The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-08
TRADE ITEMS.

THa Boston Transcript says: London ha,
Jnst passed through the electric light craze, and
me record of English financial journals teens
| with testimony to Its disastrous results One OF
the principal features of the development of the
electric light has been the increased demand fJr
gas, Whi,e companies are compe led to put up
new works TO meet the increased demand, snd
their stocks keep advancing In price as the earn.
| ings increase, electric light stocks the world
| over with the exception Of a few parent com.
pahies which take contributions from the CAPT.
| tai OF the auxiliary companies, are declining or
have already shrunk from SO to rs per cent OF
their former prices. The parent Brush Electric
Light company does the largest business In
connection with electric lighting In this country.
ahu tno orders Tor electric lighting machines. II
Is now reported, are so light that the manufsc.
Tory al Cleveland has turned its attention u the
construction OF other electric apparatus, stock
tckers, ETC."
The Ban Francisco Commercial Herald says
The vineyards Of California cover 10000 acres.
halt In full bearing, and the area Is charging
annually During the past year $1,000 acres
nave been planted In vines, and 70, 100 or 81, OCO
aetes VII DO planted the coming year The
effect OF this increased acreage will be shat In
Two or three years the price of our wines will be
lowered by the large quantities thrown on the
market and prices will remain low for n mum.
per OF years. We send very little wine to Eu-
rope-not more than 90, zoo gallons annually.
During the past year the wine shipments Of
california have amounted to about g. 600 600 gal.
ions, an Increase Of 20O,c gallons over the Ire.
vious ysar. The value VI this wine may be
placed at 81 500, 600 Then the local consumnti"n
has amounted to probably 100000 gallons
worm ~ 10000 In addition. estimate 81 OOO. COO
Tor ralslns, table grapes and brandy. which
would make the California wine and grape pro.
uuot !or 1857 amount in value TO si,500GO0 The
local consumption or our wines is steadily I'm.
creaSlng.
An exchange says Mexico is making study
OF The culture OF the rubber.plant The hard
ness OF the plant Is said to be such that Its cul-
whore the climate and soil are suitable, In
much OF the Mexican coast region almost the
only expense Is the wedding required when the
plants are Young to give them chance to grow
anu strengthen. In fact, IT is certain that pro-
perry set out the plants viii grow and mature
III spite OF weeds but are 30 retarded that 1t pays
well TO give them Careful attention Cotton can
be cultivated simultaneously between the rows
and the culture Of the cotton Is sufficient 70 care
ior the rubber trees also. The one drawback
that has hitherto prevented many from enpap.
Ing In 40 promising feld is the fact that six
years Is the very least time in which the first
returns can be expected from the culture of the
rubber tree, aud In any but The most favorable
circumstances this time is more likely to be
heightened out 70 eight or niue years. Should
the experiments lately inaugurated resultin any
extensive cultivation of the Caoutchouc tree on
me coast near Vera Cruz, the results may ulti.
mately affect the trade, which Just at present is
40 badly cornered that manufacturers are at
their wits ends 70 obtain gum without paving
TWO or three prices for 1t,
Montgomery, Vermont Is an important butter
iib manufacturing place. Little or no work
Is now done by hand, while the machinery
USED has been greatly improved within the last
lew years. At one particular factory about 100.
sOO TUBS In all are manufactured In a year
There are several sizes Of these, calculated for
The following weights OF butter: IL, 20 80, 40
90 ana 70 poHndN. The first size and the last
Two are largely used for oleomagarine; indeed
the den and for tubs for this product is very
large. and the trade requires the best that can be
obtained. The largest portion OF the tubs made
arc shipped by railroad TO different parts
OF the county. From 1900 to 6,OOO
according to sizes ordered, can BIO put In.
to q car. If the other three Histories
make each es many tubs, 100 cars would be
filled with the product OF this industry, 10 say
nothing about the large amount OF lumber
manufactured, About 20 per cent of tubs made
are number two, and these have to be disposed
or to the best advantage, the demand being
limited.
\ Lumber that will not do for tubs is manufac-
tured Into planed aud matched lumber, and a
portion IL used in making what Is known as
butter shoots or boxes The last appears 10
be something new In the line OF butter pack.
ages. The boxes are divided by thin parti.
tons into several compartments. one size large
enough 10 hold 60 one'psuLd prints of butter,
aud the other 30 one-pOund prints, These
boxes are made all ready To put together aud
are shipped principally to Massachusetts, Rhode
Island aud Indiana The tubs 20 to the prnc,.
pal points west, and 10 Boston and New York