The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-01
TRADE ITEMS.

STRAWBERRY vines are in bloom in an
open field in Hamblin county, Tennessee.
The total product of iron ore in the Lake
Superior region in 1881 was 1921 ,3l5 gross
| tons. The production in 1880 was LOST, 59s
tons.
1t is stated that the De Lesseps canal
company's second call of % per cent,
amounting to Sl50OO,000, has been paid in
lull at Paris.
During the year that has Just closed, Las
Vegas has shipped five and half million
pounds Of wool.
The Calumet and Hecla copper mine has
paid to date $40, $4,000 in dividends. The
property is on Lake Superior, Michigan,
and consists OF several contiguous veins OF
ore and native copper. It's owned by Bos-
ton capitalists.
a recent letter from a Florida orange
grower speaks Of thousands of oranges w.
ing under the trees useless, from a new
freak Of nature which splits the fruit on the
trees, thus spelling them. This new diff
Guilty Is generally attributed to the summer
drought.
A telegram from Melbourne, dated Jsnu-
airy Z, states that the total exports from
Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, and Queens.
land to Great Britain for the past month
have BEEN Wool, $4,000 bales; tsllow,
100 casks copper, 800 tons; copper ore
2,lOO TONS wheat, $4,000 quarters; flour,
$500 tons tin, $4,000 ingots.
The Atlanta Georgia. Constitution thinks
hat, under an memorable pressure that is
beyond the reach ofintluence or argument,
the plantations will split into small farms
and small farmers will take the place of
large planters. The same causes that
sliced nearly seventy thousand farms from
the Georgia plantations in the ten years
preceding 1850 will cut Off as many more
between now and 1890.
The coming raspberry for family use an
pears to be Skaters colossal, 1t is n chance
seeding, and originated in Monroe county,
New York. The bushes grow eight or ten
feet high, and the berries are very large
Their color is not attractive, and on this ac-
count 1t is thought they will not sell well
in the mar et. They are admirable for
cooking and canning purposes,
The Indiana bureau Of statistics has COM
piled comparative statement of the hay
crop for the last three years, which shows
the total number OF tons produced in ISIS
II have been 1850 $685. in 1870, ,O0l ,Oa9; in
1850, l,2l79t2; total for three years, 3, 4Os,-
$50 tons, The average value, on the basis
OF prices in 1880, was sli, 100, $40 annually.
Several persons desire seed of upland rice
1t is understood that the national depart
ment Of agriculture have a small quantity
OF the Japan variety for distribution. Hon
j. ID, Cation, of Ottawa, ILL.,, has raised some
on his farm in La Sale county. A variety
OF upland rice has long been raised in the
southern states, but It is not likely that il
would do well this far north.
a good yield OF Cranberries at Cane Cod
is hundred barrels per acre. Single rods
have yielded over barrel, NJ the rate of
nearly 700 barrelsper acre. Unfortunately
very few acres yielded any such amount
this year, MS the "sun.scald' of the very
warm days in September and the freeze
during the first of October largely reduced
the crop where the "tre-worm" had not al
ready destroyed It.
number of English coal mines are being
worked under the ocean. In Northumbor.
land the net avail liable quantity of coal nm.
der the sea Is estimated at 100000 900 tons
ana on the Durham coast under the sea. in
cluding breadth of three and a half miles
with an area Of seventy.one square milo,
13i,5Oo.0oO tons, The latter mine Is in A
vein OF aggregate thickness of thirty feet
distributed in six seams. Engineers are
considering how II can be successfully
worked In the future.
The consumption of tobacco in Mexico,
where everybody Is smoking--the stylish
senorita In her reccption.room as well ns
the naked Indian boy Of five summers--is
immense In the principal factory at Orr.
zaoa moro than IL 10000 packages, each
containing thirty cigarettes, were manu-.
featured during the last year. and more
than l2,0OO,Do cigars LEFT the same build.
ing.
Two thousand two hundred and forty.
four steamboats,, with an aggregate ton.
mage OF 49, 23 tons, arrived In New Orleans
during the past year, and 500 barses with
an aggregate tonnage OF l03, 2jD tons, Tho
TONNAGE of the stpufn ghfpa nrr,,.,,.. IA. 49,