Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-30
TRADE INTERESTS.

MowATr,: the Campbellton (Can. }
fisherman, is shipping frozen salmon to
England.
The geological survey has made i'm
portant discoveries of coal and other
minerals in the northwest territories
TEXAS is rapidly putting up cotton
factories in order to utilize her super
abundant cotton crops. iF.}
WESTERN exchanges report rushing
trade, and the distribution of manufac.
tured goods promises to be the largest
for many years.
New machinery for the spinning of
yarn directly from the seed cotton proves
to work revolution in the cotton busi-
ness.
GA MILLENNIUM of trade" is what the
Wheeling Register calls it, adding: Gall
our mills are booming, all our factories
are running on double time, and why
not?'
The Adrian, Mich, car shops are the
only ones in the country that stand idle.
A disagreement between the creditors of
the bankrupt owners prevent them from
starting up.
SAN ANToN1A, Texas, has a flourish
Cashmere cloths at exceedingly prices, as
the wool is clipped from herds of sheep
feeding in the immediate neig ghborhood.
ThE harbor dues received at Montreal
this season to the LIT irst., amount to
SIZE, 900, being an excess of $40, 600 owe,
any former year. There was an in.
crease of $4,000 tons of shipping entering
the port this season over the last.
SAYS the Davenport, lows, Democrat:
"A year ago agents OF rolling mills were
beseechipg railroad companies to buy
iron on their own terms didn't
meet with much success. Now the rail
road companies are the beseechers.
The development of the oyster trade
in Cambridge, Nd, has been something
wonderful. This year there are to bt
three or four additional houses, and
several of the old houses are to be en-
larged. When they are all completed
Cambridge will have facilities for open
ing one million of bushels of oysters thi
season.
EXPERIMENTS recently made on tL'
Lake Shore railroad prove conclusive
" that petroleum can be successful.
used as fuel for locomotives, and j
cheaper than coal and by the process
adopted does not produce smoke O
cinders. 1t is possible that, in time, oi
may replace coal on roads distant from
the mining regions.
BUSINESS must be looking up in Sal
i Antonia, Texas. The other day MI
Yeates came in town with twenty-five
sacks Of wool and tha He~ald of the fol
lowing day contained the following spon
taneo1s outburst: "Wool is wealth, tn
rams horn is the cornucopia, tn
ba all. ah- -ah' of the sheep is the trumpe
of prosperity and the track of the wide
tired wheels of the x.cart across ou
plazas is sign of hope as truly as is tn
prismatic rainbow arching on the even
ing sky. D.. ---~- ~-~ - ,,~--,-~---r>-~-~>~
In regard to the revival of business,
. single instance, truthfully stated,
worth a whole chapter of "glitterin
! generalities." For this reason the 70
lowing statement of one firm in Pitt
burg will indicate just what the "boom
in the iron trade means. In one ma
|; n were received thirty letters, twenty-tw
!. of which contains immediate orders fl
steel work at good cash prices. Yet,
numcrously had these been precede
} work on the last orders could not be q
0 tered upon till after January 1st. II
= grade Of iron for which there has be'
y the greatest demand is what is known
's Pittsburg specialties. They compri
q cotton ties, hosre shoe iron. hoops, she
is iron scraps, wire. etc, and upon the
g. the largest profit is made. So great b
Is been the demand for these goods thu
It within the short time since the hnsine
started MP, one firm is said to have re-
'e lied $500, 900 profits on these specialtl
n alone. OF course the mills are 1unni
e to their full capacity, and Of course, Il
10 the iron workers are agitating for bett
e prices for their labor. Tho lbeaters q
N rollers ask for seventy:five cents Il
ht which was what they had when iron *
70 for three and three.tenths cents |
. pound. They now. get sixty-five cen
. but it is thought their demands will
8, :" acceded, to, as 3 strike in these br
- times could not be afforded. 't'.:~: