The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-11-08
TRADE INTERESTS.

LAST year Texas produced over $4,000
barrels of molasses.
PITTsBURG manufactures receive
about ninety car loads of metal per day.
GREAT activity prevails in the real
estate market in new York. A rise Of
rs per cent is reported since March.
THE Cleveland Rolling Mill company
turned out in one day ,075 rails, each
weighing 500 pounds.
GEORGE PYLE, a Wilmington (Del.l
machinist claims to have intented a ma
chine which will turn out two horse shoes
in second.
THE Michigan Car company, of De-
troit, has taken contract for the cree
ton of $50 new box cars for the North
western Grand Trunk railroad.
EMIGRATION to America from the
neighborhood of Genoa is going on. On
October Sd, about 200 persons embark
ed at that port, and on October 9th,
200.
SOME of the Cheyenne merchants are
thinking of employing girls for collectors,
giving a reason therefor that when the
girls present their little bills no man can
refuse.
CANNING crabs, a new industry at
Oxford, Md, gives employment to 10
persons, who put up from 12,060 to
$4,000 crabs daily, or over 100000 a
month.
KANSAS PACIFIC RAILROAD stock has
advanced 800 per cent. since last Febru-
ary. This is attributed to the extraor-
binary development now taking place in
the southwest
ANOTHER and a novel international
exhibition is talked of for this country.
| The project is that of the miller's assO-
citation, and they propose to hold a show
of mill products and mill machinery in
| Chicago next June.
A WEALTHY citizen of Hartford, CT,
whose daughter is very accomplished,
has sent her, with her full consent, to
learn a trade. They both feel that
trade is no diseredit, and may in this
world of uncertainties some day be of
value to her.
| A REGULAR tide of English emigrants
is setting in toward Texas, and it is the
result of railroad agents who are travel
ing throughout Great Britain, where the
hard times pinch worst, distributing
illustrated circulars describing the
wonderful resources of the Lone Star
| State.
THERE is better feeling in the BOs.
ton real estate market. Houses to let
| and to rent are in active demand, and at
one weeks private sales recently 20
houses were disposed of by one firm,
which is more than they had sold in any
one of the years of business depression.
Dwellings have been sold during the past
year forone-half of what they bring
to-day. Most of the purchasers are per-
sons seeking homes.
COMMON qualities of pig iron appear
to have advanced in Great Britain with
undue rapidity, and are adversely affect
ed by the relapse in Glasgow. The
frmness there is gradually extended to
| the high clas3 Of iron, The leading
firms in the finished iron trade in South
Stafford and East Worcestershire yester-
day decided to state that trade did not
Justify an advance in wages. 1t is prob
able that an arbitration will be appointed.
A GENTLEMAN who has just returned
to Washington after 3 tour through the
iron district of Pennsylvania gives q
rosy account of what he saw there.
| Towns which were filled with Unem-
ployed workmen II months ago are
| humming with business; no one who is
willing to work need remain idle; mills
established 40 years ago are doing more
work than ever before, and some of them
are running day and night Washington
| Dispatch
GAS for America" says Belgian let
ter to an English newspaper, cher
scythes, sewing machines and locks have
all achieved steady demand. l was
shown Belgian door handle, with its
two knobs, which cost If Coo, and
beside it the whole apparatus Of an
American lock, door handle and ALL
which only cost If. SOC. How struggle
against such a competition as that? said
the ironmonger; and in fact the lock
was pattern of neatness and solidity q
well as cheapness.
THE iron trade is booming. In order
to help the boom firm in Pittsburg are
finishing a sixteen-ton steel hammer,
which will delicately pat on the head an
anvil weighing one hundred and fifty
tons. The hammer and anvil will be
cast in Pittsburg and special furnaces
will have to be erected for their con.
struction. The anvil will be one Of the
largest in the world. The largest ham.
mer now in America weighs ten tons, and
is in Nashua, New Hampshire. The
cost OF these will be $4,000.
TIE paper makers are again in the
market for rags, and while buying with
some freedom are positively refusing to
pay any advance. Sales Of 800 bales of
seconds have been made at So 20, and
about 115 bales whites, very superior
selections, al q cents, and about 500
bales manila papers at range of to
Il cents. The manufacturers are still
annoyed by the scarcity Of water, which,
fortunately, restricts their output and
gives consumers an opportunity to clear
up the glut OF paper that has so long
existed. Coiored rags range from to
2 Gents, win very few ssles.- Boston
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