Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-12-04

If officers, clerks, and employees of the
burenus proper, aggraxatiDg 1873 person s.,
an appropriation of 1858 1880 is recommend
ed-the same as last year, the commissioner
adding that it will be wholly iupracticable
to reduce the force in any particular with
ont material injury to the public service
TRADE INTERESTS.
The Oneida community has just re-.
ceived an order for 1000 cans of pork
and beans.
SIX years ago the daily shipment of
paper from Holyoke was not over so
tons. Now it is 80 tons, and will reach
100.
FIVE thousand five hundred turkey .
vii! be fattened at Barre, w., this win
ter and killed and frozen for the spring
trade.
TIE water works at Edensburgh, Cam.
bria county, Pa, are run bya wind mill,
and 80 industrious is it that the reservoir
is kept full all the time.
The New York and Oswego Midland
railsnd railroad, which sold for 81 6OO,-
600 the other day, cost SIC, ,000,0 QUO be-
fore the panic.
A FEW days ago the Eagle and Phe
nix cotton mill at Columbus, Ga, sold
$45, 900 worth of their products-rescue
plaids and ball sewing-thread.
FIFTY per cent. of the Missippi cotton
crop of this year is reported to have pro-
duced by white labor. The cotton crop
of the whole country is announced as
the largest on record.
The owners of established factories in
Georgia complain of the legislative ex.
emption of new factories from taxation
for ten years, and it is said that the val.
idity of the exemption is to be tested in
the courts.
The London Times shows that
although many of the English straw
plaiters are w.rking for six cents a day,
their productions cannot compete in
price with the Canton plait at present
flooding the market.
TIE second attempt in the United
States to roll imported steel has just sue
ceeded in Vermont. From imported
English blooms the st. Albans Iron and
Steel works are rolling steel rails without
a flaw or blemish.
A PlTTsBURG paper says: cit is said
the ma:leabte iron works in this vicinity
are refusing orders, as they are unable
to fill them, and the orders have to be
sent to Cleveland and other cities.
There are but three malleable iron works
here-two in Allegheny and one in this
city-and they are all being worked to
their utmost capacity"
The quickest railroad building ever
done in Nebraska was performed al
Lincoln recently, on the Burlington and
Missouri extension, when gang of sixty
men with two trains laid one mile Of
new road, putting in two bridges and
Two crossings, and making connections
ut both ends with the main line, between
eight O'Clock in the evening and break
fast time, and the men who drove thu
spikes were Obliged to have lantern
held close to their work. The work wa
hurried because it passes across the pro
posed right.of-way of the Union Pacific
branch.
In relation to mining and agricultur
the Boston HerG d says: "We know o
no more striking contrast between th
silent forces which contribute to tn
lcountry's wealth and those which max
more noise and create more.excitemens
than the simple statement that I'M
value of the staple agricultural proc uct
harvested in this country this year e1
ceeds by 800, ,O0O, 900 the total produc
of ou, gold and silver mines since th
California discovery. The countr
steadily progresses in its development
Hundreds and thousands of new iarn
have been carved out of the wilderne'
every year, and scarcely occasion NOR
remark thon tho discovery of siDg'
vein of gold or silver. The mines whic
; have built up I.eadville in year or tw
are advertised all over the world, an
the minds of millions are agitst ted by th
possibility of sudden wealth.
TaE New York Commercial Bullet
> thinks that prices in the general mark
! for all kinds of goods have been too big
and that moderate reaction has set il
. 1t saws: In the merchandise narke
. there is q significant lull in speculation
1t is unmistakable that prices ha'
:: reached a point at which buyers for co
!. sumption begin to hesitate and resort
+ make shifts. In sugars there have be<
n no transactions of moment for thr'
}. days. Coffee il coming in much fAst'
Q than it 10 going out. Butter has touch,
! the point at which olemsrgarine aga
+ becomes available. Iron is yielding u
>. der the offers Of speculative holders 81
II the competion of foreign supplies. Al
r, thus the conditions of reaction fro
'e tho late advance run through nearly
70 the markets. 1t ID not reasonable
- - suppose that such an extreme as b
=. occurred within late months can be mai
}. tained. Undoubtedly prices, at the
ginning Of the year, were depress
10 much below the level consistent with
er health demand; but the subsequent r
n =, has carried them just as far as the OPP
n. site, extreme; and symptoms lndlca
Of that the process Of reaction toward
3. moderate level has already set. Tnt
Il, Who have made fortunes within t.
ls, weeks BY the sudden rise must expect
~ have mart cf their profits wiped out
p 81 a reduction in the value of their prese
e e Holdings; but, after such deductio
"a they will have q handsome! balance;
30 gain, =: The misfortune 10 that some "
u, have made large profits on the rise
y their goods put the proceeds int6 "
street "poker, upon the suppes!s
o. lthst they can In that way increase III
'S which fl nine caseS ont Of ten p.ove.