Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-26
TRADE INTERESTS.

NOONSo
OVER 400 miles of railroad are being
built in Nebraska this year.
A MARKED improvement is reported
in real estate markets in California.
OVER fifty new firms have commenced
business In Atlanta, Georgia, this year,
CANE CRY, KY, is shipping it's straw
berries Of the second yield.
A WOODEN. MILL at New Braunfels.
Texas, yielded a net profit of $31, 900
last year.
The Erie blast-furnace will be ready
to commence operations about the LIST of
January.
DURING the last fiscal year there was
a balance of $269, 900 in favor of the
United States.
HE manufacture of cork soles is an
industry that has grown to large dimen-
sions in Williamsport, Pa.
A Texas paper states that one.fourth
OF the cotton gins in that state are de-
stroyed by fire every year.
The amount of lumber hoated down
the Mississippi silver this season ia i'm
mense.
So far this month the revenues of the
government have been unprecedentedly
large, averaging 81, 900, 900 day.
1T is estimated that turbine water
wheels have, since their invention, saved
the country over $500, 100000 in the one
single item of full.
SOME idea of the way things are rush
ing at the Somerset cheese factory, in
Pennsylvania, may be gained from the
fact that it has used nine thousand boxes
since the opening last spring.
AS evidence of an increasing European
demand for American products, a lard
firm in New York city reports orders for
800, 900 tierces for Europe this year,
against 80, 600 last year.
ILLJNoIsis onsidered to be tolarably
we'll cultivated state, but with 100000
900 acres under cultivation, it has
5000, goo uucuitivated, and are as large
as Massachusetts, and Connecticut put
together.
The managers of the St. Adams iron
and steel works have recently made the
successful experiment of rolling steel
rails without flaw or blemish, from
imported English blooms. This is be-
lieved to be the first attempt to roll
imported steel in Vermont anC the second
in the United States, the first being at
Springfield, Ill.
A CORRESPONDENT, writing from that
city, says: Williamsport, the lumber
mart of Pennsylvania, contributing an
annual product of from 200,000,000 to
$50, 100000 feet of white pine lumber;
is feeling the impetus of improved trade
and business activity, and prices on all
descriptions of lumber have advanced
from Is to % per cent. and are held
stiffiy at the advance.
The Reading Times and Dispatch says
that from day to day there is cumula-
tive evidence going to show the great
revival Of trade and the stability attend
ing it's awakening. The great increase
in the freight business of the Philadel-
phia q Reading Railroad company in
this city has compelled the company to
arrange for increased facilities for the
handling and shipment of freights, and
work will be Immediately commenced
upon the laying of new sidings in the
vicinity of the freight depot"
WHEN the act prohibiting the impor
tation of cattle into English from Amer.
lean ports was passed by the British
government last February, it was thought
that the business this year would be
much smaller than last year. The truth
is that shipments are much larger. The
records on file in the New York custom
house show that the shipments this year
during the eight months when the largest
number Of cattle are shipped, as COM
pared with the same months last year,
considerably exceed last years. The
total for the eight months of 1879 from
March to October, inclusive, is q, 237
head; for the corresponding period of
1878, 25,189 head. The shipments of
live sheep thus far this year, TO the end
of October, aggregate 1896 head,
against Is, no for the same time in 1878
The New York Herald says, editori-
ally: It is gratifying to know that
everything is prospecting in Wall street.
When we read of seven hundred thou
sand shares having been bought and sold
in one day it means good times for the
brokers, with plenty of money and large
commissions, But we hope our people
will be careful, all the same. The boom
is good thing when it runs in one direc-
ton. But there is a law of nature de-
claring that that the wave which washes
the shore must recede. In their anxiety
to go wit the advancing boom we hope
our people will be prudent enough to
avoid being caught in the receding.
There never was time when conserv-
atism and prudence were more desirable
than now. Then all the good results
that accrue from large harvests, the adj
vance in trade and increase in labor, will
not be paralyzed by a sudden and unnec-
essary panic.
Not SO Romantic.
Two young ladies were imprisoned for
half a day on the dome of the ST. Louis