Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-11-20
TRADE INTERESTS.

| MAINE papers report more extensive
| preparations for the lumber business the
ensuing winter than for many years.
| CRUDE rubber is so scarce and the
mills so active that you may have To
pay one hundred per cent. more for
your arctics than you would Last spring.
Two young ladies in Washington
county exhibited at the state fair las,
week some beautiful specimens of Arkan-
sas silk.-Searcy (Art.) Beacon.
| NEARLY all the cane mills and evsto
tors now used by sugar makers in the
West Indies, South and Central America,
and Sandwich Islands and Australia are
furnished by American manufacturers
| A PROMINENT operator reports 70 per
| cent. advance in the price Of real estate
in the city of New York since March.
| Large fortunes have been made by real
| estate operators. Business is very brisk
The Evening Eeraid says over 1000
women and girls are employed in shirt
| making in Syracuse; that one firm alone
| has 800 hands, with steam driving sewing
machines, and that it turns out 800
| dozen white shirts daily.
THE Tennessee Manufacturing com
pany, engaged in tho manufacture Of
cotton at Nashville, reports for the past
year net profit of S33 007 So, which is
over ten per cent. of the capital stock Of
the company.
LIVERPOOL commission merchants
charge our shippers enormous rates
&c sttounc for 1aut ructinY, bxy vota forms
large item, and the other dsy LAYER
pool agent charged rattsge" on a cargo
OF lead.
THE manufacture of tobacco furnishes
employment to some 10000 children.
The girls are especially skilled IN this
industry, and one can put up thirteen
gross of tobacco in tin foil and twenty
two gross in paper in one day.
THE Somerset One J Reporter says that
the sugar beet crop has been very satis-
factory, the average yield being from
IS to 20 tons an acre. AT the prices paid
the cultivatOrs realize from $50 TO 500
per acre.
TIE merchants of st. Louis hsve
organized movement for the erection
of spacious and permanent exposition
building, like those Of Chicago, Louis
vile, and Cincinnati. II is Intended to
finish it for next fall.
A BELGIAN gentleman who IS well
acquainted with business in the United
States says that wOelen clothes ana
clothing are no longer cheaper IN ku-
rope than here; and the great wooleh
manufacturing establishments OF Bel
GUM are being ruined by competition
from this country.
The Memphis business boom is greas
fact, the AuGtanche declares, and the
merchants on the streets are said TO De
too busy to talk. There is a big crop OF
cotton to come in, and there are great
quantities of supplies to go out, and
business men are making up for lost time
with rush.
The demand for the rye straw for the
manufacture of paper Is 50 great ID
Pennsylvania that farmers have very
largely increased their acTesge OF this
crop, and the yield for the present year
is estimated at 100000 bushels- The
straw is AS valuable as -e grain.
WHILE parties were boring for petro-
leum in the SAINTS Cruz mountains
Cslifornia, an abundant flow waa found;
equal to 100 barrels per DAY. Inc Oh
when first struck spurted zoe ieet ABOVE
the surface, and 100 barrels wentto waste
before facilities for saving II could pe
provided. Large sums OF money nave
been expended during the last ten years
in searching in these mountains Iof
petroleum, and the late strike viii ssiH'-
ulste increased activity in the wosS.