The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-13
try. At Onkdale nenrlv seven thousand ham

try. At Oakdale nearly seven thousand bar
rels have so far this season been shipped to
!, Europe. and although the season is fast drawing
| to close, the total shipment from the above
place will aggregate ten thousand barrels. Az
high as o. per barrel Is realized for some of the
oysters. Most of the shipments have been
made to France. The Connecticut oyster.men
! look for brisk business this spring. and the
supply will not be equal to the demand, as the
Providence dealers have lost all of their sets,
! and The coming spring will plant all New Haven
| Instead OF southern oysters. The Smith Bros,
of City Point, have stock Of 100000 bushels,
| all of which will be planted in the sound.
Regarding the Newfoundland seal fisheries, a
correspondent of the Montreal Gazette writes
| The first method followed in taking seals was by
| shooting them from large boats. which sailed
| from our ports about the middle of April. The
young seals before that date had taken 10 the
water, and the catch was chiefly old seals met
with on the iCe-loes AS late rs 1895 the whole
catch of seals only amounted TO 1, 9l0pcr annum
Small schO0ners of from 30 10 so tons were mex
| employed, carrying from u to ." each.
| These did not leave port till At T. Goth
| In 1907 only DO vessels were en-, md
| fishery. This industry. howe w.
| came so remunerative that IN, took
place, 80 that in 1857 there We're h,h.,, iUV yes
sells employed Of from so to 200 tons their crews
numbering 1900 men The highest recorded
| catch OF seals was in 1874 when GS5, $50 seals
were taken. In 1850 the catch was sos,
$50 in 1876 100000 in 1881, li7,9Os
Last spring US62l, owing to the l0ng.C0n
| tinued Ice blockade, the catch was only
100 500 one of the smallest ON record of late
years. The first steamer took part in the seal
| fishery In 1873. lhere are now about % steam.
ers employed. some of them of 500 tons, Sail.
ing. vessels are rapidly decreasing In numbers,
and ere many years have elapsed the prob II iii.
ty Is that this industry will be prosecuted solely
by powerful steamers of large tonnage.
The suspension of the Goodyear metallic rub.
Der company caused little surprise among the
trade. "lhis action has been adopted" said
the president OF the Goodyear manufacturing
| company In New York city, "as tho result of an
agreement arrived Mt among manufacturers a
short line ago, and M an effort to bring down
| the price OF crude rubber. The marketable
price of the raw material should not be higher
than &C cents 1t has been sod for 81 20 for the
past few months Now II has been decided that
| the price must come down. The market Is now
stocked with goods manufactured with raw ma
terial that cost sl.20. To dispose Of these high
priced goods there must be no influx thrown on
the market To effect this the mills have been
smut down for an indefinite period, and 1t will
altogether depend upon circumstances when
OOO OtO pounds of rubber in the hands of one city
to 70 cents, and there must be q stop put to
have got goods enough TO supply the m trket for
shall continue work in some manufactures
branches of our mills that will probaly employ
close TO 1000 hands" 1t Is thought that other
large rubber concerns, particularly those manu-.
featuring shoes, will shut down during the in
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