The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-20

wheat flour, interchanging with us the ma
terals of bread and beer.
The commercial failures in Arkansas in
1881 numbered 1862, with S9j2, 532 liabilities,
against 26 failures, with liabilities of $780,
012 in 1850, Is and 1925, 427 liabilities in
1879, and IL and Si07 ,6j3 liabilities in 1873.
The claims of the State of Texas against
the United States Government for eNpendi-
tnres in protecting the frontier against In
dian and Mexican depredations, amount to
something over two million dollars, as COM
puted by Acknowledgement King.
II is reported that 43l vessels, valued at
$40, l95,2lO, all of which belonged to and
were bound to or from ports in the United
States, were lost during last year. There
were lost in 1850, 1873 vessels, valued at So, :
H24eO; in 1879, 90 vessels, valued at SlO,-
OIL 900; in 1873, $50 vessels, valued at 80
t62WO, and IN lNGi, 400 vessels, valued at
$l0037, 200
Flax IS getting 10 be a very important
crop in the West. and especially the newer
portions ofthc Western States Settlers on
new lands liud it al admirable first crop for
their land, and on" ;hat pays we'll for there
is constant demand Tor the seed for which
it is chiefly raised. The present annual
yield III lax seed in the United States has
been estimated at 100000 bushels, and of
wv llb't sNl ''sNFI'AF iN'lllluS.
1t is said thar WORK ulrn employed on the
Lesseps canal ar" dying off with rapiditv
truly startling, American Immigrants
have fled the country, and the projectors OF
the canal have finally been compelled to
resort 10 the West lnGies negroes who are
lmpervlouS to the miasma, and who are re-
morseicSs in their demands for high wages.
Work that was estimated TO cost cents
per foot has cost 81 -, while there appears
to be no reasonable hope for a change.
Within the last thirty years the tobacco
pipe industry Of the United States has
grown from limited business into immense
proportions. AT the beginning of that pc
Rod there was comparatively nothing like
systematic manufactures in the above line
OF domestic production. A few pipes were
made here and there by native work
men, hut the larger portion of the
trade was the outgrovth OF the sales of
the imported goods from Europe. The en-
tire Trade Al the time referred TO did not ex-
coed over t2O0,u0O, and there was only a
gradual improvement until the commence
ment Of the civil war. Now the sales of
pipes and other smokers articles reach an
nually to the value of $2,O00000, of which
only about one-siXth are imported
1t has been quite generally and popu-
larly supposed that our resources as a ma
ton IN the way of public lands were almost
ineXhaustible, and that it was possible for
our government To go on for an indetini'e
period giving homestcads granting lands
to soldiers and sailors, giving for educa-
uonal institutions, and making railroad
grants, without any sensible depreciation
OF her resources. But this is popular fall
lacy. 1t appears from the rec
ord that there remains of the public
domain less than SO0,0o0,O0O acres, includ-
ing Alaska. This may be classified as fol-
lows; Pasturagc and desert 800 600, 900,
timber land S5,0O0,0O0. mineral lands Is >
100000, irrigablc lands 3OOOO,OOO State
lands 10000, 600, arabic lands IS, 900. 900, and
coal lands $500, 500 acres.
During the season of 1881 the Flint &,
Pcrc Marquette Railroad, in Michigan, car.
ried 9S9oi $50 feet Of logs, all of which cx-
cept 100000 feet went to the Saginaw
river. During the sam. period the Detroit.
Macliinac Il Marquette Road conveyed to
the Saginaw river abont 100000 feet of
logs. Probably more saw mills are being
operated this winter than ever before in the
history oflumberins. This is owing part
ly to the open weather so far experienced
but more % the great demand for special
sizes which have been cut to order.
Owe 2OU,WO,OO0 bricks were manufac-
tured in Chicago last year. About half that
number were exported but as over tn. 200. =.
,WO. were purchased for Chicago use for fin.
lshing PURPOSES, etc, in Philadelphia, Mil
waukee and elsewhere, it is estimated that
over 2OO,OOO,O0O entered into the construc-
lion of buildings in that'city.
The total trade Of Chicago for the pre-
vious year amounted to $l,0l5, 600 an
increase of $4,000, 900 over that of 1850. 1t
is estimated that at least thirty-thrce and
one-third per cent. of this increase has been
secured by Chicago and lost to St. Louis
from the South and Southwest.
The statistics Of water suriace-lakcs,
ponds, bays and rivcrs-in the several
States and Territories present the extreme
aridity of New Mexico and Arizona, with
only 100 ana 100 square miles of water, re.
spectively, and the marked contrary char.
octeristics OF Florida, with 4,AO; Mime
sofa, i,lGO; North Carolina, $500 Texas.
3,40O; Louisiana, $500, and Maine 3,I45
miles of river, lake and inlet area. The
total water surface of the country is given
at $1,000 square miles, and the gross area,
land and water, 3,O25 800 square miles.
inhabited hy sixteen persons and fraction
TO each mile.