The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-02-22
TRADE ITEMS.

Nyy YoRK city consumes $780, go worth of
'sfniontown, Alabama. has expended $4,000
for mules within the last few months
Il IL estimated that over s3 OOOoO0O worm , VI
various articles were mhnulac'uteo IA "N'''o'
The report made to the Bombay chamber Of Of
commerce regarding the cotton acreage u, lnuln
is that this season II Is short OF mat Vi 1901 v!
A stoc, company with $3.50, CC0capital has been
formed at Grand Rapids for the purpose Oh nun
ufaotuIing carpet-sweepers ,o..,5 t., NATAL.
In thirty years the capital invested IN metal
working in the Unittd States has increased sIoln
si6,37o go to s4i6,0n,Gi3, and the wages lroiA
ST. lG5, 24S to sl22, 0lS, lgl. .v,r
English capitalists have established NJ war
saw New York, the only soda ash factory III
the United States. one thousand men arc eiii'
ployed. .,-, 10000.
An English inventor has patented process ices.
of making straw incombu aible, and now pro-
poses to build cheap straw cottages ior 'he
poor. - ~ ,;,,,,-
seven counties of Pennsylvania. Inc loihl pro.
duction in 1882 was 2S7h0 900 pounds, valued AZ
s., 45l 600. .,,,.,,a %
congress request for an appropriation OF sSio :
COO TO supply with oxen and cows 2,bSO ihinn'es
of Sioux Indians who have gone TO farming ~
various agencies, in accordance with the snpu-
lations of the Sioux treaty OF 1865.
The Chicago dr0m-shops are making up thtlr
acc1un's for the year. IL is said that the total
sales for the wear amount to slO 600 90, of which
Sc, 100000, or three-filths is clear profit ~ -
A Georgia grower cleared La year s3Wu VI,
! 100 acres of watermelonS. In seven counues IL
is estimated that 1900 acres OF melons VIII DC
planted this year. -. l.,
which nearly TO- % men have been engaged lor
| the past month is about closed. crop aggre-
eating 2,5OO, 600 tons has been cut ana most Oh
| itstored. o,,, o,,o
| Coat ~, Afr,nr
| agricultural products sum up, according W d.
DOrings, S9,t0l,0000CO. witt,
The entire lead production of the United
States from 1876 to 1882, both inclusive announced
! TO $50 $40 tons OF that amount Utah alone con-
trputed 1877, 49S tons-over ore min.
There are forty acres Of tillable lana belonging
10 the state near the penitenuaiy, n0Lsn ,Se ~
toes, $50 bushels of tomatoes, $50 bushels OF rad
ishes, Jog bushels of beets, ~ wv heaa Oh CAD
bage and 40 bushels of cucumbers.
| A large pant of Mutual Unions revenue mas
come from private leased wires, business o.
which the company has made specally. ~
has dozens Of wires leased on thaee yg nd news
papers in New York, Boston, fhllauelphia'
Washington end western cities.
Vermont produces more marble lhan an,
other state in the Union. Last year the amour
produced aggregated LOCO 600 cubic feet. Nearly
100000 was paid for the labor required le
quarry the S one and take 1t to market:
The standard Packing company, New OFT
enterprise have leased 100 acres of land on Padre
Island, Texas, and are getting up building ant
machinery thereon. They expect inside OF twC
or three weeks to begin canning -, turtle, exc
H. n Moss secretary, and william carson
general mansger are on the grounds, gettini
things in shape. e,oo ,oc
The tax on cotton ties foots up near 5000, OF
This Is paid by the planters, and they never ge
It back Yet the iron monger is clamorlng 10
more taxes to be placed upon the farmers AM
farm laborers of the south.
One hundred ard forty tee;hives filed Wit
bees were shipped through Atlanta recehtiy e.
route TO Florida to spend the winter. The Inal
!, in charge of them explained that he, ha
brought them from north Missouri, ana wa
taking them where they could make none
every day in the year" The cost of transports
tion was less than 81 Il hive, and the honey iron
each, when they are taken back in the spring
will be worth SC to u.