The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-08-16

as soon as that product can be Kicked. should
the crop turn out large enough 10 iii them
which Is on the whole unlikely the canned
corn would be worth nearly 81 OOOCn0 reckoning
Nsl Wv case. The tomato output will also
be heavy.
Regarding the hop trade, the Now York Com.
neteial fuilelin contains the following: Ths
week exports OF hops from this port will foo,
UP LOW or 100 bales-if all the hops for which
freight has been engaged eau be secured This
fact should be enough 10 satisfy brewers Thai
they have been slightly misled In suppo.ing that
| no export trade has been effected OF late All nc.
counts from the English crop continue discour.
Rnlg, anu make II very certain that estimates
oi ,hree or four weeks ago fully stated the prob.
able yield. The latest adyces state that there
~ less uoihg IN speculative way in London,
put more buying by bpwers Reports come
iivil several sections of New York stn,e 10 the
..eel mat ice are increasing and threatening
damage TO the burr The most liberal estimates
pace me yield from the growing crop at only
lper cent oflast seasons
The London Financial journal says: ut eau
Ne longer DC disguised that the electric light in
It's present form does not answer commercially
Inc last report of the city surveyor proves con.
ciusi,eiy that the cost of street lighting is ut
iensl ioIr TO ten times the cost OF gas, while the
hytNm does not give SO satisfactory u light be-
cause wanting IN the necessary equal disttibu.
uoh OF H. This report was effective in bringing
'he commissioners of sewers TO "a decision not 10
proceed furIher with the process for the present
.''"'No'Ni' " 10 ISCukilkei luht apart nom the
qhesuonot litigation, existing patents are likely
10 he eclipsed by new Inventions Tho day.
thereiore, fer selling concessions has gene by'
ana the lrJG,s ofthese operations such us they
were, nave already been rcaped.
II has been estimated by Brsdstreets that
there are 0,000,OuO miles oi fence ia the United
states the cost of which has been more than 81,
Voi,'WWO, or about SIS n mile. Formerly The
FENCES OF farms were built of wood, ana the an.
muai repairs put heavy tax upon the farmers.
The last census shows that the cost of such no.
pairs In 1877 was t96:9,000. Most farm fences
ara now built OF wire, and 600OO miles of such
fence were built In 1881, at q cost OF $40 900 90
or about half the cost per milo of the old wood
FENCES The duly on the steel rods out of which
the wire fencing Is made is 80 per cent and leg
islaton has been proposed which would greatly
Increase the cost TO farmers of wire fence
such action would be unwlsc and unjust The
new settlers upon the distant prairies are strug.
Cling hard to inclose their land and the nddi.
uonal tax would bear heavily upon them The
invention of wire fence has made II feasible To
lncl0se vast tracts OF land for pasturage which
nave heretofore been waste. one Enclosure I'm
New Mexico contains seven thousand acres. and
II the price OF wire fence remains low all the un.
fenced land of the country will In Il fvw years
be incl0sed, adding greatly to the national
wealth. Nothing should be done 10 re,ard tho
progress OF the work OF properly fencing the
whole country,