The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-02-01
TRADE ITEMS.

OSTRICH farms are 70 DO oetabiSh,u III sou'h'
WIEN sorailcd silk burns well there's cotton
ia h.. Host SILK shoulders into nsh
Buttnf.tuu makers siuto that the OleOmargMiho
call iur the best tubs maze
or the 2 100 looms In the country tnghged ~
the manufacture OF gunny bagpngonly seventy
The nicsic mine near Riddle, Douglas eoun..
ty, oregon, Is showing up wen ~ Work on u
T6e vineyard acreage Of California in 1889 was
lOi O8l acrOs and the vintage about 9Oo' VVV gal
Ions of wine ,,,.. L. g.
IN Barbara county, Cnliiorhlh ana inc uees aro
generally being cut down. .oo,o
IL Is reported that there are only ABOUT 1UOo
cases of strictly standard peaches in BaltimoGe.
II this Is the case there VIII not be enough 10 20
The coal fields of Arizona are estimated to
cover over $4,000 square miles
1t is said that in this country there IL more
wool consumed per capita than III any other.
Our production only amounts TO about lWo-lhiIds
of our consumption. ,
PAWS has telephone for every two thousand
and London one for every three thousand Oh the
England in 1880 and 1881. under an adultera;.
tlon act, refused 10 permit $4,000 packages OF
tea to be landed. Most OF II was shippea 10
The Helena Independent says; The Yellow
stone towns, Montana territory, have female
real estate boomer who goes east every rev
falling Off in the trade of Raleigh North
Carolina, the past year is credited 10 hostile
discrimination in the matter OF freight charges
by the railroads.
%, 297 036 gallons of water, about lOOOuOOU :,
Ions In excess of last years daily average, and
about 2l0 gallons per capita OF popu n'ion oi
13I 600.
The growth of the country is shown j. rr''-
tical manner by the organization of boa. . VI!
trade at Mandan, Dakota, which was but re-
Gently water tank on the Northern Pacihc
road ,.,.,.
The ar;esian well at Ash Fork, on the Atlantic
& Pacific road, is now down 425 feet, all the way
in solid ma,ble. 90 .oo nm
The people of the United states paid sS' 5oO,oUo
in taxes to the menufacturers OF comhou WIZ
As a pork packing city Cedar Rapids looms
M in the winter she ranks as the eighth IN
the Union, in the summer as the secohu, anu iof
Fine large tomatoes, fully Iipe and OF fine IA
vor are sold at present in the New Orleans mar
kets for twenty-five cents dozen. Ihere are
The sardine men of Eastport, Maine, are to
send petition to the Legislature, asking that a
law be passed prohibiting the canning OF sar-
dimes during the four winter months; s -
The Claiborne Guardian urges the farmers OF
that parish to plant more corn and less cotton,
and says sit will not pay to raise cotton to buy,
corn and meat" The Guardians head Is level
on that subject, says the Morehouse clarion.
Sidney Cook, of Boston, is one of the projectors,
and an agent has just left for South AREA 10
secure fifty ostriches to stock the farm WIN. ..
The Oakland plantation in st. Landry parish
produced last year 527 hogsheads of fine sugar.
In all the cane-growing country the yielq II
tremendous and sugar planters nave maze DIG
money. .ooo
Returns of the French vintage for 1882 show
decrease of $780, 90 hectoliters, as compared
with 1881, and 16 600 900 hectoliters as compared
with the average of the last ten years - hor,o
tphn 81
were sold in New York last Saturday at % cents
apiece. They were sold III little bask> is holding
from four to twelve berries. Hoi.house peaches
are now selling in New York at S3 ehch;
| The Missouri Steel Wire Brush works nave
added compile machinery to their works 1oi
manufacturing steel wire brushes. Their capac'
ity is now over 800 per cent greater IMAM IL WIS
Wonders never cease. A cargo of lumber has
lust sailed from San Francisco for New YORK, the
first of the kind ever sent to that port u is IN
nounced that the German bark Helene VIII loau
a similar cargo for Leith, Scotland.
The japanese department of agriculture Il
planting o. ster beds near ICkohama. Inc
Japanese oysters are considered 'mong the
finest in the world, and hopes are entertained
of exporting them largely in preserved staIe
In the matter Ofiron mining the statistics snow
a steady increase IN the produc ION OF ore IN ,n
total product of the Lake Superior mines in lSS
was s43 3l4 gross tons of ore, 1882 OF pig-iron
and 3,0l6, zig tons of ore and pig, OF tne Valu
of S24 237, l66 Since 1858, the output OF ore ma
| been
There are about GOO cTeameries in the state
Iowa and the yield of butter is estimated a
| 100 600, eco pounds per annum, when at 20 cent
} per pound. amounts to S25,0Q The chees'
, product is valued at S2.OO0000, making total o
s27, o. {, coo from that branch of industry alone
Iowa has one-thirtieth of all the inllch COWS II
the United states. ,,.u :,
our vegetable gardens; fifty in our vineyards
while seventy-fve attack our app e trees am
, more 'han fifty our grain fields. SeVeny,nY
million dollars is estimated as the damage dom
10 the wheat in Illinois in one season, ana near
ly ten years ago the annual loss IN tne onise
, states from insect depredatons alone was esll
|: mated at nearly e4OO, 0o9,OOl -,.
t The Virginia City (Nevada) Enterprise says
Y The TIuckee river Is now frozen to the bottom
In passing along over the CLASSY surface Oh VI
) stream whole schools of trout are seen hrml
|, fixed Just where the cold wave struck then
l The rauchmen living along the river now so 1sI
S ing with axes, and in some places cnop our
dozen of the "speckled beauties in bunch.
Before the civil war the export oil pecan nut
from lndianola Texas, were reported at SlOO,
J. 900: now it is estimated that the amount an
S nually gathered exceeds 81 0UO,OCO IN value. n
. care, however, has been taken OF the trees;
iAcL in many localities tire S fifty TO one hun
< dred years old have been cut down to secur
the nuts With proper care of The trees an
systematic gatherir OF the crop ~ Is DeneVe
o that sl0O01000 could annually De realized
# MeXicans ana negroes are the most numerol
n The tomato pack last year was the largest o
h record The total number OF cases packed wa
Q ! 2,lSO 1913, of which Maryland and Virginia ~
nished 925, 900 cases, and New Jersey 46l, 90
The total pack of 1851 was /, 635 966 cases Dcli
e ware reports decrease OF 100 per cent IN loo
owing to the failure Of the crop. The we
made n better record than usual and promise
TO he an important producer In the future. Cal
fornia increased her production 70 per cen
!; Tomato packing was fairly remuneTauVe.
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