The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-16

large Undertakings, have entered into the
same line OF business with the Standard
Company, with the purpose of gradually
extending their operations upon larger
scale, TO include producing as well as refin-
ing petroleum.
Inland fisherman complain that. as a re-,
suit Of the ssrdine industry at Eastport,
Maine. a great destruction of herring
caught in Canadian waters is going on in
and around the waters of the Passsma-
quoddy. To make sardines, very small fish
are required, and, as all sizes are taken in
the weirs, the greater portion OF each catch,
consisting Of the larger.sized fish, is thrown
away or used 10 form a dressing for land.
A firm in Montreal has invented and
patented, 1t is said, q machine for cooking
by electricity. 1t consists Of saucepan so
isolated by non-conductors that the bottom
forms the positive pole Of the current. The
negative pole is attached to o movable
point which travels over the bottom of the
pan underneath, distributing the heat over
the whole surface, and with sufficient rapid
it, to avoid burning q hole through tho
pan at any one point.
"A Mayence report" says the New:York
Commercial Bulletin, describes the Rhen.
ish wine trade, excepting the auction sales,
AZ very quiet. A chief cause Of the dull.
ness is the want of really good cheap and
medium wine, which for many years past
has not been produced. Hopes are enter
lned that this deficiency, which is very
adversely affecting the German wine trade,
will be remedi d this year. The warmer
weather which has latterly been expe-
rlenced has encouraged expectations OF O
good yield, and has caused a cheerful tone
70 pervade the wine producing districts
Meanwhile, however, although the vines
have passed well through the winter, they
are some weeks late, and here and there
give evidence of having suffered from the
cold weather of the spring."
The Daily Indicator OF a late date says:
The Increasing Importance in the value of
coal and mineral lands Of the United States
was demonstrated at Philadelphia day or
two ago, by the general attention the sale
OF anthracite land and mineral bearing sec
tions attracted. The bidding was act We
and prices were good some of them high
he coal lands in Schuylkill valley espec-
tally brought good prices. They belong to
the Dundas lands, and the first tract,
known as the Leonard Reid tract, consist.
Ing OF % acres, was sold for 81 900 per acre.
Other tracts brought from $40 to $40 per
acre. Consumption of coal is growing
larger and larger, and as population in
creases the demands for this commodity will
increase. The fireplace has supplanted the
old open hearth fire. Wood is no longer a
useful article for warmth as compared with
coal. The lands on which coal and
Iron both appear are almost sure 10
be profitable Investment. Ten or twenty
years have proved this. Coal and iron
are more necessary than gold or silver, aud
the facilities for handling them are a hun
dredfOld more numerous than those for
gold or silver. The production of iron
and without coal iron can hardly be put
into Its present state Of manufactured per-
iection-ls q subject which all must study
In each detail 10 understand that the sue.
cess OF our country is in a great measure
dependent upon It. The depreciation in
real estate, which has seemed to be almost
universal, has in no wise affected the iron
and coal bearing lands. The owner OF such
lands can afford to wait and may rest as
sured that mis- patience will be rewarded by
money in plenty. Land, however inaccess.
ible and rough IL may be to the disguised
farmer, If 1t catches the eye of an iron OF
coal prospector, Immediately rises in value
and as a genera! thing-nay, sure thing
that land in year or so has mine on it, a
railroad through it. and the same disguised
OLD farmer Is dressed in swell clothes, q
director of the Blank Mining company
and drives a four-in-hand, all the time tell
ing his children how hard he had TO work
to make his money.