Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-06-23
TRADE INTERESTS.

The cattle drive from Texas this year
will realize about So, O0O,O 900.
In Mexico common ST. Louis beer
sells at twenty-five cents glass.
COMPETING ice factories In Augusta,
Ga, have reduced the price to half cent
a pound.
The competition in the ice business in
Charlotte, n. c., has reduced the price
to three-quarters of cent.
ASA TEFFT of Stockton, N. Y, makes.
an average of over 800 pounds of butter
per annum from each OF his COWS.
The Oneida Iron Works company has
just shipped eight engines to Michigan
and Minnesota. The company proposes
to build fifty engines for this seasons
trade
THE trade In seeding oysters, has.
never before been SO large as it has been
this season. The fishermen will now
begin to fight the starfsh which kills so,
many of the oysters.
THERE are at present in this country
six plate glass works, two of which are
located in Indiana, and have 48 pots, one
in Kentucky with 48 pots, two in Massa--
chusetts with rs pots, one in Missour1
with 80 pots.
The express business was organized In
the United States in 1889 between Bos-
ton and New York, and there are now
$50 different organizations engaged in it.,
representing capital of over $50, ZOO, -
600.
The Ohio Falls car works have secured
a contract to build 400 freight cars for
the Chicago, Milwaukee and ST. Paul
road. This company has within three
weeks contracted for $500 new cars, and.
during the summer will make contract
for as many more, to be placed on their
new extensions as they progress.
The value of green glass and bottles,
manufactured in the United States is
estimated at $15, 800, 1856, the number Of
factories being 81 and the number of
pots 724, the establishments located as.
below: California 1, Illinois 2, Indiana,
8, Kentucky 8, Maryland 1, Massachu-
sets 1, Missouri 2, New Jersey IA, New
York 8, Ohio 3, Pennsylvania ID.
The Morgan Envelope company of
Springfield and the Plimpton Manufac-
turing company of Hartford have secured
for another year the contract for furnish
ing the government with registered
package, dead letter and official en-
velopes. The price which they will re-
ceive is $118,000, and the contract will
require some 30, 900, 900 envelopes. The
work will be done at Hartford.
IT is estimated that there will be
production of about 2,250,00O tons Of
steel rails in Europe in 1880, which
would suffice to lay rs, 568 miles of track
with ffty-six pound rails. Of this pro-
duction, IT'S, 200 tons are credited to-.
England, more than 00,O00to Germany,
| 275, 900 to France, 100000 to Austria
Hungary, 100000 to Belgium and $780,
900 to Sweden and Russia.
| OF the British trade returns for last
month the London Times says: "Busi--
ness has sunk almost to last years level,
showing the recent revival to have been
in a great measure speculative. So far
the United States have stood almost alone
as large buyers of English goods, which
explains the keenness and short duration
of the recent speculative wave. There
are hopes that the colonists of Europe
will increase their purchasers. The
present prospect should cause neither
undue dependency nor confidence. "
In the manufacture of window glass
there are go establishments engaged,
containing 694 pots, producing capacity
of 2, 645, 40 boxes containing so feet Of
glass single strength per year. The
value of this glass is 1898, 800. The
factories are distributed among the Diff
ferent states as follows: Illinois, g.;
Maryland, 4; Massachusetts, 4; New
Jersey, 9; New York, 9; Indiana, 1; Iowa.,
1; Michigan, 1; Missouri, /; Ohio, s.
Pennsylvania, %.