Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-10
TRADE INTERESTS.

EIGHTY English farmers are on their
way to New YORK, and are going to Tex
as. M
A BOSTON firm advertised for book
keeper and got S47 answers by mail the
next morning.
The increase of Touring mills in the
four states of Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa
and Minnesota from 1860 to 1878 was
from 1,13S to 5000. =
The production of butter and cheese
in this country is said to be four times
greater in value than the total yield of
our gold and silver mines.
NASHVILLE capitalists met en- masse
the other night and appointed commit
tee to raise 100000 to build mer-
chants rolling mill.
IHE horse market in Chicago is
reported to be quite active. Prices
range from 1925 for ], 200 pound horses
down to $50 for 500 pound animals.
In Baltimore there are forty peach.
packing establishments. Few, if any, of
these houses employ less number of
hands than two hundred, while several
OF them reach eight hundred or one
thousand, and these are exclusive of
those engaged in the manufacture of tin
cans and the packing cases.
SAYS the Cincinnati Gazette: /" In our
adversely we have learned to manu-
facture for ourselves. Under the reign
Of initiation we were powerless to
compete with foreign nations, but in
those years Of depression we have
moved forward with wonderful rapidity,
until we are now almost to the fore
front with England. In 1863 we i'm
ported near s6O,0OO,0OO in iron and
steel. The time is not likely to come
when we shall Go that again. In that
year we imported of iron rails alone $780,
100000. Hereafter we shall be exporters
of iron rails and not importers.'
ACCORDING to a summary issued by
Marseilles firm the aspect Of foreign
crops is represented as follows: France
The crop will be worse than last year.
Will have at least the same want as in
1878. Algiers-Will be obliged to i'm
port. Italy-Bad harvest. Spain
Considerable deficit. Russia and Tur-
key-The crops began to look satisfacto-
ry; now they are below the average.
These countries will, at the utmost, not
be able to send half the wheat they did
last year. Switzerland, Belgium, Ger
many-Very Indifferent crop. Hungary
Will just be able to suffice for her
own wants. England will import eight
or ten million hectolitres more than last
year.
The Pail Mall Gazette has come to the
conclusion that "unless emigrants 60 to
America prepared to face the hardships
and privations of the pioneers life in
the unsettled western states Of the
union, and have sufficient means of self
support until they obtain employment,
they will do much better by remaining
at home. 1t is a painful fact that the
English, the Irish and the Scotch resort
to the manufacturing centres, and upon
their inevitable disappointment soon
after landing great suffering follows. In
contrast with these three classes of emil
grants, the Norwegian, the Belgian, the
Swiss and the German, On landing, go at
once to the western states and embark in
Industrial pursuits. Consulates and
shipping officers on the Atlantic seaboard
are overrun by the former for return
passage to their native countries, while
the latter are seldom SEEM"
The indications of a reviving and re-
vived business are especially noticeable
in the little manufacturing villages out
side the great cities. For nearly six
years they have mostly been as quiet as
though enjoying continued Sabbath.
The population has dwindled away like
the water in stream during drought,
and the houses once sWarming with Oc-
cupants, the streets once alive with chill
dren, and the country stores once the
resort OF gossippy crowds, have been
almost deserted. FORCES and hammers
and machinery have been SO nearly
silent, that the faint signs of life OBJ
served have been but an emphasis of the
general stagnation. Now this is all
changed. The stream of business has
been reflled by copious rains. The
houses are again full, and more are going
up. The whole atmosphere is redolent
with the favor of business. The shops
and foundries and mills and quarries
are again alive and active. Let one
drive up the little valley of the Stony
Brook from Lowell to Aver, and he will
be greatly impressed with this change
LsweN Mass Courier.
The present condition of the iron
trade is described as blooming" Mill
owners have all the orders that they
cBre to take and in many instances are
refusing large contracts, for the two-fold
reason that they are months behind with
the orders on hand and that an advance
in prices is anticipated. In point of fact
manufacturers have already sent out Or
ders announcing such an advance and
pig iron is now selling at four dollars
ton more than it fetched three months
ago. Moreover, for the past six weeks
buyers have had so much difficulty in
getting orders filled except at much high
er prices, that they have even resorted
| to the foreign market In New York
alone, for example, there were purchased
during the.last month about 1900 tons
of Scotch and 20, 600 tons of English
Bessemer pig iron, while an average of
but so, 300 tons of English and Scotch
iron combined were imported into the