Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-05-06

which cost $4,000, 900, and their net
profits are 81 100000, or about three
per cent. The value of the roads now
is l5,0O0,0 900, and a large proportion of
them do not pay one per cent. on their
cost.
"A Canadian firm are endeavoring
to get an order filed in Charleston,
W. Va, for 1900, 600 feet of sawed lum-
Der, to be used for lock gates of the
Welland Canal. The order was sent
South on account of the great dimen-
sions Of some of the pieces, there being
no trees sufficiently large for the pur-
pose in Canada.
Trials have been made in Rome of
a solution of chloride OF calcium as a
substitute for water in laying dust in
streets, and the results are said to have
been highly satisfactory. The damp
ness communicated to the road remains
for whole week. The road remains
damp without being muddy, presenting
hard surface, on which neither the
wind nor the passing Of pedestrians or
horses has any effect.
The blackberry industry in Georgia,
North Carolina and other Southern
States is about to open, and the local
papers are showing what bonanza is
in danger of running TO waste. The lit.
tie town of Salem, S. c., containing
only about 1900 inhabitants, has ship
ped during three years over 3,0O0,OOt
pounds of dried blackberries, for which
nearly half million dollars was re
ceived. This was equal to over 9,00t
bales of cotton at 10 cents pound, ant
is resource certainly not to be despised
Mr.. Robert Rankin, of Southern
Illinois, has, for long time, been frrIi
grower and farmer, and during the pas
sixteen years his sales of products hav,
footed up as follows: Wheat, Sl9,963.
IL: cattle, S4.33S.35; horses, "a ,510.15
hogs, $13,09S.95; apples, S3,665.32
peaches, SIC, 1884,; grapes, 3, 1908
or, in round numbers: Grain, S4l ,913.
Is; fruit, 1913, 1864. The amount o
land devoted to grain was 245 acres, ant
only % acres to fruit. The average
proceeds per acre he gives for apples
S3S.O7; grapes, S66.46; peaches, S7O.U
grain, $1,000.
Ross Winans, engineer, inventor
and millionaire, who has just died n
Baltimore, was remarkable character
Perhaps his most notable invention wa.
the " camel back engine" usedito take
trains across the heavy grades of the Al
leghanies. He was invited so years ago
to build Russia's railroads, but declined
sending his sons, who planned and exc
cuted the Russian railroad system. HI
went abroad because of his Southern
sympathies during the war. and since
his return had written several books
The mechanical genius of the family ha'
developed itself in score of inventions
more or less important.
The chemical properties of butter
inc, properly prepared from ox-suet, art
almost identical with those of Ordinar,
butter, the only difference being few
per cent. of volatile fatty acids forming
buttyrine in the true butter. Fully 9,
per cent. of both butter and butterin'
consists of the more liquid fats common
to both. The butter, in fact. is practi
cally the animal fat passed by the COW
through the udder in the milk from
which it was manufactured; while but
terine is made from the finer part of fl
stored in other parts Of the system of th'
animal. Both fats are equally cleanl,,
and wholesome.