The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-01-18
GEO. ]. KRATIE0
Kansas uty. Special Partner.

Tor $4,000 sectlon.hives of what are
known as ''pure-bred" swarms OF bees. mis-
industry is rivaling the leading business OF the
Champlain valley, viz: Spanish meriho sheep-
breeding.
Five thousand cranberry cuttings from the
east will be- ps nted on some marshy lands In
Lane county, Oregon. The, protector OF me
scheme IL favorably impressed Win the posi-
blitles Of this new industry, ana peheves ore
gon can raise as good cranberries as New ser
The cost of main aiming the Nevada state
prison for the years lSSl-S2 was 1888 90 The
average number of prisoners was i2o, the per
capita cost being 81, O3 day, exclusive OF boots
and shoes furnished to the convicls.
A convention of bituminous ooal-miners of the
United States will shortly be held at Pittsburg
TO form general union for mutual protet :
ton The organization viii DO composed of
II GOO miners, aud there will be state Crgan-
izations.
A company of Seattle, Washington Territory,
capitalists have taken up over 700 acres of land
In the Noxes bottom, Yakima county, and VIII
soon commence the construction Of an irriBatipg
ditch TO cost SIS. 600.
Sugar In bonded car lots shipped from Monte
rey Mexico, by rnil to Laredo and FL Pas0 has
arrived there, destined for chihuahua and So
nora This Is a new route, which opens up big
prospects for FL Paso.
The aggregate true value of farms In Peoria
county is estima ed at $50 00o 600, and they pay
taxes annually of over $50 900. II Is said there
are fewer mOrtgaged farms In Peoria county
than any other county In the state, except Knox
and Fulton counties.
Switzerland has l,287 cotton mills, employing
IS, 1854 persons. There are 1872 silk factories en-
plOying H. S9i persons; IS wooden factories 2,4i7
hands and linen works, with G78 hands
The first coke furnace In the south was blown
in about fifteen years ago. It's capacity was an
output of 0 900 tons, The industry has grown to
such proportions that the estimate of an output
OF 100000 tons, or more Of coke iron for the past
fiscal year is a fair one while the production Of
charcoal iron, added TO these figures, will show
q total of SOC, 900 tons for the wear.
During the season of 1881 the output Of iron
ore from the mines of Marquette, Michigan,
amounted TO 2l65 COO tons; during the season OF
1852 1t increased TO q 1850 900 tons In the work.
Ing of these mines only so much ore is taken
from them as may have been contracted for.
though their capacity IL such that any probable
demands that might ever be made upon them
could be promptly met
Some idea of the slaughter of deer on the
P0shtlgo river the past fall may BIO obtained
from statement of the amount OF venison
shipped from Poshtigo, viz: saddles shipped,
1907: hams. o. carcasses, $50; total weight OF
hams, saddles aud carcasses, g., 726 pounds, Tho
increase of deer must be something wonderful II
II will keep up with such wholesale slaughter.
During The past year G42 buildings were
erected In Portland, oregon and vicinity. at n
cost of s. 10000. The wholesale trade Of the
city was 40 900 900 and the value of manufac-
tured GOODS S,70hO0O, In which Ais hands
were employed Real estate transactions were
6,6s00C0. The value OF imports into the Col
umbia river was S23 600 900, of which 81 zoo, 600
Was from foreign ports The exports from the
Columbia river were sl5 100000.
Dates from the City vi Mexico to December 10
say: Trade IL reported In n good condition, The
demand for American machinery both large
and small. Is increasing, owing TO orders for
manufactured articles which people find they
cannot supply by tho old methods The lnan
cial situation was also called satisfactory. For
eign lmporlations were rapidly increasing, bu
this was creating no appeb. nsion. inasmuch n
those consis ted In II great measure OF article
which add TO the productive capacity Of Thu
county