The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-05-04
TRADE ITEMS.

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PATENTS to the number of 1851 900 have been
taken out In the United States within the last
ten years, and the perfect churn Is still thing
of the future
They have mandatory In New Jersey for
making old rubber goods into stock for new
articles WORKOUT Rubber shoes compose great
deal of the material which Is ground up and put
into shape for use second time. That Is the
way we get our cheap gums
ST., LOUIS, April 2S.--During the week leaf
tobacco was In fair demand for some grades, but
generally the market was slow. Holders Were
still, owing to reports OF damage To plants by
frost but their views were not met by buyers,
and business was not large
Lumber firm and demand good, especially
from the country.
There is considerable amazement exhibited
by the old-iashoned papers of the eastern states
at the fact that 80 . 900 bushels of wheat were
sold on change In Chicago In thirty minutes one
day last week; but that Is nothing to what Chi
cagO operators can do when they take notion.
The Morgan City Press says:-The overflow
has In all probability killed the oysters on the
Gulf from Gallon bay 10 81, Bernard bay This
being the case, our oyster trade for the next sea-
son will be very light, as the nearest beds are II
hundred miles distant and the expense Of gath
ering and preparing for mark will be TOO great
to make the business profitable. Old fishermen
state that 1t will take six years for the old oyster
beds TO renew, and that they have to be assisted
by plant oysters.
The Commercial Bulletin says-It will be seen
that we imported three articles alone-emphat-
ically the food Of the poor -to the amount OF
Sl,llilS3, to which u paternal government
kindly added duties Of 1914, 00i, 20 thus swelling
the amount TO sl,42StA What We object 10
Is not so much the l5c per bu on potatoes as 10
the raising of the price Of every bu OF potatoes
consumed by the poor over IS per cent,
for 1t Is manifest that were po,a.
toes admitted duty free every bushe would be
fifteen cents cheaper. Another thing strikes us
nmA nf nnr I ..,ia
Ions explain to us why cabbages should pay
duty of 10 per cent, while sauerkraut manu-
featured from cabbage, should be imported free
of duty few of these anomalies In Our pres.
ent tariif might be changed; or rather NIL food
products should be placed ON the free list Us.
pecially those articles which are absolutely de.
manded by the poor, whom II is the first and
chief duty OF the government 10 protect
The aspect OF trade last week was uniformly
quiet at the leading business centers. Through.
out the northwest there was fair activity In mer-
chandise, and at the southwest the Respondent
feeling created by the damaging effects of the
mississippi ircshels Is gradually passing away,
In view of the fact that the injury to the crops
Will not be as serious as was apprchcndcd. in
other sections OF the south trade Is ratt or slug
gish. In tho eastern states the situation Is char
aclo,ized as follows by the Boston Price Current
OF Saturday: THE spiing trade Ii gradually
Increasing In the interior, and the oall for goods
Is becoming more frequent but buyers continue
to operate IN cautious way, and d conservative
tene runs through almost every department OF
manufactured wares, Leading raw materials
are also more or less Affected by this cautions
policy: and while In the aggregate The sales sum
up quite largely, the movements nrr nearly Mi
In small lots lot immediate use cut. Idle OF The
leading western food products there Is an entire
absence of speculation"
Apart from an indomitable shirt OF CONNER.
Cial enterprise, probably nothing has cuuttihll.
ten more to Englnnds supremacy than her vast
Ore anil COnl beds The nf .b L.. Il.
the United Kingdom last year was ISI, ist OOj
tons, or L2lO,OOO tons more than In 1850, and
2hl160v tons more than In 1879, This
remarkable increase resulted not only
from the exceptional activity OF the iron, marine,
railroad and manufacturing industries, but also
from the cxphnsi n of the immense cxport
trade which Great Britain CONTROLS For This
purpose alone la6Oo,NO tons was required last
year, aud the Iron trade consumed about Is O. OgO
tons; which, after dcductng about $40 1000 TONS
annually used for gas making, leaves about los
2O0,OOo tons TO be dlstributcdior manufacturing.
domestic and other purposcs Scientific athori.
ties assert that no apprehension need be enter.
tained OF an early exhaustion OF the sources q,
supply, ana even at the present rate of Increase
it's calculated that the coal beds can stand thc
drain for u period varlously estimated at from
2,0 70 WV years inc latest estimates of proba.
BILE supply are In the noighborhod of Is, OlO. 600
900 tons, ''VV''
The San Francisco Chronicle publishes thr.,
columns OF crop reports flOm all quarters of IN,
state the following Is a condensed summary OF
the main points OF the report. All crops consld
cred, prospects for large yield were never bel.
ter than now; In many counties the acrras,
sown 10 grain Is less this year than last, while
others largely In excess Of previous paintings.
The average computation cannot be made n,
present writing, but this years yield is no,
likely to fall below last wears unless strong
morlhcs should visit the great interior valleys
c rns frq,, crop promises largely to ey.
planted two previous saS AiysS yield vo,S Orchard,
came into full or partial bearisS
this fall SO Ear ifosts have done no great dam
age 70 iiuit and no Increased insect rayagcs arc
rvpor,yu Train ields OF solano county have
butte by the wifc'worm, hut so far their sttack,
nave not proved serious, There Is large In.
crease IN NC acreage Of barley and vine plant.
g IN somsnstn counties grain Is planted heav.
Ing the chief pursuit The season Is S SSswSa,s
for fruit but there has been enough rain 10 mas
agood crop IN all grains,
about 1900 do1ca corsets, valued NJ not los,
than ~ per dozen, aud over 5lu0l dozen of A,
average value OF ~ pcr dozen, On these thor,
was levied aud collected duty OF slsT5cc. o
quality landed In this country was a irsctio,
less than 20 cents corset which, adding IN,
duty, made the cost over 81 each, Ono.third a
,ns so'", value q all the exports OF .wur,cmber
~ th'seu s,hts elnvc 1902 mas been III
woven corscts. Tho total annual producilc
un iSl o. cotsets In the kingdom IL l,2ss OF
vMueu ~ sIecoVo requiring 4O,Oo0 pounds 0
The industry requires sixteen distinct process
Ssm we changing OF the raw material " IN
nn,sh.d eorsot. These are the weaving, cu,tin
ont su,shing, stamping, cmbroide ring insciiio
o. wnMebones, punching eyelct holes, washing
sANninE, swapping. ironing, eyeleting, clasplnv
measuring and boxing In Tho mann fas,u,in
o. THESE goods l,se hendlooms and about 40
v ssnsva,. arc smployei About 100 arr nal
done by female operatives, aud mos, Of he wor
muone ~ nome. These women earn an averar
tilto eis per m nth. '' "'s'''s '''
vii, Ihe mn new French tariff has Gu, or the ust
United states, England and Rou,h Aws, maui ~
sali maintained l The German tariff, By incrca,
ny Wv uvy on yarn, has also injured the bus
nest Following the close Of the American ~ \
seeexpcrt q these cotsets 10 the unitci State
n,en nsd been about l2sY, 70 4 year, rapid
siSWn nut eince then has declined II Ma sSn |,