The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-03

mouths and intervening de;tas is seventy miles
The result Of the French vine yield for 1882 Is
Just published The toal is, so, 80 $50 hecloli-
tiers. This is 1868 hectoliters worse than
1881. To estimate what hard times the vine.
yard-growers are now experiencing II should be
| remembered that nom 1870 to 1878 the average
yield was 81, 600 900 of hectoliters.
A firm at Victoria British Columbis. is con-
| slructing an extensive floating canhery and fish
oil refinery. Ii will be about li0 feet long. with
thirty two feet BEAM aud have depth Of hold
4 OF eight feet amidshlps. Powerful machinery
TO propel and capacions tanks aud retorts for
| use In refining the oil and cooking the fish are
| already built The vessel will be launched and
ready for action by April. and will make her
first toray among the colocahns on the northwest
coast
| Mining In Prussiais king gigantic strides.
| aud makes Germany an easy third in the world
| Great Britain being first and this country good
| second. The total product of AL the 1879 Prus'
| sian N ines in 1881 was 60.3507S7 metricll tons
valued at sSl, 6S9, 500, against 81 mil a tons,
| rated at IS millions in 1850. The Prussi 80 nos
employ 25S S57 persons. Germany Is no, IS
| or nearly independent of English iron az.
| and has become large exporter of muntauo
products, with the exception of the precious and
some minor metals.
The Boston Commgoial Bulletin says: zone
OF the most important articles used In The man.
uiacture of artificial fertilizers is fOssilferous
bone rock. or phosphate of lime The rock is
ground up into powder aud treated with sui
phuric acid to make II soluble, and IL is then
mixed with various other articles. IL is used for
the phosphorus il contains. American fertilizer
manufacturers obtain this rock wholly from
South Carolina, where, on the Bull, Coosa and
Ashley rivers are extensive beds or deposits
These beds or deposits are the remains of pre-.
historic animals. from which, in the process of
time, all the vegetable matter has been elim-
mated SO that now only the bones solidiied iu
the form of rock are left. These beds occur also
In Canada, Spain. and various South American
countries. In Canada the deposits are along the
Ottawa river and near Buckingham, ana there
are some also near Kingston. The production
OF the South Carolina beds amounted last year
70 about 3010O0 tons, of which about two
thirds was shipped to Europe the remainder
being used to the country. Most of the Canadian
production was also shipped to Europe the Uni
ted states taking only about 500 tons The
rock in It's natural state hanged from 50 to $40 per
ton during the last year. Before 1t is it to use 1t
must be washed and dried and reduced 10 pow
der and then treated with sulphuric acid and
this involves considerable expense and time, so
that its value when fit for use Is considerably
enhanced. 1t is, however, Il little cheaper than
natural bone, and contains about the same
amount of phosphorus The rock Is sometimes
ground up in South Carolina, and 1t is some
times shipped in its natural state TO the fertli-
ger works The iudu, try is an important one in
South Carolina the value of the rock In It's nat
ural state produced last season being consdera.
bly, over $4,000 And as the beds are very OK
tensive and the demand increasing 1t bids fair
to grow more and more important, 70 the state
of South Carolina II Is very good source of in.
come. as tax of 81 Is levied on every ton pro.
duced.