The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-09-13
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.


has popcorn dealer who has sold 81, 100
worth of corn in day.
MURFREEsBoRo, Tenn, ships cedar
sawdust north, where it is converted
into paper.
CLEBURNE, Texas, can produce 5000
barrels of mustang wine, which, at 81
per gallon, is worth 100000.
THE telephone, after being in use only
two or three years pays interest on an
invested capital of $5,0OO,0O0.
In New York real estate is stated to
have generally risen 80 per cent. in val
ue, and the appreciation continues.
WE undersell the world on friction
matches, and the tax, which amounts to
three and quarter millions, will be con-
tinued.
A NEW shoe-peg factory started at
Richmond, Ind, already has orders for
one hundred thousand bushels of pegs to
be delivered inside IF a year.
REPORT in regard to the prospects OF
legitimate business in all portions of the
country are of cheering description.
The fall trade is opening with unusual
briskness, and promises to be large and
reasonably profitable.
LAST year the aggregate steel produc-
ton of the world was somewhat over
100000 tons. Of this quantity the
United States made 1872, 226 tons, Great
Britain 8O7,527, Germany 100000
France 100000, Belgium $4,000, Sweden
10000, and Austria $4,000.
WE hear that the Utah and Northern
railroad company is quietly but rapidly
pushing its line northwestward toward
Portland, Oregon, with the design Of
intercepting the traffic which now goes
to California, and thence eastward over
the Central Pacific railroad.
IT has usually been claimed that the
United States pay every year in freight
upon imports and exports at least 800,
100000. This amount has lately beer
shown by carefully compiled statistics t.
be far in excess of the facts, and the New
York Shipping Last argues that the coun
try's total foreign expense would no
exceed $25,000,000.
A GENTLEMAN just returned from
trip through the counties of Berks, LIE
banon, Lehigh and Schuylkill, Pa, say
the most encouraging changes in bust
ness have taken place in them within
the last six months. Activity prevail
everywhere. FORCES, foundries, rollin!
mills, factories and workshops of ever,
description are in the full tide of opera
ton, and it is rare thing to meet al
unemployed person unless his idleness
voluntarily.
OWING to the dizziness in the Tobacco
trade, it is feared that large number O
employees will be thrown out of worl
during the coming winter. The excite
ment which followed the reduction il
the tobacco tax, and which resulted in
demand for tobacco to replenish tn
diminished stocks, has been followed b.
great stagnation. The great demand las
May caused prices to rise, and grower
and importers being unwilling to relin
quish these prices, little trade in leaf tc
bacco is doing. The machines in som
of the larger manufactures are shuttin
down until the Jew crop arrives, whicl
can hardly be before next spring.
A BILL has passed the Georgia senate
and is now before the house of repre-
sentatives, authorizing lease of tn
Macon and Brunswick railroad for
term of twenty years for a sum not Les
than $50, 900 per annum, with the cond
ton that the lessees are to extend th
road to Atlanta within five years, an
"shall expend within two years frol
! the date of the lease not less than 5000
, 600 for permanent Improvements in tn
erection of shops, depots, wharves, pu
chase of machinery, rolling stock, an
improvements of track, including
change of line at Macon" etc. TIL
lessees are also to have the power and al
thority to construct railroad from tt
city of Hawkinsville or Eastman to til
city of Americas, and a railroad frol
the city of Brunswick, or from mes
Sterling, on the Macon and Brunswic
road, to the Florida line.