The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-09-28
TRADE ITEMS

1NE principal hlGteh III AuahR, GEORGIA. are
being rapidly maCadNmiEed.
The trade IN cotton IN Montgomery Alabama,
last year fooled up 100000,
one grower at Orange, California, has al
ready picked Thirty tons OF rMsin grapes and
put them ont to dry
Countless swans orwid bees I'M Dire woods
of Santa Barbara county a party camping re-
Gently on the SAN Julian found eight bee trees
during week.
Bauanas are grown near WayneBhoro Georgia.
III Florida II requires three years for the plant
to produce fruit, while those In Georgia near in
eighteen months.
The exports Of domestic produce from New
York during The past week were moderate the
tOtal being thlbl,2ll cOmpMed with tS3lj,Gj9
for the same week last year The shipments of
wheat and lluur continue of good proportions,
and there Is II fair movement III petroleum, but
other products are being shipped rather slow,
Since January the exports aggregate sl3a612,-
$50, compared with s2,5, 7sLc6, for the cores
pOnding period OF ISL
lnlSS 900 900 vines were planted In Los An.
gclcs county, making with old and new vines
now growing l3,iGG0C0 vines. should the win
ter rains of SO aud 50 come abuudanty, not
less than h,u000 900 vines more will be planted the
coming winter
The Stakcd Plains nrc fust losing their reputa.
ton for being barren desert Says the Crosby
County tTeXas) Sun. I'VE learn from gentleman
Just in from that section that the colony of
puakcrs who are settled on the StNkCd Plains, In
COSBY county have the finest crops this year
ever seen In northern Texas. They have sent
word TO the stoCkmcn In that country that they
will sell corn NJ 10 cents bushel less than It can
be bought on the railroad and they will be pre-
pared 10 furnish any reasonable amount
plrIsnuRG PA september 2l.--Thc CONNER
clnl Gazette will say tomorrow: There In a
good authority for the statement that nn attempt
Is 10 ho made To corner oil on u big scale Opera.
tons have already been commenced here and
elsewhere, and about l2,OO0 barrels have al
ready been bought and taken out of the market
hlINnTN AL hold
eral million barrels and II said the present
break Is for tho purpose of shaking ont weak
holders"
\ man in oregon has invented way to easily
remove sand out OF II river He removed 22OpO
cubic yards, nj cost Of 81, 200, while by dredG
ing the cost would have been $1,000. The pro
cess Is Ia load steamer by the stern, anchor
her head up stream, and then let her turn her
propeller, This loOScnS the sand, which is car
rlcd away by the current, steamer In that way
decpcned the channel of the Columbia river
eighteen feet by II width of seventy five feet in
twenty minutes
The total value Of the imports of merchandise
ntercd for consumption In the United Statcse
from the whole world during the last fiscal year
was $3.50, GlSpll
over onc.half of this entire sum consisted of
seven leading articles, as follows
Sugar aud molasScs ,,,,,.,.,,,,t,,.,S S,4Ol 2SS
Iron, steel and their manufactures 1859 IA
tutCc ... ,,....,....... h6,iS GNl
SIN and It's manufactures. ..,.,..,,.,. l20ii 9Gi
W Dol anu llS manufactures. ssssss..s. iuSbO, SNl
Drugs, dyes anu chemicRlS .,.,..,,,,,. M,h9 ,HS
Cotton aud It's manufactures .,..,,.,, 3l,g56,6S7
Total. ....,.. sSig. GOO Sqi
Five Of these articles sugar aud molaSseS, Cof-
fec, wool, drugs dyes aud chemicals aud cotton,
are staples OF Mexico, which she can produce
almost indefinitely, itthcrc is market for them
and means to set 10 the market
Russia leather MS II Is called, holds an lm-
! nOrtnut position In the manufacture of many
| kinds vt fancy goods, but leather really made In
! Russia now forms but asmnll part ot that which
/ goes uuder thisdcsignoton The leather itself
/ Is generally made either from light COw.hldC
| or u call-Ssin, and the tanning proper does moi
/ diilcr from that usual for light leather hut the
A, distinctive color and smell made the leather
! popular all over the worldmany years before Il
| was manufactured anywhere else than In Rus
| Sia II was finally discovered, however that IL
peculiar smell was due To the use OF u small
amount OF birch halk tar while the color wa
| easily attained either with vegetable or Nuilin,
dyes, and within the past ten years, n simila
leather has been made IN many countries, SomI
OF II even better than that made In Russia, bu
n large proportion much Inferior split sheep
skins thus manipulated, having found u larg,
| sale,
The disposition of the public lands Ivy states
during the past nsCal year, forms M interesting
study, Over 100000 acres, or nearly c.thiN
ot the whole amount dlSposCdof was in Dakota
Kansas, Minnesota aud Nebraska are crCditc,
with over l,ON,CO0 cnch. This shows nj ono,
that the substantial Industrial expansion Of III,
country Is still taking place IN the west an,
northwest, OF the mineral lands disposed of
nearly nc;half ato credited to Colorado III,
public lands sold during the past fiscal yea
would, with their settlements aud production
rolled into one, constitute u very rcSpcCtnhl,
empire With their now settlers and acres, the,
arc equivalent to the addition of u new state I
the CniOn