The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-04-13

The cultivation of brOOm-cOrn il being tired
with great success on many farms in California,
the crop being very productive and command.
ing high market price, as the following iactS
and figures show: An acre ofland VIII yield one
half ton of corn and ton OF seed The former
commands $40 to sl6j per ton, and the seeds sell
at from Sl5 to SIS per ton. When harvested ana
ready for market the cost per acre rarely eH-
ceeds s25, and never goes over $50. On low
lands near streams n crop is almost certainty
During the year of 1881 there was received at
the station of Albuquerque over the Atchison,
and wheat 3O5 hay 155, flour and meal; 30 pota;;
toes; II. canned DDS; A, beer; 6, whisky and
brandy; 81 ice: 10, meat II. sugar; 2 lard; IL
coal OIL r. furniture 3, soap ], rope; !, stove; !
vegetables: l. crackers; p powder 10, stone; 322
lumber 5 }, lime; Az, coal A. wagons; 7, nalls;
6l horses aud cattle 2, coffee; 4, apples; 2, salt
s. coke and pig iron; S66, general merchandise
| 6 ,5Gi,S S6 pounds. There was shipped
from that station 276 carloads ofw oil and hides
weighing 2,25llei pounds The total freight re
not include the large amount OF material re-
| ceived for the Atlantic IL Pacific railroad com
pany, but from business men and others oil Albu-
querque.
The census Office has just published report
on the production of bituminouS coal from
which it appears the total amount mined III ne
United States during the census year OF lSS was
40 400 $50 tons. of which total 20, al 30 tons
were produced in the Appala HAN coal field
Allegheny county Pa. furnished over one,tenth .
| and the states Of Pennsylvania, Illinois ana
ohio nearly thrce-fOurthS of the entire product.
| The average price per ton in 1881 was ST. while
in 1870 il was 81 ~ Mt cost OF eghty-elght cents
| An average of AL 1910 tons was raised per
| man and 6iS per cent of the years working
| time or about twenty days per man was lost IN
| strikes. Sufficient information was gathered Y
Justify the assumption that the exhausted nclus
form but very small fraction Of the Total avail
| able land. Attention is called TO the TACT mat,
| although the value of the product has fallen.
| wages nave not CORES pOndingly decreased, ana
the totals prove gain of nearly third of a
million of dollars annually IN favor oil LABOR
The anthracite product was 2S $4,000 tons nearly
all furnished by the state OF pennsylvania,
making a total product of the country for the
census yerr of 7l,l67 66 tons England produced
liG. SIS, 122 tons in the same year.
| western Texas is At only for stock but occa
sionally a misguded individual foolishly turns
| his hand to something ese-Joc Hines, of santa
Marsa, for instance, who has made an lndepehd-
ent fortune in few years, raising corn prlncl-
nollv and Mr. George Brulaye, nine miles be-
low Brownsville, who made l. 100 barrels OF sugar
and mOlasses in proportion. we might MI COZ
umn with names of men in western Teas VINO
have done well at farming and who will be
electrified with astOnishment when .they are
told after all their experience, that their cOun-
try is unit for anything but stock raising.
The San Francisco Chr lnicle says the use OF
cigarettes has increased during the past year,
but few, however, are manufactured IN thls CITY
| the bulk arriving from the cast
The girls at the various factories are engaged
in packing and bundling the cigars aud pastlng
labels on the boxes The average rates o.
wages earned by the girls a"d boys Is 81 week
=.
the desire TO obtain white labor, but IN lr enort
| 10 obtain the same are frustrated by the young
. people themselves, who with 10 obtain fun
wages before they have fairy begun to learn
| the trade. The employers naturally not acced-
ing to their wish, they leave the factories, some
times at the momc0t when their labors are re-
qnired one manufacturer stated thai
during the past year he had sever
girls at work packing and they
left one day, withouta word OF notice, thu,
/, ! placing him in an awkward predicament
hiuese factory in 81 increased its output from
100000 in 1850 % 500O,0 1000 IN ISL, and has a
trave er In It's employ canvassing eastern
dealers Our gars hnd their way, since th'
southern Pacific road has been opened, int
- Louisiana and other southern states So far N
regards the pros poets Of the cigar trade Tor tn'
I G ming year the outlOOs APPEARS 10 be very en-
, cpuraging A prominent cigar and tobacco hfn
report that three new lacorles on iAige say
will be inauguratcd in 1852 II will be of in
terest u state that the amount Of capital in
? | vested In the business In san Francisco exceeds
7 over 81 500 90. The demand for cheap grade
iu the eastern markets is increasing TO such al
9 extent that there are enough orders nov
\ nlaced 10 keep our factories in full work 70
| the next six months. There Is large IN
crease in the importation Of Havana, Key We,
D and other good brands Of cigars amounting
20 900 q IN excess Of 1850 This gam IN the I'm
portation IS b be attributed " the general pros
perity experienced last year and 10 the increase
. OF population In Oregon and Washington terri
tory In the latter rOrtiOn Of the last year MS
| in the tobacco market was experienced, which
however, Is lot likely 10 continue for any lengii
OF time arly in ls'2 a new company, whlci
Incorporated III December last. will start IN the
! | Manufacture Of plug aud chewing tobacco. Ih'
concern will &c known a. The real ROCK 10
| bncco company. aud its location b In The prem
ises lately occupied BY the West Coast tufnituI'
employment will be afforded % over y persons
| and that no Chinese labor VIII be allowed