The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-01-25
TRADE ITEMS.

SEVENTY mills In the south now work up 2oo,
0OO tons of cotton seed, making HcuVuVo sal'ohs
The Fall River mills turns out 1,5Oo beu quiiils
n day and the uolliston, Massachusetts mills,
|, $50 pairs of blankets week. -. r.,,
The famous chestnut tree on Mount Esn aa
measures 30 feet at its base. Its age is 81 leas
500 years. Italy has many renowned Nees vi
The Deer Lodge ". T.) New North West says say,
that the Territory of Montana presents me pes'
showing for the yield of Irish potatoes inns year.
The average yield is 1872 bushels per acre.
The clippings of so e-leather in the New Eng
land shoe factories that wereformerly ~
worthless, are now stamped into buttons ior
clothes and fancy tack heads for upholstery.
II is estimated that the re are over GUY wv cIes
of tobacco fields in the United states, anu the
crop is valued ut about S45 0eOO D.
The commissioner of public works OF chicago
says the city used last year 24l5O O0O, 600 gallons
of water. equal TO canal twenty ieet Wiue nnu
ten feet deep from New fork 10 Fan rrancsIo,
over 1895 600 600 per annum rms, II we quit
our own ships or bought them abroad Tor reg.
istry at home, would early give US d merchant
marine we might be proud OIL
-Four distilleries are now running In Hsnder-
son county, KY, producing about nifty barrels Oh
whisky per day. About S250,OOO is invested III
the business there, and the warehouses; ho"
have about 10, 900 barrels in bond.
Three of the largest cheeses yet maze arrived
in the Clyde, England, few. Gays ago; one OF
them is 24OO pounds in weight and the olner
III
in diameter. two feet two inches deep, the total
circumference bring sixteen feet. Ihey are
said to be OF splendid quality, ana are the pro-
duct of Nix days milk Of herd OF eoO COWS,
owned by DR.. l.. Il. WlghL Wntespoio' Ne"
York.
The New York Indicator says: 1t Is fact
not generally known, and hard to credit mat
the Importation of potatoes during single year
amounted to o. 900 600 blu. The books of the Gus
toms bureau show that nearly 9euoooo Du, were
imported from starving Ireland, from Scotland
New Brunswick, and Nova Scoua Gut nal the
last fiscal year, their value being s4,5Oo,OOo ana
the duty on them sl1s.476 This ought to en-
courage the farmers of this and adjoining states
TO perseyere in the cult walton OF the potato
which last year yielded them such large prontss,
There is about S76 000 900 capital invested III
the manufacture of rubber goods in the United
States and about 1900 persons are employed N
100 establishments annually producing goods
valued at $3.50, 600 COO, as shown by the late
census. The amount of raw rubber consumed
is about 10000 tons per annum which. with
other ingredients used in the manulactuiille,
equals 800, 600 tons. Raw rubber mas lately peen
advanced IN price TO SIPS per pound whlle SIX
years ago it could have been purchasea 1Or 4o
cents. This industry has no rival III foreign
countries.
growth of the country. the annual income OF the
furniture manufacturers of the country Is not
less than Sl20,000000. But 1t would be much
higher if the workmanship were more eillclent,
There is too much by far OF lit Will serve 10
sell' in the furniture business. There would
grow ND a great foreign trade for our products if
the putting together was more nohesi, Inc
design finish and material are all attractive.
The California Grocer says that almond Gull
ture is taking prominent place among the pro-
ductive industries of that state. Four varieties
are grown-viz.. the shoft she'll, standard, hard
she'll and the paper she'll. The crop OF 1881
was 300. 600 lbs about half of which was used 10
supply the home trade and the balance shipped
east This year, 1882 being an OIL bearing year,
the crop is but 200,to0 lbs, the most OF when
will be required for lhe home trade. The ca
pacity for production is stated to be almost UNI
limited, and growers are finding the crop SO
profitable that they are rapidly extending their
orchards, and 1t is predicted that in ten years
time the entire United states can be supphed
from the California product
1t is estimated that nearly 2000OO0,0C pounds
of paper are produced annually, one-hau OF
which is for printing, sixth for writing, ana
the remainder, coarse paper ior packlng ana
duce yearly 9O0,C00 tons of paper, averaging
seventeen pounds per head; the
educated German takes eight pounds, the
grenchman seven pounds, While the Italian,
Spaniard and Russian, take respectively three
pounds, one and half and one pound annu-
ally, the consumption of paper being roughly
in proportion to the education and intellectual
activity the people. ,,,,
next FIVE years bids fair TO become enormous.
The south has at last found source OF great
wealth in what until recently was considered OF
no value. Before the war millions OF dollars IN
cotton seed were yearly thrown away. The utility
the seed as a fertilizer was then discovered, and
il was for a time chiefly used for this purpose;
1t was next found TO contain valuable OIL
which is now pressed out rennea any us Sl
chiefly for cooking purposes as substitute Tor
lard, while the remaining meal or cake has
proved to be rich (, cd for animals, Even the
hulls of the seed make an excellent fuel. u has
been estimated that at the present day the an
nuai crop OF cotton seed will be converted into
nroducts of the value of e5O 600 600 70 S5 OOO