Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-01-01
TRADE INTERESTS.

CAPITALISTS are arranging to erect
blast furnace near Pottstown, Pa.
The south raised $4,000, 600 pounds
more tobacco the present season than ever
before.
AT Little Falls and Utica, N. Y, are
factories which make $4,000, 900 pounds
OF cheese year.
MEssRs. PARK, BROTHER & Co.'s
steel works at Pittsburg are lighted with
electric lights.
A MACHINE for making paper boxes
just introduced at Cleveland, produces
$4,000 complete boxes in day.
IRON ore in the Ottawa district i,
taken to Ohio to be smelted, the fifty
cents per ton duty on coal being fatal to
smelling in Canada.
THE total production of rubber manu-.
facturers in the United Ststes during
the present year, it is estimated. will
reach nearly s20,000,000 in amount.
ACCORDING to the PItsburg Telegraph,
work continued brisk in the rolling
mills Of that city, all of them being on
double turn.
The johanna charcoal furnace, in
Berks county, Pa, has again gone into
blast, after having been idle for three
years.
A LARGE eastern locomotive works is
about to remove to Chicago, parties in
that city having subscribed 100000 to-
ward it.
THREE million more postal cards were
issued at the Holyoke, Mass. agency in
October than was ever sent in one month
before. The amount WAS thirty-five
millions.
HE production of the Edgar Thomson
steel works in Pennsylvania for the
month of November was larger by sever
al hundred tons than any other steel mill
in the country.
OUR great American carpet companies
are about beginning the manufacture of
Administer carpets on an extensive scale,
and the services of the best English de.
signers have been engaged.
ONE of the latest rumors in the iron
trade is that western buyers OF ore have
recently contracted for some 400, 900 tons
of foreign ore for delivery as late SIS the
spring of 1881.
THE new beet sugar works at River
side Station, Del, which commenced
operations last week, are now running
day and night. They have not been as
busy as at present in number of years.
AN advance in the price of carpets
will, it is said, follow January l. The
heavy stock on hand at the opening of
the year is exhausted, and many New
Eng land mills report orders for all they
can make during the next six months.
Nor only silk spinuers from Maccles-
field, Coventry, and ether English towns
have enigrated to Paterson, n. j.,
lately, but there are large additions
from the French and Swiss silk centers.
Over |, 900 operatives have been added
within the year just closing.
A STATEMENT issued by the Bureau Of
Statistics shows that the total value OF
the exports of domestic provisions and
tallow from the United States for the
month of November, 1879 was IS 900,-
7O6, and during the same period IN 1878,
$500, 4S2.
THE amount realized by tie tobacco
growers of Lancaster county, Pa, for
the crop OF 1917, most or when mas Deeh
sold, exceeds 100000. Farming
lands in that country, upon which
tobacco can be grown, command from
5000 to $3.50 an acre.
LOCAL stove manufacturers are dis
cussing the significance OF the probable
rumor that purchase of $4,000 tons OF
iron has Just been made in New York,
and that the msteris! will be held until
spring, in anticipation of An advance IN
price, and with the purpose OF aiding III
bringing about that result. Troy
Times.
THE Cuthbert (Ga) AP2eH says that
Georgia Wine company, recently char
tered, with quarters st Cuthbert, is sure
to be q success The charter provides
for capital of $4,000, with power to
increase TO $4,000 when deemed neces-
sary. The $40 1000 stock was taken on
Tuesday last in less thsn an hour after
the books were opened, and it Is believed
that sos, 900 could have been secured IN
q day with but little drumming. They
will be organized and prepared fer the