The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-31
TRADE ITEMS.

In Florida 5000 pine apples can be raised
on an acre of ground.
| Mr.. Card says that the average English
farm consists of 1913 acres,
| New cucumbers and cabbages are in the
| Chicago market from the south. Strawbcr.
ries will soon follow.
The Texas Express company is now oper-
ating over 1000 miles of railroad in Texas.
| The Cape Cod fisheries earned in 1881
| S1,il2,C00.
A letter was mailed recently at Pensa.
cola, Florida, for Glasgow, Scotland, upon
which ST. postage had to be prepaid.
The only drawback to cocoanut raising
IN Florida is that it takes ten years for the
trees to bear.
Eleven thousand tons of ice were sold in
Bangor, Maine, to. New York parties on
| Tuesday, at $l.25 per ton, deliverable in
July,
The meeting to organize state dairy and
| creamery association in Minnesota is post
poned to meet at Rochester. March 7, 5
and0.
Virginia has III tobacco factories con-
Stunning annually over 100000 pounds of
leaf tobacco.
The cultivation and consumption of
opium i'll China, so lar from diminishing,
are rapidly ON thesincrease, thus largely
curtalling the importations OF the drug
from India.
The California crop of tomatoes is said to
have been very large the present season,
and 1t is estimated that there will be from
| $1,000 to 10000 cases packed in excess of any
| previous season.
Parties who have had experience in rails
| ing peppermint on marsh land have made
! large purchases during the past year of
marsh, in ST. Joseph county, Michigan,
with view of cultiyating them with pep
| permint.
Wild beasts are thinning Gocks and herds
| OF Montana graziers to such an extent that
the settlers offer heavy bounty for the
killing OF coyotes, mountain lions, and
| bears.
Baltimore shipping merchants are max.
ing large contracts for inward carsoes of
Italian and Algerian iron ore, with the ex-
| pectation that fall in prices Of grain here
will stimulate foreign shipments and make
| the returning vessels anxious for return
| freights.
Mr.. w. II. Pillow, Florida's great straw.
berry shipper, expects to commence ship
ping Strawberries north this week Straw
berries are coming in in large quantities,
and hundreds of quarts will soon be ship
ped weekly.
During the last ten years the importation
| of India rubber into the United States has
increased from 1924 ,00S pounds, to 20,0l4,-
796 and the value OF the article from IS
ce nts to So cents.
:. There are probably four thousand plumb.
ers in the city of New York: The licensed
plumbers number four hundred and ninety
five, and of these three hundred and thirty
five are members of the association.
The population OF Mitchell county has
increased from 70 to over $500 during the
past year.
Cotton seed oil i, now prepared as cook
ing oil superior to lard oil, an illuminating
oil superior to lara oil, and lubricating
oil superior to any other.
1t is proposed to light up the greater part
OF the Suez Canal by electricity, with the
two-fold object, first enabling dredging
operations to be carried on at night instead
OF during the day; and, next, in order that
vessels may pass through at all hours in
stead OF blocking up the passage and an
choring, =. hitherto.
America has been stationary for five years,
the import of smoking opium has increased
from fifty'three thousand to seventy-se-en
thousand pounds, so 1t is supposed that six
thousand Americans are smoking opium.
A. 5. Hewitt, though a manufacturer of
steel rails, is for low tariff, and is willing to
have the duty reduced at once to $14 ton.
lie says that one steel rail firm with CAPT
tol of 100000 last year made profit of
S2,000,000.
Oranges can be raised all over Florida,
but pine apples can only be raised in the
south section. Pine apples will give fruit
from the seed in eighteen months, and will
be IN null bearing in two years.
From figures presented By the bureau of
statistics, II appears that the total leaf
tobacco product of Indiana for 1873. 10 and
80 was D,t6l las pounds, the yearly average
being s0S1 ,0l0 pounds, the first mentioned
year being the best. The average home
value Of the crop, based on the prices OF
1850, was $555S,06i n year. Nearly the en-
tire crop Is grown Ia the counties along tine
Ohio river, Warrick county leading with
2,26S,Sl5 pounds In 1880, and Spencer
county second, with l,ol3,s2] in the same
year.
New York city controls five hundred
thousand tons Of Ice for next year leaving
her two hundred and fifty thousand tons
short. Philadelphia is worse OIL, There
are two hundred and fifty thousand tons
stored on the kennebec river now. Last
season ice was $500 ton in bulk. Next
summer II may be from S. TO Sl2 ton, the
lce-iends say But II Is freezing hard 10.
night. Norway ice is transported here, and
sells for $3.50 u ton.
Sportsmen should bear in mind that the
hunting season for deer began on December
LIST and lasts until the LIST of June. A fine
OF $50 is imposed ON persons convicted
OF killing deer within this period
and any person found in possession of yeni.
son so killed out OF season is likewise liable
to pay the above mentioned fine. The
game law is n wise one, and should be oh.
served strictly. Wv
American silks are now produced to the
amount OF S3O,0O0,0o0a year. We raise no
raw silk, though the mulberry.trec thriyes
here MS well as anywhere. We were not
able to make much SILK till Abe overland
route was opened from Asia. Previous 10
that time We were forced TO receive the re.
fuse OF the European markets. American
IN Europe
The production Of anthracite Goa. for tho
week ending January II, was 5si Oh tons.
as against 333,52S tons tho same time last
year, an increase Of 2J0,4ol tons. For the
year, from January 1 TO IA, the production
was eS, Oot tons, against 500 tons for Tho
corresponding period last year, an increase
of3lI,53i tons.