Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-11-20

good cargoes No. 2 spring wheat off coas
at SIS; tair average quality No. 2 Chicago
wheat for shipment, &c., Sis; good cargoet
red winter wheat OF coast at 55s; good car
goes California wheat of coast at 55s Sd
fair average California wheat just shipped
at 55s I'd; nearly due at 55s.
TRADE INTERESTS.
Ara mortgage sale at Evergreen, Ala.
land was sold at IS cents per acre.
MAINE papers report more extensive
preparations for the lumber business the
ensuing winter than for many years.
CRUDE rubber is so scarce and th<
mills SO active that you may have tt
pay one hundred per cent. more fol
your arctics than you would last spring
Two young ladies in Washington
county exhibited at the state fair last
week some beautiful specimens of Arkan.
sas silk.-Searcy (Ar*.) Beacon.
NEARLY all the cane mills and evapora.
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 rs pei
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
TIE Euening Herald says over 1000
women and girls are employed in shirt
making in Syracuse; that one firm alone
has 300 hands, with steam.driving sewing
machines, and that it turns out 800
dozen white shirts daily.
TIE Tennessee Manufacturing COM
pany, engaged in the manufacture OF
cotton at Nashville, reports for the past
year a net profit of 1907. SO, which il
over ten per cent. of the capital stock of
the company.
LIVERPOOL commission merchantf
charge our shippers enormous rates
" RAttage" for destruction by rats, forms
q large item, and the other day Liver.
pool agent charged rattage' 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 (Me.) Reporter says that
the sugar beet crop has been very salts
factory, the average yield being from
IL to 70 tons an acre. At the prices paid
the cultivators realize from $85 to $lOO
per acre.
The merchants of st. Louis have
organized q movement for the erection
of spacious and permanent exposition
building, like those of Chicago, Louis
vile, and Cincinnati. 1t is intended to
finish it for next fall.
A BELGIAN gentleman who ia well
acqusinted with business in the United
States says that woolen clothes and
clothing are no longer cheaper in Eu
rope than here; and the great wooler
manufacturing establishments of Bel
GUM are being ruined by competition
from this country.
The Memphis business boom is great
fact, the Avalonche declares, and tn.
too busy to talk. There is big crop O.
cotton to come in, and there are great
quantities of supplies to 60 out, anc
business men are making up for lost time
with a rush.
The demand for the rye straw for tn,
manufacture of paper is so great il
Pennsylvania that farmers have yer,
largely increased their acreage of thi
crop. and the yield for the present yea
is estimated at $500, 900 bushels. Th
straw is as valuable as the grain.
WR1LE parties were boring for petro
leum in the Santa Cruz mountains
California, an abundant flow was found
equal to 100 barrels per day. The OF
when first struck spurted 100 feet abov
the surface, and 100 barrels went to vast
before facilities for saving it could b
provided. Large sums of money hav
been expended during the last ten year
in searching in these mountains fo
petroleum, and the late strike will stin
ulate increased activity in the work.
NORFOLK did an export business las
year of $4,000, 900, and has won fo
herself, and away from New York an
Baltimore, the cotton trade of the soutl
She is now the second cotton exportin
port in the United States, and is runnin
4 tilt with New Orleans which make
the Creole city puff to hold her OWL
Norfolk's magnificent harbOr and Wate
front give her chance to trade dire<
with Europe, saving freight and othe
expenses to Baltimore or New York.
i THR United States Econonsist says: Il
constant and steady export of wheatan
breadstufs will occur throughout tt
fall and winter months, and as tho se
sou advances it would not be surprisin
if prices would gradually grow firme
It is unfortunate for the general welfa!
of the country that great operators
grain manipulate the market in whe'
a. they do stocks in Wall street. z
concerted action they can corner wheat
they do railroad stocks and thereby u
settled values to the hindrance of 1egit
mate trade.