The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-01-24
TRADE INTERESTS.

OVER seven million watch glasses are
sold annually in the United States.
A PROMINENT steel-rail manufacturer
of Pittsburg declined to take an order
for steel-rails at $40 per ton.
MANY of the Pittsburg rolling mills
are said to have orders already booked
to keep them busy until June l, 1880.
ENGLISH authorities state that, out
of every five loaves of bread eaten in
England in 1880, three must come from
the United States and Russia.
RUMoRs are rife that q number Of
capitalists propose to erect glass works
at Columbia, Washington county, Pa,
during the present year.
FIVE thousand dollars is offered by
the American Humane society of Chica-
90, for stock car in which live animals
can be carried long distances without
needless suffering.
SOME Of the knowing ones in the met
al trade venture the assertion that the
home consumption in 1880 will absorb
the entire production Of American ingot
copper that year.
A PRETTY good authority estimates
the stock of pig iron Oh spot and afoat
for this country as about 4, 900 to $500
tons. Not over 1000 tons OF this is
believed to be in the hands of regular
dealers.
The shipments of iron, steel and tin
plates from the Uniled Kingdom to the
United States in November amounted to
1877, 703 tons, valued at G945, 786, against
shipments of 19, 026 tons, valued st f257,-
ga, in November, 1877.
A READING firm will erect nail
factory at Mansfield, Tioga county, with
a capacity to turn out 200 kegs of nails
every twenty-four hours, if the people
of Mansfield will take two-thirds of the
stock. The factory is to cost $25, 200.
THE United States consul general of
Mexico, writes that the superiority OF
American manufacture is beginning to
be generally recognized, and they are
gradually but decidedly supercedinq
European articles of similar character.
The small islands of the West Indies,
known as the Leeward islands, are De.
coming the source of sugar supply to
this country. Five years ago none was
received from there. Last year $500, 600
worth was shipped.
IN Rindge, Peterboro, n. Y, and
vicinity there are some twenty-five
clothes pin factories. 1t is estimated
that these factories produce enough pins
monthly to make a belt around the
globe, if placed in line.
THE Florida, an ocean steamship of
light draft, just finished at Pittsburg for
the Ocean Steamship company of Savan-
nah, cost $45, 900. 1t is said that dupli,
Gates of this vessel are to be built st
Pittsburg.
Mr.. DANIEL BATEMAN, an English
iron master from Low Moor, Yorkshire,
while at Titusville recently witnessing
the manufacture of iron by petroleum
ss medium of heat, ordered fifty bar
rels of oil to be sent to his works in Eng,
land, where it will be used in expert
menting with iron.
THE Franklin Spectator says that in
the lubricating or heavy oil region, of
which Franklin is the center, there were
123 wells drilled last year and Is wells
cleansed. The number of wells pump
ing on the 1st of this year was AS, an
increase of rs over the same time last
year. The average production the past
year was 5000 barrels per month.
California fruit growers are expert
menting with new variety of peach
which comes from China and is called
the Peen-too or Chinese Fla. peach, and
is very different from the common sort.
1t is described as follows: Fruit three
inches in diameter, very fiat, white with
red cheek; peels readily when ripe flesh
foe. grained and juicy, dissolving with 3
very rich, delicate aroma; very early"
IT is stated that the firm of brokers in
Pittsburg who had arranged to import
large quantities Of foreign ore between
now and the spring of 1881 are likely to
experience some difficulty in getting the
ore, on account, it is understood, of q
disposition manifested by the parties on
the other side Of the water to violate
their part of the contract. a member
of the firm has gone over to lock after
their interests.
The slate Interest is growing in Penn
sylvsDia, and reports from Northampton
and Lehigh counties give encouraging
reports of the trade. Fresh dealers are
constantly coming in and shipments are
daily increasing The Bangor and Port
land railroad, built snd completed not
many months since for the convenience
of the slate traffic, is well employed, and
from all the producing region there
are reports of most encouraging char
acter.
SURVEYOR KING, of the port of Green.
port, L. l., sets forth the catch of men,
hsden for the last quarter at $4,000, 900,
from which were msde 207 600 gallons
of oil and 1900 tons scrap The business
for the year il reported as follows:
Total catch of menhsden by bay fisher
men, I'll ,000, 900; gallons of oil render
ed, ,O13, $50; tons Of scrap made, %, 100
The estimated catch of menhaden in the
district is 400, 600, 900, and the estimated
value of the products Ct the fisheries is
1915, GOO. Those stpresent engaged in
ocean cod fishing ale having fine luck.
In one day the w. O. Rayno company
hooked 200, averaging in weight from
ten to forty pounds sscn,