Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-14
TRADE AND MANUFACTURES.

HE new stove IHctOry al IN attanOOga VIII
cost over 200. ard will contain about 100 600
brick.
The Uniontowu (Ky.l Press says that there
have been $4,000 extended in that town for
mules within the last few months.
THE Sseetwster Axe andle Factory
commenced operations last Saturday. The com
psny are James Carter, :. B. Cook and W, B.
LenOir.
ARKANSAS proposes 4 State tax OF 500 q
year on travelling life insurance and cooperative
agents, being simsd against the marriage swindles
of the South.
AT Hope, Ark, company is putting up
buildings and machinery for the manufacture OF
refrigerStors and wooden cutters. No wonder i'm
migrants flock TO Arkansas,
AN Atlanta dispatch Of the 10Th instant
says; Immigrants to the West are returning.
party of seventeen from Aiken, S. C., came back
to-day. They are disguised with Arkansas"
THREE barges and 10000 feet of walnut
lumber valued at $780, were lost last week in the
Powell river, on the way to Chattanooga; 139, 900
feet consigned to New York reached the city in
safety.
The Mississippi Central Railroad Com
pany have removed their shops from Jackson,
Tenn. TO Water Valley, Miss throwing out Of en-
ployment large number of persons living in
Jackson.
ALL the State lands in the county that
have not been purchased recently are covered with
applications at Jackson. This is good sign, but
must be attributed to the new railrosd.-GreeHviAe
(NiSs.) TtHles.
WILLIS and James Billiard, Allen Jones
and Moss Vines, of Henry, cut, split, hauled and
put into fence S32 feet long tue last day of 1851
These are the kind OF men VINO will develop Ten.
nessee's wealth.
TEE building for the Chattanooga Steel
month be ready for the machinery. which Mr..
John Leighton, the president is now purchasing
in Philadelphia, Pa.
The Reane Iror Works, at Chattanooga,
have again shut down, and it is not known when
they will resume work. The stoppage is caused
by lack of orders. Three hundred men are thrown
out OF employment.
TENNEssEE's mineral aud timber wealth
is largely than adequate to pay capitalists to
come TO her rescue, and build competing lines OF
railroads to the coal fields, ore beds and timber
regions OF the State.
The Jones creek oil well, in Dickson coun-
ty, Tenn, has beea leased by company for term
quality of the oil Is sail to be excellent. The
well will be sunk 600 feet deeper.
A SEAM of excellent CRATE coal, four feet
thick, has been tapped in the Hester and Hay
is now mining coal, which, he says, is equal for
CRATE purposes to the Montevallo coal.
Mr. j. NJ. WRIGHT, of Rock Island, is
going to Cumberland mountain to plant large
crop of Irish potatoes this year: he expects to
said TO be finely adapted to Irish potato culture.
MIssIssIPPI's wooded lands contain an
area of 20 900 acres Her forests would be worth
much more If she had seaport. But the great
Father of Waters gives her an advantage; she
can float her timbers down to New Orleans to be
shipped.
The large buildings in New York are
using American tiles for their floors TO replace
wood, and The British ulemakers have been com.
PEELED TO rent expensive offices in different parts
competition.
Mr.. D. NORMAN, near Calhoun, Tenn, with
40 N .l,a1- -
800 bushels of corn, fifty bushels of ground peas,
100 bushels of corn-fed peas lime bales OF cotton
and raised besides, nine hogs, which yielded 900
pounds of meat
. The Chattanooga Commercial gives the fol-
lowing as a sample of the orders placed by the
iron merchants OF that city last week: 6000 ton!
pig iron SIG 81 per ton s99 00O 5000 tons foun IN
iron S2l per ton slS9 0O0 1000 tons Besemer steel
SIS per ton, $4,000. These figures look respect
able.
Col JAMES II. HUGHES, of McMinnvile
Tenn, who is an extensive lumber operator, will
soon erect fTstclass mill OF d. 600 feet capac
ity daily, Winchester, Franklin county
Tenn. When such men as Col Hughes go into the
ssw-mill business the neighbors may listen to hea
something hum.
CAPT. 10 II. RUSSELL has removed hi:
saw-mil at Little Lot, Hickman county, Tenn, Il
the opposite bank of Duck river. He has afioa
1000 fine logs, mostly poplar. which he will cut W
into choice lumber. Capt. Russell is tue owner o
the steamboat which plies ON Duck river from
Johnsonyille on the Tennessee.
The New Orleans Tunes Democrat say
that Tin January New Orleans exported SISSY,
in two months-an increase of more than sixt.
per cent over 1882. This places New Orleans sec
ond TO New York commercially. Indeed, our com
merce far this year, is greater than that OF an,
two ports in the country, New York alone ex
eepted."
THERE are about 10000 acres OF lands il
Walker county, Ala, owned by various indiyidu
ais. They are coal lands bordering on tn Q GeoI
gia Pacific road, and IL is understood that com
pany is TO be organized in Montgomery, with thu
object of purchasing and developing these lands
81 &c the Georgia Pacific through Walker count
has been fixed fact, a large quantity OF mineTa
lands have been sold
IT lie expected that the remaining gap il
the Northern Pacific railroad of 275 miles. be
dian reservation, will be filed. and the ends o
the track conn ected by the middle of July, an,
be opened for through traffic between St Pau
snd the Pacific Coast. The company anticipate
larger movement of settlers to the new region
along is road than t0ek place last year, when tn
emigration was large.
The whole world has had a social revolu
ton. We see on our shores to-day a deputatioI
from Madagascar. We behold the King of Bel
gium in q mercantile enterprise, committed TO al
American explorer, having Tor its object the growth
of trade, the getting Of raw materials, and the re
turn of manufactures for them. such trips al
Jay Gould is about to made in a yacht around the
world illustrate the tendency in this country u
look elsewhere for business aud openings. Wher
the 1OremOsI the county goes drOuus
the world, it may be inferred that he is looking
for other worlds to conquer.
DEsHA county, Ark, in which Arkansas
City is situated, is very large fronting on the Mis-
sissippi river lis miles. IL comprises about 500,
900 acres OF land of which only about 00
acres are improved About 200, 900 acres belong Il
the general government and State. The improves
lands are assessed at from IS to sloper acre; tn,
unimproved at from 81 to 81 so. The population
of the county is about 20 000 The timber OF THU
county consists largely OF cypress red gum, syca
more, oveIcup oak, cottonwood, pecan with som,
maple and ash. Lumber sells at from IS TO SIG
ewing to kind and quality, and there are SONS
twelve to fifteen sawmiIls in the county.
THE position into which the unresisteC
momentum of trade currents is forcing our peopl'
can be seen clearly from the sum ary statemen
OF the Treasury Department, published monthly
The total amounts of imports of merchandise ano
exports of domestic merchandise for the calendar
year 1882 compared with 1881 are as follows:
Year. 1881. 1882.
Imports $500 200 AS s752 S435 so
Exports sl4162,951 749, ,SO