Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-24
TRADE INTERESTS.

TRADE INTERESTS.
MORE than 100000 is realized in
France by parasol making.
| MERCHANTABLE sugar is manufac-
tured at Gunnison, Utah, the first ever
made in the territory.
A PROJECT is on foot for the establish
ment of a large woolen-mill at Fort
Worth, Texas.
A STEAM hammer head, weighing three
tons, has just been finished at the Du-
quesne Forge, Pittsburg.
PENNSYLVANIA lamp chimney man.
ufacturers are reported as being unable
to keep up with their orders.
| AN advance of ten per cent. in the
wages of miners has taken place through
out Wyoming region, Pa.
A SPECULATION in straw mating has
been conducted very successfully by q
few New York and Boston parties.
The Misses Barber, of Nashua, N. H.,
have taken contract to make 400, 900
pair of mittens.
ANEW car wheel factory is under con-
temptation by the Pennsylvania Rail-
road company at Altoona. It will have
capacity for 1875 wheels day.
FLOUR is worth SIS per hundred at
Yago, Meagher county, Mont, and lum.
Der, freighted in from Benton, 120 miles
distant, sells at cents per pound.
The peanut crop of Virginia, Tennes-
see and North Carolina is estimated at
! about 1885, 900 bushels, an increase of
toh a17% S00 nm h1,o Is loo
BEFORE the war the heaviest cotton
crop ever gathered in Texas, in one year,
was 2O0 900 bales. This year the crop
will reach fully million bales.
A FACTORY in Redditch, England,
turns out between 100000 and 1000.
900 of needles each week, or about $780,
600, 900 year.
The estate of gentleman who died
in Boston about a year ago was thought
to be insolvent. The recent advance in
prices will make the estate solvent, with
half million for the heirs.
MILLINERs complain that the large
dry-goods establishments are steadily
encroaching on their trade, until many
milliners now supply but little more
than the untrimmed hats and bonnets.
IF there is any place that wants the
starch taken out of it it is Aroostook,
Maine. The starch factories there are
all closed, having had an unusual long
run, and the store houses are crowded
with starch waiting transportation.
The wheat crop is the largest ever
produced in the state, and at the present
high prices will bring to the people of
the state upward of 100000, or over
$3.50 for each man, woman and child of
the population. tn e'd
A MACHINE that sews books perfectly
and that is destined to revolutionize the
printing business has been invented at
Hartford. The machine is about four
feet high, three feet wide and two and a
half feet deep, and looks like an ordi-
nary sewing machine.
The Crossley modification of Hughes
microphone, which has been successfully
used as transmitter for telephones, so
that church services are enjoyed by in
valids at their homes, is a very simple
! continuance. It consists of four short
rods of carbon jointed loosely into four
blocks of carbon, 80 that the whole forms
The most important grape-growing
region in the United States is not the
Pacific coast, as many suppose, but the
islands and neighboring shores of Lake
Erie, within few hours sail of De-
troit. This year there have been 1000
acres in vines and the yield has been 49,
| 100000 pounds The wine production
during 1879 amounts to 1.526, 400 gallons.
This has been q bad year for most men
connected with the hop interest in Eng
land. Some hop fields have not been
thought worth picking. The scarcity
has, however, quadrupled the prices, and
farmer with fair crop will do pretty
well. English brewers were at one time
prohibited from using hops, as they were
supposed to spoil the favor of ale, and
beer was the name which gradually came
to be applied to the beverage made with
hops England has about $4,000 acres
under hops, about half of it in Kent
heavily taxed.
The domestic goods market in New
York for some days past has been reason
ably active and large movement in
brown, bleached and colored cottons was
reported on account of former orders.
Dress goods are receiving increased at
tention from buyers who are about MAX
ing preparations for the spring trade
and some liberal orders for staple
worsted fabrics, buntings, etc, ere being
placed by local and interior jobbers.
Values of both cotton and wooden goods
are appreciating, and the tone of the
market is exceedingly strong.
The Three Lights.
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