The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-29
TRADE ITEMS.

CBDAR RAPIDS has n new cracker factory
which win soon be turning out eighty barrels Of
crackers day
The iron works in Springfield have now been
Idle two months, and the loss OF wages to the
employees amounts TO $4,000,
The product of the stove factories of Philadel-
phia Is estimated at 1000 900 annually, and the
industry employs over 1900 people
Speculative Troy school boys are shooting
frogs at Plttsown. and selling the hind legs al
Saratoga for 30 cents pound.
1t Is reported that paint mine, comprising
Ave different colors, has been discovered near
gypsum has also been found In that vicinity
Immense shoals OF melons go north from
and through Chattanooga. Acar-load of melons
usually numbers from LOCO to 200, though
week.
The house bill. to provide additional indus
trial training schools for the Indian youth. and
authorizing the use of unoccupied military bar
racks for such purpose, Was passed in the SEN
| ate Saturday.
Monroe, Michigan, will soon have wholesale
| chocolate factory operated by a former Iowa
brewer who was driven out Of the state by the
stringent liquor law there In force.
| Two years ago deposits of young shad were
| made In Lake Winnebago and reports from
Neenah are that considerable numbers have
been caught this season. They are described
rs about the size of pike and resembling the
| ahecphead in color
The entire quantity OF water consumed In
| Milwaukee, last week. was ~ 40, l72 gallons
showing daily averako of 10, 1903 gallons, oil
| daily increase over the corresponding week Of
last year OF 52s1,o73 gallons. The coal con
| sumed was ~. Is tons.
The Marquette (Michigan) Mining Journal cx
hiblts in gross tous, the total lake shipments o.
Iron ore from the upper peninsula ports for III,
present season. up to and including July u
which amounted to !, i6l liS tons, against 727 Is
| In lSl-an increase of 433 9G3 tons over the cor
| responding period of 1881.
| Al the meeting of the fruit and vegetnbl,
growers Mt Nashville on Saturday, DR.. Morton
said that the crop Of Irish potatoes this year wa
not only the largest but the most proiitabl,
ever grown in tho state; also, that q very larry,
second crop would be planted.
| Tho house committee ON commerce agreed I,
| report favorsbly Representative Jacobs bll
| regulating the expectation Of articles made II
imitation OF butter and cheese, by compelling
manufacturers W durably stamp upon tubs
frtins, or packages Of such articles the word
under penalty OF o., coo.
The Chattanooga Times says: Chattanoogan
drink more beer to tho man than any city In tn
| south. About twenty dozen quarts OF botl
beer and seventy five kegs Is consumed in Thu
city every day feg contains 100 glasses
making a total OF over 1880 glasses drank hen
| every day.
The withdrawal OF British steam tonnage 70
| transport service In the present Egyptian wa
has caused ocean freights 10 advance nearly 10
per cent within the past eight days. Shipper
feel the change and evidently expected IT, II
they manifested great anxiety at this point +
enter into longtime contracts. The upwar,
tendency is SO stroBg that seven Of the min
lines doing business out of Montreal, and ten on
of New York, decline 10 make ocean rates cover
Ing period of ten days.
The P.ttsburg Commercial Gazette says: Tn
week Just closed has been one of c0nsidsrabl
excitement in oil circles, and tho most importan
feature to note is that the mnrke, has ruled yer
steady in the face of an unprecedented am
steady INCREASING production. As stated in GU
report OF Friday, some well.informed operator
pncs the daily average yield ut 100000 barrel'
with supply above ground of 80, 900 600 barrel,
and with such u production and visible suppl
tits wonderful as already intmated, that IN
market holds cut at all New wells are of a
most daily occurrence: In the Warren field dI
velopment IN still being pushed forward wit
considerable energy and the indications NJ
that the production of the Warren field will u
be considerably increased before 1t begins
subslde. There Ia no doubt but like Pithol
and bullion run OF former years, and lradior
and Richbnrg OF more recent date II will hay
Its day, but that time has not yet arrived. Whci
ever there are unms,akabe indications that tn
climax has been reached, provided no fel
has been opened up in the meantime, there wi
undoubtedly be n rebound the like OF which h,
not been seen for some years, and that IL IL
| time many anxious spCCulatOra are looking TO