The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-07-03
TRADE INTERESTS

THE cattle drive from Texas this wear
will realize about 50, 900, 600.
In Mexico common ST. Louis beer
sells Mt twenty-five cents a glass.
THE United States are pretty well up
TO the time, as they run ont /, 300 watches
daily.
COMPETING ice factories in Augusta,
Ga, have reduced the price to half a cent
Il pound.
THE competition in the ice business in
Charlotte, n. c., has reduced the price
to three-quarters of II cent.
ASA TEFFT of Stockton, y. Y, makes
an average Of over 300 pounds OF butter
per annum from each Of his cows.
THE Oneida Iron Works company has
just shipped eight engines to Michigan
and Minnesota. The company proposes
to build fifty engines for this seasons
trade
THE trade in seeding oysters, has
never before been 50 large as it has been
/ this season The fishermen will now
begin to fight the starfish which kills so
many Of the oysters.
/ six plate glass works, two of which are
located in Indiana, andhave 48 pots, one
III Kentucky with As pots, two IN Massa-
chusetts with 26 pots, one in Missouri
with 81 pots.
THE express business was organized in
the United States in 1889 between Bos-
ton and New York, and there are now
100 different organizations engaged IN it,
representing a capital OF over 100000, )
900.
/ THE Ohio Falls car works have secured
contract to build 400 freight cars for
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
road This company has within three
weeks contracted for 2, 800 new cars, and
during the summer will make contract
! for as many more, to be placed on their
new extensions as they progress.
! THE value of green glass and bottles
manufactured in the United States is
estimated at SO, 322, 735, the number of
factories being 81 and the number Of
pots 724, the establishments located as
below: California /, Illinois 2, Indiana
Z. B, Kentucky 3, Maryland l, Massachu-
sets l, Missouri 2, New jersey IA, New
York s, Ohio 3, Pennsylvania b.
THE Morgan Envelope company of
4 Springfield and the Plimpton Manufac-
turing company of Hartford nave secured
for another year the contract for furnish
ing the government with registered
package, dead letter and official en-
velopes The price which they Will re-
ceive is S11S,000, and the contract will
require some 80, 600, 900 envelopes. The
/ WORK viii he dome ot II ortfpTI
IT is estimated that there will be q
production of about 2,250,0 600 tons OF
steel rails in Europe in 1880, which
would suffice to lay 25, sos miles of track
with fifty-six pound rails. OF this pro
duction, 775, 900 tons are credited tC
England, more than 400, 000to Germany
275, 600 to France, $50, 900 to Austria
Hungary, $50, 900 to Belgium and $50,
600 to Sweden and Russia.
THERE are SO flint glass factories IN the
United States containing ], AIS pots anC
consuming 81, S32 tons per week, 1924
COS tons per year. This amount OF
material gives yearly production OF
2,092, 14S tons of flint glass. These
factories are located as follows: Con
necticut, l Iowa, l; Kentucky, l. Mary
land, 2; Massachusetts, 6; Missouri, ,
New jersey, 4; New York, II; Ohio, 10
PENNSYLVANIA, AZ; West Virginia, g.
OF the British trade returns for last
month the London Times says: "Busi.
ness has sunk almost to last years level
showing the recent revival to have been
in a great measure speculative. SO fan
the United States have stood almost alone
as large buyers Of English goods, which
h. Il, 4
of the recent speculative wave. There
are hopes that the colonists of Europe
will increase their purchasers. The
present prospect should cause neither
undue dependency nor confidence.
In the manufacture of window glass
there are so establishments engaged,
containing 694 pots, producing capacity
OF 2,6i5, 440 boxes containing 80 feet OF
glass single strength per wear. The
value of this glass is 81, 933, 800. The
factories are distributed among the diff
ferent states as follows: Illinois, 3
MARYLAND. (; Massachusetts, 4 New
Jersey, 9; New York, 8; Indiana, l; Iowa
1; Michigan, l.; Missouri, l. Ohio, 6
Pennsylvania, %.
4 BRITIsH official, reporting on the
trade of the east coast of Madagascar
says that British trade has suffered seri
ously from the large importation o.
American gray cotton sheetings. Man
chester manufacturers have been so com
pletelv supplanted that the British firms
who formerly imported largely Manches
ter gray cottons deal almost exclusively
III American cloths, and one British
merchant at Tamative has become agent
to a Boston firm, and receives from then