The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-04
TRADE ITEMS.

.,C9t 40 iiuCH CahHcu salmon as they dlu
The Havana tobacco crop is small and
the. quality poor,
! Newark manufacturers, S6G, 9S5, 76G in 1880,
show a growth of one.third in ten years.
Ice dealers are harvesting splendid ice at
Lake Calhoun, Minneapolis very nearly
two feet in thickness.
The electric light is to be tried in Bristol,
England, and the tidal motion OF the Avon
ana the Severn is to provide the necessary
! motive power.
1T isl low estimate that $500, 900 damages
nave been done by the floods in Tennes-
see
The Rockford Grape Sugar COMPANY
purposes to increase its capital stock TO
sleoU0O, or more, and double its producing
capacity.
There has been used in the construction
OF the cable road in Chicago. 5000 900
pounds OF iron and 500 tons of steel rails.
IL is remarkable that not single bushel
OF grain was carried from New York to Eu
rope last year in an American vessel
" UO,sOO stock company for coal and
IRON mining in Tennessee has taken ont
articles of incorporation i'm Kansas. md
VIII have It's general business Office at
Wyandotte.
LllaG.buds at indianapolis are coming ont
nis ana green enough to he badly nipptd by
the FIRST cold snap. This is Il pretty iump
Tor spring
a bee culturist at Somanauk, De Kqlb
county, Iowa, had thirty colonies of bees
last spring, which produced thirty-nine adj
dltlonal colonies aud thirty-live hundred
pounds of honey.
A Mrs, Fishers house, three miles from
dublin, Georgia, is a pepper bush that Ina,
been Kept through the winter for twenty.
three years 1t is about twelve feet hirb
bears fruit every year, and seven thousand
pods have been gathered this year fully
ripened. '"''
Thousands of bushels of beans hay. been
imported this year from Germany. The
whole world seems to be contributing in
one way or another to the happiness of the
The Milwaukee water department OK.
pended last year $l0O,l3j for construction
ana $50, us for maintenance. The total
amount of waterpipc noH laid in the CITY
OF Milwaukee is 1925 feet. or % 10 miles
The Mormon authorities are reported as
stating that the magnificent white granite
temple at Salt Lake will be completed In
seven years 1t has already cost several
million dollars and is not yet much more
than halt finished.
During the past twelve months SSiOOo0
have been invested in real estate in Seattle
w. l., In tho same time three thousand
ieet OF sewer have been put in and about
mile and a half Of sidewalk laid
In 1881 there were made in this country
i,5OO,UUO gross tons OF plg-iron The produc.
ton has nearly doubled in three wears five
years ago it was zoos, 236 net tons. In 1881
the production of steel rails was 100000
gross tons, against 55039S in 1873, and 40.
ADJ in 1876. In addition, 500, 600 gross tons
OF iron rails We're made, against 322,s9O in
IN 1873, and 46l, 10 in 1856
The last quarterly report of tho state
board OF agriculture Of Kansas contains
statement Of the number of acres Of timber
planted and growing in the state, other
IMAM he native forests. The statement i,
made by counties, and and tho totals ap.
pear as follows; Walnut 1886 acres; ma
pie, 6,i53; honey locust, l2l5; cottonwood.
3olOS; e'age orange, 6l7; catslpa 7sS; other
varieties, Ss,763.
German emigration in the year 1882
promises to become even more colossal
than in the past year. Already sbsut
fourteen thousand tickets have been taken
by vessels leaving Bremen alone in the |
early spring for the United States, and |
every day additional passages are being
booked by that route, This doe. not in. |
olude Hamburg whence an almost equal |
number OF emigrants will come to this side |
Of the Atlantic.
The lead product of the carbonate district
OF Colorado was so much larger last wear |
than In 1850 that the prices obtained FOR |
TINS metal cannot fail TO surprise all Two |
years ago the entire lead consumption OF
the country was estimated at less than 90. |
600 tons. During the calendar year lust |
closed there were shipped from Lsadyille |
alone, in base bullion, 20, l0l tons OF lead |
There were also shipped 1900 ton. of ore
which, at the lowest estimate, contained |
1000 tons Of lead, swelling the shipment, 10 !.
~, l0l, and for the entire state not les, than |
$1,000 tons.
The success attending the experimental, |
cultivation OF sorghum sugar.cane in New |
Jersey has led number of PHILADELPHIA |
capitalists TO form u company for growing |
the cane on large scale. This cofnp,ny
which is said TO have a capital OF $50 600 |
h as purchased tract of land containing |
: 600 acres, ut Rio Grandc station, on The |
west Jersey railroad, about six miles from |
cape hay, and during the coming sum. |
mer VIII put from 1000 to 100 acres under |
cultlvatisn', The average yield OF cane so |
far obtained by the south Jersey farmer, |
has not exceeded five tons to the acre, With |
twenty bushels of seed.
lho Boston Commercial Bulletin saws. |
~ ussa prevalent theory in the trade last |
spring and summer that there would be no |
increase, in the wool crop of the United
states for the year 1881 IL. wa, asserted
that the severe winter Of lSSs.Sl had caused /
such heavy losses Of sheep IN the territories
ana Texas, and other sections, A. 10 OFFSET
any natural enchantmcnt that might other.
wise occur IN the production Of wool. Tho
trade now finds, however, that the theory I'm
question was mistaken one, and thatthc
wool crop of the country did increase nbout
sdOO,OOO pounds In 1851 These irurcsnre
ah estimate generally accepted by MGR.
chants and manufacturers. The enchsnt.
ment occurred principally in the states pnd
territories IN which wool is sho,n and ali
IN an unwa'hcd condition, but the propor.
ton OF grease and ,lirt In such wool. Nn.
certainly to greater In 1851 than l.SO -
In 1870 Arizona had less than 10000 in.
of this numncr the Meyirnns
constituted about onC.halr To-day Ari.
IONA has. Il. population of over 5000. thp
increase being entirely American,
Inc cultivated area In Kansas for ISL wos
n little less than lO.OOO,nOO acres whicb
yclued products valued at SDi, 300 900. Add
To lhis the products of lave stock md h,rs
ana the increase In value Of farm animals
rom 1850 to 1851, which together amount to
,VD more, and VIZ have a grand totnl
ol tlsJWQ,VO In round numbers To r.t.rc.
scht the Kansas farmers dividend last yrnr
which is not bad showing, considcring ih,
VISITATION OF drouth and chinch.bugs orcr