The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-29
TRADE ITEMS,

TRADE ITEMS.
THERE is talk at Brockton, Massachusetts,,
about a tooth pick factory. to make seventy
thousand picks an hour.
Since 1874 the increase of cultivated area
in Kansas has been & us, 200 acres, or about
100000 acres OF, raw prairie broken up
every year.
New York State produces about one
third of the petroleum OF America, and
Allegheny county produces two-thirds of
that onc-third
A Montana paper says that the catch
OF buffalo robes will be larger this season
than it has been for years, providing the
Indians do not get the smallpox.
The match company organized in Water
town, New York, last fall, has sold out to
the match combination, and the projectors
realized Il handsome bonus for not pro-
cseding with their enterprise.
Mexico is pattern country for protec-
tionists. The duties on clothing range
from 50 to l3J per cent. Buggies pay 132
per cent, some other carriages 396per cent,
and so on.
Simply from lack of remunerative bust
ness, six fire insurance companies of New
York, have within the past five weeks, re-
tired from the field.
Parties lately rugged up a dredging appa-
ratus at Olympia, w. r., and proceeding
down the bay to deep water, commenced
operations, and succeeded in finding some
of the largest oysters yet found on Puget
Sound
A lot of 10000 white-iish eggs. shipped
from Worthwhile, Michigan, to San Fran.
CISCO was by some accident detained on the
journey, and, being kept in warm car. the
fish Matched out, and only about one.iifth
of the quantity shipped has been saved.
A plan is on foot in Elmira New York.
to introduce a number OF savings banks in
the public schools, after the system popular
in France and Belgium.
Mr.. Plumb proposes an amendment to
the Constitution prohibiting the manuiac-
ture, importation, and sale of all distilled
and tcrmented liquors as beverage in any
portion of the United States and Terrific
ries.
Many the illuminated buoys in the
English channel are ted by gas. They burn
for six weeks and day or two before the
supply is exhausted they are filled again by
a tender. These lights neyergo out even in
the stormiest weather.
The Hudson river, between Troy and
Germantown, is now the scene of operations
of an active crowd of men cutting the ice
and slowing II i'll the numerous houses that
dot either bank of the river. 1t is stated
that 1,loJ,OOO IONS will be requr ed to I'LL
the houses.
Mr., Willctts, venerable citizen of
| Michigan, appeared at Washington before
the House Committee on Railroads and
Canals, and presented a scheme for a ship
canal from Saugatuck to Detroit, utilizing
the waters Of Kalamazoo river. lie claims
that only eight locks will be required, and
that the distance from Chicago to Liverpool
| will be shortened over 800 miles, mt cost
of S5,000000
Mr.. Moneys bill regulating postage on
second class mail matter at lctter.carier
Offices was unanimously ordered to he re-
ported lavorably to the House. This pro-
vdes that hereafter the rate of postage on
second class publications deposited IN the
| letter carriers office for delivery by the car
riers of the Office shall he uniform ut . cents
pound This bill, if passed, will prove of
| great OehGht to al newspapers having u
large local mail delivery,
Swiss agriculturists are suffering from
the manufacture in their own country of
wines out of water and raisins, and their
sale us native Swiss yintageS.-
Poplar wood in considerable quantities is
being shipped from Rockrdge county, Nir-
| ginia, to Philadelphia, at so per cord, to be
converted int6 paper.
Coates Brothers Philadelphia Wool Cir
cular of January l6 says "Since the first
of the year there has been fair trade
mostly, however, in fine tlccces, which are
now in but small supply. Coarse woods are
in poor demand and very dull OF sale, al.
though the stock is not large. Combing
and delaine still keep well sold up, with
the exception of coarse, long-stapled woods
of the Canadian description. Territory
woods are quiet and the demand light, ev-
cept for the finer grades. Colorado and New
Mexico are firmly held, but there Is not
much doing just now. We anticipate n
good trade for most descriptions of wool, at
about present quotations. The account of
stock taken on the first of the year showed
| the quantity on hand in all the seaboard
markets considerably less than year ago,
Notwithstanding the fact that the clip of
1881 was %,0o0,0oO lbs. larger than that of
the previous year"
At the quarry, near Castleton, Vermont,
about thirty-iive workmen produce $1,000
slate-pencils daily, and 1t Is proposed TO In.
crease the daily output to 100000 The
blocks when quarried, are sawed into pieces
seven by twelve inches, split to the thick
ness of halfinch, and smoothed by n
planer, the block is placed under semi.
circular knife, and, after having been turned
over, the process Is repeated. A particle of
quartz IN the block would break all tho
pencils. They are pointed by grindstone
turned, assorted, and sent to market In
boxes of u hundred
The number of persons engaged in the
oyster industry in the census year. the
! product and its value, are shown In tho
following table, the figures of which
must, we suppose, be taken only as approx.
innate:
No OF Bushels Value of
| persons ofoystcrs oysters AS
v employed produced. sold
| Mulhv s,s.,"., 10 ...... So, 500