The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-20
TRADE ITEMS.

AwooDgs plate factory at Ncwbern North
Carolina can turn out 60O, coo week.
Tho express company OF Montgomery, mas
shipped during the past month lilo, opounds OF
During the first six months OF this year tho
government land office at Fargo disposed OF So,
/, y60 acres of land.
There were 81, 500 ol worth Of stamps and en-
veiopes sold at Tallahassee postolhce FOR me
| six months ending June 80
Tho business of the United States land,olco
at Gainesville for the first six months OF the
present year amounts to s75SOeO
| Excellent crop prospects are reported III me
! New England states, although the season Is
backward large amount of hay will be Sc
cured, and an immense apple crop Is expected.
| The Indianapolis post-uillce made return OF
more than sl0Neoo net proceeds for the year end
| INK June 90 1882
pleased with the Chinese Immigration bill, and
say It will be impossible TO raise fruit at profit
In that state without Chinese labor
: An ineXhaustlble mino OF corundum stone,
| the next hardest known substance to the dia-
mond, has been discovered In Butts county,
Georgia. II resembles the sapphire, Is slscepu-
| Bile of high polish, aud valuable In many ways.
| flower known rs the kalllesia Arnold, which
| Il over yard In diameter and weighs about
| fourteen pounds, IL now on exhibition at berlin;
| 1t Is the largest flower In the world and Is found
| 0 lly in lava and Sumatra
| very rich and extensive conl deposit has
been discovered on Deep creek, about forty
miles from Benton Montana territory stock
company, with capital stock OF $4,000, has
| been formed IN Benton To work II.
Mr.. George Lewis raises some line LeConte
| pears In his yard ut Tallahassee He had two
| IRON his trees few days ago one of which
measured 10 by l0h inches In circumference, and
the other II by llS, aud weighed thirteen
| pounds
A novelty in the shape OF n strawberry bed is
| to be seen NJ Wosthold, Massachusetts. 1t is u
hogshead filed with loan aud stones, and from
its sides are growing, from holes bored through
itltn In nv an
strawberry plants, bearing proius,on OF large,
luscious fruit
Asparagus, to obtain the highest price In the
New York market must bo bleachcd like celery.
TO make II white the earth il thrown oyer the
beds early In the spring, and tho stalks are cut
with II long knife 1t is known as white graIs,
and sells for twice as much rs that which grows
In the sun and Is called green grass
The work on the middle channel the Colum.
! bia river bar Ia progressing favorably and a
, depth of eighteen feet has been obtained, and il
! is intended TO increase II TO twenty.iour feet
: The south channel is filling up.
New York IL somewhat ngitated over light
supplies of pOtatoes-or mt least an advance from
"a TO 81 per Dbl The World says THE incon
, sstency between the receipts OF potatoes from
oil points and the prices they bring has given
rise TO the suspicion that there IL u strong specu
lative interest In potatoes that has succeeded in
. | creating corner"
D A huge pile Of coke. containing 10000 bush
els Is standing ut the corner OF the track ant
Delaware streets, Indianapolis. In producing
, this coke the gas company, In the six month,
ending June 20, manufactured 100000 cubit
, feet OF gas, Tho daily average is now S2J,oe
= feet
A petroleum pipeline constructed from tn,
Coban oil territory over tho Caucasus Noun
rains To Novoroszsk harbor, on the Black see
o coast, was opened May 81 This line Of pipe
0 which IL los miles long can deliver every da!
i. not leas than l000,OO0 pounds of petroleum.
| An oil mill In the new Warren county. Penn
h sylyania, ncld struck oil on thursday last anC
| al. ham
The casing was rs inches in diameter. such
Y tremendous flow will undoubtedly soon cxhaus
i the local reservoir, but nav deposits are bein.
q struck almost daily.
n At the convention of cotton-secd Crushers lat
Y week in New York. statistics were gwen show
r INK that the export of oil from the states TO
7. the season OF lS167I 39,2sl barrels lSl-1S, 9s
a 35i barrels; iS7S.79 III Gas barrels lS0SO III,
2il barrels; lssO.si, AZ EOS barrels, whileexpora
+. ton from September /. 1881. TO June y lssa wa
ii only II, 79S barrels,
In Virginia vine'growlng has become prom
lnent industry. II was commenced in 1863 b
two Germans on favorably located hsides OF IT,
A Blue Ridge range, and the crops were dispose
i OF In New York ny 1877 these pioneers wer
~ producing nearly 5000 gallons Of wine annu
" ally. Last year they had thirty, acres vi
a der cultivation, and turned out 5000 gallon
/, This year they expect 10 make out Of their ow
" grape crop, combined with those of neighborin
!, vineyards, from $40 10 10000 gallons The tw
y counties OF Nelson and Alberinsrlc at proLei
|, nually,
~ Theirs ia considerable excitement at Gloucc
~ ter, Massachusetts among tho fishery owner
:" aud fishermen, caused by u threatened iunov
n ton OF MISUNDERSTANDING Preparations are b
~ ing made 10 put Tivcrton, Rhode Islam
70 steamer into the catching, the fish to be man
N, featured into oil aud guano and diverted fro
" their use rs food. There are 100 menhad,
steamers, and II the experiment is successful
l., will engage in m0ckcro catching. The emplo
W mcnt OF these steamers has undoubtedly driy,
OF the menhaden, aud the same effect will
produced on the mackercl, There is n goner
feeling that stringent laws should be ut once c
A., acted for the protection of the mackctel fisher
!" which gives employment TO thousands and is
N important food Industry,
!" The United States is the greatest raisin co
M suming country In the world, and uses annu
~ " moro raisns than the whole of EuroI
a. This market Is mainly supplied from Spain, l
~ ~. raisins known at "Mnlagas' being consider
y" the best. They come from acompnrauvoly NJ
20 row strip of country in the south OfSpnin, viii
N.Y. has hitherto been regarded as surpassi
all other regions for raisi
Of that character The ann,
o., yield OF Malaga grapes averages 1850 geo box
M ot twenty pounds each. II sometimes reach
'"' boxes were marketed. OF this enormous vi,
a, the United States takes fully one. half on viii
,,a 1t pays u duty-as ON MI other ralsins-of I
", aud half cents per pound The AmcriC
~ ialsins are oil made from white grape,
NV "Muscat OF Alexander" 10 the raising OF VIII
:, the soil and climate of q large portion Of G,
o ", fornla are well adapted.
TN WOOL AND HIDES.
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Us 90 THERE Is stu a fair business done hero
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