The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-05-06
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Pr0duct OF wine in California for 1881, $780,
900 gallons
Quicksilver product In California in 1881. S.
C35 TASKS.
A Quincy paper says 1t has been Il long time
since there were so many empty corn.cribs in
Adams county us there are now
Value Of manufactures In San Francisco In
1881, S9J,OO0,0O0.
1t Is asserted that more corn has been planted
In the south this season than any other previous
year, and that next fall will show more ciyersi-
fled crops than the south has ever yielded,
A DesMoines specials says Street having has
commenced here In earnest. J. Is. Smllh n 90.
OF Chicago, have contracts for laying over three
miles of pavement Cedar blocks are used
The Mutual Union Telel raph company is do
Ing a largely increased aud increasing business,
the earnings for each successive week In Aprl,
being progressively larger than at any previous
time. The bonds are now held ut So and the
stock at 3@30, with but few sellers,
the chicago city council. reconsidering the
Brush electric light ordinance, decided that all
wires shall be laid under ground, but that poles
may be used temporarily until the system Is
completed, The ordinance passed by a vote of
2ito9
In Iowa the condition of crop affairs IS most
gratifying. The season Is from two to thee
weeks earlier than usual, and the general out.
look Is excellent Further north, In Minnesota
the season 10 later, and rains have delayed seed
Ing operations, but there Is plenty of time left In
which To catch up"
Lieutenant Francis winslow, OF the United
States coast survey has an article In the Popu
lar Science Monthly which Is calculated to make
pale the check of the restaurant keeper and 10
cause alarm IN the stomach, If not The heart OF
every American loverof the oyster. Lieutenant
Winslow writes OF the deterioration of our oys
beds with Significantly warning statistics drawn
from foreign toulces His conclusions are Al, o
strengthened by careful experiment made in
connection with two of the most prolific oyster
beds Of Chesapeake bay. The natural oyster beds
Of the north have already become practically OK.
huuslcd, and while some authorities are dis.
posed 70 consider the beds of Maryland and Viz.
gina inexhnustible Lieutenant Winslow does
not His tests showed most concusivcly thai
tnc present methed of working the beds Is OK.
Geedingly wasteiul and exhaustive. A clumsy
GLuuHa ln me shape Of 4 scoop, Weighing
Eom NV 70 lhlrty tns, Is dragged back and
form, wrenching the bivalves from their
resting places, crushing many of them, forcing
Others lip downward into uncongenial mud and
generally much impairng reproductive power
This dredging is mercilcss aud well nigh contin.
uous, Notwithstanding protective laws. The
pyslerman Is Ike the lumberman So long as
nc supplies The present generation ut profit 10
himself the future Is OF small concern To him
Lieut. Winsow gives some striking instances of
the disastrous results of the ovcrwOrking of oys.
ierbeds on the coasts Of France and England
From the beds of Cancall bay, ON the northwest
OF France, 70,O0g0 oysters were taken i'm lsi3
From lS,9to 1865 the decrease was from Id 900 no
oysters taken In the former year to few over
iWvW III tne latter III 1870 the bed had en-.
nrely petered out In the neghborhood of Fail.
mouth. England, there was an oyster fishery
which upto Leo furnished employment and sun.
port TO seven hundred men aud three hundred
boats, In that year the old law enforcing A
close time was repealed, aud In ten year, The
beds became so Impoverished that forty fisher.
men barely cked out subsistence from them,
Since tho LIST OF October IL, 70O,WO pounds of
leaf tobacco have been sold In Danville Vir.
GINA, ut an average Of So 50 per 100 pounds
For the same period the preceding year IL, 700 =
wv pounds were sold NJ $40 per lOD pounds,
MIR, Ailisons bill 10 provide for the constfuc.
tien OF the Illinois Il Mississippi canal and 10
cheapen transportation, authorizes the secretary
OF war 10 direct the survey laying out and con.
strrcuon OF canal from n point ON the Illinois
river at lennepin, 10 the Mississippi river. nj or
above Rock Island, with capacity Tor vessels of
80 tons, anu directs that work be- begun within
sX months AFTER the act goes into effect The
bill appropriates 5000 600
The Welland canal, Us improved now carries
~ ieet depth OF water throughout It's length. mn
mcteuse OF = ieet over the depth VI the old canal
Inis WIN nave marked effect on the commerce
OF the lowerlakes, Most of the vessels plyinr be,
tween ports ON Lake Ontario aud the upper lakes
nnu when are known as canal vessels" have d
Sarryihgcnpacity OF about ~ 900 bushels of grain
out tney nave hitherto been able tn carry only
about 1900 bushels through the old Wcland
c cn on Ten iect dranght They can henceiortl
SUa Iy iuil yargoes, Tho fleet now loaded a,
ysswvgo WIN coal Tor the upper lakes is taking
inc table below shows the OK por,s of ninLy,
farm products from New York for Tho wecl,
Cnutng on the unlpa unmnt, ''N VIVA