Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-10-23
Trade IN rERES is.

TIVE Chicago stock yards give en-
,loynent to about Is 600 people.
AMERICA hiss $50 exhibitors at the In
.srnstional exhibitian at Melbourne.
THREE hundred men are now EN-
loved at the Cleveland car works.
TIE only wooden mill in Texas is at
New Braunfels. Last year the profits
we're ISL, 900.
EIGHT thousand FIVE hundred railroad
ties are being brought into Arizona
daily.
The co operative glass factory at
Bssyer, Pa, sold over $4,000 worth of
glass last month.
TIE Pennsylvania oil regions are
destined to compete with formidable
rival in the oil products of Peru.
LARGE silk factory is about to be
started at Union Hill, n. J. This will
make the ifth establishment of the
krd at that place.
TWENTY FIVE million dollars mile
!. the cost of the construction of an ex-
7nsion of the distr ct railway of Lon
ion, which is to be undertaken at once.
The Reading ron works will put into
operation new pipe mill next week,
which will furnish employment to 200
additional men.
LARGE quantities of white oak limbs
ere being cut Perry county N. Y. giving
employment to many men. The timber
Is used in the manufacture of cars.
EVERY furnace stack in Allentown,
Pa, is in operation. The first time such
state of affairs has existed for six
years.
MANUFACTURERS are crowded with
work, and the american Mochinist states
that the demand for tirst-class machinists
wss neyer grester than now.
The Cincinnati Gazette says: "Some
Of our merchants and manufacturers are
50 overrun with business that they are
calling home their travelling statesmen"
For the first time in the history of
Georgia the local mills find wheat in
sufficient abundance to run them with
out drawing supplies from the north.
SHIPMENTS of salt from Syracuse have
become very heavy of late. There has
been difficulty in obtaining sufficient
supply of barrels, but that has now been
overcome,
tn Omaha nail works are making
Two hundred kegs of nails in twelve
hours, and expect soon to be fixed to
make over two hundred kegs in
day of ten hours.
RAIsINs and apricots are becoming
important articles of export from
California The raisins are said to be as
good as the best Spanish, and the orders
for canned apricots for the English
market exceed the supply.
! FACrJRIEs, where the hum of indus
Try hss not been heard for years, are
kgllning life anew, and the smoke is
coming out of the stacks and flues where
no fires have been kindled before in
four years.
lMERICA has realized an average of
/ slOO,O00,000 per year from breadstutfs
| alone since 1865, the amount last year
being $lS4777S41; 1888, 49,, 575 was
realized last year from our animal pro-
ducts, cattle, hogs, etc.
The business boom is everywhere.
The Boston Herald reports that the job
ang houses of that city are doing an inn
nense business. One of the leading
inns that last year made sales to the
mount of Sl3 100000, will sell 5000
10 worth in 1879.
TAE country has already absorbed 60
tr cent. more coal than last year. The
s3vance in iron will lead to ali enormous
assumption of coal and every prospect
Exists of higher prices for coal and great
q profits for the coal companies than for
'vo or three winters past.
NATIONAL banking appears to be
booming again. There are sixty-one
RATIONAL banks in Boston, with an ag-
Negate capital of $50, 250,O00, and
nrplus earnings of $l2,637 ,544. In
Philadelphia there are thirty-one, with
an aggregate capital of SIG, 1893, 900, and
surplus of 81, 100000.
The large tannery at Altoona, which
ls' been standing idle for several years
2c&lse it didn't pay to run it, is to be
put IN operation again. This establish
hent and the Altoona Car works will be
N.h IN operation shortly and then all
Industrial institutions in Altoona will
lave resumed operations, giving en-
f3yment to the usual number of men.
i REPRESENTATIVE of a firm in the
.a'eS who manufacture steel barbed
'Le Tor fencing purposes, was in st.
.Aiaerines a few days ago on the look
N Tor site for manufactury
rider to manufacture wire for the
saaadlan market. He stated that his
n IN Ohio had last year shipped to
-aada 30 900 tons.
IHE Huntington Globe says the bust
- outlook in Pennsylvania WAS never
-'[e encouraging. The immense manu-
curing Interests of the state were
,ef In more prosperous condition,