Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-04-14
TRADE INTERESTS,

employees at work.
A GLASS mandatory will be built In
Pasker, Pa, at once.
The Erie City Boiler works expect to
turn out 1 200 boilers this year.
The dividends payable in Boston this
month amount to over s., 500, 900.
Two cotton seed oil mills at Nashville,
Tenn, consume from 5000 to 10, OOOto
OF seed per year.
IT now costs some of the large grain
houses and other wholesale dealers $40
600 to $50, 900 year for cable messages.
The Springfield, VT, toy factory has
shipped 400 gross of the Is puzzle,
making four tons of freight.
THE Susquehanua hammer shops are
running night and day. A new set of
men began work there last week. They
have an order for 5000 axes.
SPONGE fishing is an Important in
terest at Key West, Fla. Over s25, 900
were sold at that place in one week, re-
Gently.
NORTHERN capitalists are soon to erect
a sawmill and large -four mill at some
point on the Northwestern railroad near
Nashville.
A VESSEL is loading at San Francisco
with 100, 900 gallons of wine for the Ger
man market 1t is the first large ship
ment ever made thither.
DURING the last month over 900 cars
of Wisconsin ice have been shipped south
over the Louisville and Nashville and
Alabama and Great Southern railroads.
The wild cat or heavy timber regions
OF Pennsylvania are in a very prosper
GUS condition, and RATS are being run
from there by the hundred,
A FEATURE of steamships manifest
Boston recently, was the item of $50
barrels of seed oysters. These are des-
tined for the oyster beds of Holstein, and
go to replenish the diminishing stock on
hand.
GEN. IMBoDEN, the ex-confederate
cavalry leader, who represents a large
number of northern capitalists, has
purchased $4,000 acres of mining land
in Scott county, Va, ct fifty-fve cents
per acre.
AN establishment for canning Truckee
trout has been started at Wadsworth,
New. The trout are plentiful, but the
waste and expense of canning are so
great that the fish cannot be sold under
Sc per dozen cans at the cannery.
AS indicating the increasing prosperity
of the wooden goods interest, the New
Albany Wooden mills, the largest factory
of the kind in Indiana has just put in
additional machinery, increasing it's
capacity one-fourth. These mills have
large orders from the government.
A COMPANY is about to be formed for
working the iron mines found on East
river, Picton county, NOVA Scotia. The
deposits are very large, the ore OF
superior quality, and with the close
proximity of coal, ought to be mined
with great profit.
IT is said that plan is on foot among
Boston and New England capitalists for
the formation of an Angora goat In
dustry on an extended scale in the high
lands Of the Appalachian range, south,
and that $50, 900 will be ample capital as
basis for an industry numbering 10000
head Of Angoras.
The Bellville, Ontario, batelligencer
says the demand for lumber is very
large. Nearly all the mills in the back
country have sold all that they have on
hand at very remunerative rates. A
gentleman who deals largely In rough
lumber purchased supply three weeks
ago at Sc. Last week he was asked SO
for the same article.
The nail works in New Albany, Ind,
have been idle for some months, for the
reason that the demand for iron upon
the Ohio Falls Iron works, with which
they are connected, is so great that the
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iron making. The iron market has been
improving for the past three weeks, and
the outlook for the future is considered
most encouraging.
The Western Iron association held
meeting at Pittsburg, on the 9Th inst,
which was largely attended. After fully
discussing the situation, a resolution
was unanimously adopted that the card
rate should be reduced from 81 to So. 20.
The Pittsburg Dispatch learns from
prominent nail manufacturers that the
present dullness In that line of trade Is
caused by large quantities of nails that
were boarded up for big prices being
suddenly put upon the market.
THE annual shad pole war on the
Hudson has commenced somewhat earlier
this year than usual. Just as soon as
the succulent shad makes his appearance
in the North river, the shad poles show
themselves. The many vessels plying
on this river are in constant danger from
these poles, and captains and pilots are
put on their wits ends to avoid them
The poles are planted in the river from
forty to seventy feet in length, and are
very substantial Under the law the
fishermen are allowed to plant the poles
in six feet of water, but there is tacit
understanding that the men can plant
their poles on the western shore, pro-
vided they keep them out of the channel
and out of the way of ferry-boats.