The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-17

to erect q mammoth barrel factory in that
city. The contracts for the rice crop alone
will require 100 600 barrels of30O pounds
| capacity.
The ice men of st. Paul are greatly exer-
cised to know where the ice is coming from
for next season.
steam fishing tug lifted four thousand
/ pounds of whitelish and trout from Lake
Michigan oil Ludington, one day last week.
During the last ten years the number OF
iron-Ore producing establishments in this
country has almost doubled, and the ton
I mage of the product has nearly trebed.
Miss Anna Grant, of Boone county, Mis-
| souri,, has woven 3O0SS yards of carpet
during 1881.
Great Britain employs in underground
occupations no fewer than 37S,l5l persons,
and the length of the galleries where the
mining is carried on is found to be IS, IA
miles The greatest depth of the coal mine,
is $500 feet below the level of the sea.
| The Wisconsin Central road carried six
thousand loggers into the woods early in
| winter an increase of one thousand over
the number sent last winter. These have
been cutting away, but the timber could
not be got out The amount of logs down
and to be hauled to the mills is immense.
| The statistical record of the silk manu-
facture in Paterson, n. j., for 1881 will show
a total production Of about $4,000 600 and
an operative force Of nrarly or quite 10, 900
employed in the silk business and its de-
tendencies of dyeing, supplies, etc.
Statistics show that in the last fiscal wear
| our grain exports exceeded our cotton in
value, the former being S269,93 IA, and
the latter $2i7 ,605,7lG, Third on the list
! came provisions, with value of $l5l ,52S,-
9S. The mineral exports were about
double those of tobacco the former being
S4O3l5, 800 to the others $40, SOS, 1874. The
sixth highest export was "live animals"
1t reached avalus of SIG, 1928 These half
| dozen classes comprise about tive-sixths of
| our total exports in value, our manufactured
articles falling below an aggregate of
hundred millions.
Among the most valuable resources Of
California is numbered that of quicksilver,
the production of which has, in a period of
thlrty-one years, from 1850 to 1880. inclu-
siye, amounted to ,l0709j TASKS. During
the same time there have been exported
from San Francisco by sea and by rail SiS,-
OH TASKS. The New Almaden mine pro-
duced in the given time 7l0,729 TASKS, and
the famous Almaden mine of Spain produc.
ed 9902,3sl The largest yearly total for
lhe New Almaden was III 1865, when i7.104
liaSks were produced, and the smallest
total was ,29i TASKS, in 1889. In 1880 this
mine produced 23465 TASKS, the to.
tai production of all the mines in
that year being given at 50 ,926 llasks,as fol.
lows: New Almaden, bags; New Idria
3,gO9; Redington, $780, Sulphur Bank, TO-
,u0i Guadalupe, G,670i Great Western, 6,4i2;
Pope Valley, 25;. Napa Consolidated 4,nG;
st. John, 492; Altoona, 2i5; Oakland, 1866;
California d2l; Great Eastern, 1879.
The Census Bureau ha. prepared a
stalei.:ent of the pine supply of Texas, coy
crlng lorty-two counties in the eastern nor
lion OF the State, mostly upon the waters of
the Sabine, Neches and Trinity rivers, and
Their numerous tributaries. The tables ey.
hibit the estimated supply of understandable
pune standing May 81, 1850, in each county,
from which we give the aggregate as fol.
lows;
No. feet,
~. board measure
Fifteen counties long lcaved pine, "a, sos 2no O
twenty-five counties, short-lcayed
Nineteen COUNTIES, lobiolly pine -. 2,sa;, ist,OsO
lo'al 81, sos, 800, o.
According to the above statement, Texas
contains over 10 000, 900, 900 feet more than
all the estimated supplies of four other
pine'timbcrcd States, exhibited ~ follows:
No. feet
board measure
hUls'lln no, ., llOfldN--
Thiry.tour counties long-lcavcd
Bulletin No. ., Aabama- 1900 '''''''' W
southern half OF State lonslcavcl
Bulletin No. T. Mississippi
southu stern half Of state, long.
lCaVCd pine ....,........... II 10 tUO O1O
bulletin No, :, Minnesota, '''O'V'O
Northeastern half of State, white
IhuN ''...t'. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., g. ltnQ 0,00l
ENccs, over all In Texas ....,.... 10 90 800 20
Texas, therefore, has over ten times the
amount Of understandable pine timber now
standing and growing in Minnesota.
The long.lcayed pine area in Texas is 10.
o.Scd upon the Sabin'aud NoChes rivers. in
| chc extreme portion OF the State, commen.
| ting about tilty miles from the Gulf of Mex.
! leo, extending northward about 200 miles
and westward from Sabine about 100 miles
| The short-loavcd lOblOlly and yellow pinr
area, with oak and other hardwood timber
mixed, lies west oi the long.lcaycd pine 70.
gion, extending from 80 miles north Of Gal.
weston, northward to the Red river, about
1N miles long by 100 to l2O miles wide. The
| region from which understandable pine has
been taken along the margin Of some or,tEc
streams is comparatively insignificant,
| showing that the lumber trade Of the Lone
| STAR state Is IN lis earliest infancy, and will
he something immense in future years nf
manhood, when ", OO0,NO,O0O of merchant.
able pine lumber shall have been stripped
! from lpr soil -