The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-06-14
TRADE ITEMS.

A bagging factory with capital of $780,
600 ID about to be started in Galveston.
A new manufacture at Worcester, Mass,
is that Of iron lasts, of which ten thousand
pairs have been made within few months.
The new German steel torpedo boats, re-
Gently built at Bremen, attained speed OF
eighteen knots at the trial trips.
There are said to be over 1900, GOO tons oil
ice between the Spring street docks, New
York, and the Albany basins.
The glass-works in Wellsburg, West
Virginia. have made contract with the
gas company to run their works for 81, 500
a year, a saving of 81, 1000 on coal.
Two citizens of Lisbon think they have
succeeded in inventing steam pillow which,
il it proves successful, will be OF Importance
to the farmers of Dakota.
The Memphis Appeal About $3.50, 900
will be realized for the present potato crop
ofthis county. One barrel factory is work
ing night and day and turns out nearly
1000 barrels per day.
Seventy-two thousand dozen eggs were
shipped 10 Jacksonville through the ex-
press office at Monticello during January,
February and March.
The canning factory at Crystal Springs,
Mississippi, is nowlan assured fact. The
sum needed for the establishment of the
industry-$5, 000-has been subscribed by
the citizens, and work on the factory will
soon begin.
A market gardener, near Stark Lake,
Florida, has shipped over / 800 crates OF
cucumbers from an eight-acre field. and he
has not got through shipping. yet. His
crates have netted him $3.50 each.
Nearly 1900, 900 bushels of potatoes were
imported into this country last year.
About 1000 900 bushels came from Ber-
mudas. New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
The remainder came from Europe, and
we're generally of poor quality.
The capital of the German empire still
continues to increase rapidly. On May l
the population passed the figure 100000.
As the last census, on December l, 1880,
gave the total number OF inhabitants at / :
10000, it appears that within two years
and five months the increase has been So
600 persons.
Mississippi is doing very we'll in the way
of progress. She produces more cotton
than any other state. She has cotton and
other mills employing about 10000 hands,
and 81, 100000 in capital; her free schools
number 5000, and in every way she is get
ting wide awake.
The production of gunny bagging in the
United States is about 50,0000O0 yards q
year, which will cover 5000. 600 bales, and
which the comm ,dity Is made have been
largely imported for many years. and the
business formerly use TO be very profitable,
but is now suffering from overproduction.
Rice planting in South Carolina and
Georgia is becoming precarious, and, ex-
cept in the cases of very rich men, it is
thought that industry in the two states will
die out. Louisiana and Florida will be-
come the rice states par excellence. The
coast planters OF Georgia and South Caro-
lima will have to initiate Mr.. Robert Gour.
din-drain their fields and convert them
into meadows.
The production Of sugar in the northern
states is being urged with a good deal Of
persistency, and it is noticeable that the
cultivation of cane and sugar beet is at
tracing more attention from farmers. We
are impressed with the belief that the time
has come when we ought to increase sugar
production, and that the agricuiturists and
capitalists ought 10 combine to extend the
resources Of our country In this regard.
The cane, which can be successfully grown
At the north, will afford many farmers q
profitable crop, whils the sugar beet pre-
sents possibilities which deserve considers
ton. Ii is time that this country made
itself more independent Of foreign sources
Of supply for sugar.