Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-04-07
TRADE INTERESTS.

NEW YORK is gaining on Paris in the
manufacture of fine confectionery.
This country spent $3,75O,OOO on
opium last year.
FIFTEEN car loads of horses for the
eastern states were shipped from Mon
treal recently in one day.
| WALNUT knots from the big Sandy
country, Kentucky, now used for MAX
ing furniture, are sold by weight at
twenty-five cents per pound.
In New England alone it is estimated
by railroad men that over 1900 freight
cars are now being built by the various
roads,
| THE New Orleans Times says: ssThere
are In the golden, fallow state of Louis
lana 23,0O0,000 acres of land awaiting
the plough and the harrows of the white
men who are here and the emigrantswho
ought to be-"
EXPERIMENTS have been made in rice
culture on high ground in Florida, with
out flooding the field, and very superior
rice has been procured, sixty bushels to
| the acre. The land was prepared with
out using fertilizers
One of the occupations of young men
who are filling up western Texas is to
breed geese. One of these has 5000
geese, whose feathers are plucked every
two months. Each bird will average O
| pound and half a year, worth fifty cents
pound.
FROM paltry rs cents worth of iron
ore may be developed S. so worth of bar
iron, $40 worth of horse-shoes, $3.50
worth of table knives, Sc, 800 worth of
fine needles, 1919, 48O worth of shirt but
! tons, 100000 worth of watch springs,
100000 worth of hair springs, or 3d.
500, 900 worth of pallet arbors fused in
watches)
The fertilizer trade shows that the
people of the south are again cotton
crazy. From circulars sent to every
county in South Carolina, the Charles
ton NeaUs and Courier has received in
formation to the effect that the amount
already sold in the state far exceeds the
amount sold up to this time last year,
and is almost If not quite as great as was
sold the whole of last season."
So tickle have been the prices of old
rails for few months past that parties
who have old rails to sell write the Off
Gals of rolling mills: "What will you
! give for few thousand tons of old rails,
providing they are not sold before your
answer is received ?" The rolling-mi1
official answers: 81 will give $48 per
ton if don't change my mind before I
hear from you
AT the present moment firm of To
ronto, tea brokers, acting for American
importers has $1,000 boxes of tea in the
warehouse of the Great Western railway
station. If the former revenue tariff
was In force Toronto wholesalers would
reap the profit from this and other large
importations. Under the national policy
| they are totally unable to do business in
competition with the brokers of Ameri-
can firms. -IOrOnto Globe.
BASS, the world-renowned brewer, uses
up, every year the hops grown ON some
| two thousand acres of ground; and year.
| ~ rolls into the groggeries of London
and the other great English towns some
| thing like million barrels of beer.
This one brewer could serve one-half the
human race with a glass of beer per
| head from his own brewing In single
| year. He owns over five miles of pri-
vate railway in Burton, and pays out
over $4,000 every week to his beer
makers
| CHICAGO is to have one of the largest
glucose factories in the world. Chicago
and New York capitalists have put $780,
| 900 capital into the concern and paid
$500, 900 to start with for location on
the west side of the south branch. Fac
tories costing 100000 and employing
| 700 men are to be built within year,
and they expect to work up Is, 900 bush
els of corn daily into 500 bushels of glu-
cose.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Lata2abe7'naa7a's
Gazette writes from Bridgeport, Conn,
and says: "There are over one hum
dred houses of different kinds going up
III this city at the present time. He
also states that P. T. Barnum, the great
Snowman, has instructed his agent in
that city to build one hundred houses on
property he owns, and already some ff-
teen or twenty of them are under way.
It is impossible, he continues, to get
good responsible builders in this section;
good man would do well here. Every
| body seems crazy to build now that
prices are going up; but when prices
were down, no one thought of doing any
| thing, and as a consequence mechanics
and laboring men were idle, and trade
generally was dull. Now all are engag
ed, and more could be employed"
FIsH-FREEzING is the latest develop
ment of Anglo-Indian industry. The
fish, oysters both obtained at Bombay
and Calcutta are famous all over India,
but the enormous distances these fra1
comestibles have to travel prevent Anglo
Indians in the interior of the country
from enjoying them. The novel indus
try now inaugurated in Bombay viii,
bo1yoror roeet tho dif;cuItv Ovsters
and sea-fish, if frozen up in solid blocks
of ice can be kept perfectly fresh for
several days, while the ice itself remains
untainted and as serviceable as ever for
cooling drinks. The fish are suspended
in wire nets In the freezing water, while
the oysters. stripped of their shells, are
first stored with their juice IN air tight
cans, and are then frozen in the blocks
the same way as fish. One of these huge
slabs of crystal ice filed with q collec-
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