The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-08
TRADE ITEMS.

TRADE ITEMS.
During period of less than thirty years
the mines of Lake Superior have produced
over $50, 900 tons of ingot copper, which re-
present. value ofnot less than ;l55, 100000.
One thousand dollars has been set ASIDE
by the sslson-kecpers of Ell Paso to resist
any prosecution for their selling liquor on
Sunday.
Mrs, Mary b. WEIGH, who has charge of
the experimental skitchen ut the state agri-
cultural school, has Just started cooking
school in Des Moines.
The Bee-kecpers' convention in Utica.
New York, 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 1856 races Iun during the
season of 1881, and the gross amount Of
money that changed hands was S9S7. PSI, of
which SSll,03j was won in the United
States.
A German inventor has succeeded in
solditying petroleum with soap wort. BY
the addition Of carbolc acid the oil again
becomes liquid, Small quantities Of wheat
gluten will, it is said, have the same effect.
The ice on Wa-hoe Lake, Nevada. is so
thick that between it and the mud on the
bottom there is hardly any room for the cat
fish to wigsle their tails
Six hundred partridges in boxes, shipped
from Danvllc, Virginia, arrived in vii.
minston, Delaware, last week for the Della
ware Game association, which is trying to
iestock that state.
Choice 1870 and 1880 whi,kies have adj.
vanced . cents per gallon IN Louisville
within the last week, and tn. market is
still advancing A letter from that city
says There has been very brisk demand
during the week for the popular brands Of
1850 soods-both sweet and sour mash, and
there is also an improved feeling in 1875,
owing 10 the important part they will play
in the trade during the coming season.
The new Almaden quicksilver mine OF
California has produced 7l0,720 TASKS since
1859. The great falling of in the demand
for quicksilver for the gold mines has had a
depressing effect on quicksilver mining, as
1t can be laid down in New York from Flu.
rope cheaper than from San Francisco. The
European production comes cheaper from
Spain and Austria.
American capital continues to find ready
employment in developing Mexican re-
sources. Ex-Governor K c. Mccormick,
OF Arizona, is said to be investing heavily
i'll coffee estates, DIR. Wise, of Virginia,
and others are engaged in Colonizing the
Shepherd and others are developing the
mining interests of the northern states of
the republic.
Mineral tanned feather is impervious' to
water and is said to be much moro 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 tannorics in Germany.
Mr.. Calvin Fletcher, the commissioner Of
fisheries for Indiana, saws that 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 e1.
perlments having come quickly
Tho length of the shafts and galleries in
the Comstock mines OF Nevada, Is 80 miles.
During the twenty years just closed $780,.
1000 tons of waste rock have been hoisted,
l,I5O,WOO00 tons of water pumped to the
surface, and the net result OF all this work
was S325, 100000 IN bullion.
A statement is going about among
the newspapers. SAYS the North.
western Zimmerman, that the
Michigan parties, who, 1t Is said,
lately bought 1000 acres OF Louisiana pine
lands, are holding them ut Sl25 per acre.
The possibilities of the lumber business Of
Louisiana are immense, II must he ncknowl.
| edged, now that Texas and Mexican rail.
road schemes are likely 10 become more
than paper projects, but Il will hardly iu,.
tiiy such high figure as the Michigan
spectators are alleged to have placed ON
| their lands
Mr.. L, Sicmcns proposes to adnp, tough.
cned glass TO the manufacture of street
lamp posts, wnicr mains aud other articles
usually made of cast iron. Ills claim for
| glass Is that II is stronger than iron, Il IL
imnerishablc and incorrodiblc. The profit
to the maker is twice that Of cast iron, but
the specific. gravity of glass is so much les,
than that east iron that the consumer will
be able to obtain articles at about 30 per
cent, cheaper than east iron.
According to the secretary Of the manu-.
featuring chemists association OF the
United States, the capital invested IN the
chemical industry IL SIS ,0Oo, 900. the annual
production is worth tlis,0oO.OO0; the mum.
her OF manufacturing establishments Is
,JtB, using GD,0o0 tons of coal and EN-.
ploying 5000 working people. whose
wages amount TO $1,000, 200 a year.
The Portage lake copper mines have pro.
dnced in round tons, since their opening, as
follows: