Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-03-11
TRADE INTERESTS.

prices.
A wE11-KNowN North Carolina tobacco
manufacturer pays an internal revenue
tax Of 81, 500 per day.
THREE million coffee mills were made
in this country last year, and the sound
Of their grinding was low.
BUILDING in New York and elsewhere
ia having a sevcro baolxsot, owing to the !
advance in prices of labor and materials.
The pin manufacturers of the United
States have {; very strong combination,
and have quadrupled the price of their |
product during the last year.
A FIRM in Bordentown, N. j., has con-
tracted for the labor of one hundred
state prison convicts, at fifty cents day,
to starch and iron Shirts
GROUND was broken at Erie, Pa,
recently, for the erection of malleable
iron manufactory, which will cover an
acre of ground.
IT is estimated that within the past
four weeks one thousand colored emf
grants have passed through Chattanooga,
nearly all of whom have crossed the Mis-
sissippi at Memphis.
COLORADO has one hundred thousand
acres under irrigation and fifty thousand
more Of hay-land, much Of which is irri-
gated. In 1879 the irrigated land pro-
duced 3,150,000 worth of cereals and
other produce.
TrrUsvm1E is much interested in the
progress of the experiments in using
petroleum for smelling and working
iron. The Eames Petroleum Iron
Works in that place have been enlarged,
and will soon turn out forty tons Of iron
day.
The insignifcance of our foreign COM
pared with our domestic trade may be in
ferred from the fact that the value of
merchandise transported over the Penn
sylvania railroad, between Philadelphia
and Pittsburg, in single year, exceeds
that of the entire foreign commerce Of
the republic.
A MAINE paper says that 819, 900 tons
of ice have been stored the present win
ter from the Kennebec river, between
Hallowel and Merrymeeting bay, and
below the bay about 100000 tons more.
At the mouth of the river ice is being
taken from the water and shipped direct
to southern ports.
A PROMINENT New England authority
writes as follows: Regardless Of guam
tity have great faith in prices of cotton
as consequence of revived and improv-
ing business here and in England. If the
continent follows England in it's increase
of manufactures and trade, never fear
depression of prices even from an admit
ted crop Of 5, 75O, ,O00."
A CALIFORNIA correspondent of the
Rural Press says that the establishment
at Sequel turns out daily from forty-fve
to fifty-ive barrels of white granulated
beet sugar, that at Alvarado from thirty
to th1rty-fve, and prices are regularly
quoted in the San Francisco market. He
adds that the factory at Isleton (com-
plete but now idle) will probably run
ul-handed the coming season, and that
new one will be put up in Los Angeles
county.
The San Diego (Cala.) Union says:
Mr.. r. G.. Clark, of the Cajon, has the
honor, we believe, to be the first to make
raisins for the market, having produced
without irrigation, about ton and a
half of the finest quality. In this con-
nection we may say that Mr.. Clark is
said to have been the producer of the
first ton of honey in this county, and
also the first to attempt the growth Of
the Australian blue-gum, or eucalyptus
tree.
COL ALLEN GREENE, of Vienna, La.,
proposes going into cooperative farm
ing. His scheme is quite novel. He
puts in his property, valued at $50, 900,
and invites laborers to take stock, to be
represented by their labor, ten per cent.
on which is to be paid for ten years, di-
viding pro rata the net proceeds Of profits
annually, and at the end of ten years di-
vide the whole property, or sell it and
divide the proceeds equally among stock
holders.
The vast amount of fuel in the form of
"slack" or "dust coal " which is now
wasted suggests promising field for in
ventive genius. Any one visiting the
coal regions is astonished at the quantity
of this refuse thrown out Of each mine
These heaps of fine coal loom up like
small mountains, and often contain, it is
said, a million tons, all of which can be
burned. The Philadelphia and Reading
company has a process of consuming
this waste in some of its stationary and
locomotive furnaces, but compared with
the aggregate produced the amount thus
disposed Of is trifling.
The dry goods market in New York
continues fairly active. Jobbers are do
ing an excellent business, for this stage
of the season, and there is a steady de-
mand at first hand for nearly all fabrics
adapted for the spring and summer
trade. Cotton goods, though not active
at present, are moving freely on account
of old orders, and prices ore very firm at
the last advance. The print market if
still quiet, yet symptoms Of improve.
megt are not lacking in this department,
and renewed activity in the early future
is confidently expected by the best post
ed merchants.
The rapid advance in the price OF iron
within the last year is somewhat unpre-
cedented in the history Of that pivotal
trade. if we except the period of ou,
Great war. \ X X In this country
the best foundry iron, which, on the Isl
of January, 1879, was sold at $17 ton,
was last week quoted at $40 ton
Domestic steel rails brought $42 then,
and now sell at $S5. + The chic
cause has. been the remarkaDle impulse
! given to railroad building last year
More miles of new road were laid in 1877:
than in any other year since tn
memorable 1872, when the enormous
number of 7,34O miles were constructed
The total was 4,430 miles in 1879
against ,916 in 1873 and 2,3o1 in 1877
~ 4 After the LIST of April the irol
, and steel association expects to see 0u
: home production equal to all demands
yet large contracts for foreign iron or
have been made for the year, and th
importation will probably reach 500, 90
TONS, - .z:sass> ss@
Ar a recent bull-fght by moonlight, j
( Campeche, Mexico, the governor OF tn
( the state, disguised as matador, is sal
, to have figured in the arena.