The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-17
TRADE ITEMS.

THERE are about IS, 900 tons of ice housed
at Rockford.
The annual potato crop of the United
States is estimated ut nearly 100000
bushels, of which New York state alone
furnishes 25,OO0,0O0 bushels.
Large quantities of venison are being
dried in the Grand river country for the
summer market.
Flowing matches are still kept up in
Great Britain and great interest is taken in
them
Copper is being shipped from L'Anse,
Michigan, ut the average rate of about ten
cars, or about $50 900 worth, per DAY.
Eighteen hundred bushels of Italian
beans have been imported into the United
States from Naples.
Planting is to begin in Hancock county,
Mississippi. There is plenty of green vege-
tation and good beef in the woods.
A firm at Lincoln has received an order
from st. Louis for 100000 cobs. They pay
Il quarter of cent each for good merchant
able cobs fit to manufacture into pipes.
The best developed, and at present most
productive copper-tield in the United States
is the Lake Superior.
The Belleyille oil mills manufacture
yearly 10000 barrels of castor.oi and 80 900
tons of oil-cake
Perry is purely temperance town. Hav-
ing no saloons, sweet cider goes. One dealer
is reported as having sold $1,000 worth in
1881. A barrel-iorty-fi gallons-is an
average days sale.
A farmer came into Green Bay few days
ago and sold the skin of silver-gray fox,
killed on the line of the Wisconsin Central
railroad. 1t was worth SO.
The Great Western Distilling company,
OF Peoria, took the cake on average yield of
spirits produced during January, extracting
Az gallons of spirits from every pushe of
grain used.
II. IL, Moore, of the United States fish
commission, planted one million young
whitelish of st. Joseph, Michigan.
The first prize for cocoons at the Phila-
delphia silk fair was awarded to the mother
of the late Bayard Taylor.
Leayenworth Times; Two carloads of
beer were received at the Rock Islanu
freight depot yesterday. There were about
ten last week. Does prohibition prohibit
Although the business of making raisins
in California is yet IN its infancy, that state
produced last year enough to supply the
Pacific coast trade, besides shipping nearly
$1,000 boxes overland to the Atlantic coast
states.
Wooden ship-building west of Maine has
practically ceased, This fact has somewhat
stimulated building in the"Pine Tree state
the new tonnage IN 1881 amounting to 5S,-
902, against 80 ,Si7 in 1850, 81 ,5Si in 1870 and
IL eco in 1873.
Hiram Sibley, one OF the wealthiest men
in Rochester, New York, is proprietor of n
i0,0OO-acre farm in Illinois, which is said to
be the largest cultivated farm in the world;
5000 acres of 1t were last year devoted to
seed-raising,
The various furniture dealers and manu-
tacturers OF Louisville have decided to
advance the price of their wares in order to
keep pace with other cities, and to this end
n meeting was held, the result being an adj
vance OF 10 per cent. on all walnut and .
per cent. on poplar goods.
The upper peninsula of Michigan Is dis.
putting Chili's claim as the chief source OF
the worlds supply of copper. The annual
yield OF Its mines in pure metal now rivals
that of the ore mines of Chill, and far out
strips the product, past or present, of any
of the copper districts Of North America,
England, the European continent or
Australia. All of the Lake Superior cop.
per is not IN ore, but a pure metal, which
Is marketable after II is freed from the rock
in which ii is imbedded.
Mr.. Calvin Fletcher, the commissioner OF
fisheries for Indiana, says that ten years
hence there will be $4,000 carp ponds in
thNt state, The rage Tor carp ponds is
great in the southern states, success in re.
cent experiments having come quickly.
The Bank of Montreal, Toronto, has sold
$4,000 of the land grant bonds of the Ca.
madam Pacific railway to syndicate OF
capitalists who recently purchased q large
part of the town of Brandon, Manitoba,
The price paid for the bonds was par and
accrued interest.
DUBUQUE, Iowa, February l2.-Nayiga
ton is open, the earliest date in years. The
ice went ont OF the river to-day, leaving d
clear channel mp and down the stream. The
ferry.run, aud where ic .harvasters were a,
work on the river four days ago, Is now
open water. The sudden opening of spring
has cut the supply short of the intended
crop.
The following, relative to the exports q
potatoes from Great Britain TO this country
Is nom Dorabusch's Evening List. Pota
toes are still being shipped from the Clyd,
and ssne other ports TO New York. Their,
must still be q considerable dcarth Of pota
toes In the United States this season, as the
following facts will show; Scotch regents
arc sold wholesale IN our markets ut Iron
rs TO sos per ton, and champions about 90
per ton. They are thus delivered free OF
board ship. The freight aud the ordinar,
charges amount TO 2js ton; but the Gus
toms dues In landing at New York ar,