The National tribune., 1883-03-22
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The sale OF Forty thousand acres Of land in
FLORIDA effected 10y Mr.. A. b. Linderman, OF
PHILADELPHIA. during recent trip 10 London, ia
ssyndicate OF that city, was fully contaminated
OF the 18th inst By the payment OF the money
10 the florida Land and Improvement Com
Iany, the owners Of the land. The land is in
Orange county. and the syndicate is composed
OF leading British capitalists. The plan OF the
company to effect colonization of their lands
IS comprehensive and rather unique The
whole tract vill be divided by general manager
Iindermaa into twenty-acre farms, upon each
Of which frame dwelling house WI Il lie erected
Al least two acres on each tract viii be cleared
by the company The farms vii be sod TO
einlefanis al ) 200 each, which VIII include all
Improvements made by the company. The pay
mcnts HAY be made ia easy annual .nstGllmenJs.
4 strong effort viii be made ID induce ll2ii2n
emigration, for the purpose Of introducing in
Florida the growth of the silk-wOrm. On all
the land Of the COMPANY fruits of all kinds,
sugar zee. cotton and carly vegetables for the
Northern market VIII % grown. L Is thought
the settler will be able 10 earn a good living
during the first Eears residence. The company
viii furnish Cor the use Of the coloEists at once
q library, and lecture hall will be erected,
where the people viii be enabled. by the lib
crafty o. the managers, 10 listen TO discourses
on subjects which VIII be usefal 10 them III
their everyday life as agrieulturists.
IN paper on agricultural statistics, read
before the British Association. Mr.. ". Botly
gave some Interesting facts concerning the
food supply of Great Britain and he Continent,
IS follows: At present the food supply pro-
duced in Europe IS equal to about eleven
months consumption, but IN a few years the
deficit win be sixty instead Of thirty days.
Ine present production AID consumption are !:
Grain consumption in the United Kingdom.
ee4, 100000 bushels; Continent, 4.7S4, 100000 /;
total, 5 ,49l 10000 bushels. Production Of the
United KinsooIsa.20 Gao 600 bushels; Con tirseTt
4.7363l1 600 bushels, total ]. 05S 010009 bushes
Meat consumption in the United Kingdom,
10000 tons; Continent, 6,372. 900 tons: total,
T-3l909Q tons. II appears that the bulk OF the
deficit belongs TO Great Britain; butaS the Conti
nent Is unable 10 feed its own population, we
must IN future look 10 some other hemisphere for
the needed supply, rather than to the supposed
surplus OF Russia, Hungary. Holland, or Den
mark. Europe paid last year s35. 100000 for
foreign meats and SIS, 100000 for grain.
sum equivalent to a tax Of 10000 coo
per month. In the United Kingdom the i'm
pOrfation Of meat, including cattle. has risen
rs follows: 1860, 81 ,230 tons; vaiue "a 300, 600;
per inhabitant. pounds; 1870, 1925 tons :;
value, 41,70e, coo; per inhabitant, 10 pounds !:
1sce, $4,000 tons; value, &26,6l2,000 or 40
pounds for each inhabitant"
The business IN dressed meat has crown to
enormous proportions in Chicago More than
7.0e9.0e0 hogs and 100000 head of beef cat
tie have been slaughtered there in wear
These are conveyed TO the st0ekyards by
eighteen different railroads The killing is now
usually done by shooting the animal just back
OF the ear, and machinery does nearly all the
work OF dressing. It is only three to five min
uIes iron the time bullock is shot until he is
eslartered ready for the ice-box- The furnish
ing OF fresh beef to the Eastern market began
only few years ago. when one firm under
took 10 SEND choice cuts>te several hotels near
Chicago, and found that the plan worked well
enough 70 prove the feasibility Of shipments TO
more distant points There were DELAYS and
losses AZ first, bEt a suitable refrigerator car
was Soon invented and now there are no diff
eultles Ia the traffic. After the best parts of
the carcass are shipped the coarse meat is
canned or made into sausage. the blood dried
and the bones ground for fertilizers, the horns
sold 70 combmaizers, and every scrap turned to
account II some way " We are selling the
best loins for eleven cents cents pound saws
8 leading sl2ughterer, and, adding a cent for
freiehtage, they cost the Philadelphia dealer
twelve cents. That is for the very best quality,
such Is he sells for about twenty cents"
The kqe Of Steel is the authority for the
statement that a combination has been formed
IN the South, composed of all the coke iron
furnaces n the States of Tennessee, Alabama
and Georgia, with the exception of the Oak
dale Tenn furnace, 70 be known as the
Southern Coke Association. The object is to
obtain and maintain a uniform scale of prices.
and prevent indiscriminate competition and
tTicIeFy OF all kinds. A uniform scale of
prices has been agreed upon, and agents are
required to strictly abide thereby 1t places
al brands Of iron the same platform, so that
8 furnace making an iron of low standard
VII get the same price as for high standard
that IS If they sell any. The advantages viii
be seen 20 be on the side of the maker of the
better brands, while the ether man Will have
10 work hard TO make sales at all The scale
agreed upon Is not above prices which have
been ruling lately, except in a few grades. and
they are all on the basis of the fixed price at
furnace c, adding transportation.
Mr. H. Clark, head of the CONTRACTING firm
which has constructed so much Of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, and which is TO finish the
main line and build some of the branches has
arrived at st. Paul from trip direct from
Portland over the Northern Pacific Transcon
tineDtai- To the query, When will the miss
ing ink of the Northern Pacific disspBeariv
he answered conkdentially, In the first mart
of August, and probably before" He reiter
ated this statement, and said that the gan at
present IS 2S0 miles, and track laying is pro-
crossing from each end. On the western diyis-
Ion TWO miles per day are going down and on
the eastern about a mile and half As the
season advances even greater diuInal strides
on each end viii be made The switchback
around the BozeInan tunnel viii be ready
when the road is, and the tunnel itself Will he
open from end TO end IN November. 1t seems
30 be assured that on September there will he
O through car from st. Paul depot 10 Portland
ssr Seattle.
A specialist asserts that the steel plant of the
S1t.ge viii differ much from that of the pres
ent This is his view: Z" The ores, Hmestones.
and fuel viii be placed IN the blast-furnaoe.
and the resulting molten metal viii run direct
into basic Bessemer converter, and therein
be blown until the silicon, carbon. and phos-
phorUs are eliminated; the converter turned
down The metal deoXygenated, northumberland
cast into lnFOts: the ingOts immediately taken
from the mOulds and PUT into an eGualiziup
regoncTatoT, and thereir0m delivered 10 The
blooming mill and rolled into bloom. the
ends shared and the blooms rolled direct into
s rail: tic rail sawed into lengths curved. and
pushed through the llue Of steam boiler the
rails passing cut Of the boiler at a te,lperature
q $50 degrees Fahrenheit"
Two instances Of higher prices than have
hereleflTe occurred fer Jersey cattle. as far rs
known, have just been closed in New York.
The first is tie transfer of the bull Pedro No
3,I51 froIa Miller * Sibley, Franklin. Pa. 10
y. , Cooper, OF Coopersburg Pa, at $4,000,
the sellers reserYing, in addition, a limited
breeding interest. The other sale transfers a
bull calf, seven weeks old from &. 3. Darling
OF Acw York, 70 Miller * Si5ley for SD 500
Both bulls arc s0ns OF the celebrated lufter COW
Lur5tas, No :, 453 alleged to have made rs