The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-18
TRADE ITEMS.


A few years ago Columbus, Mississippi.
invested 100000 in cotton factory, aud
| now the capital amounts to 81 100000
Ores of galena, copper, silver and anti
mony have been found in Polk county,
Arkansas.
Atlantas first grain elevator is completed.
1t cost S33 600, and has a storage capacity
of 1000 bushels.
The peach trees are blooming in Florida.
Sponge culture is Il success ut Pine Key
Florida.
Turin sold 100000 worth of ,ermouth
to Asia, Europe and America during last
year.
A Van Buren, (Arkansas) man has a con-
tract to dig one thousand perSimmon
sprouts to be shipped to Los Angeles, Cal
iiornia.
A Baltimore linimcnt manufacturer
spends 500, 900 q year in advertising.
Shad are becoming numerous in the
Alabama, and are sold in the Montgomery
markets
twenty-five years ,co the city of Albany,
with n population or 1900, consumed $50
pounds ofouUm and 80 ounces Of morphia
annually. Now with a population Of o.
900, There are $500 pounds of opium and
1,5P ounces Of mOrphiI sold every year in
that city.
The stocks of pg-iron in Scotland were
increased 2Ol 600 tons in ISL, and the sun.
ply in that country now amounts to 10000
tons. The best informed opinion is that the
Scotch furnaces now produce an average of
40 to 100 tons per furnace per week The
average numberof furnaces in blast for the
year having been Jig, the production is es-
timated at l,l7G,00O tons.
The census of Paris, taken on the 18th of
December, gives a population of 2,259,OOO,
against ,9SS, 500 in 1876.
The area of Mississippi is 47,l5G square
miles, or 30, $40 acres, divided into farms
as follows.
Moot No. of In cul. Av. size
1860 ESQ l5,StO,COO 5,Os5, 90 SO
1870. 6S.p23 l3l2a.Oo I,2OgOOO Ig9
1857. ,&.2n l3.Sl3,tOO 4,s95,OOl lSj
IL VIII be seen from the above table that,
IN 1850, 5,OGj,OOO acres of land were under
cultivation, and in 1850 1895. 900 acres, or
nearly as much as in 1860, which shows
That the farmers Of the State are gradually
recovering from the disasters of a four
years war
During the year 1850 the various establish.
ments in San Francisco made no less than
Z?0,OU barrels of beer. The past year ex-
hiOlts an increase Of nearly G0000 barrels
brewed. These facts indicate that the i'm
ports oil the Eastern article are yearly de-
creaSing, and that if the consumption in
creaseS, as it certainly appears to be doing,
the California product will Dust its COM
petitors from the field. Taking the PRO.
duclion at the lowest estimate, 3l6uO
barrels, and deductng GO,OOO barrels for cx-
porto Arizona, Oregon and andothcr Pacific
states, leaves 10000 barrels to be consumed
IN san Francisco and its vicinity. This in
duSlry gives employment to nearly 500
IN.N Al - L
gates nearly S5,OOO,OOO.
The largest New England mackerel catch
recorded was that of 1881, consisting of 3g3.-
COS barrels, ANA in 1851 there was a catch of
oHlVVO barrels. During the year 1881 the
catch was S9l ,65l barrels These figures ac-
qulre additional Importance inasmuch as
lherc mas been difference of opinion MS to
the operations of the Old method of hook
ana me and the purse seine as now used
III appears that the catch OF 1851 by hook
and line was $4,000 barrels, and was caught
according 10 the records by a fleet of Sl3
vessels mailing from thirty Massachusetts
ports, WIN cghty-Sevcn vessels from other
N,aieS' total Of $40 vessels, manned by
O''ud h'hermen, The catch of 1881 was by
purse seine and consisted of 3gl ,657 barrels
secured by q llect of 29S vessels from New
Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts
WIN los fishermen engaged. Tn TO lSi5
the catch OF ground fish was solely by hook
ana hand-lincS, and about that year tho
trawl was first introduced by fishermen
rom ireland. The shore catch of herring
was much less than in 1850.
SIR John Lubbock maintains, in his last
LinnWan Society paper, that bees prefer
blue lloWcrs to those of any other color.
but the objection may fairly be raised
now u PEGS have 50 much to do with the
origin OF flowers, have we SO few blue ONES
lie met this by suggesting that all flowers
were originally green and then passed.
through white or yellow, and generally rcd
before becoming blue lie SAYS that an ANT
may live seven or eight years
\ Boston paper saws that 4 short trim
among the lumhcrmcn fully Substnnt;nt,s
the statement made "a few DAYS since that
the Eastern furniture manufacturers nrc
seriously troubled NJ the scarcity of
blsck walnut timber, and that The
whole supply In the United
States has now become cutirrlv innIc.
qualo to the demand. The difficulty of OH.
tanning this wood, which is SO ponular. IL
40 great haithc question Is hroucht SHARPLY
home. What is to be done In tbc mtnrS.
ana 10 What place are the dealers 10 look
fora supply,' Within the last ycnr Tho
price has increased - per cent, but even nj
such advanced figures II Is almost imnsssi.
nle 10 secure the needed stock. A few vcnr,
since man would 20 West and pur,hnsr
.Vu,Vh icet vt one dealer, but now he mast
juu'i,VN rom town to town, picking up
lew thousand feet wherever he may rhnucr
TO find any lor sale. and arrountins blmsrlr
luvAy II ne obtained the desired amount at
almost any gnat ~