The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-25
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MINING for mica has become an important tn
duslry In the Black Hills, Dakota
Free-trade clubs have been organised In
twenty i've counties Of Iowa.
Business in San Francisco Is much duller now
than at like date in 1881.
Gull eggs sell al fifteen cents dozen at Tampa
Florida.
In six days two colored men at Cedar Key
caught y26S pounds OF green turtle.
The shipment of strawberries from Oswsgo
county New York, this season, amounts 10 about
51S, 900 quarts.
DR.. Glenn has sent to San Francisco for 100
thinese laborers TO work in his harvest field
His white hands struck.
Savannah parties arc cndeavoring to establish
asemi-monthly lne Of steamers between that
place and London. England, for the purpose of
bringing Immigrants to this country
The Grand Rapids city council has voted TO
submit proposition OF issuing bonds In tho
sum OF 100000 to a vote OF the people, the
money to be used for the extension Of tho water
mains,
large area of sorghum has been planted this
season IN Jackson, Oregon. and more sirup than
over Will be manufactured there. II looks now
rs II the sugar business in Oregon will become
very important industry.
Since the spring OF 1850 Memphis has paved
eight and half miles of streets and put down
forty miles of sewers and forty miles OF subsoil
pipes. The cost was SOC, 600.
petition is being largely signed by Boston
merchants asking congress to take into consider
alton tho decline In shipping, and institute in.
quiries touching Its speedy revival.
movement is on foot to establish cast steel
works In Sacramento, to make all descriptions OF
steel castings and ing0ts for making steel rails.
me movers in IL are the California Iron & Steel
company and certain capitalists of the state.
resident OF Wrightsvllle Sound, North Caro-.
llni came across turtle nest ON the beach, 70.
Gently that had In 1t 100 eggs by actual count,
which were sold to good advantage at one of Inc
boarding houses The track left by tie turtle
IN the sand showed IL To have been one of i'm.
mense size.
The southwestern Railway association has re-
duced the rate on beer In carloads five cents
| per 100 pounds. making IL fifteen instead OF
twenty cents from ST. Louis TO Missouri river
| points This Is equal to $40 reduction per car.
| sioner Midgely
The number Of fine vessels that have recently
| been built at the shipyards In San Francisco Il
much larger than would at first be supposed
anu those at present ON the stocks nearing com
| pleton, together with the orders that have
been received by the builders, will furnish Tho
| large forces employed at the several shipyard,
with work for long time to come.
| The Lake Superior Fish company ,has for the
Fresentalmos! entirely abandoned fishing IN
Thunder bay. they wanting to remain idle foI
| some time. Most OF their men arc fishing IN
BLACK bay, where tho catches aro good From
one X inc other day they took two tons of tfou
aJid whitetlsh. ---'
was rolled at the Albany iron works, New York
few days since. Ii 10 263 feet long free of flaw
and plump from end To end Its forty fee
Longer man any other rod ever before produced
In ihis or any other country. the next larges
| having been made In Philadelphia
Tallahassee has developed new industry
mat OF drying backberries for market Tn,
| American dryer and evnpoIator is used will
eminent success. lite more than foul
pushels OF ripe berries will make one bushol o
| hpFrigs " hu MI 40
sell readily at IA cents per pound.
The Rhine reached its lowest level during III,
present century IN February last but now is il
At an exceedingly high point. At present tn,
river Is nayigated by n fleet of nearly three hun
ured steamers. Tho number Of sailing vessel
and freight barges has increased largely in III,
| past twenty years. and now amounts 10 nearl,
SOOl The first steamboat on the Rhine ar
rived at Cohlenz In 1877 from London.
! There are thousands OF black, tar-like spring,
running out of the ground Ill tho way from
| fifteen miles out IN the ocean or the Santa BAR
| bara coast to the border OF san Bernadln,
county, California, On Santa Paula creek, u
the mouth Of Scott canyon. parties about fficoi
years ago had refinery, and after taking on
| the Illuminating OIL they ran out the remainder
| Into pit and burned II, not dreaming that theN
| known
The first shad caught north OF the Columbl,
river were taken from Puget sound ut Olympia
| Washington territory, In the latter part of May
one was full grown, Five years ago shad egg,
were sent from tho Atlantic by the United State.
iish commission and put In the Sacramento
| river, and young ones have occasionally beer
caught In Monterey. San Francisco and Hum
| boldt bays since that time. Two years ago on,
or Two were caught In the Columbia aud quit,
| number last year.
| II Is estimated that tho cost Of the street nav
Ing already provided for In Springfield by ordi
| nance will be S9S,i5S or this ,mount the lot
owners share VIII be s72 25l the street railroads
share, sGA6t and tho city's share sli,7i2
Twenty-four blocks are to DO paved, and III,
\ property is owned by about $50 people Tn,
estimate Is on red cedar blocks, ut 81 70 pc
| square yard. Each twenty feet front on street
where there are no railroads will cost lo, owner
sllt6O, and on streets where there are railroad
tho cost Will be about s97 per twenty feet Tn,
| burden Will he n light one on most property
owners, and 1t is believed 1t will be cheerful,
| borne.
The computation Of statistics Of American
| manufactures exhibits an increase which /
something remarkable. In 1850 the amour, In
| than si0000,0,O, Tho number of splndles wa
| l,25O,OtO of males employed 1859; of females
| SS,p,1. The amount of cotton used WAS lgiSg
| bales. Fifty years pass away and the humble
OF splndles has increased TO lOl69,li7, Tn
amount OF cotton used In 1850 was 1900 coo bales
| The number OF persons employed Is ISL, i2S ant
! the amount of capital invested In mills aud sub
sidiaIy work Is more than s225,OOOC0), From
| 1871 10 1850 The product of our wooden mnnuiac
lures hasincrcasod nearly SN,0Oo0O0 The sill
productions of the United states rose from sl2,
0o62 in 100 TO $751; 40, 1868 In 1880 The vrowtl
OF the iron aud steel industry has been remark
| able In 1910 we produced $1,000 tons OF iron
In 1850 the iron and steel works of the Unite,
| states produced 7,96t 100 tons. In twenty year
| the capital investedin the manufacture OF ma
chinery hasincrcascd from -, 1900 to $4,000
The future promises 10 DO still brighton thai
tho past