Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-10
TRADE INTERESTS.


ping facilities.
AN Albany firm made 800, 600 worth
OF shipments direct to London during
september and October.
The sum of s1SO,OO0 was paid ont at
Key West during the year ending Octo-
Der 81, for sponge. There are 70 vessels
In the trade, manned by $50 men.
IF nothing happens between now
and then, Illinois will be entirely free
from Indebtedness by the first of January,
1881.
HE Sibley Manufacturing company,
just organized at Augusta, Ga, for the
manufacture OF cotton and wooden poods
Dy water power, starts with p capital of
100000. '''-
TIE pay rolls of the Pennsylvania
steel works, near Harrisburg, amounted
last month to $4,000, which sum was
handed over last Saturday to the en-
ployes.
TEE Bradford News reports that the
recent advance in Oil has increased the
price OF labor and contracts I'D there.
1t also Gays that the northern field is
entering the winter with hattering pros.
poets, and the lower country is booming.
Signs are being displayed, for the first
time In many years. inquiring for help.
ORDERS have been received In Troy,
n. T., for the construction of passenger
and baggage cars for the Louisiana
Western, five complete trains for the
newly organized Wabash, fifty additional
cars for the Metropolitan elevated rail-
way III New York, and an officers car
for the Indianapolis, Bloomington and
Munice road.
1t is stated that certain capitalists and
ship-owners Of New York snd Boston are
talking over q project for the establish
ment OF new line of steamers to Div
between New York and Liverpool for
the carriage of passengers and freight,
IN competition with the White Star line,
The vessel, if constructed, will be of
iron, about 1000 tons each, and bark
rugged, having powerful engines and all
tne appliances necessary to assure the
greatest possible safety, speed and COM
fort.
HE aggregate steam power in use in
the world IS at present 8, 500, 900 horse
power employed in stationary engines,
and 10000, 900 horse power in locomotive
engines. The force is maintained with
out the consumption of animal food,
except by miners, vino dig the Goals, and
the force maintained in their muscles is
to the force generated by the product of
their labor about one to 1880. This
steam power is equal to the working
force OF rs, coo, 900 horses, and one horse
consumes three times as much food as
one man. The steam power, therefore,
is equal to the saving of $4,000, 900
human beings.
A ST. PETERSBURG paper says:
Twenty years ago st. Petersburg ex-
ported 10000 tons of lard; now the
competition of the United States, the
River Plata and Australia has destroyed
the trade, and ST. Petersburg imports
instead OF exporting. In the present
year the imports of the article already
amount to 5000 TONS" The same Jour
nal complains that Russian grain is be-
ing driven from European markets by
American grain, and il finds an expla-
nation of the fact in the superiority of
the railway system Of the United States,
inc Russian railway system having been
constructed with a view to military
operations.
TIE Paterson locomotive shops are
now estimating On a bid for thirty five
locomotives, for the Erie railway, all
narrow guage of course. Ten are for
freight engines, on the same model as the
large ones recently adopted by the road,
which, despite the statements of engi-
neers and others in subordinate positions,
have proven TO be such success in point
of economy and efficiency that they re-
main the standard for freight trains On
the road. The rest are ito be passenger
engines OF q standard pattern that has
been adopted, and like which all passen-
ger locomotives are to be made hereafter,
go "a to have them uniform, like those on
the Pennsylvania and Central railroads.
These engines are to be completed by the
first of March.
THE traffic in eggs in this country ia
estimated by competent authority to
equal $150,O00,000 per annum. Now
York receives in a year $4,000 barrels
of eggs valued at 100000. In 1877
there were exported from this country
1902, 205 dozen eggs, valued st 1868, 701.
It is claimed that philadelphia consumes
daily $4,000 dozen eggs. The approx
mate receipts of eggs in Boston for the
year 1878 have been as follows: 107,627
cases containing 40 dozen each, and IT,
1888 barrels, ontaining 70 dozen each.
These figures give, as q result, 1884,
packages, containing 5,515,652 dozen
eggs, or rs, 1877, 1886 single eggs. It is es-
timated that fully IS per cent. of all re-
ceipts are consumed in Massachusetts,,
and that about 80 per cent. are consumed
in and near Boston. ---Boston Cu3tivator.
The recent convention of wool manu-
facturers in Philadelphia received re-
ports showing the really startling progress
the wool manufacturers have made in
this country within very few years. In
no department is this progress so great
and striking as in carpets. IN 1872 we
imported 100000 worth. Now we
import none OF any account, the total for
1873 being less than 100000 worth.
This change has taken place in company
with large increase in consumption,