The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-01-11

a palr OF elk lnllNIs with my one inches
'EHf.a Of HONS AND Eve pr2net were recent.
! The first printing press in the United States
was worked in 1920
1t is estimated that the value of new buildings
erected in New York In 1882 was IA 778, $50, or
just s3,0G5 9Si less than in 1881,
From Rogers, Arkansas, 1l,000 barrels of APP
Piles h We been shipped this season. TO this
must be added 3500,0 pounds of dried fruit the
equivalent of 1000 barrels more
| Watermelons of Sonora importation are in the
market Of Tucson, Arizona Territory. The peo-
pie CT that state have method of preserving
| them, by means of sand-packing the year
! through.
The apple crop of Buchanan county, Missouri
is estimated at 100000 bushels. II will bring
more money than either the wheat or the corn
crop. Missouri has become great state for
apples.
consume the hemlock bark from about 10000
acres annually. Millions of feet Of hard wood
are going TO waste i'll this county for want of
mills to work 1t up.
There are 8, 400 900 acres of United States lands
for sale in Mississippi.
Tyler expects soon to have, on large scale
fruit and vegetable canning establishment TO
which project her citizens are donating literally
A elk exchange has been established in New
York. 1t furnishes silk-worms' eggs, cuttings OF
the trees upon which the worms feed, aud pur-
chases the cocuons IT also gives full directions
for the beginning of silk culture.
There are more than q, 900 hands employed in
iron and steel works in ST. Louis, the capital
amounts to S23 2S7. 600 and last years business
amounted to f5O.2 900. The pig-iron actually
melted amounted to 163, S25 TONS
The good people of Ohio keep S0l,O 600 dogs |
'mongrels, puppies, whelps and hounds and
ours" The cost OF keeping each dog year Is
equal 10 the cost of producing 200 pounds of pork
6OC0 t0OJ pounds in the aggregate), worth e.
90 200 annually. In addition, these dogs. by
killing, manning and worrying, destroy 81 0O0,-
100 worth of sheep annually as the cost of keep
Ing dogs.
of |
sauerkraut was imported from Germany, and was
very superior The Germans of
Reading, Pennsylvania, prepare 1t in way that
many consider far better than most other
methods. They cut the cabbage into long, thin
'lices, removing the stringy core, and DO not
apply salt, but ram it down so tightly In stout
barrels that it is covered by its own liquor. They
hen head up the barrel, leaving hole in the
op SO as to admit of fermentation. In Germany
he cabbage is rammed down by machine pro- ,
,elled by steam. That received in this country
asst year came in herces holding sixty gallons /
ZACH. :
The wool manufacturing establishments Of the r
United States now number 2,0a, with capital
# sl596Hs7O They give employment to 1884
men, 1904 women and children. The average G
aid each toiler is s203 05 year, or s24 AZ a
month. These mills consume 206, 1872, 229 pounds
# wool. of which 222 99l, 53l are of home pro-
uction, and rs, 200, SOS pounds come from abroad.
The average cost OF the wool is 80 cents pound.
The manufactures nuke q profit of 361s per :.
ent. on the capital invested clear OF all ex'
enses. o
The San Francisco Chronicle for December =
list is triple sheet and magnificent triumph !,
journalism. Its review of the trade of Cali e
)rnia for 1882 shows In eXtenso the facts thaare
ere partially. summed up in a few lines, to O
III:
'heat exports centals.. ....,......... 1882 200
reasureS shipments, value ........... SIC, 1884, S02
IeTchandise exports, by sea, value. 55,2lS 200
IMPORTS OF merchandise, value. ..... 10000
Iool product of the stale, pounds. 39,44S3i9
XpUrts of quicksilver, flHsks,.....,. 877l s