The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-02-09
TRADE ITEMS.

During period of less than thirty years
the mines of Lake Superior have produced
over 100000 tons of ingot copper, which r.
presents value ofnot less than $l5|O0O,0 90
one thousand dollars has beem set ASIDE
by the sal0On-keeperS OF In PaSo to rC-is
any prosecution for their selling liquo OH
Sunday.
Mrs. MARI y. Welch, who has CHI rye Of
the experimental .kitchen at the sta agri-
cultural school, has just started cooki-,g
school in Des Moines.
The Bee-keepers convention in Utica,
New York, a few days since, appointed a
detective committee to prowl around among
the bees next summer, and find out what
members of the fraternity are guilty OF
m king glucose with their honey
There were 1,756 races Jun during the
season of 1881. and the gross amount of
money that changed hands was S0S7 ,2S4, of
which $Sll 1875 was won in the United
States.
A German inventor has succeeded in
solidifying petroleum with soap wort. By
the addition of carbolic acid the oil again
becomes liquid. Small quantities of wheat
gluten will, it is said, have the same effect.
The ice on Washoe Lake, Nevada, is so
thick that between it and the mud On the
bottom there is hardly any room for the cat
fish TO wiggle their tails.
Six hundred partridges in boxes, shipped
mington, Delaware, last week for the Della
ware Game association, which is trying to
Iestock that state.
Choice 1879 and 1880 WHISTLES have adj
vanced cents per gallon N Louisville
within the last week, and the market is
still advancing. A letter from that city
says: There has been very brisk demand
during the week for the popular brands Of
1880 goods-both sweet and sour mash, and
10 alg i'm, in,
owing to the important part they will play
in the trade during the coming season.
The new Almaden quicksilver mine of
California has produced 7l0729 TASKS since
1859. The great falling of in the demand
Ior ouicksii ,ar for the gold mines has had a
depressing eileC: On, quicksilver mining, as
il can be laid down in New York from Eu-
rope cheaper than from San Francisco. The
European production comes cheaper from
Spain and Austria.
Mineral tanned leather is impervious. to
water and is said to be much more durable
than leather prepared in the ordinary man
ner Tests have been made which show
that belts of mineral tanned leather are not
only 80 per cent. cheaper, but are stronger
than common belts. The mineral process
of tanning is reported TO have been intro
duced into eight tanneries in Germany.
Mr. Calvin Fletcher, the commissioner OF
fisheries for Indiana, says iAat ten years
hence there will be 5000 carp ponds in
that state. The rage for carp ponds is great
in the southern states, success in recent ex-
periments having come quickly.
Tho length of the shafts and galleries in
the Comstock mines of Nevada, is $50 miles.
During the twenty years just closed 5JO;-
900, 900 tons of waste rock have been hoisted,
! ,75O,OOOOO0 tens Of water pumped 10 the
surface, and the net result OF all this work
was 1925 900. 600 In bullion.
4 statement is going about among
the newspapers, SAYS the North
western Lumberman, that the
parties, who, it is said,
lately bought II 900 acres OF Louisiana pine
lands, are holding them at Sl25 per acre.
The possibilities of the lumber business Of
Louisiana are immense, il must be acknowl-
edged, now that Texas and Mexican rail-
road schemes are likely 10 become more
than paper projects, but il will hardly jus
tify such a high figure as the Michigan
SPECTATORS are alleged to have placed on
their lands.
Mr.. y. siemens proposes TO adapt tough
aued glass 10 the manufacture Of street
lamp posts, water mains and other articles
usually made Of cast iron. His claim for
glass il that il is stronger than iron, II j.
and incOrrOdible. The prOhi
10 The maker is twice that Of cast iron, but
ihe specific gravity Of glass is 50 much less
han that Of cast iron that the consumer will
be able 20 obtain articles at about 30 per
,ent. cheaper than cast iron.
According 20 the secretary Of the manu-
-acfurinR chemists association Of the
-nited States, the capital invested IN the
.hemical industry IL SIS .Oo,00i the annual
production il worth slis. 10000 the num-
ler Of manufacturing establishments b
sis. using 5000 tons Of coal and EN-
lioring 5000 working people, whose
rages amount 20 si2.OD0.O0 year.
The Portage lake copper mines have pro
lucel in round tons since their opening, az