The Ottawa free trader., 1881-10-15

a Mendoza man raised pumpkin this season
that weighs l09 pounds. That ought to settle it
Mendoza must have an agricultural fair
Ottawa il In serious financial condition She
has borrowed as much, or even more, than the
law allows rs a limit and must call a halt. llel
treasury is empty, and the city orders are hawk
ed around for sale. The limit of taxation has al
80 been reached. .-Streator Free Press.
The FIRE. Press draws on it. imagination
Though the treasury is empty, city orders are not
hawked abClt, but are paid in cash dollar for
dolar.-In Justice also the Press should add that
the limit OF taxation for city purposes is believed
10 be one'half Of one per cent. SO that what
reads in the Free Press as a very bad state OF
things is trivial after all.
That excellent paper, the Pittsburgh Amerjcan
Manufacturer, says:
There are about eighty glass factories
in Pittsburgh, yet the Ottawa Un.,) FREE
TRADER thinks there is not the slightest
doubt that II Ottawa men are united and work
for 1t that city can In the next fifteen years Sc
cure the supremacy In glass making now en-
Joyed in this city. This Is aiming pretty high,
but II indicates laudable ambition, and plenty
OF sand" The FREE TRADER also thinks Otta.
wa good point for ironmongery.
You bet, we've got the ''sand." All other
things being equal, an Ottawa factory can sart
on ya,c materials alone, compared with Pittsburgh
enough to pay a good dividend on $4,000.
As to the ironmongery. well-posted writer in
the Journal some time since suggested;
For the manufacture Of iron, Ottawa is well
situated; Lake Superior ores can be laid down
here as cheaply rs at Cleveland or Pittsburgh
Than har frnn IN
miles, and yet the manufacture OF iron is becom
ing one Of her great industries. Pittsburgh hauls
much OF her ore from Superior, taking it from
Cleveland by rail, 1873 miles. Tayardotte, Mich,
gets her ore from Lake Superior and coal from Il
distance Of $50 miles. Cleveland uses several
car loads Of limestone per day as fux in reduc.
ing the ores and has to carry il so miles. Otta-
wa has the coal near by l6 miles at the farthest)
the limestone at hand, and by the way of Escam.
bia, the ore Is much nearer here than it is to
Cleveland. Why, then, cannot iron-works be
profitably operated here?
The fall fishing during the warm days preced.
ing the rains OF the week was excellent, and
large numbers Of fine bass were taken. by the
way, 1t is to be hoped the fish commissioners and
fish breeders will read that excellent volume,
''The Book Of Black Bsss," by DR.. James A. Hen.
shall, Of Cincinnati. The work IL exhaustive,
and presents, for the frs: time in literature the
Black Bass in its true light, as M1 game fish
par excellence Of America. AS the Doctor says,
The Black Bass has the arrowy rush and vgor
Of the trout the untirng strength and bold leap
OF the salmon, while he has system of fighting
tactics peculiarly his own" The fish Is more
widely distributed than any other, his original
habitat being (for the small.mouth species) from
Canada to Alabama, along the Appalachian
chain and westward; and for the large mouth
species from the Red River Of the north TO Flori.
da, and from Virginia to Mexico. Both species
are easily propagated, easily introduced into new
waters and all In all the Bass is the best fish in
America He has been shamefally neglected for
fancy fishes Ike trout aud salmon, which are
failure In most western waters, and neither of
which all things considered, are his EQUALS. DIR.
Henshalrs book, we hope, will create a new in
terest In this noble fish where 1t will do the most
good, and be the means Of restocking our rivers
so outrageously deprived Of the lsh by senine
County and SeighborhoOd.
The new Utica pottery began active operations
last week.
The gfreafor pnttla Nro.t..