The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-23

Items OF general merchandise were large
those OF coffee amounting to 109,09i bags
Sugar, india rubber, dressed hides, anC
hemp were also received to a very good ex
tent. Since January LIST the imports aggre
gate S2l2 ,O56,62S, against S237 ia ,061 fol
the corresponding period Of 1882.
The rubber industry OF the United States
countries. There Is something like $75,
0OO,OO invested in the business of manu-
featuring rubber goods, $50 900. 900 OF which
~ confined to the rubber boot and shoe in
dustry. The total number Of his employe.
ID placed at Is 1000, and the total number o.
factories placed at 100. According to q
recent census bulletin, the value of the an
nual product Is $3.50, 900 900. Some 30 COX
tons Of raw rubber are imported every year
which. when combined with other ma
terials in manufacturing, amount to 100000
tons. The market price Of the raw ma
terial has been forced up to .25 per pound
while six years ago the price was scarcely
90 cents. In consequence Of the advanced
price OF rubber, several substances have
been prepared assubstitutes for it, OF which
celluloid Is the most important.
According to the Portland Oregonlan, Il
is beyond contradiction an off year in the
salmon canning industry so far as at present
revealed. The run will in every way be
satisfactory, and when the final result is
ascertained it will be seen that the pack OF
the present will equal former years. This
result, however, will depend upon the can
nerymeD.. Prices are low at home and
abroad, which may cause accustomed
energy to lag, and in that manner reduce
the pack but should the grasping hurry
and rush OF golden seasons be employed,
there need be no fears as to the result, The
annual run probably grows smaller each
year, as many fish are required to MI H.
100000 cans, which is small pack, yet the
increased number OF fishermen brings the
catch up to requirements, but it is rapidly
destroying one of our greatest resources
constant taking away without replenish-
ing would in time remove the sands from
the seashore, and fish in the Columbia are
not more mum rous, Notwithstanding the
blind argument of some Cannerymen that
can't catch them all out.
Among the concessions recently granted
by the Mexican government is one which
allows Louis Logorreta and Arthur Mayer
to gather for ten years the cactus, or ma
quay plant, on government lands. These
persons must establish in the country
within two years paper and textile mill in
which the cactus leaf is to be used, and for
each such mill erected at cost Of not less
than $l6O,O0 the government will give
premium Of $4,000. The plant is said to
be 30 abundant that the industry can be
extended almost without limit.
Some Of the Spanish papers published in
Madrid and in the Mediterranean ports,
says the New York Commercial Bulletin,
are anticipating that the new treaty of CON-
merce latsly concluded between Spain and
Norway and Sweden WI speedily result in
o large extension Of trade between the two
countries, and this expectation appears to
be no less entertained in Norway and
Sweden, At stockholm new shipping
company Is being formed, and fleet OF six
iron apd steel steamers OF over 1000 tons
each is being built expressly for the Spanish
trade. During eight months of the year,
from April to November. inclusive, the
service will be fortnightly, and the boats
will call at st. Petersburg, Stockholm,
Stettin, Malmoe, Copenhagen, a port of
Norway (probably Bergen) Lisbon, Cadiz,
Malaga, Valencia. Tarragona, Barcelona,
and Marseilles. During the winter months,
when the Baltic closed, part OF the fleet will
be employed in the expectation of wine
from the Mediterranean ports.
MIR. Joseph Mulhatten, writing from
Monterey, Mexico, relates Ms follows a
grievance suffered In Mexico by American
jobbers and their drummers:
As regards the commerce between the
United States and Mexico, have this
startling announcement to make, and that
Is simply this: The manufacturers of the
United States are now shipping immense
quantities OF their products to Mexico, and
selling them at from 40 to 80 per cent.
cheaper than the largest, best, prompt pay
ing cash jobbers of the United States can
purchase the same articles for. These or
ders are called export orders. They sell
these export bills to merchants in other
foreign countries also at the same figures,
and thus virtually shut out the jobber OF
the United States from not only Mexico,
but all other foreign markets of the world,
and while the English iobber loads his mer.
chant ships for foreign lands and prose
cutes lucrative trade, the poor tariil.pro.
tected jobber of the United States drums up
his small local trade In the highways and
byways and cross roads of that very much
drummed country Of ours, where great
competition and enormous expenses swal
low up his profits.