The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
TRADE INTERESTS.

taken $50, 900 in new cotton factory.
AUGUSTA, Ga, is anxious to utilize
the water power of her 100000 canal.
ONE farmer in Norfolk county, Va,
has raised and shipped $4,000 barrels of
potatoes this season.
GEORGIA has grown SO much wheat
this summer that the local mills are
grinding without drawing supplies from
the north-the first time it has happen
ed in the history of the state.
ENGLAND exported last year 10000
tons of writing and printing paper,
valued at about $5,000,000. Much of it
is made from the esparto grass, grown
principally in Spain, Algeria and Tunis,
OF which England imports about 10000
tons annually.
A SIGNIFICANT fact, however. and one
that we believe English manufacturers
will read with some disapI lntment, is
that $40, 600 worth of cotton goods have
been imported from New York in a
single week for the Chinese Market
British Mercantile Gazette.
THE long dropping iron interest of
Pennsylvania began some time ago to
revive. The st Louis Republican, saws
that similar reawakening is experienced
in the iron business of that city, and the
prospect now is better than it has been
for years.
LOWELL seems to have an abiding
faith in the ruturn of good times, and
several new mills are going up there
Among them the Hamilton manufacture
ing company are building a six-story
mill of 865 by IS feet, to run $4,000
spindles on print cloths, and employ 400
or SEQ hands.
The production of pig-iron in the
north of England, it is authoritatively
ascertained, has been decrease 204, GA
tons in the first sixth months of 1879
compared with the corresponding period
of 1878. This is reduction of 20 per
cent. in the output of the Cleveland
district. The half year just closed was
commenced with total stock of 337 1877
tons of Cleveland iron, while at the close
only 295, 491 tons were held, the reduc-
tion being Al, $40 tons, or a little less
than 12s per cent. Of 165 furnaces
built in the district, only "a are now in
blast
A REVIEW of the fruit trade of New
York in 1878 shows the fact that there
was an increase in the quantity of fruit
imported during tkct year, although
there was falling off in oranges and
pineapples. This may be accounted for,
to great extent, in the case of the
former from the fact that the raising of
the fruit in this country is largely on
the increase, and that Florida oranges
are steadily growing in popular esteem.
loo hoy Of fHa hOr e
oranges imported from the West Indies
may be gathered from the fact that no
less than 13, 942, 675 were sent here last
year, with an average loss of As per cent.
OF bananas there were imported $780,
S37 punches, and no less than 1,000,0 900
cocoanuts found their way into the
American market.
The Philadelphia correspondent of
the Bulletin tells curious story respect
ing the recent movements in the coal
trade. He states that the order advanc-
ing the price of Reading coal % cents
per ton, issued on the day before the
auction sale of the Delaware, Lackawan-
ma and Western, was cabled by Mr..
Gowen from London, and that the large
portion of the 100000 tons sold by the
Delaware, Lackawana and Western was
taken by Reading for the purpose of
supporting the advance ordered by Pres
ident Gowen. The correspondent adds
that MIR. Gowen has borrowed $5,000,-
600 in London to help him over his
floating debt difficulties and over the
losses of his coal and iron company, and
that Immediately after the advance in
the price of coal Reading shares ad-
Vanced 1925 in London and 81 in Phila
delphia.
INFORMATION received at Cincinnati
from the different iron districts of the
west and south establishes the fact that
marked improvement has taken place
in the iron trade during the last sixty
days. Iron merchants, furnacemen and
manufacturers, without a single excep-
ton, tell q healthful advance in prices
and q great increase in orders. Furnaces
that have lain idle for years are at work.
In the Hooking Valley, O., rolling mills
are running with full force, and there is
a scarcity of iron. The railroad-spike
machines of the Ohio Falls iron works,
which had lain idle for two years from
low prices and lack of demand, have
recently been put into operation. From
the Pittsburg, Pa, district similar re-
port DSSSeul6I SlS6l Is very
active The works at Pittsburg have
sold up to their capacity for the rest of
the year, at prices that will net them
$500, 900 profit for the year.
AS to what the resping machine has
done a contemporary refers to the fol-
lowing facts: When the reaping ma
chine was introduced to the country in
1850, the number of farmers and agricul-
tural laborers in the twelve states in
which in which it is now chiefly used
was 1901 1868, and in 1870, 2,64l, $50.
The difference in wages was still greater.
In 1850 farm hands were paid SIS a
month, and harvest hands from so cents
to $3.50 day; while in 1870 the wages
of the former was $50 month, and the |
latter from 81 to $3.50 day. This year
farmers willingly pay harvest hands
from $3.50 to $3.50 per day, while the
manufacture of reaping machines is Civ
ing employment to thousands of skilled |
workmen. The same remark is APP
plicable to all kinds of machinery, the