The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-27
TRADE ITEMS.

THERE is not single distillery in all
Michigan.
A Wayne county, Kentucky. man has
| $500 fruit trees.
A canning factory at Batavia, N. Y,
! uses annually, in addition to cans, Is, 900
| wooden cases.
Ninety-three thousand acres of land were
planted with timber in Kansas last year.
Burros sold in Mineral Park, Arizona,
| last week for 81 so piece.
One iiith OF all the telephones in the
country are said to be in Illinois,
Land in Hot Springs, Ark, recently
brought $ll2 per front foot.
The British wild OK is extinct except in
few English and Scottish parks.
The sum of $500 600 has been spent to
develop keely's motor
The proposed puolic park in Montana
Will have an area Of twelve thousand
| square miles-ncarly ten times that of the
whole OF Rhode Island.
Four hundred and nineteen barrels and
crates of vegetables were shipped irom Brai-
dentown last week
Ont of 0,GG,1o2 registered letters and
packages carried last year by the postofllce
department, 723 were lost.
Muhlenburgh (Ky.) county man has q
hUlIuhcINHltt uiHlt III Iiiu anu MY Itcl Ol
walnut lumber sawed in 1898.
A fair grade of brown sugar is made from
cane grown in Winston county, Miss.
The city of Newark, N, j., has loo fac.
tories, with ~, 232 workmen. The capital
invested is $23,0l0,ll5, and the sales foot
up 500 81 525.
1t is estimated that $25, 600 900 worth of
small fruits are sold annually III the city OF
New York.
Messrs. earn e. Co., OF Ellenton have re-
allied $500 from one acre of land planted in
beans on january 3.
About five hundred Cinnamon are mining
on the Columbia river bars in the vicinity
OF Oskanagan county, Washington terrific
ry, and make handsome returns.
An idea of the magnitude of the flower
trade in New York may be gained from the
statement that one florist in the cl ships
on an average one thousand tons u year by
express TO every part OF the L Mon.
Tho pulp factory at Alta, California, is
now turning out six hundred pounds of
wet pulp per hour, and 1t is expected soon
to increase the quantity to one thousand
pounds per hour.
In Cincinnati, says the Electrician, the
telephone has achieved wide degree of
usefulness, 3Ovillages having been brought
within speaking distance of the city.
A citizen of Green Cove Springs has
picked NJ quarts of Strawberries from
patch measuring q by 100 feet, aud expects
to gather 200 quarts more from the same
ground.
| The report of the state geologist of Colo.
RADIO FOR 1881 and 1882 gives II list of 2i6 min
erals found in that state; of the fifty which
are gold and silver bearing, thirty-lve are
mined in Boulder county, the remaining
il,leen being, for the most part. rare and
commercially unimportant.
| The official returns give the value of the
tobacco consumed in France in lsS2 ut sos, %
200 francs. Cigars show II total OF 90, 500, :
600 francs; cigarettes, III, 600 600 francs; and
chewing tobacco, 100000 francs. The
heaviest amount, 21S,000,0V0 francs, was for
ordinary smoking tobacco.
A Turin ieweler has made tiny boat
formed OF single pearl, which shape it
assumes In swell and cOncavity. Its sail is
OF beaten gold, studded with diamonds, and
the binnacle light at ITS PROV is q perfect
ruby. An emerald serves rs its rudder, and
its stand is II slab of ivory. Ii weighs less
than half an ounce; its price is 5000.
Immense reservoirs oi naphtha have been
struck at Balachana and Sabuntscha, in the
neighborhood Of Baku, in Russia. There
are NJ present twenty springs in full flow
The gush is described us extraordinary.
The price at present IL little less than two
copecks per pood, or II fraction less than
one-halt penny per thirty.six pounds Eng
lish.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 70,
March says: AS u manufacturing country
Canada has made very considerable pro.
gress within the past five years. All over
Ontario wherever there is u valuable water
privilege or thriving, business commu,
unity, factories are established from time "a
time to give additional emplo, ment to pop
ulation and larger market to farmers
Quantities OF articles hitherto purchased
abroad are now produced ut home--a fac,
which helps to make the people of Canada
more self-relant and independent of othe,
countries. More than that, Canada al
ready manufactures more articles than sh,
requires Tor her own use, and last year sold
In foreign markets. millions worth of her
own manuiactures-only small amour,
II is true, but sufficient to show the present
direction of her energies.
IL is now settled that hcnceforth the
raising OF ostriches shall be obligatory
upon the lessees of government land in
Australia. The ostrich farming bill, re-
Gently passed by the South Australian par
lament and signed by the gov, rnor, pr,
vides that 5000 acres may be taken up by
any Individual or company ON q wear,
lease, on the payment OF -. Cd. an acre, Ia,
balance, LIS. Cd, to be paid ut the expira
ton OF the term. The lessee is allowed
, three years to get his ground ready tor al
, ostrich crop. but at the close of the third
} year the law says he must have at least
eight ostiches for every thousand acres
and must maintain that number till III,
tenth year. From the tenth 10 the four
teenth year he must have 20 ostriches e
each thousand acres, and for the rest OF Ia,
term his plant must be so to each thousand
acres,
Buenos Ayres is the leading state of the
Areeniine Cosfederacy, and Its capital O
! hat name is no mean city, containing, as 4,
does, n population Of near $4,000. For ter
or more years past immigration has beer
| pouring in,o the country Vt the rate of so.
. 600 q year, attracted to lis marvellous nstu
raj resources and the ease Of comfortable,
living. Agriculture IL tho chief source o
. wealth ~ present, the mineral resources
: being scarcely touched. Mako Is indieen
J. oue TO the soil, and wheat thrives well
I while no other country In the world col
|, show up 20 much 1.-Two stock. Tho numbe
y q cow. stated 70 10 u ,0QO, 900, and that
= sheep. 100 .000, 0o0o. Wool sells for 0i, M
}, pouno ana some farms hay
q lWWo lhssp, yielding revenu
y g 1920 2 year. The great majol
y - nnsphesds, and The prevailing populs