Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1880-04-07
TRADE INTERESTS.

TRADE INTERESTS.
The Bethlehem, Pa, iron works give
employment to 2,4O0 persons.
OVER one thousand cheese factories
are operated in the state of New York.
STREET cars are required to run all
night on st. Louis routes by a recent
ordinance.
The street-sweepings Of New York
city are delivered on Long Island farms
at S1.5 0 per ton.
TWENTY-FIVE tons of maple sugar were
brought into McGrawville, N. Y, one
week recently by farmers.
AT Meridian, Miss, a Mr.. Mass has in
vented a process for manufacturing pa
per from the fibers of the long leaf pine.
In the United States loo, 600 bushels
Of hemp seed are annually consumed for
bird-food alone. Much of it is imported.
A FIRM in Bordentown, N. j., has con-
tracted for the labor Of 100 prison con-
victs at 80 cents a day, to starch and iron
shirts.
THERE has been shipped from Will
mington, N. c., to a Russian port, a
cargo OF cotton weighing nearly 1,OOO,-
900 pounds.
A SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, bank transmitted
$4,000 to London the other day, for
rents on investments in that state owned
in England.
EaGs have been plentiful and cheap
the past winter. The packers have lost
money on their stock Of lined eggs put
up last summer.
A R Of 1,600 tons of iron for the
Houston and Central Texos railroad has
arrived at Galveston, from Wales, by the
British steamship Morglay.
UNUSUALLY large quantities of baled
hay are being exported ut New York to
southern ports, Cuba and Great Britain,
and an advance in price is predicted.
The hop growers of Madison county,
New York, contemplate changing their
hop fields into sugar beet fields, believ-
ing that Will prove the most profitable.
A NEW furnace for the conversion of
the raw material into steel has been
erected at Middlesex, Pa. All the other
mills and furnaces there are running on
full time.
MosT copious rams have fallen over all
the agricultural parts of California and
an extraordinary acreage is being added
to wheat culture, to fruit, olive groves
and vineyards.
JAY GOULD has announced his inten-
ton to invest $2O0,000 in a barge line
between st. Louis and New Orleans. He
thinks the Mississippi is the natural out
let for the surplus grain of the west.
The shipment of beef from Portland,
Me-, to Liverpool in refrigerators has
proved a failure. and a cargo recently
sent out was all spoiled. The manufac-
ture of refrigerators for this purpose has
been stopped.
A SPECIES of dwarf cactus, abundant in
lower California, is rich in fiber, and is
said to be excellent for mattresses. It is
reported that an experimental machine,
costing only $4OO, converts the raw ma
terial into white, elastic fiber with great
rapidity, and promises to reduce the
cost and improve the quality of such
goods very materially.
THE Reading, Pa, Times and Dis
patch says that the increase in the iron
ore business along the East Pennsylva-
MIA railroad within nine months past has
been most surprising. Along the entire
northern slope of the Lehigh mountain,
from Blandon eastward to Emaus, and in
the adjacent valley to the north, there
are hundreds of iron ore mines, and
prospecting is going on at numerous
points, with new mines being opened
daily.
A RICH coal field has lately been dis
covered within twenty miles of P~ittsburg,
on the Panhandle, which is attracting
the attention Of home and outside cap
.italists. The find is located on CHARTERS
creek, and adjoins the land lately pur-
chased by the Keystone Coal company.
Two veins, one six feet and the other
eleven, have been found, the former be-
ing close to the surface and the latter
forty feet below, making the work of
mining an easy task. The coal is known
as "coaking coal"
THERE are in Fall River SO incorporat-
ed companies for the manufacture Of cot
ton goods, whose combined incorporated
capital is $l4,690, 600, and who own As
mills containing 1894. 191 spindles and
32,627 looms. Fall River has over one-
seventh Of all the spindles in the United
States and one-sixth of those in New
England, and produces over one-hah Of
the print cloths manufactured. Out of
the 40 mills above mentioned, 80 are en-
gagged In the manufacture of print cloths
and turn out 155, 000pieces weekly. Al
together the As establishments employ
1906 hands to whom they pay 1863. $50
monthly, and work mp 162, 475 bales of
cotton into 391, TBS, 600 yards of cloth
annually. In 1865 the city had but IT.
t25 inhabitants and 265, 32S spindles; to-
day 1t has 46, 800 inhabitants and 1864.
l0l spindles-a-yery marked increase IN
fifteen years.