The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-02-13
Trade Notes.
The wine interests of California repre-



Cuba's estimated crop of sugar will
reach 100000 tons.
The export of apples from this coun-
try to England this year is the largest
ever recorded.
The millers of Minneapolis are in re-
ceipt of many orders for -four from
London, Liverpool and Glasgow.
Ottumwa, Iowa, packing houses
are shipping from ten to fifteen carloads
of their product to Liverpool daily.
1t is stated that the orange crop of
the State of Florida, for the coming
year, will be more valuable than the
cotton crop.
There are now 1856 vessels employed
in the whale fishery, with an aggregate
tonnage of 40,603. New Bedford,
Mass, owns 1872 of them.
The California wool product of 1878
reached Al ,402, 800 pounds, which shows
deficit Of 11,301, 400 pounds, as COM
pared with 1877, and 15, ,1SS, ,470 less
than 1876.
Brazil sells about three-fourths of her
coffee crop, or in 1877, 1900, 900 bags, to
the United States, for which we pay
chiefly in gold, the gold balance paid in
1877 for Brazilian products amounting
to S45, ,000,0
The Minneapolis millers are expert
menting with machinery for compress
ing bran, for the purpose of shipment to
Europe. 1t is believed that it can be so
compressed as to get as much weight
into given package as the same would
hold of -four.
California thinks that it is rather hard
that while the national banks are al
lowed t. issue notes equal to ninety per
centum of the value of their deposits of
bonds, the gold-note banks of that State
can issue notes only equal to eighty per
centum of their bonds.
A Glasgow paper gives list of up
wards of one hundred and fifty failures
in Glasgow and the west of Scotland d.
rectly traceable to the stoppage of the
City of Glasgow Bank. The total liabil-
tiles of the Scotch firms who have been
dragged down are $125, 100000.
The Wamsutta Mills of New Bedford,
are carrying the war into Africa in good
earnest. They have already located an
agent in one of the cotton distributing
centers of England and are furnishing
our cousins with an article of fine
bleached cottons of such superior quality
as to cast British looms entirely in the
shade. --.....
1t is proposed to build a pipeline
from the refinery on the estate of Henry
Meiggs, Peru, South America, to the
shipping port. distance of about seven
miles. 1t is stated that oil can be pro-
duced at this port for less than one cent
gallon, and as the fields have produced
from time immemorial, there is no pros
pect of their early exhaustion.
The Coal Trade Journal reports the ag-
gregate production of anthracite coal in
the United States, for the year 1878, at
16, 1867 ,694 tons, against 20, 343, $50 tons
in 1877 and 20,S47 1851 tons in 1876.
This shows large falling off during the
past year, but there had been an over
production during the two preceding
years, and therefore the consumption
may not have declined as much as
the decreased production would seem to
indicate.
During the year 1878 the business
transacted at the Oil City (Pa.) Oil Ex-
change aggregated 76,450,000 barrels.
The average price was $1.17A per bar
rel, which would make the value of the
total transactions $S9, 100000.
The total value of iron and metal
products exported direct from Phila-
delphia to foreign countries during 1878
was $2,743,4 ,457. In addition to this
there was exported similar products to
the value Of $22S,176 by way of the
port of New York, thus making grand
total Of 81, 971 ,633.
From 10000, 900 to 100000 feet of
lumber was handled in Detroit last year
besides shingles 100000, and lath
100000 bundles. The quantity now
in store at that point is estimated at, in
round numbers, 10000, 900 feet of lum-
ber,. 800, 600 of shingles and 5000, ,000
bundles of lath.
1t is reported by Professor l.. S.
| Arnold that of sixteen oleomargarine
factories in this country known to him.
thirteen have gone to the wall, though
backed with an aggregate of 81, $3.50, ,0OC
capital stock to start with, and the re.
mainder are evidently running on a
small margin of profit, if indeed there
be any at all.
The total wool clip of the world il
1877 was about l, ,497, 500, 900 pounds
worth $150,000,000. This, wher
secured, would yield about S52, 100000
pounds clean wool. The clip of 1871
was smaller by 100000 to 10,000,00t
pounds The clip of Australia reache
annually about 2S4,0O0,O0O pounds
that Of Buenos Ayres and the Rive