The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-13
TRADE ITEMS,


THE outlook for winter wheat in Ohio is
poorer than II has been for eight years. On
the other hand, the condition ofliye stock
hag rarely been better.
a practical planter In Greene county, A Ia
bama, say that he did not plant his corn
last year until the 10th of May, and IL was
the finest he ever made. His land was low
and Hat, and he could not prepare it until
late.
A new French gun is twenty feet
Six inches long, weighs fifty tons and cost
$4,000, 1t il wiie-wound and is expected
to put ball through fifteen inches of ar
NOR, heavier than any on our monitors, at
distance OF seven and half miles.
1T is estimated that nine-tenths of all the
me rcantile failures Of the United States are
que 10 sprculatiOns in affairs outside the
particular lines of business in which those
who fail were engaged. This looks like an
exaggeraton, yet the perC entage is known
to be very large. In the haste to be rich
men make hazardous adventures and, ii
successful, find themselves 30 crippled that
assignment is inevitable.
company has been formed for growing
ana exporting coffee in Colima, Mexico,
one OF the richest coffee districts in the
world. Sixteen thousand acres have been
purchased near Man2aniIo, on which there
are already 10000 trees in bearing. and 600
wv coffee plants from one to three years
ola.
The Jacksonville, Florida, Times. Union
announces that the Palm Paper company,
OF washington, District of Columbia, has
decided to build in Jacksonville or Fernan-
dina a pulp-mil!, to cost $l50000, for the
Manufacture of pulp from the palmetto
Tree. The capacity of the mill will ne
twenty tons OF pulp per day, and the pro-
duct Will be disposed of to the paper-mills,
TO be used in the manufacture of paper, for
winch IL has been demonstrated the pal
metto tree is admirably adapted. The
president OF the pulp company. who is now
in Jacksonville seeking u location for the
proposed MILL predicts that the wild pal
metto VIII become Florida greatest source
of wealth,
Boring operations for n supply of natural
Ens nave been III progress NJ Hills Station,
western Pennsylvania RAILROAD 10 miles
rom pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the line
OF tne A'ieghany river. A plate-glaSs man
u'9ctory rs under construction Mt that
point, and on February IL, when the drillers
had reached depth OF / ITO feet, power
Iui VEN OF gas was stuck. The vapor inn
mediately ignited, burning down the shanty
anu derrick. The borers barely escaped
WIN Their lives. The strike caused great
excitement, anu the parties interested In
.he works are naturally delighted, as it will.
they think, make them independent with
respect to fuel for melting and anncalmr
purposes, 80
The steady increase of orchards and fruit
culture In the south has been very clearly
established by the reports in connection
with the late census. That there has been
constant spreading OF this industry was
very evident. nut the steady enlargement
has been confined to the southern staiee
Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and Teyos
are the states that have made the greatest
progress, while In small fruit culture AR.
kansas makes the best showing. some NJ
tne northern states instead of showing adj
a'tionai orchards have rctrograded and
,tleu To renew many of the old PAINTINGS
Note mas been made of the progress of tins
Industry both north and south nom $50 tn
ioSo, and 1t has been shown that the lrui,
crop, reduced to dollars was lust ten times
as much in 1880 rs 1t was In 1870,
Inc statistics compiled by the bureau In
the department OF internal affairs concern.
ing the anthracite trade OF the calendar
year lSS2 show that there are $50 collierics
10 pennsylvania, of which Lu2erne has loO.
ochuyiklll, li6i LaGkawanpa, 80, and North.
T Tmpoiia m DVi Inc olheks nre located IN
- - :, r,'"S'" ~" buSlutnNllna, The
coal in Sullivan county is classed es SAM
anthracite. The total amount produred
was 2i@S,1Sl tons. Lu2erene nroIucaJ
l2,6SO6ll tons; Schuykill, & 70l 9yT TONS,
Laekawanna, 2,lH, 100 tons, and Sullivan
out .0ND tons, The bituminous coal troda
OF Pennsylvania had ut the end of i"s,
year M collieries, OF which gOwer, In Az
gheny county, GO in WestmorolnnJ ~ IN
Fayette, and 4 in Clarified. tho rnst ~ a."
vided among ~ counties. In Tho s,o,o
there are l0U63 coke ovens, of which Fav
ette has 5,522 and Wes,morelnnd 4 osi, H.
others are located in II other counties, M.
gelher they produce 3,2l6, 5i3 tons of colo
during the year. 'oN'
The London lronmonger o, March l.
received bya Birmingham house row ~ .v,,er
correspondent at Melbourne. Aus,rsi;a
lie calls the attention of the firm IN ,ha
enormous increase in the number nf
articles now being purchased from Amer'
lea (the United StatcS) in Australia
lew years ago, he adds, some half d.,
articles were all that We're ordered NJ 49,
lean make, but now thew are 10 he rnn"'ni
by the hundreds, This increase il n M "nI,,
maintained, but Is growing, The corro:'
pendent further states that "your Enrl;sh
manufacturers will do well to take lesson
from their American rivals, as the Ameri.
can goods exactly suit the requirements nI
the market Admitting that the timber
they have will command certain trade
1t Is asked why they shomI5
excel English makers of shovcls
axes, picks. and all classes OF edge.toolsS
II Is annoying to those of us VINO have Ens'
lish sympathy to see so much trade 90
away from the old country" Tho renersI
of the American goods No
contrasted with the Bri,ish.made in ibs |
Australian markets, are said TO be n mo s'
reliable quality, better finish, not an onnce
OF unnecessary material, better packing
and the articles are better adapted To th"
use to which they are 10 be nut. Tbs |
writer adds: "Some of the things thav
make have been found unsuitable. md
once ordered they have never been rc'
peated. Their cutlery will not bear com
PARTON with the English make, ana lhe
same may be said OF their plated. ware. In
wtrework. as well as cast and wrourht.iro
hollow-ware, England carries all before n |
In all the cheaper kinds OF cutlery Ger.
many Is becoming q very strong conpeti. |
ttor, and also in steel toys and other lines
Your English makers must bestir them.
selves, or they will certainly lose tho iar u
part Of their Australian aud New Zealand
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