Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-06-02
TRADE INTERESTS,

THERE are 5000 miles of telegraph
and telephone wires in New York city.
THERE are now ], Ill employees in the
Elgin, ILL.,, watch factory.
The Kittanning Rolling Mill company
has just built Is coke ovens.
THIRTY thousand saw-logs are being
RATED down Pearl river, Mississippi.
WITHIN radius of 25 miles of Brad
ford, Eng, there 100000 people en-
gagged In worsted manufacturing alone.
LAST year the United States exported
500, 100000 worth of wheat and four,
and none was needed in Europe.
Four mills at Richmond, Va, manu-
featured, during the ten months just
closed, 1877, 176 barrels of -four.
A STONE has been cut in quarry near
Bedford, Ohio, as by so feet and about
80 feet thick, with an estimated weight
of 6, 900, 900 pounds.
The Pottstown, Pa, Iron Company's
puddlers have choice of accepting a re-
duction of wages from SIS to S. so ton,
with steady work guaranteed, or being
given work whenever it can be had at S.
per ton.
The stand of cotton In South Carolina
this year, according to reports received
at the department of agriculture, is the
finest known for many years past. The
prospects of the rice crop are also favor
able.
SAN Francisco Is going into the
whaling business. Just off the coast of
California is said to be magnificent
whaling ground at most seasons of the
year. Steam launches are now being
constructed for this business.
THERE are 10,OOO,OOO pounds of last
years tea left over, and there are 3d.
900, 900 pounds of Japan tea coming.
When it arrives there will be more tea
in this country than there ever was be-
fore, and millions of pounds more than
are needed.
BETWEEN Chemung and Blossburg,
there was grown III 1879 upwards of
sold ct prices ranging from six to four
teenth cents per pound. 1t is estimated
that sof last years crop there as yet re-
mains unsold in the neighborhood of
1000 cases. WeWsboro Gazette.
Iowa walnut logs are being shipped to
England. The timber is bought in the
tree by Liverpool agent, and is cut
down and hewn square. The ends are
then painted to prevent cracking from
exposure to the weather The logs are
shipped to Liverpool to supply the
cabinet makers of Great Britain. The
timber is obtained in the Skunk River
Valley, in the vicinity of Charlottesville
and Washington, and is of superior
quality. Iowa furnishes some of the
best black walnut to be found In the
world for the furniture trade, and it is
source of considerable revenue to the
state.
A CONSIDERABLE steel making industry
exists in the present day In China, on
the Upper Yangtze, whence the steel is
sent to Tien-tsin for shipment and dis
tribution. 1t fetches much higher
prices than the Swedish steel imported
into the country. The Chinese metalur-
gists recognize three kinds of steel,
namely, that which is procured by add
ing unwrought to wrought iron while the
mass is subject to the action of fire, pure
iron many times subjected to fire, and
pure steel, which is produced in the
southwest. The different names for steel
are twan kang, on shrinkled steel; wei
tee, or false steel. The Chinese, APP
parently, have known how to manufac-
ture steel from the very earliest ages