The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-28
TRADE ITEMS,

FINE shad are be ing caught near Sanford,
Florida.
4 company has been formed at Palestine
and property purchased to erect an ice fac
tory.
There are thirty-seven concerns engaged
IN the Ice business on the Kennebec river,
Maine, and their houses have u capacity of
,l20, 400 tons.
A New York party has paid $3l 900 for
the lease OF Canada salmon river.
;, Inc trans-Pecos surveying party reached
Bracket on the Goth instant, on their way
east. They located large bodies of land in
Presldio county, for capitalists in Dallas.
The London Engineer expects to see gas
sold FOR 90 cents thousand feet at Il profit.
notwithstanding the absence of bonan-
zaS, nearly 800 miners are at work on the
Comstock lode at present, representing "A
monthly payroll of nearly S250, 600
There are 1876 miles of sidewalk in Chi
cago, of which So are stone, 8 of concrete
and 600 of wood
Inc price of coal at Galveston is Sl2 per
ton, at Key West Sl3 at Pensacola IS. and
at Mobile 81 80 per ton
The cheese exports from New York for
the week amounted to about 10000 boxes
hut of this amount some 1900 boxes con-
sisted OF through freight from Canada
The hop receipts at New York since Sep.
tember have reached 81 600 bales; exports
$500 bales and imports, ,70l bales. Trade
at at 'hat point is Just fairly active,
are made at us high at 27G2s cents
for fine goods, but in business ION the
market over - cents is seldom paid.
During the last forty years the Appletons
have sold i0,OO0,0O of "Wcbster's Speller,"
or 100000 ayear.
The Canadian Parliament will strike Off
the duties on tea and coffee, and the Press
Association will urge the abolition of post
age on rcWSiHpers.
New ork papers speak Of large wool
trade at well sustained prices. Quite full
proportion o. the business has peen incomb-
ing woods, but there are some full blocks in
other grades of domestic. Foreign woods
are quiet for want of stock, but it is still ru-
mored that manufacturers are securing par
cells to arrive to some extent.
The New York Commercial Bulletin SAYS:
Ihe of'tiayored parcels Of State butter are
much neglected. and their place is
taken by oleomargarinc and Western fac.
tory goods. The latter, on the average, are
not quoted above 2jc, but 9Gc is made fire..
quently and.some the fancy ard iayorite
marks so higher still under special inllu.
enCc.
Two Milwaukee men have been down 10
Gautcmala and bought 1900 acres of land,
anu, II Is said, that next spring will see
colony OF Wisconsiners in Central America
trying to get rich by raising coffee.
The tug Holiday went TO South Chicago
TO assist IN raising the nets of large fishing
grounds there. An enormous and unpur.
allcled haul of fish resulted, amounting to
upward ot3,OO pounds, which she brought
back to Chicago
ELGlN, Lib, January 2G.-Checse market
quiet. sales, regular, 800 boxes ut Sic. But.
ter, 1900 lbs, ut 39G tee. Cheese irregu
lar, l,l59 boxes; butter i3,59S lbs, Total
sales, 80 ,33S.47.
Last, year we, that is, the people OF the
United States, ate ~ per cent. of the pro.
duce We raised, and used % per cent. of
what we manufactured.
Three miles down the Sabine from Sabine
City. on the Texas side, there Is what the
people call gas mine. Ii comes up through
the water. The man that lives there takes
. short-necRed gourl, puts few small holes
IN the bottom of il, u hole or two in the
neck, sets II in the water aud soon has ras.
and 1t burns the finest kind. Ii will burn
till II burns oil the neck Of his gourd. Ra.
Their strange phenomenon in nature. Ii
can be raised and made into gas.
The tropical fruit market is said to be
Quilted III New Orleans, Cocoanuts have
become SO plentiful that they are offered nj
SIS rct thousand Dealers in the Crescent
City predict that all varieties of fruit viii
be very cheap within the next ninety DAYS.
:, According to Philadelphia adyiCcs the
pennsylvania iron market is stronger than
nj any time during the past year, but the
volume OF business transacted is below Tho
average, owing to the fact that blast fnr.
naces anu mills are generally sold ahead.
consumers immediate wants only can bc
provided for. No. pig.iron is quoted AT
50 to S2'. Western inquiries help TO
harden the market. Foreign markets have
advanced; English aud Scotch in stock are
held firmly, and consumers are negotintin,,
Tor shipments. There Is no certainty thai
importations ofpig.iron can be made. he.
cause oil the steady advance abroad, which
Keeps prices Tar enough apart to protect the
American market WV
marvellous story comes rolling over
the prairie about u solid bed of crystaliyed
| soda, nine feet thick, containing 30 On an
cubic feet of that useful article IN n chemi.
sMly pure state. THIS alleged deposit is In
wyoming, and the Union Pacific Railroad
company Is about to develop 1t.
:. Ihc Boston Commercial Bulletin SAYS:
ror some lime past one of the manuhctir.
crs ol castor oil IN st. Louis has been irwin,
to create a corner In the article by concen.
irating the supply In his hands. He has
been buying quietly on all sides, and has
now succecdedin his designs by the pur.
chase OF 900 cases, thus entirely clearing
out the Boston market and taking consid7
cradle part of the supply In New YORK. lie
bought the oil at non, l2lSlic.. the bulk
having been obtained at l3s. The effect of
his purchase on the market has already
been felt, aud the quotations are now hrr,
81 lie. TO loo. 1t Is the opinion OF a prom.
inent dealer that the price will rise con.
siderahly above this figure.