The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-08-12

ls,00OO0O acres Of its farm. Tho various rail
| roads and states parted with ut least Z 900 900
acres, aud most OF 1t was sold 10 actual settlers.
| The figs OF the foothills Of the Sierra Nevada
arc pronounced by competent Judges ~ be SUI
| peri0r To those imported even from smyrna. Yet
| the importation OF the Smyrna figs runs into mil
lions of dollars In value
| tits reported in san Francisco that II new Ut.
tempt Will shortly he made To relieve the Hooded
| mines of the ComstOck lode from water. These
| mines occupy the central por Ion o, the lode
ana cover nearly two miles OF ground. Since
| the flood came they have remained idle, aud all
the costly machinery Is rusting from dampnesS
and want of use.
II is expected that the four manufactures Of
Montgomery Vermont will turn out four hun.
dTed thousand butter tubs the present season, OF
nll sizes. larger proportion Of ten, twenty and
| thirty pound tubs are called for thnn usual.
The material for hoops has become exhausted In
that region, and is now brought from Michigan.
Tho standard sugar refinery ut Alvarado Cal.
liornle, IL running upon cane sugar from the
sandwich Islands. 1t Will begin running upon
beets In week or two tia expected that Its
capacity will be more than 100 tons day.
from all quarters come reports 10 Gloucester,
Massachusetts. of II great scarcity OF cOdaSh In
their several haunts, A number OF the Georges
lloet recently returned, report catch OF T. tOIto
40 o pounds each and the average Of tho fares
received the past week has been only about H.
900 pounds, The CIR nd Bank fleet are BEGIN.
ming tohrrive with broken fares
- hccoruing 10 INC enterprise of Virginia City.
nevada, tho butchers on the COmStock have
oson ior some time past retailing jaCkHSs rabbit
Tor spring lamb. II Is u well known faCt that
the rabbits Of that session OF the country are
very large aud the lnnibs small so that but few
Comstockers can tell the difference when they
are dressed ANA ready for market. AS to thu!
matter, parti down Reese river valley and
along the Humboldt have been doing good busl.
ness all hn season shipping graSshoppcrs TO Tho
ComstocLo for shrimps
Another gigantic scheme for supplying va.
a INT Ill
ing inc city Of san francisco, with water Is lust
now agitatng I'll. minds of II few capitalists. IL
includes INC taking of the waters Of the Tuol.
nmhe river from their chauncl well up in the
mountain, aud, in their transit 10 San Francis
60, lilo supplying of the whole country along mo
llnc OF the proposed works. The company IN
10 be Incorporated with princely capital and
so colossal IL the undertaking that bonds 10 The
mount o' 100 OOOl will he issued for the Cnr-
rying ON aud the completion of the work The
matter has Just been presented to few OF tho
wealthy men OF San Francisco, and 500 900
have already been subscribed
benJhmii smith, of CauaiOhgric New York
the pioneer Of the paper ilour-sa industry
SAM III 1860 cotton advanced " such price
mat n Ocent Hour bag cost 80 cents ana some
thlng had to supply the place Of tho Older ma.
lcinl Tho most expert paper manufacturers
couldn't supply Inc with paper that mot The re.
IulTemcnts. II would crack and ielr Hut ut
last, IN 1867 or 1863 | got y manila paper thnt
would do, aud In The latter year turned ont the
q "A ".
Ing ihe growth Of the industry Mr., Smith said
TINT between 1864 and 1870 paper -four bags
were made aud sold nj the rate OF GOO eco Der
year, NJ mn average price of from $50 10 slOO ner
LOO, ana during that period coIton sacks would
have cost $3.50 per 100, This was II saving OF
SOlO00, In ten years between 1870 % 1890 tho
country took lnOOOOOO paper flour snCks per
year One Thousand paper tlour bags have
about thc snmo hulk as II barrel, but the IDu
bags will hold $50 barrels of flour
inc hUpk canal was rDuulviel i'm 1870 Juriuo
ths reign or lSmail Pashn short time n,lpf
this, Egypt becoming bankrupt, the khGdIyo In
otucr 10 secure provision OF present needs sold
onc-half Of the entire stock Of the company la
England. receiving therefor - .OvO pCO Tor l76.
2of the 400 0 cleo shares The SupZ canal IL
OOmil'S long, and IL without locks; the general
width ~ 10 iect nj surface and = feet an bottom
win d"plh orr feet Its share aud lunn cnpi.
tai OF all kinds somewhat exceed 50 tUOtIu unL
last yenr iis gross receipts exceeded tlO COO 90
The revenue has rapidly Increased since It's
ortnlhg Tor lrnilc, and It's protector estimates
TINT In few years II viii exceed $4,000 90
During the mouth of June the increase In rr,e.
nsc was ~ much as 20 per cent
Inc canal company owns between son Gao and
100000 acres, OF which 10000 Gre NJ Die lands.
There utO towns along either end q. M, line mud
along It's borders that give promise of rrrnt
commercial Importance. At the Mediterranean
entrance, the town of Port Suid has populntion
OF between 10 600 and 5l,GOO inhabitants At The
Red sea cnd Of the CANA, sucs has II populatlon
of lOON or ZOO inhabitants. The gross ION,
mage that passed through II IN 1874 the Hrstcom.
pleto working year, amounted IN 1901; In 1881
the gross tonnage had risen to q, 7Otl |.
II viii be seen that the tonnage in eleven yc,rs
has becn multiplied thirteen times. The i'm.
creased trnfric shows that Il is becoming more
aud more the only highway for steamers he.
tween Europe and tho fur east Rs India Chius
Japan and the Malnyan countries, and we bo'
lterc there Is not u European steamer that niles
between Europe aud the far east but now goc,
Through the canal instead Of round the Cape of
Good Hope Every ship that Masses through
the canal pay. u toll OF halt sovereign per ton.
This enormous toll is ayerhalauccd hy tho saving
OF time, wages, cost Of fuel insurance. counts
sions, etc us well Ns the mpi lily with which
goods can be brought to market.