The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-28
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THURSDAY EVENING, October q, 1851.
In conversation with a gentleman who i.
visiting our state with view to locating
he expressed his surprise to see the number
of people on our sidewalks and the many
wagons ana vehicles ON the streets, in /
time when rain and mud in northern local
tiles would stop all kinds of locomotion ant
trade. But Dallas is live city and he
people are wide-awake and energetic
Neither summers heat, the rains of au
tumn, nor the cold of winter arrest then
in their progress or business pursuits. They
are here to grow up with the city, anc
their every effort is to advance her interests
and thereby contribute to their own pros.
perity. Solong as these aspirations animate
our people Dallas will progress until she
becomes what she is destined to be, the
great inland commercial emporium OF Tex
as and the West,
Business to-day could not DO said to be
brisk for the rains have rendered the roads
almost impossible, and the streets and
sidewalks are in such condition that nc
one ventures upon them if il can be avoided
Notwithstanding all these Inconvenience
our wholesale dealers have not been idle
and shipments of all kinds ofgoods have
been heavy Nothing seems to stop the
trade which is now coming to our city, ant
instead of q falling off in business the sale,
are larger each week than they were the
preceding one. Who can tell what they
will be in year from today?
A Washington dispatch says the whsk,
distillers of the United States have deter
mined to make an effort next winter to ge
congress to reduce the tax on whisky from
80 to 80 cents per gallon, They will have
powerful lobby here,
A Boston paper compares quotations il
that city, of September 20, 1880, with CORES
ponding reports of the same date this year
The result ascertained is that wheat h9.
advanced in price from $l.00 to 81. SO PEI
bushel; mess pork from $l6to $50 per barrel
beans IAN important item in the Boston
market from $l00 to $40 per
bushel apples from $l2j to $3.50
perbarrel ! while butter, cheese, beef and
sugar have advanced little, if any. The
general Impression one gets from the report,
is that the cost of housekeeping is now very
much greater than il was last wear And
yet the wages of clerks, book keepers and
mechanics remain the same.
IL Is estimated that the gold, silver and
copper mines of the south will yield $50.
100000 this year,
The agricultural department gives the
butter product of the United States for 1850
at 1,0O0,0O00O0 lbs, and the cheese product
at 300000,000
Tho first Cur load of new corn arrived in
chicago ON last Saturday, and sold for A.
cents.
The stock ofmesspork ON handin Chicago Is
estimated at 10000 barrels and of lard about
N,OOO tierces. The number of hogs packed
at that point for the summer season Is csti
mated at 1886, 600 head, against 2,slS,OOO to
date last year The pacl<ings at Cedar
Rapids is reported at 1913 or hogs, against
2oO5Gl for the summer season To date
lascyear. milwaukee, has slaughtered 1873 $40
hogs so far this summer.
1t is interesting oknow how much of the
TIMBER OF the country is used i'm manu-
featuring purposes, To make shoe-pegs
enough for American use consumes annu.
ally 100000 cords of timber, and to make
our lueiler matches 800 600 cubic feet of the
best pine are required every year. Lasts and
boot-trcos take 10000 cords of birch, beach
and maple; and the handles of tools 800 ,0Co
more The baking of our bricks consumes
2,0OOOOl CORDS of wood, or what would cover
with forest about 5000 acres of land
Telegraph poles already up represent
SoCO trees, and their annual re-
par consumes about 800, 900 more. The ties
of our railroads consume annually thirty
years growth of 900 acres, and to fence
all our railroads would cost $45,OoJCD.
with yearly expenditure of $500 100 for
repairs. These are some of the WAYS In
which American forests are going There
are others; our packing boxes, for instance,
cost in 1874 $l2,o00,000, while the timber
used each year in making wagons and agri-
cultural implements is valued at more than
$l60,000,006
The census bureau of the United Statcs
says that even with the large increase in the
coal production during the last half cen
fury, wood, as an article of fuel maintains
its place against coal in the propoition of
Hampshire and Vermont, wood
is almost the only fuel In MANY
counties of Massachusetts coal is ahead Of
wood, while In the state generally, as well
as CONNECTICUT, the percentage is about
equal. Thickly populated cities, like New
York. and Hudson and Essex counties,
New Jersey, containing the cities OF Jersey
city and Newark, are put down as entirely
coal. In Pennsylvania the great coal state,
mere are many entire coal counties. while
IN Others, as Crawford, in the western part
oil the state, not more than per cent, of
coal is used. The same difference holds
good in different parts of Now York.
COTTON.
The receipts of cotton continue LIGHT
owing entirely ito. the very bad condition
OF roads. The receipts to-day amounted TO
about one hundredand eighty bales, as shown
by the books ut the compress companies
The prices are the same as last quotations
rs follows:
Good Ordinary .,....,,,........,.,.. AZ
Low mldulihg, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Ahiuuuilk mi.