Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-09-04
TRADE INTERESTS.

THE bullion output of Leadyille ia
about five car loads per day.
The oil wells in Pennsylvania pour
out altogether about $4,000 barrels of
oil daily.
THERE has been shipped the present
Of WOOL to eastern markets. """ ~~''"A"
In London bread of superior quality
is now sold at 3 cents per pound, low
or 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 100000, 900
pounds, two-thirds of which 10 exported.
TIE United States have now more than
five-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, few weeks ago, were fuller of
orders than the bar-iron mills. Now
the order is reversed, but both are we'll
supplied. ..>.....,, =
WITHIN a radius of forty miles sur
rounding Steubenville, Ohio, a promi-
nent sheep growing centre of the state,
the farmers this year realized over $2,-
000, 900 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 80
much.
The Pacific mills at Lawrence, Mass,
employ from 10000 to $1,000 persons,
their pay roll runs as high as $40 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 monthf
behind their orders. <'
The Touring mill industry in the
United States employs 10000 men in
1000 mills, turning out yearly about
81, 00O, 900 barrels Of -four, of which
4, O00, 900 are exported to foreign coun.
AMERRiCA raises wheat 1000 miles
from her ports of export, convey it by
rail to the points of shipment, transports
it over 5000 miles Of ocean to Great
Britain, and sells it at a shilling 8
bushel less than it costs the English t
grow it.
BY quietly huying up all the grair
Sucks in the California market estimated
at about $4,000, ,OO0), a party of specula
tors have made q corner in that article
at time when the farmers must hav,
them or lose their grain. The ring viii
probably "bag" profit of $3.50, 900 OF
an outlay of 81, ,350,000.
LAST year 1865, 600 packages of to
matees were put up in the Unite@
States. Their value was $1,000, ,O00
OF these Maryland furnished 1000
packages; New jersey, $4,000. Della
ware, 1884, 900; New York, 1850, 600
Massachusetts,; 100000; Pennsylvanis
192, 900; Pacific Coast, Zoo, 900; West
ern and other states ,S20, 600 package.
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 railwa
, company alone is in the market for thirt
powerful engines, and as many more Al
to be built soon for the New Yor
elevated railway company. Accordin
to Paterson paper = we'll known naanr
facturer said the other day that within
month he had bid on no less than on
hundred engines, which was the larget
hs1had seen proposals. for sinoe the pant
Y lndshe had specifications on hand for 8
leastsffty more. AT the Rogers W0r1
thS5 have al they can do, and are fl
behihd with their ordersi If they hs
. sh61f 4odm; they could employ 1000 MOI
4 meh than they now have. . The: Da1
forth works are also driven to their n
r NEST capacity, with = prospect that the
t will be- further pushed before anoth!
. month. The same story comes from Il
eastern states.