Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-11-27
TRADE INTEREsrs

DOSES with speed indicators,
OVER 400 miles of railroad are ba;rn
built In Nebraska this year.
OVER fifty new firms have commence
business in Atlanta, Georgia, this yesr
CANE CRY, KY, is shipping its straw
berries OF the second yield.
A wooLEN-MILL at New Hrsunfo,.
Texas, yielded net profit of x3T 0oo
last year. ''VV
The Erie blast.furnace will be resdu
10 commence operations about the lat .,
January. -'' "a
DURING the last fiscal year there VS.
a balance of $3.50, 900, 900 in favor of ,ho
United States. e
The manufacture of cork soles il Or
industry that has grown to large dimen.
slons In Williamsport, Pa.
A Texas paper states that one,fourtb
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 il i'm.
mense.
SO far this month the revenues of the
government have been unerecedentedlv
large, averaging 81 100000 day.
1T is estimated that turbine wats,
wheels have, since their invention, saved
the country over $500, 100000 in the ons
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 1t has used nine thousand boxes
since the opening last spring.
AS evidence of an increasing Euronesr
demand for American products, a lard
firm in New York city reports orders for
800, 600 tierces for Europe this year.
against $4,000 last year.
ILLINOIsis onsidered to be a tolerablv
well cultivated state, but with 100000
600 acres under cultivation, it has
100000 uncultiyated, 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 ia be.
lieved to be the first attempt to roll
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 200,00O,0OO to
250, 60O,0 900 feet of white pine lumber;
is feeling the impetus of improved trade
and business activity, and prices on all
of lumber have advanced
from Is to rs per cent. and are held
stiffly at the advance.
The Reading Times and Dispatch says
that from day to day there is cumuls-
tive evidence going to show the great
revival IF trade and the stability attend
ing its awakening. The great increase
in the freight business of the Philadel-
phia " Reading Railroad company in
this city has compelled the company to
arrange for increased facilities for the
and shipment Of freights, and
work will be Immediately commenced
upon the laying of new sidipgs in the
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 De
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
of cattle are shipped, as COM
pared with the same months last yea1,
exceed last years The
total for the eight months of 1879 from
March to October, inclusive, is 21,2S,,
head; for the corresponding period OF
1878, 25,1S9 head. The shipments OF
live sheep thus far this year, to the enc
of October, aggregate 1886 head
against Is, no for the came time in 1870
The New York Herald says, EDITOR
ally: 1t is gratifying to know that
every thing is prospering in Wall street
When we read of seven hundred thou,
sand shares having been bought and soio
in one day it means good times for Inc
brokers, with plenty of money and lsrge
But we hope our people
will be careful, all tLs same. The boom
is good thing when it runs in one direc'
ton, But there is law of nature de-
cla,ing that that the wave which washes
the shore must recede. In their anxiety
to 90 wit the advancing boom We hope
our reople will be prudent enough |"
avoid being caught in the recedlng'
There never was time when conseiT-
atism and prudence were more deslispN
than now. Then all the good results