Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-05
TRADE INTERESTS.

LAST year Texas produced over $4,000
barrels of molasses.
GREAT activity prevails in the real
estate market in new York. A rise of
Is per cent is reported since March.
GEORGE PYLE, Wilmington (Dell
machinist claims to have intented ma
chine which will turn out two horse shoes
in second.
HE Michigan Gar company, of De-
troit, has taken a contract for the erec-
ton OF ESQ new box cars for the North
western Grand Trunk railroad.
EMIGRATION to America from the.
neighborhood of Genoa is going on. On
October Sd, about 900 persons embark
ed at that port, and on October 9Th,
1900.
SOME of the Cheyenne merchants are
thinking of employing girls for collectors,
giving reason therefor that when the.
girls present their little bills no man can
refuse.
CANNING crabs, new industry at
Oxford, Md, gives employment to 100
persons, who put up from 1900 to-
$4,000 crabs daily, or over 100000
month.
KANSAS PACIFIC RAILROAD stock has.
advanced 800 per cent. since last Febru-
airy. This is attributed to the extraor-,
binary development now taking place in
the southwest.
ANOTHER and novel International
exhibition is talked of for this country.
The project is that of the miller's asso-
citation, and they propose to hold show
of mill products and mill machinery in
Chicago next June.
A WEALTHY citizen of Hartford, Ct.
whose daughter is very accomplished,
learn trade. They both feel that a
trade is no discredit, and may in this
world of uncertainties some day be OF
value to her.
A REGULAR tide of English emigrants,
is setting in toward Texas, and it is the
result of railroad agents who are travel
ing throughout Great Britain, where the,
hard times pinch worst, distributing
illustrated circulars desert ing the
wonderful resources of the Lone Star
State.
THERE is better feeling in the Bos-
ton real estate market. Houses to let
and to rent are in active demand, and at
one weeks private sales recently 20
houses were disposed of by one firm,
which is more than they had sold in any
one of the years Ct business depression.
Dwellings have been sold during the past
year forone.half of what they bring
to-day. Most Of the purchasers are per-
sons seeking homes.
COMMON qualities of pig iron appear
to have advanced in Great Britain with
undue rapidity, and are adversely affect
ed by the relapse in Glasgow. The
frmness there is gradually extended to,
the high class of iron. The leading
firms in the finished iron trade in South
Stafford and East Worcestershire yester-
day decided to state that trade did not
Justify an advance in wages. 1t is prob
able that an arbitration will be appointed.
A GENTLEMAN who has just returned
to Washington after a tour through the
iron district of Pennsylvania gives
rosy account of what he saw there.
Towns which were filled with unem-
ployed workmen II months ago are
humming with business; no one who is
willing to work need remain idle; mills
established 40 years ago are doing more
work than ever before, and some of them
are running day and night Washington
Dispatch.
AS for America" says Belgian let
ter to an English newspaper, cher
scythes, sewing machines and locks have
ali achieved steady demand. I was.
shown a Belgian door handle, with it's
two knobs, which cost If. &c., and
beside it the whole apparatus of an
American lock, door handle and all,
which only cost If. SOC. How struggle,
against such a competition as that? said
the ironmonger; and in fact the lock
was pattern of neatness and solidity
well as cheapness.
The iron trade is booming. In order
to help the boom firm in Pitisburg are
finishing sixteen-ton steel hammer,
which will delicately pat On the head an
anvil weighing one hundred and fifty
tons. The BANNER and anvil will be.
cast in Pittsburg and special furnaces.
will have to be erected for their con-
The anvil will be one of the
largest in the world. The largest ham
mer now in America weighs ten tons, and
is in Nashua, New Hampshire. The.
cost of these will be $4,000
The paper makers are again in the
market for rags, and while buying with
some freedom are positively refusing to.
pay any advance. Sales of 600 bales of
seconds have been made at So 20, and
about 115 bales whites, very superior
selections, at AZ cents, and about 500
bales manila ma Ders at range of to-
II cents. The manufacturers are still
annoyed by the scarcity of water, which,
fortunately, restricts their output and
gives consumers an opportunity to clear
up the glut of paper that has so long
existed. Colored rags range from { to-
2 cents, with very few ssles.-Bost0n
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