The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-09

feed upon, and il is intended to restock the
neighborhood of Springfield further by the
addition of 500 quail, the first lot of fifty
having already been received for that pur-
pose.
1t is said that the silk cocoons of Califor-
mia are the finest in the world, but inexpe-
rience in Keeling the fiber deteriorates the
value Of the production. In Japan the
reellng Of the cocoon is so perfectly per
formed that the japanese fiber is commonly
nine and a half miles long without q break.
The art of Keeling is not difficult one to
attain, as 1t simply requires caretulness and
delicacy of handling.
1t is stated that after many years labor,
Herr Carl Gehmia, of Berne, has sue
ceeded IN producing artificial mother-of-
pearl which cannot be distinguished
from the natural article, 1t can be moulded
into any shape and colored to suit any
taste Changes of temperature have no
perceptlble effect upon it. This new sub
stance is said to be much cheaper than the
present mother-of-pearl of commerce.
| The paper-mills of the United States pro-
duce 100000 pounds Of the various kinds
OF paper, paste board, leather-board, ETC.,
per annum. so large and active a business
has been done during the past season that
nearly all kinds of paper stock are now
tending upward and prices of the latter ma
terlal are expected to advance little as the
spring opens. But, on the other hand,
there has been some overproduction of GER
tam kinds of paper, and values of such are
softening, The demand for MANILA wrap.
ping paper continues exceptionally good
and prices are firm.
There are three or four manufactures of
wooden shoes in Green Bay. Tney are
made OF green Eastwood, and then smoked
and dried like hams to give them the proper
aesthetic color 1t is said that it takes nm
hour and a half to make a pair, and thew
sell Tor IS cents. 1t is all done by hand
labor with saw, knives, bits, and long
handled gouges.
A comparatively small, narrow part of the
state of Michigan, skirted its whole extent
on the north by Lake Superior, and on the
south, in large part, by lakes Michigan
and Huron, and known as the upper
peninsula, in little more than a
quarter of a century has contributed to
the realized mineral wealth of
the country nearly S300,000,00O in ingot
copper, pig.iron, and iron ores. OF this i'm.
mense product, the iron mines have fur
nished nearly Sl30,000000. Last year the
copper product was in value about $4,000
oOO, and the iron about SIS, 100000, making
total OF S2S,OO0,OOO, while the promise for
lSS2, both for copper and iron, is that the
product will be greater A pretty good
showing for strip of wilderness, and il is
claimed that there is to-day more iron in
/ sight than ever before, more new mines
than old ones, and more iron territory re-
naming to be opened and explored than
has been explored up to this time, three
acres to one.
| As is well known, Arizon a is vast tract
OF treeless country, nearly destitute of
water, its surface being characterized by
ranges of mountains, wide reaches Of desert,
and elevated, waterless plateaus. In the
centre of this barren territory is n
large pine forest-the only timbered
land OF any extent between the Mis-
souri, river and the Sierra Nevadas. in
| the latitude of Arizona. This tract is called
the. San Francisco forest, on the man,
taking its name from the range of noun
tains that diversity the topography of the
region. This pine belt is eighty to 100
miles Long and fifty miles wide. The tim
Der has the characteristics of the Georgia
and Norway pines, and is full of sap and
pitch. The Atlantic Il Pacific railroad line
is being constructed through this timber
region, and it thus becomes IL source of sup
ply, not only to the road, but to the coun-
try tributary thereto. A Chicago lumber
operator is sending forward men and
material for the purpose of erecting q mill
IN the midst of the San Francisco timber.