The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-12-09

Inc average snHusl production for the d,e
years Is 1913 10000 bushels. The nrice
gwen Tor the 1T Of December, does not rep
resent the comparative average price each
year. In 1873, subsequent to December
there was q marked advance, maintained ali
the rest of the season. In Ohio the vi.Id
Inis year Is reported an average of IS bushel.
per acre, against 81 last year, and &C in 1873
michigan generally exceeds Ohio in yield psr
acre, while Indiana falls short. Forty mar
cent. OF the potatoes of the country arc grown
IN the New England states, and New York
Now Jersey and Pennsylvania. Maine OF.
poru little, excepting potatoes, of food pro.
oucu, Vermont, Minnesota, Mss.schuse.t,
and Michigan report the largest yields per
acre, each being considerably over 100 bush.
e' per acre The yearly imports and ex.
ports Of potatoes, ending June 80 each wear.
compare as follows for three years:
Year. Imnor,s I'm rx,o,,. H.,
iS,. ss''''''''''..... b7S,5s5 7it 4t9
iS,0 81 o'''''''s'''.,,.. 2,62i liO G.i, sl2
ioo'oV'''' ............ I'll ,TUS Gg6 $50
In Australia, in 1879, potatoes were plant
Cd on $4,000 acres, and averaged ll2 bssbel,
The Now York World says: The cspltsl
stock or many Of the roads has bsen largely
increased and in some case, doubleday stock
dividends, and this fictitious capital is in
numerous instances selling at large pre-.
mum. Three years of bounteous crops here
and simultaneous short hsrvssts in Europe,
and the revival in business which followed
the resumption OF specie payments, have
aoled the old roads TO earn dividends on
TINS fictitious capital. Tho natural result of
TINS has been the reconstruction and exten.
sion of many roads which passed into bank
ruptcy after the panic OF 1873, and the con-
suuctlcn of new line, the average cost of
which per mile is very much below that of
tho Cd roads. Many of these new lines will
compete sctively,in the future with the older
railways Whose capital stock was largely
" wAtered when no such rivalry was ex-
pected. This competition can ultimately
have but one result, and that must be plain
enough to every thinking man. Wall street
spectators, however, at the present time are
disposed to ignore stubborn facts about the
railway system and the money market which
they may have to face before they are pre-
pared to do 10.
The report Of the chief Of the bureau of
s,"h''Ne VA tuo loTelSu commerce OF tn0
United States for Octoner, 1880, shows that
the tolsl value of the exports of domestic
merchandise for the mosth was S8i, 244, S07,
against $S7033020 for the CORES londng
month last year. Tho value of domestic
merchandise exported for the ton months
ended October, 81 WAS S69G.ol9,00i, and of
foreign merchandise 3d. l55, making n
total of S707, 757, SO, against S596 544 ,93l of
domestic and So 430,S26 OF foreign mer-
cbsndise exported for the corresponding
time last year, showing an increase
thi. year Of Sl04,7Sl, 402. The total value
OF the foreign imports Tor the same ten month,
was $602, 29S 839 this year, and Si03 ,532, 664
last year. Thus. while the exports have
gained but little over $l02 100000 the
imports have gained nearly $20O,0O0,0)0
The excess of exports of merchandise over
imports WAS SPOIL i3 1893 for the ton month,
ended October 81, 1879, whereas rs for the
hrst ten months of this year it is only Sl05,,
45S, $50. The exports of gold and silver fol-
the ten months ended October 81, 1880, wer,
Sl2, ,i45, while the imports for the same
time were S5G,845,379, leaving net import
of 44,0iS,935. For the Hrst ten months o
1879 the excess of specie imports over ex
ports was $44, ll0074