Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-09-04
TRADE INTERESTS.

The oil wells in Pennsylvania pour
out altogether about $4,000 barrels of
oil daily.
THERE has been shipped the present
season from Aurora, H., 2l0,0 pounds
of wool to eastern markets
In London bread Of a superior quality
is now sold at 8 cents per pound, a low
er price than for forty years.
"HELP wanted" advertisements far
outnumber those under situations
wanted" in the newspapers now a-days.
The annual tobacco crop of the
United States is about 420,000,000
pounds, two-t thirds of which is exported.
The United States have now more than
6ve.eighths as much railroad mileage
as all Europe, and it will be but few
wears before we have as much rs all the
rest of the world.
The sheet-iron rolling mills of Pitts
burg, a few weeks ago, were fuller Of
orders than the bar-iron mills. Now
the order is reversed, but both are well
supplied.
WITHIN a radius of forty miles sur
rounding Steubenville, Ohio, a promi-
nent sheep growing centre of the state,
the farmers this year realized over 81
100000 from the sale of their wool.
The London Engineer cannot under
stand why Switzerland will buy her
locomotives of American manufacturers,
when they are 1000 miles further away
than the English, who want the work so
much.
The Pacific mills at Lawrence, Mass,
employ from 10000 to $4,000 persons,
their pay roll runs as high as $40 min
Ute and the cost of supplies with which
TO keep the machinery running is $50 a
minute.
The Northwestern smelling works,
Cleveland, will at once enlarge their ca
pacity by the addition of three new fur
naces, increasing the output to one ton
Of metal per day. They are two months
behind their orders.
LAST year 1868, 900 packages of to-
matoes were put up in the United
States. Their value was $1,600,000.
OF these Mary land furnished $4,000
packages; New Jersey, $4,000. Della
ware, 1854, 900; New York, 1850, 900;
Massachusetts,, 100000; Pennsylvania,
192000; Pacific Coast, 100000; West
ern and other states l,32O,O 600 packages.
ACCORDING to the Chicago Times,
never before has trade been so good as
this season, and in no previous year have
Chicago merchants sold as many goods
as thus far during 1879, and to-day the
business interests of this city are in a
better shape than at any previous time
since the panic Of 1878.
The Touring mill industry in the
United States employs 10000 men in
$4,000 mills, turning out yearly about
100000 barrels of -four, of which
100000 are exported to foreign coun.
tries.
AMERICA raises wheat 1000 miles
from her ports of export, convey it by
rail to the points of shipment, transports
it over 5000 miles of ocean to Great
Britain, and sells it at shilling a
bushel less than it costs the English to
grow it.
BY quietly buying up all the grain
sacks in the California market ESTIMATED
at about l5,000,000), party of specula-
tors have made corner in that article
at time when the farmers must have
them or lose their grain. The ring will
probably "bag" a profit of $4,000 on
an outlay of S1,350,OO0.
AMERICAN trade with Austria has in
creased enormously since the Vienna ex-
hibition, when the people got their eyes
opened to the superiority of American
inventions, farm implements, tools, etc.
hundreds of thousands of sewing
Eox ~ ho+
and farmers who have the means are
RAPIDLY supplying themselves with labor
saving implements of American manu-
tacture.
The locomotive builders appear to be
almost overwhelmed with business,
showing the powerful impetus givenf to
railway enterprise by the demand for
grain transportation, added to the effects
OF reviving prosperity in the various
branches of industry. The Erie railway
company alone is in the market for thirty
powerful engines, and as many more are
70 be built soOI for the New York
elevated railway company. According
70 Paterson paper 8 well known manu-.
lacturer said the other Gay that within
month he had bid on no less than one
~ItHieu engines, winch was the largest
ne mad seen proposals for since the panic,
and ne had Specifications on hand for at
least tfty more. At the Rogers works
iiIey have all they can do, and are far
yehind with their orders If they had
mop room they could employ 900 more
Hleh than they now have. The Dan
IoftL works are also driven to their ut
NEST capacity, with a prospect that they
VIII be further pushed before another
month. The same story comes from the