The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-11-29
TRADE ITEMS.

The cost of assessing property in Texas
| this year was $147 600.
The Los Angeles -four mill uses crude Pc
| troleum for fuel.
! The sugar product OF louisiana SHOWS
| falling off of about thirty-three per cent. on
| last years crop.
Southern terrapns ara selling In New
York at $40 dozen, and diamond-backs at
$50. ;.
manufacturing industries gain Of lUU per
cent. in five years, and Alabama has 'So,-
100000 in the iron production.
A man in Sampler county, tennessee
has gathered 900 bushels of hickory nuts,
| which he proposes to sell.
The council OF Galveston have appointed
| a wood inspector. Dealers are requireu W
have their wood measured and inspected py
this official.
Within few weeks firm at Darlington
has shipped nearly two hundred tons 80 OF
buffAlo bones, for which they receive $lO q
ton. From 50 cents TO 81 pair are pald
for horns.
A farmer of Stewart county, Tennessee,
thinks the present tobacco crop oil the slate
will be two cents better in price ana TWO
cents better in quality than last year
Digging out tsrantulas and their nests
has become quite an INDUSTRY IN Sa .au
Barbara, California. The insects are SUMO
Gated with gas, then stuffed, dried ana last
ened to a card. The retail price is 5O cents
each, but many hundreds are sold whole
sale for SO or 81 per dozen. ,.,,
i. ]. Ro.e, of San Gabriel, California,
raised 800 tons of grapes this year Whlc9,
at 500 a ton. yielded him S36 OO0 from one
vineyard. His orange crop pc solu Ior
| $50 600 With horses, cattle ana other pro-
duets the gross income from Mr.. Roses
sunny slope farm came to very nearly 9lVo,-
| GEO this wear. .
Havana tobacco which formerly found its
WAY to California by way ofNeW 1orB, is
now shippe hither aud goes west over the
Morgan road, in bond. Every Alealnshlp oi
the Morgan line that arrives, brings al least
SIX carloads OF the weed.
Dealers in sauerkraut all over the coun-
try agree in the solemn announcement that
the native American Is becoming iona OF
the national dish OF Germany. Lager'peei
has already weli-nigh completed the con
quest OF the globe, but 1t mas not peen sup
posed that saueikraut was destined toa Jul
yersal dominion.
The speculators in raw rubber are max
ing a desperate effort to keep up the prices
but in spite of all they can do the tendency
of the market is steadily downward. Pres
ant supplies are abundant, and new sources
are opening up, so that it will be impossl
bic TO prevent the prices from reacnihI
their legitimate level. On c;,,
| a
Derrick, govern matters OF petroleum, ane
the end may not be yet, but there are mol
! cations that the top is in sight; but thess
Indications mag not be OF any moment ant
turn out very will-o' .the.wisp to thos'
who are guided by them. Rehned ma
: again advanced TO 8 cents. and as long o
3 tnis little indicator keeps going forward
: lust so long there will be nrm advancing
and well-sustained market"
The canning factory at independence
: Kansas, having worked up the tomato an
: apple crops, Is now canning pumpkins
] close out the season Of vegetables. w
. nave not the ngures, Dus me anIyuI
i canned is simply lmmenie, ana has give
9 employment 10 a large force. IL is one
5 tLa nrosnerous institutions OF our city, AM
e mas Maid ont thousands OF dollars for tina
: which in wears past, brought in no cash.
\ The effect of increased telegraphic facil
e ties on our foreign trade has been remark
T ed upon by a prominent eastern journal
: Ii finds that formerly when telegraph
7 communication was not so gem RAJ as nov
7 there were wide variations Ia the amour
! oi imports In different months Of the year
AT times, a decade or more ago, the max
0 mum exceeded the minimum imports Tor
month as much as so, 600, 600 In year. .
8 la,e the variations have been smaller, an
e nrior 10 september, the lowest month 10
!. more than a year, had been only ANU
$4,000 900 behind the highest month.
The taxing value Of the shipping Interest
!. oftbe United Kingdom, III semi-ofhciall
stated. represents a capitalized value
GOO 600 900, or about $500 10000 Amer
can currency. This colossal sum MAKE
tbe control Of the worlds mercantile con
a merce exercised by the British DsviEatio
Il interests quite COMPREHENSIVE. These u
= n rests have besn carefully Durtured, Il
. tered and sustained BY the commercial p
- icv ~ the empire for generations. a poll
!. hat Il worthy OF emulation BY our ov
): government