile Reqister shows that the people
of the South are in better condition than
those of the North, by proving that IN the
North investments in cotton-splnnlng mills
yield an average Of II SO per cent, while the
Southern mills pay an average OF "a 10 per
cent, or over 6 per cent more than the North
ern mills.
The Illinois Trust and Savings Bank OF
Chicago is about to issue convenient certi-
fcates of deposit in sums of $40 and multi
ple payable on demand. These will bs IL
handy form for the pocket or desk and will be
good only when Endorsed. The idea has been
. maturely considered, and its adoption by the
bank will, it is believed, relieve families and
individuals from the trouble of keeping small
bank accounts, or of holding much currency
on hand.
In the United States S3,0 900 men are en-
ployed in mining and 50,O0OO00 tons Of coal
are mined YEARLY In Pennsylvania the death
rate exceeds that of Great Britain. The death
rate in Ohio was also greater last year than
that OF England, but this year it will be less
The most dangerous mines IN the United
States are in Schuylkiil county, Pa, one man
being killed there for every 3d. 600 tons mined.
One man is killed in England for every l3o,-
600 tons mined, one in Pennsylvania for every
$4,000 tons and one in Ohio for every 1873, 600.
The destruction of human life ought always
to be considered when making complaints
about dear fuel.
Promising Impetus to the Southern Iror
Int, est.
Judging from published correspondence O.
Southern ironmasters with parties engaged il
the interest in England, there would seem tt
be some chance for the celebrated cold-blas
iron of Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. Th'
product of these States it is said, will com
pete with the Swedish and British cold-has
iron that is now so extensively used IN Eng
land. It is anticipated that shipment o
1000 tons will be made early in the comm
wear for experimental purposes Manches
ter firm, who have taken some interest IN tn
matter, write that, should the analysis sen
them prove satisfactory it is highly probabl
they will find market for every pound {
southern cold-blast metal, even in the preser
depressed state of the market.
New Orleans Sugar and Mola sses.
[Cincinnati Price Current, 23d inst]
In the palmy days Of sugar planting !
Louisiana Cincinnati was the great mart &c
the distribution of sugar and molasses to
large portion of the Western country, fe
here was the capital for the purchase of thet
goods in large quantities, and the men
nerve and foresight to judiciously use tn
stroyed that industry this business has bee
of comparatively little importance but it
now becoming prominent, and in few yea
it will probably exceed its former proportion
for after struggling against numerous dlfhcu
ties. of want of capital and labor, and Wei
STUDIES of unfavorable weather and lnund
lions, sugar planting may be said to be fair
on its feet again, and the production 20
wear is much larger than it had been been
ten or twelve years preceding. :,
During these years Of depression IN the
dnstry the channels of trade have chang
greatly in the West and it is scarcely prob
Bile that Cincinnati will ever again handle
large proportion Of the production as 8
did in former years, for she has TO mee'
greater competition now, but she has eve
wear been probably the largest buyer, and CO
seouently effected greater distribution
these goods than any other Western city. 5
has the capital and the right kind of men
control it, and she has large trade which {
pend, upon her to furnish these articles
Is owing chiefly to her efforts that the refol
in the tare on sugar hOgsheads was efectt
by which actual tares are now gwen. :,
Prices of these articles are now lower To
thew have been since the war, and witt
more ample supply they are fast reg Uni
the estimation in which they were torme
held by consumers. Refined sugars a
svrups have SO long usurped the place VIII
was formerly occupied by the domestic P
duction that many families have grown
which have had little or no practical expe
ence in the use of the latter. but there can
little doubt that they will gradually win tt
way to more general consumption II the 81
ply is kept up-there is, in fact, no dithcu
in selling these goods now. the oniy .sou
which dealers experience Is In obtaining
quate supplies ,,
have their buyers in New Orleans, and
will probably be able to secure an ample
ply for this season to meet the wants OF
country which is commercially tributary
this city, although these wants will DOUBT
be enlarged when the supply is forthcom
The healthfulness of the Louisiana sugar
molasses is strong point in their favor,