The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-01-03
TRADE INTERESTS.

before.
AT Little Falls and Utica, n. Y, are
factories which make 100000 pounds
OF cheese year.
MEssRs. PARK, BROTHER & Co.'S
steel works at Pittsburg are lighted with
electric lights.
A MACHINE for making paper boxes
just introduced at Cleveland, produces
$4,000 complete boxes in day.
IRON ore in the Ottawa district is
taken to Ohio to be smelted, the fifty
cents per ton duty on coal being fatal to
smelling in Canada.
THE total production of rubber manu-
facturers in the United States during
the present year, it is estimated, wild
reach nearly $1,000, 900 in amount.
ACCORDING to the Pittsburg telegram,
work continued brisk in the rolling
mills of that city, all of them being on
double turn.
The johanna charcoal furnace, in
Berks county, Pa, has again gone into
blast, after having been idle for three
years.
A LARGE eastern locomotive works is
about to remove to Chicago, parties in
that city having subscribed 500 900 to-
ward it.
THREE million more postal cards were
issued at the Holyoke, Mass. agency in
October than was ever sent in one month
before. The amount was thirty-fiye
millions.
The production Of the Edgar Thomson
steel works in Pennsylvania for the
month Of November was larger by sever
al bundled tons than any other steel mill
in the country.
OUR great American carpet companies
are about beginning the manufacture of
Administer carpets on an extensive scale,
and the services of the best English de.
signers have been engaged.
ONE of the latest rumors in the iron
trade is that western buyers of ore have
recently contracted for some AGO. 900 tons
of foreign ore for delivery as late as the
spring of 1881.
The new beet sugar works at River
side Station, Del, which commenced
operations last week, are now running
day and night. They have not been as
busy as at present in a number of years.
AN advance in the price of carpets
Will, it is said, follow January /. The
heavy stock on hand at the opening of
the year is exhausted, and many New
England mills report orders for all they
can make during the next six months.
NOT only silk spinners from Maccles,
field, Coventry, and other English towns
have emigrated to Paterson, n. j.,
Aately, but there are large additions
from the French and Swiss silk centers.
Over 1000 operatives have been added
within the year just closing.
A STATEMENT issued by the Bureau of
Statistics shows that the total value of
the exports of domestic provisions and
tallow from the United States for the
month of November, 1879 was $8,9O0,-
706, and during the same period in 1878,
So, $50, 482.
The amount realized by the tobacco
growers Of Lancaster county, Pa, for
the crop of 1879, most of which has been
sold, exceeds 100000. Farming
lands in that country, upon which
tobacco Csn be grown, command from
$500 to $3.50 an acre.
LOCAL stove manufacturers are dis
cussing the significance Of the probable
rumor that purchase of 81, 900 tons of
iron has just been made in New York,
and that the material will be held until
spring, in anticipation of an advance in
price, and with the purpose of aiding in
bringing about that result. "-Irog
Times.
THE CuthbertT (Ga.) Appeal says that
Georgia Wine company, recently char
tered, with quarters at Cuthbert, is sure
to be a success. The charter provides
for 8 capital of $4,000, with power to
increase to $4,000 when deemed neces-
sary. The $4,000 stock was taken on
Tuesday last in less than an hour after
the books were opened, and it is believed
that $25, 900 could have been secured in
day with but little drumming. They
will be organized and prepared for the
manufacture of the next crop.
CHARLOTTE IN. c. Observer: On
account of the low price of labor, which
is at least thirty-three per cent. below its
price at the north, our manufacturers
here can compete successfully with the
New England mills, and still have very
pretty margin of profit. Of the fifty
five cotton factories in North Carolina,
twenty-six of them built since 1870, not
one which has been managed right has
failed to make money. 1t is true that
many of them have absorbed their clear
profits in the purchase of new machinery
or in other improvements, but money
has been made all the same.
"ENGLIsH steelmakers," saws the
London Echo, "Will find food for refec-
tion in the recent statistics issued by the
American Iron and Steel association.
In the report which accompanies the
statistics it is stated that English steel
rails hitherto have worn better than
those of American manufacture; but
then these have not been the best Eng
lish nor the best American. The finest
steel turned out from American FORCES
is better than the best imported from
England, and the steel rails on the great
route between the north and Washing
ton, of American manufacture, wore
fully as well as the foreign rails laid
down during the same time.''
An Obstinate Court Physician.