The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-12-27
TRADE INTERESTS.

MORE than 100000 is realized in
France by parasol making.
CHICAGO kills six hogs for every min.
ute of every day IN the year.
MERCHANTABLE sugar is maHnfaC~
tured at Gunnison, Utah, the first eyer
made in the territory.
A PROJECT is on foot for the establish
ment of large wOolen-mill at Fort
Worth, Texas.
A sTEAM hammer head, weighing three
tons, has just been finished at the Du-
quesne Forge, Pittsburg.
PENNSYLVANIA lamp chimney mar
ufacturers are reported as being unable
to keep up with their orders.
AN advance of ten per cent. in the
wages of miners has taken place through
oat Wyoming region, Pa.
A SPECULATION in straw mating has
been conducted very successfully by q
few New York aid Boston parties.
The Misses Barber, of Nashua, n. H,
have taken q contract to make 100000
pair of mittens.
a NEW car wheel factory is under con
temptation by the Pennsylvania Bail
road company st Altoona. 1t will hSyR.
9 capacity for l25 wheels day.
FLOUR is worth So per hundred st
Yago, Geagher county, Mont, and lum.
Der, freighted in from Benton, 100 miles
distant, sells at 3 cents per pound.
THE peanut crop of Virginia, Tennes-
see and North Carolina is estimated at
about l $4,000 bushels, an increase OF
about 100000 bushels over last year.
BEFORE the war the heaviest cotton
crop ever gathered in Texas, in one year,
was 200, 900 bales. This year the crop
will reach fully million bales.
A FACTORY in Redditch, England,
turns out between 100000 and 1000,
600 of needles each week, or about $780,
000,000s year.
ALTHOUGH there is SD worth of oil
in every ton of cotton seed, there are but
four mills in the whole south to extract
it, outside of the $8,000,000 invested in
the business at New Orleans.
SOME Of the western merchants are
employing women as collectors, giving
as a reason that when the bills are
presented no man can muster the cour-
age TO refuse payment.
THE estate of a gentleman who died
i'll Boston about g year ago was thought
to be insOlvent. The recent advance in
prices will make the estate solvent, with
a half million for the heirs.
MILLIEERs complain that the large
dry-goods establishments are steadily
encrOaching on their trade, until many
milliners low supply but little more
than the untrimmed hats and bonnets.
If there is any place that wants the
starch taken out of it it is ArOostOok,
Maine. TIE starch factories there are
all closed, having had an unusual long
run, and the store houses are crowded
with starch waiting transportation.
THE wheat crop is the largest ever
produced in the state, and at the present
high prices viii bring to the people o.
the state upward of $4,000 200, or over
$3.50 for each man, woman and child Oh
the population.
IT is claimed that recent experiments
or the Lake Shore railroad proved thst
petroleum could be successfully used 81
fuel for locomotive with a great saving
OF money, besides doing away Win 'InOA'
and cinders.
A MACHINE that sews books pertecty
and that's destined to revolutiOnIze VIC
printing business has been invented q.
Hartford. The machine is about lou.
feet high, three feet wide and two anu q
half feet deep, and looks like an ofu'
nary sewing machine.
THE domestic goods market ID New
York for some days past has been reaso IL
ably active and q large movement ~
brown, bleached and colored cottons Wa
on account of former or9els'
Dress goods are receiving increased a.
tention from buyers who are about max
ing preparations for the spring tfaue5
and some liberal orders for staPle
Torsted fabrics, buntings, ETC, are Qelns
placed by local and interior JobpelIS
Values of both cotton and wooden go0ds
ire approaching, and the tone o. the
market is exceedingly strong.