The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-13
TRADE AND MANUFACTURES.

NKw ORLEANS has sixteen ocean steam.
ahip lines,
oNE Boston firm has cleared 800, 600
In leather since September.
TuR Oswego Falls factories are light.
Cd by ninety electric lights of $4,000
candle power, at cost Of one dollar per
week.
Frvn hundred wagons loaded with 10
bacco came into Lancaster, Pa, one day
last week, aud the banks paid out over
$500, 200.
TIN winter earnings Of nearly every
ono Of the western railroads show very
plainly that the revival boom has swung
unto them.
TIN rolling mills at New Albany, Ind.
Columbus, o., and other points have
been Obliged to shut down ON oecount of
the scarcity Of old rails
TWENTY-FIVE car loads Of oranges were
shipped over the Florida Central rail.
road last week. There were 400 boxes 10
u car and about 1915 orages to box.
AT st, Adams, Vt. the convention of
butter-tub manufacturers of Vermont,
New Hampshire and New York nd.
vaneed thepriceo tubs about a cent each.
All the woolen mills IN Indiana will
shut down this week, with the exception
Of ono ut New Albany. Tho cause IL the
high price Of wool and the low prices Of
goods.
TRAIN loads Of guano are passing
through the city daily TO southern points.
II Ia believed the shipments viii ha
larger this year than they havcever been
before. Charlotte IN, % Observer.
The largest shoe house In Greenville,
=, g., and also the largest dry goods
house, have failed. Both firms claim
that they win no able to pay creditors in
null, and only ark time To make coliN-
tons.
AN extensive railway contractor from
tho United States il in Montreal apply
ing for charter for railroad from
LongMead to Chamhly, to connect with
potsslan Junction, n. Y, The proposed
line would hiring Montreal into direct
communication with central New York.
ACCORDING 10 the developments Of a
pending lawsuit in Buffalo the business
III manufacturing glucose IL q very pro-
titahle one, II Ia alleged that tho shares
Ut the Buffalo Grape Sugar company,
the original value af which was 500
each, are nov worth So, 900 each, aud II
II said that the concern makes frain $50
900 to 10000 per week.
OIn iron IN even coming from Russia
TO the United States, A vessel left
Odessa for New York on the 81 ult, with
n large cargo Of old railroad iron and
rope, aud il Ia stated that some twenty
five thousand tons more If old iron were
waiting 10 no shipped 10 this country.
10 would appear that American dealers
arr ransaeking the world for old iron,
4 NuMnER Of Engliah companies are
buying lands throughout the western and
southern country with view Of selling
them to emigrants from Great Britain
and Ireland on easy terMs The latest
ease IN poiut In that III the Land Colonial
ton and Banking company of London,
which has purchased 200, 900 acres in
Iowa, at 80 per acre, frum st. Paul and
Sioux City railroad company.
TMe people Of Colorado have invested
their money in cities and towns, rail-
roads aud mines in good faith, upon the
understanding that our mountain system
of railroad was 10 no the narrow guage.
But this whole system IL now threatened
with overthrow, A broad gauge il to be
pushed into the mountains, regardless Of
expense. for the very purpose OF making
the hundreds Of miles of narrow gauge
already constructed next to worthless,
until, nj great loss of time and money,
they are reconstructed on the broad
gauge plan, tftt) News.
ENaLANp il having its business hoom.
Steel and iron have jumped with bound
steel rails goiug up twenty per cent, for
instance ON the mere announcement that
hill had been introduced in congress- TO
repeal the duty ON them. The aggregate
value @ number III joint stock steel and
iron companies at Sheffield, rated last
june at $50, 000, 600. amounts at present
quotations to Sl25, 000.000. All the
other metals share in the advance, tin
and copper particularly. Wool hos gone
up thirty 10 forty per cent, and the finer
grades fifteen To twenty per cent,
Neights nom India have doubled in the
last quarter. and Australian fraights
have Increased one-half. "a.