The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-10-17

The increase so far is the simple index Of the
general growth OF the country. ard springs from
the larger demands of vast empire, hning
with settlers, tayersed In every direction with
new railroads, In which new towns are spring
ing up. new farms opening, capital accumu..
laung and trade increasing With phenomenal
rapidity"
The boston Advertiser says: The movement
In crude petroleum during the present year has
been most remarkable. In the spring an I'M
portAnt discovery WAS made In what IN known as
the Jumbo district near Warren, Pennsylvania,
wells being found that Yielded from 100 TO
sooe barrels day The price ofoil then dropped
practically failed. and while about the LIST OF
September the total prductIon was $500 barrels
per day. 1t has since fallen to 1900 barrels
Crude oil under this enormous decrease IN the
production has advanced to Y6@aIc at tho wells,
and last week some $4,000, 600 barrels were pur-
chased by permanent investors The export de-
mand has greatly increased during the present
year. and for the seven months ending July 81,
amounted 10 go, 400 100 gallons, against 2l6312-
100 for the ssme time in ISL Only last week,
according to the best authorities, the export
shipments equaed the production OF all the
wells. II 10 claimed that the consumption OF oil
il now only equal To the production, whereas In
former years the latter has exceeded the former,
and without new discoveries are made oil must
sustain the present and even higher hgures.
But on the other hand the present high prices
win give zest 10 prospectors and new discoveries
be the more likely 10 be made,
An exchange says: "East.bound freight buSi-
moss continues as light as ever, ana 10 say that
officials Of the eastern roads feel decidedly dis;
couraged Is putting II rather mildly. The total
shipments OF flour, grain and provisions during
the last week by the six lines running east from
this city amounted 10 only II 30 tons, which Is
not half as much as these same roads took out
during tho corresponding week last year, when
the total shipments of Hour grain and proviS
ions amounted TO 5007l tons, and shipments
wero then considered rather light There Is no
prospect that grain and provision shipments
Will increase materially before the close of navi-
CATION, and even then there viii be no great
change IL the eastern demand does not i'm
prove"
The Industrial Review, publication devoted
10 southern interests started during the cotton
exposition at Atlanta, ia its last number has an
article on cotton-Seed oil, II shows that the eK-
ports of olyc oil from Italy 10 this country were
almost entirely suspended whom the government
u lily upon the importation of cotton-seed oil
from this country Went into operation, and CIV.
Ing this fact MS proof that the American oil
was put up In bottles with French labels. and
returned here MS pure olive oil, with the Alneri-
can duty of 81 per gallon added to tho price. At
least onefourth of the 2l6,1SS gallons thus iln-
ported was our own cotton.soed oil, and tho
question IL asked, Can not we do the mixing ut
home?
Tho coal supply of the south, says the Boston
Commercial Bulletin, is II sealed book. Writer'S
have, curious ns II may appear, regarded the
quence TO demand serious attention. Even APP
pletons Encyclopedia gives II but passing
notice in Il half dozen lines; and yet we have In
The four states lying Immediately south of the
Ohio rlyer-namoly; Kentucky, Tennessee,
Georgia and Alabsma--nearly 1900 square
miles of territory rich in thick veins OF the finest
bituminous coal In the country, more than four
times tho area Of the celebrated coal fields of
pennsylvania, and tw1nty times the area OF the
coal deposits In the six New England states.
BESIDES this, We have G,O0O square miles in
Toxas alone to say nothing of the vast coal ter.
ritory, covering All area of over 81 600 square
miles In the Missouri basin,
Tho Appalachian Coal-tield, covering nearly
four degrees OF longitude In Ohio, contracts,
rapidly ~ II runs southwark through eastern
Kentucky, but broadens.0nt again In Tennessee
aud Alabama. In these latter states the coal
deposits cover nm area Of over nine thousand
square miles, stretching across the entire state
OF tennessee, with varying width of from iitty
TO seventy miles taking in the northwest corner
OF Georgia, and expanding into II heart.Shaped
aga In Alabama, over one hundred miles in
widn terminating in the central portion of the
state neF Tuscaloosa
Tennessee leads all southern states in the de-
yelopmentV her coal deposits, which cover an
area OF =, 1CO Suaro miles, extending across the
state from the nythcastern Section. In Georgia
the coal beds hnvelevelopcd only at one point
namely, IN Dndc cllny In the northwest cor.
ner OF the state. OF M immense coal.iiolds Of
Alabama, covering M ara OF 5aOO square miles,
these beds alone contain oal enough 10 supply
me entire country FOR centnfy,,u me peds arc
divided Into three sections, knowiAS lhe War
riof Coosa and Cahaha fields of coaN nm. ~ NOV
surpassed for domestic uses by any luminous
conl III the world. The opening OF the my lul,
roads now IN process of construction will Nsult
III INC rapid development of these extcnsRe
Voai'helds and will induce investment OF capital
IN extensive manufacturing industries,