Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-19
TRADE INTERESTS.

TRADE INTERESTS.
Ara mortgage sale at Evergreen. Ala,
land was sold at IS cents per acre.
MAINE papers report more extensive
preparations for the lumber business the
ensuing winter than for many years.
CRUDE rubber is SO scarce and the
mills 80 active that you may have to
pay one hundred per cent. more for
your arctics than you would last spring.
Two young ladies in Washington
county exhibited at the state fair last
week some beautiful specimens of Arkan-
sas silk Seorcy (ZrA. Beacon.
NEARLY all the cane mills and evapora-
tors now used by sugar makers in the
West Indies, South and Central America,
and Sandwich Islands and Australia are
furnished by American manufacturers.
A PROMINENT operator reports rs per
cent. advance in the price of real estate
in the city of New York since March.
Large fortunes have been made by real
estate operators. Business is very brisk.
The Euenimg Herald says over 1000
women and girls are employed in shirt
making in Syracuse; that one firm alone
has 800 hands, with steam-driving sewing
machines, and that it turns out 800
dozen white shirts daily.
THE Tennessee Manufacturing COM
pany, engaged in the manufacture of
cotton at Nashville, reports for the past
year net profit of $33, 007 SO, which is
over ten per cent. of the capital stock of
the company.
! LIVERPOOL commission merchants
charge our shippers enormous rates.
"Rattage" for destruction by rats, forms
large item, and the other day Liver
pool agent charged rattage" on cargo
of lead.
The manufacture of tobacco furnishes
employment to some 10000 children.
The girls are especially skilled in this
| industry, and one can put up thirteen
gross of tobacco in tin foil and twenty
two gross in paper in one day.
TIE Somerset (Me.) Reporter says that
the sugar beet crop has been very salts
factory, the average yield being from
IL to 20 tons an acre. At the prices paid
the cultivators realize from $85 to 500
per acre.
THE merchants of st. Louis have
organized a movement for the erection
of spacious and permanent exposition
building, like those of Chicago, Louis
vile, and Cincinnati. 1t is intended to
finish it for next fall.
A BELGIAN gentleman who is well
acquainted with business in tie United
States says that WOODEN clothes and
clothing are no longer G. eaper in Eu-
rope than here; and the great wooden
manufacturing establishments of Bel
GUM are being ruined by competition
from this country.
The Memphis business boom is a great
fact, the AvaGanche declares, and the
merchants on the streets are said to be
too busy to talk. There is a big crop of
cotton to come in, and there are great
quantities of supplies to go out, and
business men are making up for lost time
with rush.
The demand for the rye straw for the
manufacture of paper is so great i'm
Pennsylvania that farmers have very
largely increased their acreage Of this
crop, and the yield for the present year
is estimated at 100000 bushels. The
straw is as valuable as the grain.
WHILE parties were boring for petro-
leum in the Santa Cruz mountains,
California, an abundant flow was found,
equal to 100 barrels per day. The oil
when first struck spurted 100 feet above
the surface, and 100 barrels went to waste
before facilities for saving it could be
provided. Large sums of money have
been expended during the last ten years
in searching in these mountains for
petroleum, and the late strike will slim
ulate increased activity in the work
NORFOLK did an export business last
year of $10.000,000, and has won for
herself, and away from New York and
Baltimore, the cotton trade Of the south.
She is now the second cotton exporting
port in the United States, and is running
| q tilt with New Orleans which makes
the Creole city puff to hold her own.
Norfolk's magnificent harbor and water
front give her q chance to trade direct
with Europe, saving freight and other
expenses to Baltimore or New York.
The United States Economist SAYS: A
constant and steady export of wheat and
breadstuffs will occur throughout the
fall and winter months, and as the sea.
son advances it would not be surprising
ii prices would gradually grow frmer.
1t is unfortunate for the general welfare
of the country that great operators in
grain manipulate the market in wheat
as they do stocks in Wall street. By
concerted action they can corner wheat ~
they do railroad stocks and thereby I'M
settled values to the hindrance of legiti-
mate trade.