Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-05
BUSINESS MATTERS.


LIE grain blockade at st. Louis has
led that city to take immediate steps to
double It's elevator capacity of 1000, 900
bushels
The Legitimate net earnings" of the
copper mines of Lake Superior for 1880
will, it is said, excel the profits of all the
western gold and silver mines.
THE man who CANDLES In grain is AL
MOST as certain to be ruined in the end
as the man who 'sftghts the tiger in
the fashionable gaming house.-Boston
Traveller.
THE 1mportations OF lumber from Can
ada at the porS of Burlington, Vt, dur
ing the season just closed, amount to
Ii, 600, 900 feet more than last year. an
increase Of Is per cent.
STILL another grape sugar company
has been formed M Rochester. It is to
be called the Rochester Grape Sugar
company, and will have q capital of
81 100000
CANADA imported $500 worth of
cheese twelve years ago, but now she ex-
ports SlO,OOO,OO0 worth year, and her
exports OF butter and cheese are "a, OOO,-
900 larger than those of wheat
LARGE cotton factories are to be built
at Charleston, Vicksburg and Louisville.
Southern capitalists are becoming con-
vlnced that they can manufacture as well
as raise cotton.
The mackerel catch Of New England
for 1880 has been larger than for many
years. The catch of Gloucester is the
largest, 129, 500 barrels; that of Rockport
1923 barrels, of Newburyport, 5000, of
Wellfieet 81, $50, Of Provinceton, 7,767.
In twenty years the yield of the Com
stock lode Nevada silver mine las been
1926, 600, 600 worth of bullion, The
length Of shafts and galleries is $50
miles. Three hundred and sixty million
tons OF waste rock have been hoisted,
and 1,75O, 100000 tons of water pumped
to the surface.
HERE are now ten hccks of Angora
goats III Texas, varying In number from
lOO to l,5O0. The hair of these goats
sells higher than the wool of sheep, the
product OF an animal is larger, the pelts
more valuable, the flesh as good, and
they will thrive in the billy scrub-oak
regions of Texas where sheep would
starve. They can live in the open air,
without feeding, all the year round.
A FIsH-PREsERvING company has been
organized in Philadelphia, with q capt.
tai OF $2OO, 600, whose object is to freeze
and keep In state of preservation shad
and other saltwater fish in the United
States and market them when at times
such fish are not in season. The COM
pany expects to procure enough shad
during the season from the Delaware
and Potomac rivers to enable to carry on
the business successfully.
DR. IL. b. BLACKWELL, treasurer of
the Maine beet sugar factory in Port
land, IN speech at recent meeting in
Schenectady, n. Y, In the interest of
beet sugar establishment there, said that
when 2, 900 acres of beets are guaranteed
along the Mohawk valley by responsible
growers, his company will take $75, 900
OF stock in factory to be started in
Schenectady. Charles L. Whitmyre, of
Schenectady, was chosen to secure
pledges for raising o sufficient supply of
beets. An agreement has been drawn
up by which everyone signing ayr, es to
deliver at the beet sugar works in Sche-
nectady, provided the party of the first
part starts such works with capital not
less than S150,000 the product in beets
of the number OF acres set opposite his
name, he to receive pay at the rate of
81 a ton for unwashed beets, with the
tops, however, removed. For each acre
cultivated the grower is to have the
privilege Of taking $50 stock in the con-
Germ at the beginning of the second year
and receiving his due share in dividends.
He is also to have the right to buy beet
pulp at 81 ton at the factory up to 40
per cent. of the weight of beets he de-
livers.