The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-02-14
TRADE INTERESTS.

LAST year Colorado produced 2,31O.-
600 worth of coal.
THREE Thousand miles of new railway
track are now under way III this country
a New HAVEN factory showered upon
the world y, 0O0 900 fish hooks last year
THE price of nails Is higher at present
than at any time for the past six years.
THERE are now ,, 800 empty cars stand
ing on side tracks at indianapolis and
vicinity.
HOUSE servants are wanted III Mon
tana and Nevada; wages SO to $40
month
A PARTY from New Orleans is about to
start a glass factory at Bay St. Louis,
Miss.
ELIZABETH furnace, near Altoona, Pa,
has been fired mp, after being out OF blast
since 1877.
\ POTTERY manufacturing company
with a capital of $50, 900 has been organ
lied at Rhinebeck
THE shoe trade Of Macon, Ga, is
greater. in proportion 10 the population,
than that Of any other city iii the south.
IL France it Is estimated that about
Is, 700, 900 of the population live by agri-
culture, and 5000, goo by manufactures.
PREPARATIONS are actively going on at
the PHILADELPHIA and Reading shops, in
the latter city, to build 600 freight cars.
The Baldwin Locomotive works now
employ 2,371 men, being about double
the number employed year Ego.
THERE are fiftv-one furnaces in blast
in the Lehieh Valley, Pa, with IN
annual capacity Of over GOu,0O0 tons Of
pig iron.
TIE exports OF the port of Savannah;
Ga, the past month show an increase Of
1850, 900 over the same time last year.
HoLYoRE, Mass, is one Of the chief
centers Of the manufacture OF writing
paper IN this country, over One-haf the
whole production coming from there.
/ BELFAST Ireland) company manu-
features collars and cuffs OF thin wood.
They are almond-colored, finely polished,
and bound with scarlet ribbon.
THE American demand for IRON is cmls-
ing great activity in Great Britain Four
vessels. laden with over 5000 tons Of pig
IRON and rails have sailed from Leith for
New York.
II is estimated that the consumption
of writing paper III the United States is
about one and tbree-quarters tons daily
to each one million inhabitants, or about
eighty tons a day for the whole country
Two miles of railroad has been built
on the ice crossing the St Lawrence
river nj Montreal. The ties and strineers
are laid Hat. and then water II pumped
between them to freeze, thus making a
solid bed.
Tar monthly wash list OF Pullman
palace car is about 5000 pieces, and the
bill is upwards OF so. Each car has a
total equipment Of 100 sheets, 100 pill
low-slips, 30 hand-towels ami 10 roller
towels
From 5000 to 10000 pounds OF olao-
margarine are sold in Philadelphia daily
and other lara cities doubtless use n
proportionate amount. It Is said that
It can readily be detected when applied to
a buckwheat cake or hot biscuit, by the
difficulty with which it is melted.
The Denver, Col, ErcnjHg Times
states that party OF four French noble
men whose agent is now in the city, con
template the outlay of two million dollars
in this city. The principal enterprise is
this is coupled the plan for building a
large number Of residences.
THERE are about 10 acres of straw
berries planted in Florida this season
for the market The yield ranges from
1000 to 5000 quarts per acre would
make the yield 725, 900 quarts. The
growers aYe negotiating with the Florida
Dispatch line for The movement of the
crop.
PORTSMOUTH, \. H.. is quite fishing
port; vessels arrive, almost every week,
with fares ranging from 100, 600 to 130,-
600 pounds of fish-cod, haddock and
hahbut Local firms buy whole cargoes.
Goldfish. weighing 10 pounds each are
sometimes caught, and the Portsmouth
Times tells the names of the vessels that
bring in such monsters.
TAKE the business of making watches
and clocks. 4 heavy duty was imposed
on the import of these articles TO Ameri-
ca. This led many to engage in the
business. Machinery was soon invented
which at once reduced and perfected the
cost If production, and mt present the
American clocks and watches are sold for
less than those of English and Swiss
manufacture in England and IN Switzer-
land. And yet / suppose that the skilled
labor IL this business Is not cheaper III
America than with us. Therefore, by
sheer superiority Of intelligence aud of
perfection OF machinery, We have been
cut out by the Americans Of trade III
which We formerly held our own. The
same may be said Of dozen other
trades, in which we have stood stillwh
the Americans have progressed.-Ln,-
don Truth.