Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-15
TRADE INTERESTS.

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A FIRM OF linen manufacturers from
Ireland has purchased the linen mills at
Greenwich, N. Y.
JUDGING from reports from sill parts
OF the country, the fall trade will be the
largest known for the past ten years.
}. LLOYD HAIGH, Brooklyn, who is
making 800 miles of wire cable for the
Erie Canal, has already made ffty-fve
miles OF it in one continuous piece.
ALL kinds of manufacturing is con
the boom" in the west. The agriculture
al establishments at Moline, Rock Fails,
Rockford, etc., are as busy as bees.
GENERAL J. W. SPRAGUE, General
Superinten dent of the Northern Pacific,
says that the road will be completed
four years from this fall.
IN the opinion of the Alta California
the general expenses of business are
nearly as high now in San Francisco as
they were in 1864.
THE largest cargo of resin ever export
ed from this country has just been ship
ped from Savannah to Liverpool It
was valued at 100000 and comprised
$3.50 barrels.
1t is announced that capitalists in St.
Louis are preparing to build q railroad
from San Antonio, Tex, to Lerado, on
the border OF Mexico, thence to the city
of Mexico.
AT Cincinnati the manufacturers say
that they are employing extra hands
and running their machinery to it's full
capacity, and are still unable to meet all
their orders.
For eight years the large rolling mill
at Spuyten Duyvil has been closed. 1t
now has an order for 100000 worth of
steel rails. And work will be resumed
at once.
AT Cincinnati the manufacturers say
that they are employing extra hands
capacity, and are still unable to meet all
their orders.
THE business Of the Boston Office of
the American Express company for the
month Of September showed an increase
in the tonnage of 100 per cent. over the
same month in 1873.
ADvICEs from Ottawa, Canada, state
that at no recent period has there been
such great activity in the lumber mar
ket, and it's influence is already being
felt in business circles.
WILMINGTON, Delaware, offers to give
away land to all manufacturers who are
willing to locate in or near the city. If
100 men will be given employment, one
acre of land will be donated $500 men,
Is acres, and SO on.
A PLEADING dealer in sugar" says in
Chicago Times interview that one of
the New York refneries has sold in one
month 10000 barrels of "refned sugar.
from 40 to so per cent. of which was
terra alba.
IF you wish to do a losing business,
advertise on fence. If you wish to get
rich, advertise in respectable news
paper that has good circulation among
people who buy your goods.-Philade5-
ohaa Press.
IN the opinion of the RailaUay World
much of the extraordinary and rap
id developments of business is due to the
efforts of dealers and consumers to supply
themselves in excess of present wants,
in order to provide against an advance
in prices.
THE cotton crop of the present season
is estimated at an increase of 100000
bales over the crop of any previous year
in the history of the country. The
wheat crop shows twenty to thirty mill
lion bushels increase and the tobacco
crop twelve million pounds increase.
SOMETHING of a speculation in leath-
er is going on in Boston, and prices have
advanced about ten per cent. In New
York there is no special movement in the
article, except that there is the same
advance in price that there is in Boston,
and manufacturers are laying in stock
rather beyond their immediate necessi-
ties
A HOG-sCRAPING machine which has
just been tested in Chicago worked very
satisfactorily. A hog was killed, placed
in the machine, and almost in an instant
came out with only few odd hairs on
its head and legs. Seven hogs passed
through the machine in ffty-seven sec
onds, and each came out as hairless ss
could be desired. With a few improve
ments the machine is expected to finish
off 5000 hogs in ten hours.
LIE ChAlCO SItatCS eAaC OaCCoe AdAo-
in consuming country in the world, and
uses ann ually more raisins then the
whole of europe This market is main
ly supplied from Spain, the raisins known
as " Malagas' being considered the best.
They come from comparatively narrow
strip of country in the south of Spain,
which has hitherto been regarded as sur
passing all other regions for raisins of
that character. The annual yield of
Malaga grapes averages 2,450,0OO boxes
of twenty pounds each. 1t sometimes
reaches 100000 boxes, and last season
about 100000 boxes were marketed.
OF this enormous yield the United States
takes fully one-half, on which it pays
duty-as on all other raisins-of two
and half cents per pound. The Amer
lean raisins are made from white grape,
the " Muscat of Alexandria" to the
raising of which the soil and climate of
a large portion of California are well