The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-24
TRADE ITEMS.

Turtle eggs are Eold in Tampa, Fla, for
ten cents per dozel.
Tea raising. is among the latest expert
menis in south Mississippi.
| Black walnut logs are being shipped from
Texas TO England via New Orleans.
During May 1867. acres OF land were
sold in Spokan county. W. 7, by the rail.
road company.
The stoves used In the United States cost
81 a head each year; in 1910 they did not
cost over cents head.
Stra Sberries are being sent In large quati-
ties from 81. Louis to Denver, Leadville, and
other places In Colorado.
An attempt to raise prairie chickens in
large numbers will be made In Bedford ooun.
ty. Pennsylvania. this summer.
English capitalists are planning to run
line OF steamers to Newport News;
An English firm have bought eight
hundred acres of land In Green county,
Kentucky for the purpose of mining fire
clay.
Japan has the cheapest postal service In
the world. Letters are conveyed all over
the empire for 2 sen-about II cents
Over ten thousand telephone poles have
been shipped from Murfreesboro, Tenn,
and contracts are QUITO as many more
The European steamers which left New
York Saturday took out ll0,552 letters and
23i bags of newspapers
The value of the orchard crops OF Florida
twelve years ago were estimated at about
10000. To-day Sl50O,00) would hardly
buy them.
Some of the wells and springs at Santa
Barbar, Cal, which have been yielding
water for upward OF thirty years are run.
ming dry.
Colorado sends 10 California for nine
tenths OF the honey her people consume.
Yet bees do az well in Colorado az Ia Cali.
tornia
A plate OF glass was cast at the glass
wOrksin DE Pauw, n few days ago, fifteen feet
in length and eleven feet three inches In
width
Judging from receipts at Key West thus
far, over fifty thougand pine apples will be
shipped north from the port OF Key West
this year.
Tho Admission (Ala.) cotton factory recn.
tly shipped 600 bales of cotton goods to
China, and has orders for several more
large bills for the same market.
| New Orleans commerce for the first five
months OF this year exceeds last years by
over $ll 900 ,OOO-an increase Of nearly q
third.
Al Tucson, A. r., California cherries
sell Tor 20 cents por pound, apiicots %
cents, peaches 80 cents plums IS cents.
During the year ended May 3lst last
there were ,277 vessels entered at Port
Townsend, W. T., the aggregate tonnage
being 100000 tons, exclusive OF coastwisc
vessels.
Beet root sugar Is now admitted to be
qu 10 distinct from cane sugar. Its sweet
, en- lg power 10 80 per cent. lower ut least,
Dut Its polarizing power IN greater.
| 1t IL SAID that thousands Of people us
inc Qlppul m UurInn r. unInr thn Inn
sion that they ARE using dairy butter"
New Bedford, Mass, has changed from a
town OF small manufacturing interests a
few years ago to the third city In the
United States In number of spindles, hay
ing 4t0,iOO spindles, against $4,000 nine
years ago.
During tho first weeks run of the Peta
luna fruit cannery 1900 cans of goose
berries and q ,OCJ cans Of cherries were put
up. There are sixty women and girls and
thirty six white men employed.
A piece of oystor-ground oil Milford
Conn, containing six hundred acres, has
been sold to parties In California, who have
been shipping seed oysters quite extensive.
~ to that coast to plant in San Francisco
bay.
SHOOK" mills for manufacturing sugar
hogsheads are multiplying In Oregon coun
ty, Virginia, and hoop.polls have consti
tuted tremendous Industry during the
winter and spring.
Excessive heat has caused the death OF
all the fish In Lake Merritt. near Oak land
CAL, the water becoming 80 warm tina,
they could not stand II.
AT present there Is over 5000, 900 worth
OF opium In the Appraisers store, In San
Francisco recently landed from steamers
from China.
Last year over $4,000 pounds of ostrich
feathers were sent to England from Capt.
toun, tho value OF the feathers being over
100000, II Ia said that the total is seven
iold what the total was ton years ago.
The city of Newark, N. j., contains |, 90
factories, with ~ 232 workmen. The capi
tai invested is 81, 0l0, li5, aud the annual
sales foot up $G6,235, 525. The population
Ia 1880 was l36, 100. showing that nearly
one'fonrth of the entire population are EN-
J ployed In the factories.
The run Of salmon on the lower Colum
hia has constantly increased OF late, About
: $500 mon arc employed among the forty
canneries on tho river, and, possibly, ,5ot
fishing boats are engaged. The prospects
Tor good season are very encouraging.
a The government method prescribed ioi
cleaning brass, and In use ut tho United
States arscnals, is claimed to be the best In
, the world. The plan IL TO make mixtur,
of ono part common nitric acid and one
hall part sulphuric acid IN stone jar, hav
ing also ready pail Of fresh water and 4
box of sawduSt. The articles to be treatat
are dipped into the water and finally
rubbed with sawdust. This Immediately
changes them to brilliant color. II til,
brass has become greasy, II is first dippct
in strong solution OF potash and soda II
warm water. This cuts the grease 80 tina
the acid has free power to act