The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-09-23
TRADE ITEMS.

ABour 5000 bbls or 300 car loads Of salt are
weekly shipped west from Saginaw Michigan.
About 100000 sheep skins ana about twice as
| many goat skins ave annually shipped nom IN
lila into the United States
The rolling mill at Indianapolis gives employ
ment 10 1856 persons.
Chattanooga has shipped peaches, strawber-
! rics, blsckberIcs, grapes, tomatoes ana beans
| W the amount OF G30ls 81 this season.
There are torty.threc furnaces, rolling mills
| steel works, FORCES and bloomerics In Tennessee
employing I09j hands aud g. GSl,756 capital,
The Omaha city council has adopted sheet
| asphalt as the paving material for Douglas
street the principal thoroughfuic Of the burg,
Rev A J, Bray formerly OF Montreal, has
organized Ia London y colonization society Tor
the northwest territories, with capital of il,-
COO eco
THIS soap.bark tree of Chill is on trial ia san
Francisco, ard so far promises well The i'm.
ported bark Is preferred to animal soap by the
"cylcan population and in woulen.millS, on ac.
count OF its superior cleansing qualities.
Mad stones appear To have market yalue IN
sale of half interest In one for H. adding that
cloudcd title lcssrned the value of the share
disposed Of
A Bloomington lady has some forty colonies Of
bees, and is at present taking from the hives
from $50 to 200 pounds Of honey per week, which
Ut ruling ratcs-lS cents per pOund--hrings u fair
income from her attention aud labor
The grippe crop of the Bloomington region Is
tAAtNhiukl4 hllNNllNlhtNNIlH tue 1ltll UtlNk
small and the fruit ripening very uneyenly and
impcficclli; and whereas. usually, at this sea
son, grapes sell ut and 2}i cents Il pound LhOy
are now scarce at 4 and cents
chicken incubator has been started ut ct.
tawa, and on the first trial Matched out eighty
seven chickens The owner has decided 10 make
business Of H. and Will turn his entire HltGn-
ton 10 spring chickens
Tho utter uselessnoss Of the English sparrow
n, an Insect destroyer Is shown nj New ALBANY
IN The Immense numlpr pf pntaTllllafh flint
cover all the acidulOus.leaved shade trees o ithe
city, and tho total absence Of native birds that
destroy these pcsts-drlven away by the pugua.
Cious sparrows,
There is hardly any doubt but that the
country At large has this season produced Iue
largest potato crop IL has ever raised The nc
counts item all portions Of the country concur
In giving This View Of the case. The important
point now Involved " to get the crop dug and
well housed before the cold weather sets In.
The Sutra tunnel, now completed discharged
a0O0ltOl gallon, hot water daily from the Com.
slock mines In the Sierra Nevada This wntOr
has temperature OF l9S degrees, and Ia con
veyed through closed Pine ilumO 10 prevent
the escape OF vapor After u passage Of four
miles through the first tunnel II loses 10 degrees
OF heat, second tunnel, l,l0 feet long, con.
ducts Mo water 70 Carson river. Along its
course arc hot water baths and lnundries and n
plan Is on foot to conduct the hot water through
pipes under ground, to ba available for pur.
pose, Of irrigation aud for supplying artificial
heat To hot houses
A London correspondent Of tho Financial
Chronicle writes, The agricultural returns, or
rather SUMMARY Of them. have been issued
within the last few days aud they show that ON
the Nh OF June last the oxteut of land under
whoa! was Sa9 9li scTos, sRalnst 2SG5, soy
ncfo' last year Assuming thai the crop is An
average one. say ~ qrs 10 tho acre, the total
produstion should amount ~ about 10 sou 900
ans There IN dmlnutlon In the acreage Of
lang both under barley and oats This supply
OF sheep IN tho country has again fallen OF bu,
thsrr In All Increase In that OF lambs
rhe Boston Advertiser sAys The hu,inoss
men OF She country arc In u position when Tho
extension OF their operations beyond tho limits
OF THIS nation Is matter OF necessity, A besln.
ming has been made In Mexico Further opCn.
Ing, appear almost everywhere The capital of
The county seeks Investments. aud whom home
opportunities are supplied foreign Investments
will be In demand The west Is no lonacr nor.
rover In our Atlantic markets. and tho south 10
growing toward economic independence In
fact economically, tho south bids fair TO take the
place held by tho west duriHg the last twenty
i've years, This d0prlves the west OF an impor-
tant huyor, and leayesn grost mass OF freight for
export purposes Incidentally Il gives further
strength 10 the roads leading eastward from Tho
Missouri and Mississippi river points. The
south begins 10 manufacturer tho factories of
the west begin To supply the local markets. and
40 the factories or tho east must think " hndlug
market elsewhere
This II whattho New York Cummercll Dplletln
says The transportation companies carrying
cas-, and west bound ftoighta woro found Jatur
day las! literally "o'erdone' with merchandise
The freight onlCss and piers OF tho Ne, Yorh
CENTRAL, the Eric and the Pennsylvania were
loaded with trucks from the different usrN-
houses In the city All tho agents were unsnl-
inous In their assertions that the fall trade,
though late, Was being carried onn now In earnest
nud that all trades were well represented The
oasiwise steamship limos told the same story.
AT the Cromwell lnc. onces II war said Thai
Though tho south was not soudiuga great desl
ihelr capacity Of taking w0 creditsblo to thom
me RMhstins OF mo cotton crop wac near nj
hand, and thcn II might be said that tho trade
was NJ its height The prophO.ics OF a good
trade heretofore made were being fulfilled and
merchants who entrusted freight to their charge
ALSO spoke OF tho outlook and present conditions
as very favorable At the stonington ana
other eastern liucs freight In some eases, had IA
rcmNn over for following trims No statistic,
could 10 given NJ Nj Fiuks Office, hut IL was
stated that the receipts over last year would
probably he of substantial nature An nlnnv
the limo, therefore, business was more thnr
| usually actvo. and not n complaint was heard
The trade carried on between the United
| states and the Dominion OF Canada N only Soc
ond w Importance 10 that transacted between
Vanhih AMI Treat britain, The Canadian cN
ports md imports for consumption for mo ,e,,
| ending June 80, 1851 were AS follows GrrAl
nuiain'-cxports s,37 go imports, sIShSi Si,
| United Slstes-cxports, $50 500, 22S, imports. $50
| 'N'a'sa Nv NNNl NNlNIlN rom all INllOtTttV
trading with Canada for the wear werc siS on0
s!S, and the total imports, sgl,Gll,tO The tota
amount OF duties collected was SlS50l Is, VI
| Iherc was an Increase In tho value OF export,
from the dominion To the United states, Tor tht
| fiscal year 1881, Us compared with iSSn ~ AZ
bl@SlT and an increase IN tho value OF good.
entered Tor consumption In Canada from IN,
United states during the same period, of s7,SS7,
tUl Ianada sends us large quantities " wheat
| barley lumber stayot hoops, horned cattle
horses household goods scrap iron mali. or
cha,d and garden products, etc We send Ii
oNchaNso larve quantities OF bituminOus and an
lhrscile coal, cotton goods, corn, bar iron, cast
ingS, boiler plates, hardware, glass lamps
ehimnsyS plate glass, WOODEN dross goods car
pets, furniture, cassimcroS, silk goods, blocl
un, varnlsh' eharroal pis.iron, SafoS sheet. Iron
elec'r9plaicd ware, pianos, petroleum, lubtica
uns OILS paints steel ingo,S, aud large iii a
unenuu,ota',d articles
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