The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-03-13
TRADE INTERESTS.

manufacturer pays an internal revenue
tax Of 81, 800 per day.
THREE million coffee mills were made
IN TINS country last year, and the sound
OF Their grinding was low.
BUILDING in New York and elsewhere
Is having severe backset, owing to the
advance in prices of labor and materials.
THE pin manufacturers of the United
States have very strong combination,
and have quadrupled the price Of their
product during the last year
A FIRM in BOrdentown, \. J., has con-
tracted for the labor of one hundred
state prison convicts, at fifty cents day,
to starch and iron shirts.
GROUND was broken at Erie. Pa,
recently, for the erection of malleable
acre of ground.
IT is estimated that within the past
four weeks one thousand colored emf
grants have passed through Chattanooga,
nearly all of whom have crossed the MIS-
sissippi at Memphis.
COLORADO has one hundred thousand
acres under irrigation and fifty thousand
more of hay-land, much of which is irri-
gated. In 1879 the irrigated land pro-
duced 80, 1900 worth of cereals and
other produce.
TTTUsvLLE is much interested IN the
progress of the experiments IN using
petroleum for smelling and working
iron. The Eames Petroleum Iron
Works in that place have been enlarged,
and will soon turn out forty tons of iron
day.
The insignifcance of our foreign COM
pared with our domestic trade may be in
ferred from the fact that the value of
merchandise transported over the Penn
sylvania railroad, between Philadelphia
and Pittsburg, in a single year, exceeds
that of the entire foreign commerce of
the republic.
A MAINE paper says that 819, 900 tons
of ice have been stored the present WIN
ter from the kennebec river, between
HallOwell and Merrymeeting bay, and
below the bay about 200, 900 tons more.
At the mouth of the river ice is being
taken from the water aud shipped direct
to southern ports.
A PROMINENT New England authority
writes as follows: Regardless of guam
tity | have great faith in prices of cotton
as q consequence of revived and improv-
ing business here and III England. If the
continent follows England in its increase,
of manufactures and trade, never fear
depression of prices even from an admit
ted crop Of 5,750,000. "
4 CALIFORNIA correspondent OF the
RWal Press says that the establishment
at Sequel turns out daily from forty-tive
to tifty-tive barrels of white GRADUATED
beet sugar, that at Alvarado from thirty
to thlrty-tive, and prices are regularly
quoted III the San Francisco market. He
adds that the factory ut Islcton (com-
plete but now idle will probably run
full-handed the coming season. and that
new one will be put up III Los Angeles
county.
THE San Diego (Cala.) Union says
Mr.. r. G. Clark, of the CaiOn, has the
honor, we believe, to be the first to make
raislns for the market, having produced
without irrigation, about ton and q
half OF the finest quality. In this con-
nectlon we may say that Mr. Clark is
said to have been the producer of the
first ton of honey IN this county, and
also the first to attempt the growth of
the Australian blue-gum, or eucalyptus
tree.
Col. ALLEN GREENE, OF Vienna, La
proposes going into cooperative farm
ing. His scheme is quite novel He
puts II his property, valued at $50, 900,
and invites laborers to take stock, to be
represented by their labor, ten per cent
on which is to be paid for ten years, di-
viding pro rata the net proceeds of profits
annually, and at the end of ten years di-
vide the whole property, or sell it and
divide the proceeds equally among stock
holders.
THE vast amount of fuel in the form of
slack or "dust coal which is now
wasted suggests promising field for in
ventive genius. Any one visiting the
coal regions is astonished at the quantity
of this refuse thrown out of each mine
/ These heaps of fine coal loom up like
small mountains, and often contain, it is
said, a million tons, all of which can be
burned. The Philadelphia and Reading
company has a process of consuming
this waste IN some of its stationary and
/ locomotive furnaces, but compared with
! the aggregate produced the amount thus
/ disposed OF 10 tri1ing.
( The dry goods market in New York
continues fairly active Jobbers are do
/ ing an excellent business, for this stage
+ of the season, and there is a steady de-
: mand st first hand for nearly all fabrics
adapted for the spring and summer
trade. Cotton goods, though not active
at present, are moving freely on account
of old orders, and prices orc very firm at
the last advance. The print market is
still quiet, vet symptoms Of improve
ment are not lacking in this department,
and renewed activity in the early future
is confidently expected by the best post
! ed merchants.
THE rapid advance In the price of iron
within the last year is somewhat unpre-
cedented III the history of that pivotal
trade, if We except the period of our
great war. In this country
the best foundry iron, which, on the st
Of January, 1879, was sold at ST ton.
was last week quoted at $40 a ton.
Domestic steel rails brought $40 then,
and now sell at SS5. e The chief
cause has been the remarkable impulse
given to railroad building last year.
More miles OF new road were laid in 1873
than in any other year since the
memorable 1872, when the enormous
number of 1910 miles were constructed.
The total was 4,430 miles in 1879,
against :, 916 in 1873 and 2,301 in 1877.
* After the 1st of April the iron
and steel association expects to see our
home production equal to all demands,
I yat largo contracts for FOREIGN iron ore