The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-03
TRADE ITEMS

BUFFALO robes bring from 81 to s. apiece
in Fort Benton.
Florida shell mounds are mines of wealth
They contain the richest kind of calcareous
mari.
A new electric light company is being
planned at Minneapolis, upon system de.
signed to meet the objections urged i'm
Mayor Rands veto. The wires are to be
placed under ground.
One farmer near Trnadad, Colorado. will
plant 500 bushels of seed potatoes in the
| spring
a few strawberries are coming into Chi
| cago from the south, and they sell slowly at
Sl(9l,25 per quart,
The value of the butter product of the
country is about five times that of cheese,
but only per cent. of it is as yet shipped
abroad, while 80 per cent OF the cheese gets
there.
The value of the writing paper annually
manufactured in the United States is about
Sl0,0o00O0.
Great Britain's export trade in textiles is
! steadily increasing, and in nearly every
branch material advance was made last
year
Congressman Peele, of Indiana, sent out
! $500 packages of seeds in one day recently
IL is said that 800 700, 900 feet of lumber is
exported from Georgia yearly, and that 05,.
OVo acres are each year stripped of forest
| growth.
Agricultural Commissioner Hawkins, Of
| Tennessee is making arrangements for ex
| detrimental tests of the effect OF commercial
iertillzers on the crops in every county in
| the state.
There was manufactured in the United
States last year S75, 100000 worth of stoves
Beaver Lake, about thirty miles east OF
| Fort Saskatchewan, has not been frozen
over all winter, and settlers there have
been able to keep themselves supplied with
ducks in consequence,
A Shoreham, Vermont, family have
drunk eleven barrels of cider in four
months. one of the members alone has
drunk four barrels, and he is still hale and
hearty.
fhe crop of Spanish olives this year being
very short, higher prices are looked for. Ii
is thought that imported olive oil must al.
vance as the crop of olives in Italy is also
light.
AT no time during the winter has there
been sufficient ice in Lake Superior to in.
teriere with navigation. Four men recently
sailed two hundred miles in small boat.
The longest tunnel in the world will be
that between England and Frances. 3.
miles.
A company has been organized in Spring
Held, Massachusetts, for the manufacture
Of various articles from clay. The pecu
iiarlty OF the association is that 1t is com
posed exclusively of negroes
" has been decided to try the electric
light IN San Jose for one month. The
tower light will be used instead OF fly
eight gas lamps, for which the city paid !;
per lamp monthly. For the electric llgh,
the city will pay rs much as the gas would
cost which 1t supplants.
In palatka, Florida, within the last thre,
months, vacant lots have advanced 80 pei
cent, and improved property ut least Il
per cent. on the last years rates.
In California, and TO some extent In New
Mexico, raisins of good quality are pro
duced. The drying is chiefly done In III,
sun, the grapes being laid on wooden tray.
in the vineyards.
a entlema has been picking strawber.
ries, green peas aud lettuce from his gar.
den at Eufaula, Alabama.
bed OF asphalt, four feet thick, has
been discovered in Vernon county, Mis-
souri,, seventeen feet benea III the surface.
i Major Eaton, the corn pepper and selle,
OF Lowell, Massachusetts, has popped IN
thirty. years OF business three Thousand
bushels OF corn, seasoned them with thre,
barrels Of salt, aud made 5000 year.
80. "uiuucs, vi bOHatN, United State.
OF Colombia, n student In business col
leEe In, foughkeepsie, tclegraphed hi,
iather the other day for permission TO re-
main and complete his. course. The mes
sage and reply cost S15.
The number OF applications for patent,
last year was greater than In any prryiou,
year IN the history OF the patent Office
me total number issued since 1850 Is near.
MVW. The largest number ever grant
Ell IN one year was In 1873, when 1925,
were issued.
The machinery for the electric light la,
arrived In San Antonio and In few dayi
Tue subscribers will be furnished with cleo
There were shipped from Humboldt Ia,
last year, a., I8j, JIB feet of lumber, Is, tOj
posts. m
A scheme Is said TO be maturing by which
several Muskegon, Michigan, capitalists In.
tend to become the purchasers OF numbe,
Of townships of pine lands IN Florida, esti
mated to be capable OF producing 1 ~, 600.
COZ feet Of lumber.
! Opium smoking In New Mexico Is rettips
70 be pretty bad.