The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-07-22
TRADE ITEMS.

TnEcurrent price OF young prairie dogs Il
fifty cents.
The borax mines OF Southern Caifornia
are to-day worth Sl00000,000.
Fishermen In the vicinity OF Del NortC
nre hauling in spockled beauties by the
| wag0n-load.
Dakota well-diggor asserts that vein
OF water may always be found at from nine
to seventeen feet below an ant-hill.
New Jersey Is following Maryland's ex.
ample In preparing to take vigorous meas
ures Tor the protection OF her oyster beds.
Sixteen carloads of oranges lett Los An.
geles California, lately, In single day.
They carried /, lbs 900 oranges.
or the ioIty-two publications printed aud
Issued In Milwaukee, twenty-three are Ger
man, one Polish, 1 Bohemian and only sew.
onteen English.
-Four million herring have been placed in
the Ohio river by the United States fish
commissioners, and 5000 600 salmons have
been distributed by the Cuyicr club, Gin
oinnAti.
The contract for furnishing the lumber
for the Cincinnati cotton seed oil mill at
Texarkana, has heon let, aud calls for $50 =
go feet.
East Tennessee has so 5000 tons of iron
ore that Is estimated TO pa available; at
the usual rate IL would require twelve fur.
naces, making 30 tons per day, l25 years TO
consume il.
The Colorado potato-beetle has reached
Prince Edward island, although n noted
entomologist declared that this insect pest
could not endure the cold climate there.
The prosperity OF the Louisiana sugar.
planters Is shown by the fact that BG0O0OO
Is being expended in nud around Donaldson
for improved machinery, new sugar-houses,
bagasse- burners, etc.
The Chinese employed on the Oregon
railroad extension, IN Idaho, explode giant
powder In the river and XIII Ash hy
thousands, and the river below their camp
is iouled by tho decaying fish.
New York papers state that there is A
better feeling on peaches since reports have
been received by one or two of the princl-
pal houses that the crop In Georgia is a
failure, while In North Carolina the crop
will probably not average more than halt a
crop.
Considerable interest is being shown IN
the petroleum resources of Wyoming. An
English company have been locating oil
lands In the Sweetwater valley, fifty miles
north OF the Union Pacific railroad.
IL is estimated that ton thousand bush
els OF oyster shells are taken daily from tho
bed OF the HousatOniC river near ita mouth
and transplanted in Long Island sound, for
the purpose OF catching oyster-spat.
The total tonnage ON the New York
canals for the first week in July was III ,6l2
tons, against lI3, 565 tons last year, showing
an increase of 20,0il tons, The shipments
OF wheat have increased 2l7 900 bushels, of
corn 10000 bushels, and of rye 90 GOO
bushels.
An agreement has been arrived at be.
tween Nj. do Losseps and the government
OF Great Britain, which provides tor new
Sue2 canal parallel with the one now In ex.
istenoe, for II reduction OF canal dues, and
for the appointment OF an English survey or
OF traffic.
A Louisville paper says; Whistles quiet
and steady. Internal revenue collections
In this district for the year ending June 30
were $7,b5O,000, showing an increase of
more than $30OO,0O0 over the previous
year.
A leading manufacturer of Pittsburgh is
reported TO have made arrangements for
turning out four hundred tons of steel n
week, instead ofiorty, as is now being done,
and that some ten other manufacturing
firms In the same city will follow the OK.
ample.
The exports from New York, including
speoia, were about SIC, 000, 900 less than last
year, but OF domestic produce, shows an
increase of about $lS 000, 900. The exports
OF specie were only $l0,S70, 0SS. against $35,.
OIL COG for tho first half of 1882, showing a
decrease In the exports on account of this
one item OF over $25000,0O0. Taking the
merchandise movement alone for this
PERIOD both the imports and the exports
present what may be considered health.
ful showing.
The Leaf tobacco movement in Louisville
isvery large, and offerings are readily sold
Prices are generally firm. White bu'leys
are somewhat higher than last week. Dark
grades are steady for manufactured tobac.
90. The rush following the tax reduction is
over, and small current Of business is do
Ing at steady figures.
According to the Boston Advertiser, the
Newfoundland coddshery reports show that
the season is unusually successful. Already
In many places fish of extra quality have
have been taken in larger numbers than
IN the whole OF last year. The failure of
the Norwegian fisheries Is another thing
which makes the Observation-Disclosures proper,
~ content, lnasmuoh as the ice has lust
LETT the Straits OF Belle Isle, Labrador has
not made returns, but from other fishing
regions on the banks and elsewhere comes
the uniform story of splendid yield of the |
sea. This harvest means much TO New |
England, and the prospect is eniyening.
The Louisville & Nashville railroad had |
lOO cars OF melons In their Cincinnati Yards |
the other morning, and sixty more cars
were due the same night---all from Georgia,
This is the largest number Of cars ever re.
oeived at Cincinnati in one day. During
saturday and Sunday the receipts by the
Ulnoinnau Southern aggregated nearly 100
,ars, very good showing, considering tia
he road did practically nothing in this line
asst year. The rate OF freight received on
hese melons is too low not amounting TO
cent per ton per mile A train load was
yesterday reshipped to Buffalo to meet the
wants OF the Swngerfest there assembled
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