The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-04-13
TRADE ITEMS.

TRADE ITEMS.
The stock of cheese ut the port of New York
Oh the list inst, as compiled by the New York
produce exchange, Is rs follows: Cheddar
shapes, 63,072 boxes. flat shapes, 2i,07S Total
S7,l45 boxes
The Pctaluma Argus'iears thatas too many peo.
pie are planting fruit trees IN California that the
business of fruit growing Will be overd0nc.
over ton of smells have been cnught IN the
Shetuckct river, near Norwich, Connecticut, this
season, and the fish have been of extra good
quality.
The gold boom Is starting al over Virginia.
Collaborating quartz is being developed in sey.
eral counties, said TO be as rich rs any found In
the Rocky mountains.
Colonel Chiles. says the Napa Register, has re-
cciyed Il 0 pounds of catfish for breeding pur.
poses Fifty of them were put into the Nnpa
river and the remainder were divided between
pond nearSt Helena and n lake In the lower
end of Lake county.
Bands Of music arc forbidden to play on most
Of the large iron bridges of the world, This is
duo TO the wcll-known phenomenon that con.
slant succession Of sound.wavcs, especially
such as come from the playing OF II good band
W Excite the wire vibrations, Al first these
vibrations are very slight but they Increase as
the sound waves continue TO come.
In a competitive drill between two butchers at
Fresno the other day, ono OF them killed and
dressed sheep IN five minutes and twenty Sec
onds and beef In ten minutes and twenty sec.
onds. Another butcher who was present. but
not one of tho competitors killed and dressed
sheep In three minutes and twelve seconds
II us predicted that within two years there will
be 10000 American miners In the state of Nucvo
Leon, Mexico. and at least six smelling furnaces
between Laredo and Monterey.
The estimated cost OF bringing water from
Lake George to New York city for drink.
ing purposes. is nearly s5O,oO0,OO dis.
tributed Us follows. Cost OF 30 miles of
canal, SIG 2bOtOO; seven miles of tunnel, 81, 300
900; ten miles OF siphon, SO COO and the bal.
ance for the Hudson dam and canal, engineer.
ing, land and water rights, and roofing and
paving ten miles of the canal
The immigration TO Oregon and Washington
territory from the sea, via the Columbia liver,
since January !, has been over 1900 per month,
and II Is estimated that the overland immigra.
uon INTO the eastern part OF the state Is 1000 per
month.
The mania for commercial exchanges In New
York has now reached the fruit and
spice trade. Their charter, now before
Of .sl0oOn which may be Increased
10 Sl,00o,COO the exchange to begin business
whom S6,0ln has been subscribed TO be govern.
ment by thirteen directors, and to be allowed to
hold property 10 the amount OFFS $1,000
The receipts and exports OF butter at New
York since May tho beginning of the trade
year, compare as follows
Receipts, Exports
packages pounds,
Fer week EEK. ending ID ,ys, Ap'ili' ls,ii2 lsoS so
Same week III ISL .,'',,-,, DPS 1907
Since May ], lSSl...,..., 1857, TO- li3S5,5ll
Same time last year...., l,S2L26s 1884 30
The receipts and exports of cheese at New
York since May compare as follows
Receipts, Exports
packages pounds,
For week ending Aprlli ii,iSO i,eiSSSs
Same week In 1sSl,,.,.., $3.50 6S77ls
Since May l. 1881 ,.,.,..,., . s6S967 1877, esq
Same time last year .,. 2.7l2,71S III, 262 ptS
The New York Commercial List says; FrelghtS
70 Europe are dullcr THAI they have been In n
long period, owing TO the reduced surplus and
high cost If the chief agricultural staples The
steam lines have been carrying grain as low MS
Id per bushel, and other heavy freight Mt "a
Gd6pl0s per ton. These rates are of course I'M.
remunerarive, but they are 10 some extent com.
pcnsated for by comparatively high freights
from Europe here. All this Is the opposite of
the market as II was u few years ago. Then we
had good crops and Europe poor ones, aud we
were buying comparatively few goods in Europe.
The consequence was most of the great fleets OF
vessels which came here after our grain petro.
lcum, etc were Obliged to make the western pass.
age IN ballast or bring ores, metals, coal and
other coarse ffoightat extreme low rates. In de.
inult OF grain cotton, and provision carsocs for
Europe, transient steamers are now reduced to
the necessity OF carrying deals from the pro,
yinces TO Europe, and sugar from Cuba and
Porto Rico to American ports AT low rates Small
and medium size American vessels are now do.
ing very well IN West India and coaStwlsc trade;
but otherwise the ocean ircighting business is at
u low ebb.
II is understood that Ireland and Scotland have
sold about 10000 bushels of potatoes or export
10 the United States At ~ cents per bushel, The
vohnnent ms sent lew parcels, hut the major
portion OF the supply comes from Great Britain
with GLASGOW The principal shipping port The
receipts NJ New York are shown as follows
sacks:
49, GreO, britain. Continent Total
February y,,y,"lS ,7ol lads 2OCiSi
March, ''o,"."., H6Sol a,0Sl Si252s
Total, ..",....., 5lSlO 22,n7 5O6o27
Tho sacks weigh 22i pounds, and, reducing
these to bushels, we have 2,92S Se7, equal 10 III
So barrels as ordinarily sold In the market A.
u low estimate the selling price will average 70
cents per bushel giving n return to tho i'm
andduiy on u fraction under 100000. Inc
import duty, Mt Is cents Ter bushel gives tho
government sssi,25p This, 1t must he borne in
mind Is for the port Of New York alone, The
ether scaboard cities having also received LARGE
quantities. There is considerable stock stiil
nfloat but shipments are ceasing, as recent ar.
rivals had commenced to sprout and quality is
detcriorating, with necessary reduction In cost
tending 10 cut OIL margins, Potatoes, as Is well
known, are not the only food staples we are i'm.
porting from the other side; beans, cabpages
aud olhcr products of the kind have
been a conspicuous feature of the i'm.
lortAtlcns for many months past and II win
probably pay to continue these until our next
cropsare marketed. As regulator ofpriccs these
appropriations are Invaluable hut for them We
should have to pay famine prices Tho fact Is,
~ an exchange remarks, the world now Is prac.
ticaiy alrone market II there are short cups
hcre, or anywhere, the deficit can readily be
made up from other sources of supply within
range OF the telegraph ut all times, and unless
there y y universal failure OF crops--a coniin.
gcncy.in the. ecbuony OF nature happily not sup.
posNble.a recurrence Of the fanlines..with which
mankind were formerly visited oven IN civil.
ICED countrics would seem TO be out Of the ques
ton ~
GRAIN AND BI,KADsrursy.