The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-01-05

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pick every boil oi cotton grown on the
plants, aud marketed al they required 10
meet their obligations and supply their I'm.
mediate wants. Further, they have been
able 10 bring tomarket their wood and veee.
tables, and other articles OF country pro-
duce, which have commanded fair prices.
In addition to all these, they have been
enabled TO seed their lands with wheat
aud oats, which are In as fine
and fourishing u condition as was ever seen
In Texas. and foreshadow an abundant
Yield next summer. From these facts and
indications II Ii fair to expect o prosperous
year In 1882 Our farmers and planters are
not tho only ones TO be benefited by these
cheering prospects. Our business men may
look forward to prosperous business, both
in the wholesale and retail lines. The
country west of us is rapidly filling up with
n thrifty, industrious. peoplo, new towns
rapidly, and the whole of Northern Texas
regards Dallas as the great commercial cen
tire and glories in her advancement and her
coming greatness. And in view of these
truths. Dallas cannot but rejoice in the
prosperity of all surrounding towns, and
whatever advances the interests of Corsi-
cana, Waco, Fort Worth, Nc.
Kinney Ter Terrell or oth in i sTavn %
towns whose prosperity but adds to her
own, fills the hearts of her people with
gladness. All are united in one grand
effort TO make North Texas "bloom and
blossom as the rose," the most prosperous
section of our whole country.
The growth of the sorghum industry in
Kansas is really extraordinary. In the past
has doubled, and it now amounts to 45628
acres. The crop last year was partially a
failure, yet the product was worth $l,754,-
74s, an average of nearly $50 an acre--much
better than most of the other crops did.
During the first six months of this year
the value of the Mexican products exported
to the United States through Piedras Ne
gras amounted to $l56,7S2.
1t is estimated that the domestic manu-
facture of steel rails during the coming
year will aggregate |, SOC, 900 tons, which, at
an average of $50 per ton, gives $50 ,0OO,00O
to be expended by United States railroads
in the steel-rail rolling-mills OF this coun-
try, besides the enormous amounts which
the roads will import.
A London firm has purchased from the
State of Mississippi 100000 acres of land,
mostly located IN the Yazoo delta, winch
will be colonized and cultivated.
There is a wax-nose factory at No. 2374
Third avenue, New York. They make
wax ears ALSO But" said enc Of the firm
lately, ''the demand for them is not large"
A San Francisco paper, noting the arrival
of steamer from England with cargo of
railroad iron, and her departure on the
home trip laden with wheat, prophesies
that, the venture being successful, the
way TO be emancipated from the thralldom
of the Pacific Railroads and steamship COM
panies.
DLLAs, December Sion the last day of
the year the HERALD cannot refrain from
congratulating the business men of this
city and of all the other towns surrounding.
as well as the people generally in North
Texas, on the prosperity which has at
tended them in 1881. While it is true the
severe and protracted drouth of the sum
mer caused great reduction in the yield OF
all the agricultural products, crops were far
from being failure, and sufficiency OF
the cereals and vegetables were secured
for home consumption and to spare. The
Gotten crop has proven better than it was
anticipated 1t would BIO when tho season
for picking arrived, and prices have been
remunerative to the planter. Our business
Men, when they shall have completed their
stock accounts and struck. their balances,
will find resume of their years
operations no doubt satisfactory, and
that their profits in trade. have been
as large or larger than in former years.
There have been , but na few
Texas during the last twelve months, and
they have generally, if not wholly, beon con-
fined to smaller operators, and who en-
barked in trade with inadequate capt.
tai. Not few business men who have been
compelled to succumb to the demands of
their creditors were swept out Of the legiti-
mate channels of trade by the tide OF specu-
lation. Not willing to wait the slow proc
lines of business, they dallied with tickle
Fortune, in the hope that she would smile
ON their efforts and fill their Golfers with
golden treasures. Inspired by this hope
they ventured out, only to realize that they
had lost their capital, their good business
name. and many of them their friends.
Outside of these few, the business men, OF
North Texas have prospered and grown
tenders its congratulations to them.
one and ALT, and wishes them q return OF
many, many happy new years
TIKI Chicago Times says the importance
Of rice as an article of food is but little APP
preciated in this country. The whole guam
tity imported duringt the year 1880 was only
about 46, O00,00 pounds, equivalent TO
about 1 500, 600 bushels of wheat, estimating
rice to contain twice as much nourishment
as wheat weight for weight. Rice is tho
staple food in India and Japan, and to a
very great extent in China. In fact, nearly
one-half the population of the globe sub
sist l4I rcly upol rlcS, on. 1A-sVl 10. "-sS.
is that rice is cheaper than wheat; But
in this country We lay duty OF 10 q
cents per pound upon rice, which is equiya-
lent to more than 95 per cent, for The
purpose of protecting the handful o. zee
Growers in one or two Southern States.
Hence. with us rice is almost an article OF
luxury. Besides the enormous censump-
ton off rice in India, there were exported
thence from January to October u, 1881,
no less than j ,74S, 400, 900 pounds, or thirty
eight times as much az was imported INTO
alone for ten months were equivalent TO
fully 81, 100000 bushels Of wheat. While
Europe has so large supply OF food TO
draw upon, our spectators need not be
surprised at their failure TO corner the food
stllffs markets Of Europe. The people on
the other side of the Atlantic are not likely
10 starve if we do not play Joseph with our
wheat.
ported. chiefly to England, in the year end
"a Jnne 30. 1851. was 1S5.7o7. valued at
Ala 800 .1o3. being an excess over the preyi-
ous wear Of 1851 In number and $s1OSs IN
value, ana almost $1,000 900 in value, above
o5e cubic foot Of lead ore weighs 474 /,
rounds: thus. . vein Of ealena, or lead ore.
one foot wide. six feet high and six feet
long fotherwire . fathom) viii produce |
eight tons Eve hundred and thirty-tvo |
rounds. or vein one aud one-hslf inches
vide viii net one ton Of ore per fafhom;
three inches wide, two tons; sfr inches
vide four tons.
A wear ago the ice was from four 10 ten
inches thick on the Hudson river, and the
ne men were busy filing their store-bouses.
Al fbe present time there IS no ice on the
Iinfro1, below Albany. The dealers are
beginning 70 talk about short crop and
,drnnced rrices next sumner. There Is
anxiety IN Chicago about the /
re- sr,I,nlv. lot pound has vet been cnt
.nrutere in the West OF Northwest; nor is
here any H,osgssi Of any , sss, ing, cut s. The