Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-04-28
TRADE INTERESTS.
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900 for insurance premiums annually.
NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA is largely
increasing It's cheese factories.
FIFTEEN thousand oranges are to be
furnished daily from Florida TO a large
wine firm In Buffalo to make into wine.
IT is said the contractor for carrying
the mails from Sidney, Neb., to Dead
wood, has made o net profit of S214, 900
annually.
THE fruit and vegetable business from
Florida to northern and western cities
has grown from about $4,000 boxes i'll
1874 to $4,000 in 1880.
DIR. HosrETTER Pouch, the stomach
bitters man, has just bought 100000
| barrels Of oil in the Bradford district,
which he designs carrying until profit
able to sell.
The Kensington carpet manufacturers
are unearthing all the old looms thrown
aside three years ago, and even purchas-
ing them in other cities, SO great Is the
revival of business in the Philadelphia
carpet trade.
THE Raleigh Observer reports that the
firm of Blackwell & Co., of Durham,
lately sold 100000 pounds of tobacco,
receiving therefor S250,000. and sup
poses that this was the largest transac-
ton ever had in North Carolina.
In a suit not long since decided by the
! Supreme Court of California, the ques-
ton arose whether the time during which
a debtor is in court of bankruptcy is to
be counted under the limitation law.
The decision was In the negative.
The production of the new mill which
the Springfield Blanket company of
Holyoke have erected, will be 1000
bales, or 100000 blankets year, and
when all is running the establishment
will be able to turn out l, 700 blankets a
day. The increase will require about
125 new hands, making some 325 in all.
It is expected to have five sets of the
machinery running by the middle of
May, and the rest by July /.
STEEL rail manufacturers report there
is scarcely any business transpiring at
the moment. Makers are unwilling to
name prices for the time they are able to
deliver, while outside holders offer COM
lparatively cheap, but find very few
buyers. About $4,000 tons of English
steel sold recently at equal to not over
$40, and few lots of English iron at
about $50. American steel quoted S73
to S75, and iron about $50 nominally, as
to specification.- Journal
frnn iu Chieoso hos made ar
engagements for the building of private
car to carry two statesmen and full line
of samples. Cooking arrangements,
sleeping apartments, in fact every con-
venience they would have in first-class
hotel will be provided. Mileage arrange
ments have been made with the different
roads over which 1t will travel The
length of this " drummer on wheels .
Will be sixty feet, and will cost $4,000
The Montreal Herald says: Gone OF
the arguments that have been advanced
against the ST. Lawrence route for the
transport of freight and passengers tc
and from the fast opening west that is
destined to be the future home of mil
lions and the producer if not the granary
for the vast quantities of cereals that are
required for the worlds consumption,
is the dangers of the Gulf and lower por-
tons of the River ST. Lawrence.
The Charleston Meas SAYS that lie
South Carolina farming is being more
extensively, industriously and intelli-
gently conducted than ever before known
by the oldest inhabitant Men are
working with all their might, and from
with cheerfulness, thereby raising agri-
culture from the previous status of an
isolated and plodding calling to that of a
live, hopeful business, in which an en-
hghtened and economical consideration
is given to surroundings and their bear
ings.
THE poultry raising industry of Prince
Edward Island is beginning to attract at
tention as an important branch of it's
trade. Its export of eggs last year ex-
elusive of those sent to the Dominion,
were valued at $53, 028, having increased
from S38, 482 in 1876. It is proposed to
develop and expand this trade by form
ing poultry association, with the object
of improving stock by the importation of
the lest breeds, and circulating informa-
ton to breeding, rearing and finding a
market for produce.
A REVOLUTION has been wrought in
the English wool trade by the compet1-
ton of American buyers in purchasing
the longer and coarser woods used in the
manufacture of worsteds, blankets, car
pets, &c. A supply was lately received
at Liverpool, the principal market, from
Egypt and India, and under the pressure
of an active American demand prices
rose to figure higher than had been
known In the market since 1871, and fol
particular qualities the price obtained
exceeded all precedent. The Americans
completely outbid the Yorkshire manu-.
facturers.