The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-09-06
TRADE INTERESTS.

S~ ASeNNAS
THE oil wells in Pennsylvania pour
out altogether about $4,000 barrels of
oil daily.
THERE has been shipped the present
ceason from Aurora, H., 210, 900 pounds
of wool TO eastern markets.
In London bread of superior quality
is now sold at cents per pound, low
er price than for forty years.
"HELP wanted" advertisements far
outnumber those under situations
wanted" in the newspapers nowadays.
The annual tobacco crop of the
United States is about 420,000,000
pounds, tw0-thirds Of which is exported.
The United States have now more than
fve-eighths as much railroad mileage
as all Europe, and it will be but few
years before We have as much as all the
rest of the world.
The sheet-iron rolling mills of Pitts
burg, a few weeks ago, were fuller of
orders than the bar-iron mills. Now
the order is reversed, but both are well
supplied.
WITHIN radius of forty miles sur
rounding Steubenville, Ohio, promi-
nent sheep growing centre of the state,
the farmers this year realized over ST.
100000 from the sale of their wool
THE London Engineer cannot under
stand why Switzerland will buy her
locomotives of American manufacturers,
when they are 1000 miles further away
than the English, who want the work SO
much.
The Pacific mills at Lawrence, Mass,
employ from 10000 to $4,000 persons,
their pay roll runs as high as so min.
ute, and the cost of supplies with which
TO keep the machinery running is $40 q
minute.
The Northwestern smelling works
Cleveland, will at once enlarge their ca.
pacity by the addition of three new fur
naces, increasing the output to one ton
of metal per day. They are two months
behind their orders.
The Touring mill industry in the
United States employs 10000 men in
$4,000 pulls, turning out yearly about
| 5O,000,0OO barrels Of -four, of which
100000 are exported to foreign coun.
tries
AMERICA raises wheat 1000 miles
from her ports of export, convey it by
rail to the points of shipment, transE orts
it over 5000 miles of ocean to Great
Britain, and sells it at a shilling 8
bushel less than it costs the English tC
grow it.
ACCORDING to the Chicago Times
"never before has trade been so good al
this season, and in no previous year have
Chicago merchants sold as many goods
as thus far during 1879, and to-day the
business interests of this city are in 8
better shape than at any previous time
since the panic of 1873.
By quietly buying up all the grain
sacks in the California market ESTIMATED
at about Is, O00,000), party of specula
tors have made corner in that article
at time when the farmers must have
them or lose their grain. The ring viii
probably "bag" profit Of $3.50, 900 OF
an outlay of 81, $4,000.
LAST year 19,66S,OOO packages of to
matees were put up in the United
States. Their value was $1,600,0OO
Of these Maryland furnished $50, OOt
packages; New Jersey, $4,000 Della
ware, 1884, 900; New York, 1850 900
Massachusetts, 100000; Pennsylvania
$4,000; Pacific Coast, 1900, 900; West
ern and other states l, $4,000 package
AMERICAN trade with Austria has in
creased enormously since the Vienna ex
hibition, when the people got their eye
opened to the superiority of American
inventions, farm implements, tools, etc
Hundreds of thousands of SEWN,
machines have been sold in that country
and farmers who have the means ar
rapidly supplying themselves with labor
saving implements of American manu-
| facture.
The locomotive builders appear to b.
almost overwhelmed with business
showing the powerful impetus given t,
railway enterprise by the demand fo
grain transportation, added to the effect
of reviving prosperity in the variou
branches Of industry. The Erie RAILWAY
company alone is in the market for thirtl
powerful engines, and as many more ar
to be built soon for the New Yorl
elevated railway company. Accordin,
to Paterson paper well known manu-
facturer said the other day that within
month he had bid on no less than on
hundred engines, which was the larges
he had seen proposals for since the panic
and he had specifications on hand for a
least fifty more. At the Rogers work
they have all they can do, and are fal
behind with their orders. If they hac
shop room they could employ !, 900 NOR,
men than they now have. The Dan
forth works are also driven to their ut
most capacity, with a prospect that they
will be further pushed before anothel
month. The same story comes from the
eastern states