The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-01

TO double the capacity at once. OF
vinegar there is a considerable quantity
made in this city, $4,000 being invested in
the business, thirty hands employed, and
, ol0c barrels OF vinegar and 1000 barrels of
eide being produced per annum. worth
. SU.N,L There is barrel factory. at
tached to this vinegar manufactorv i'm
which 600 half-barrels are YEARLY turned
out, An establishment for the manufac
ture of cisterns, barrels etc, represents SIS.
600 Of capital, it EMPLOYS 50 hands. turns
out annually, i'll addition to cisterns as they
may be ordered, 5000 whole and 5000 half
flour barrels, lOOOwhisky kegs, COO molasses
barrels, 5OOwhisky half barrels and 900 kegs
OF miscellaneous sizes and kinds, the whole
worm Sio,OOO In hydraulic cement, artif-
clal stone work, etc, there is invested Sl5
700, Thirty hands are kept at work and
the annual proceeds amount to SlOOOO
Some 5000 bushels of hydraulic cement
some 5000 feet Of stone piping. besides -
vast deal of other characters Of artificial
stone, are made each year which
Is shipped to various points on
orders III every section of the
state. In the manufacture of show cosrS
there is invested $4,000 of capitol twcmtv
hands are employed, and the gross annual
products foot up $4,000. There are so 900
invested in the business of making baling
powder and fiavoring extracts, en.nlovin9
thirty hands, and realizing per annum $I197
900. In cigar manufacturing siytv-tivc
hands are engaged, 100000 invested and
the gross annual products are 1925 900 We
nave mattress manufactures that during
the year made 10000 mattresses, which
were shipped, on order, to various parts of
the state, and the making of which kept
ten hands busy. OF spice mills there are
( four in the city, grinding and packing some
! sou pounds of allspiccs. Two steam corn
mills ground 100000 bushels of
this grain during the year. In
( a furniture mandatory, ten hands
are employed making the cheaper class of
furniture it to the extent during the year past
OF Sl0OOO There are two ice factories i'm
the city, though one ofthem, being ont Of
repair, has done no work this summer. The
capacity Of each is 10000 pounds per dav or
l,56O tons per annum, which finds sale as
rapidly as it is made in the local and other
markets. Each one has two tanks. six
freezing plates each 80 feet by ~ inches i'm
dimensions, one still, one condenser, one
aDsorDer, one ammonia pump. For the
next season they will be doubled in capacity.
vi the manufacture of soda water in the civ
there were 4,0OO cases during the vepr posf
1000 cases sarsaparilla and 5000 cases of
ginger ale. In the manufacture of candy n
number of hands are employed, and The |
gross products reached for the wear /
$l3S OOO. A shirt mandatory EMPLOYS /
thirteen hands and its gross products were |
$4,000, and there are tailoring establish |
ments giving constant work to thirty hands |
realizing the past year $4,000. 4 steam .
ddyeing and securing establishment keeps
three hands busy, and for the year realized
S53,5OO. One proprietary or patent medi-
cine company, manufacturing the Peach
stone Llnlment, employed during the wear
SIX SIX hands, and its gross products were $l2,- l.
wv. There were also manufactured and
sold here for use in various parts of the
state during the year l 900 pumps worth
$4,000. This gives an adequate idea of the
Manufacturing interests and business of the
city. The water works company, which is
one OF our public institutions, represents
$lOOOOO OF capital, gives employment + nine
hands, has 55 fire plugs, $50 consumers
OF its water, ten miles of pipe laid through
out the city, two pumping stations and
three pumps. 1t was organized in 1876,
and has been in operation since February
1877, and has capacity of 100000 gallons
OF water daily. The officers are W. G. Con-
nor, president; Thos. Walker, vice.presi-
dent; Alex. Sanger, treasurer, and Thomas
L. Barry, secretary. These gentlemen, with
the directors and stockholders, are of the
solid men of the city, and prominent not |
only in business circles but in all move
ments, measures and enterprises involving
the welfare and progress Of the city. That ]
one may from another source form an idea
Oh the commercial Importance Of Dallas, we
append the official report of
BUSINESS TRANSACTED
n our postotfice for the year end {
ng June, 80, 1881, very kindly fur l
1ished us by Colonel George W. Hynson.
,sSi Sanh postmaster The officers are A.
VI. cochran, postmaster; George w. Hyn- 1
ION, assistant postmaster; w. NJ. Ham 4
nond, money order clerk Miss Matte i
Stone, stamp clerk; A. w. Adalata, mail
Jerk Henry jenkins, mail clerk; w. III. L
iadd, box clerk; II. NJ. Hobbs, delivery y
Jerk, and j. M: Cochran, A. w. Mann, 7
'rank.Byrne, CT. Alderman and 7. H Smith, 8
etter carriers. The business done was: r
loney order business, Sl,4S6,592 40; regis 4
SSH P'f mB m aaS GSstsSg' pa stRRmes
70 city of its size, not only in
he south, but through out the entire -
n M can show cleaner or better health C
I'LL for the year past than Dallas, and this b
the case all the time. With cold and G.
yet fall, showing, raining, sleetng, frcez- u
lg,, unprecedented winter, backward, ~
hiily, wet spring and an exceedingly dry c,
nd unusually hot summer, it was but rea- c,
enable TO expect. that the amount OF sick
ess and the death rate in the city would CC
g very largely increased but such is not ~
no case, as the official weekly mortuary "
sports OF the city physician will attest. c.
'allas has Ia,
- NEVER HAD AN EPIDEMIC IL
any kind, is above the yellow fever level, Fl
nd with its pure and bracing atmosphere ri
9th winter. and summer, it is one of the III
lost desirable residence cities in the union. Fl
uel, both coal and wood is abundant and Fl
leap, the former selling for So per ton and 7!
lie latter $3to 81 per cord. House rent is 81
'asonable; and ourmarkets are filed with GGiI
10 very best Of beef mutton and pork the II,
oNd can boast; poultry, eggs, butter, ii,
getables-country, produce generally is Ir
supplied by the surrounding In
,untry, being daily brought in on wagons, Ju
nd living generally is as cheap as it can be T.;
lywhere, A. Il,
-h-e-a- A.
Furniture of nll Kinds. N,
There has probably never been exhibited MI
nny Cify in northern Towns n lnrunr qtork NJ,