Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-11-13
TRADE INTERESTS.

BoARp of trade proverb: A short bear
Is soon curried.
TuE number of cattle in the United
-.otes il estimated at 35, 900, 900.
TuE Cape Cod cranberry is success
uIlv cultivated in Hot Springs county,
Ark.
NEARLY $55,000,000 of foreign specie
bos come into this country since the
resumption of specie payments, and
nearly all of it since the LIST of August.
A SHORT time ago schooner came
into Gloucester with 80 barrels contain
mo less than 100 mackerel to barrel,
which were sold for $40 per barrel.
THE unprecedented low water in the
Mississippi and its tributaries is said to
De having most disastrous effect upon
the entire valley.
THE brske-down of a freight train on
the Pennsylvania road brought 20
freight trains to stop and made block
sde 10 miles long.
A SINGLE firm of Wall street brokers
report that they are making $4,000 a
week out of commissions alone, and "new
lace arc CfCi uoy'
The pile of gold in the United States
treasury October | was the largest in
the world-$l69, SOC, 995, or $3,701, 495
larger than the reserve Of the Bank of
England.
The boilers for the huge cotton press
at Port Royal have arrived, and the rest
of the machinery is being put in place
and will be ready by the middle of No
yember.-Beautort IS. CO. O. escent..
The New York stock list at present
includes number of stocks selling be-
tween and 20, which year ago were
not worth more than the weight of the
certificates value as old paper.
OF 1884, 1867 shares of stocks of all
kind on the New York stock exchange
only 660,552 shares pay dividends-the
remainder representing property whose
value lies in the future.
AMONG the assets of the Glasgow bank
we're some American railroad bonds
which were looked upon as almost worth
less. These bonds have been sold for
sl,200,000 more than their supposed
value.
FRANCE is an example of what school
penny banks can accomplish. Last year
the deposi ors numbered 100000, or
one eleventh of the population, and the
money deposited reached the enormous
total of $500. 900, 900.
AN important invention has just been
announced in London for preserving but
ter without sal in ordinary kegs, even
when freely exposed to the air. 1t is
expected that this invention will COM
pletely destroy the salt butter trade.
The present season has been remark
able one for large and fat mackerel, and
they have brought good prices. Last
week firm in Boston paid for one catch
y cents piece for mackerel to salt
Gown.
DR.. GLENN, the great California land
monopolist, has this year sacked 200, goo
bags of wheat, making $4,000 tons, and
valued at S2,200,000. 1t is said that
this nets him yearly loss, and 1t is
gradually, but surely swallowing has
estate of $4,000 acres.
AMERICAN paper is going to all parts
of the world. Beside manufacturing all
we use, except fashionable fancy station
cry and wal! paper, we have exported
for the year ending June 80, 81, 293,312
worth, and imported only 1926, S62. Ia
1873 our imports were 81, 326, 400, and
our exports 1862, 1872.
ILLINOIS farmers are paying off their
mortgages very rapidly and capital is
accumulating in the local banks. One
banker in the interior of the state has in
formed his eastern friends that they
need not send any more money west, as
he had no place to put it. Another
said he had 800, 900 lying idle.