The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-21
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NEw York city consumes slSOOlOCO worth o.
eggs every year
Uniontown, Alabama, has expended eiO,OOt
Tor mules within tho last few months.
IL IL estimated that over So 0000 900 worth OIL
various articles were manufactured In Chicago
last year.
The report made to the bombay chamber OF
commerce regarding the cotton acreage in India
Is that this season II IN short of that OF 1881 by
IA, O36 acres, or per cent.
A st0cv company with $3.50, roo capital has been
formed at Grand Rapids for the purpose of man.
ufacturtng Chrpet-swec, pers.
In thirty years the capital invested In metal.
working In the United States has increased from
el6.370, 76O to SAG, 6i3. and the wages from
81, l65, 2iS to sl?2 0iS, lgl,
English capitalists have established ut War.
saw. New York, the only soda ash factory In
The United States. One thousand men are emf
plOyed.
An English inventor has patented a process
of making straw incombustible, and now pro-
poses to build cheap straw cottages for tho
poor.
Tobacco is grown In sixty.fO OF the sixty
seven counties OF Pennsylvania. The total pro-
dnction In 1882 was $500 900 pounds, valued at
1880 900.
Tho secretary of the interior transmitted to
congress request for an appropriation of sSiS, :
600 W supply with oxen and cows 1850 families
OF sioux INDIANS who have gone 10 farming Mt
various agencies, in accordance with the stipu.
lations OF the Sioux treaty of 1868
accounts for the year. II Is said that the total
sales for the year amount to $4,000 100, of which
s6,00OOO. or three-dtlhs is clear profit
Georgia grower cleared last year 5000 on
iOO acres OF watcrmel0ns In seven counties It
Is estimated that 1900 acres of melons will be-
planted this year
The harvesting Ice on the Hudson river, In
which nearly TO- on men have been engaged for
the past month"; IN about closed. A crop nRgre.
gazing 2'5VoCOO tons has been cut, and most of
itstored.
Last year was an exceedingly prosperous one
Tor the American farmer. The total value OF
agricultural products sum up. according to Dr..
Dorings, $1,000, 900.
States from 1875 to 1852, both inclusive, amounted
To $50 0i9 tons OF that amount Utah alone con.
trlbnted lSIi9S tOns-over onehith.
There are forty acres of tillablc land belonging
" the state near the pcnitcntlary, north, NJ
Michigan City. During the past year there were
raised upon these grounds 500 bushels of pota.
Toes 290 bushels of tomatoes, 80 bushels OF rad.
ishes, log bushels of beets, 80 coo head of cab.
bagc, and 40 bushels of cucumbers.
large part OF Mutual Unions revenue has
come from private leased wires, n business OF
which the company has made a specially. 1t
has dozens of wires leased on three years con
tracts 10 bankers, brokers. merchants and news
papers In New York. Boston, Philadelphia,
Washington and western cities.
Vermont produces more marble than any
other state In the Union. Last year the amount
produced aggregated 1000 900 cnbc feet Nearly
sl,COO,OC0 was paid for the labor required 10
quarry the stone and take II TO market
The tahdard Packing company, a New York
enterprise, have leased 100 acres OF land ON Padre
island, Texas, and are getting up II building and
machinery thereon They expect Inside Of two
or three weeks 10 begin canning fish, turtle, etc,
IL NJ, Moss, secretary, and William Carson,
general manager are on the grounds, getting
things In shape,
The tax ON cotton ties foots up near 5000
This is paid by the planters, and they never get
II back Yet the iron monger Is clamoring Tor
more xes TO be placed upon the farmers aud
farm laOorers OF the south.
One hundred aud forty bee.hivos filed with
bees were shipped through Atlanta recently en-
route 10 Florida to spend the winter The man
In charge Of them explained that he had
brought them from north Missouri, and was
taking them where they could make honey
every day In the year" The cost of transporta.
tion was less than 81 n hive, and tho honey from
each, when they are taken back In the spring,
Will be worth Sc to- 81.