The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-03-08
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THE coal production of Ohio l9Gt year was
| O. $50 900 tons I
For supplying London With, water there are
| now s2SK miles of pipe constantly charged
| The fruit grow ers of southern Illinois have
not felt so hoselul of an old-time peach crop for
several years ana. :,
the SHIN devoted to the egg business OF the
A cusiery mandatory, the first i'll Canada, is
| about 10 be established in Montreal,
A hoo\p factory In West Bay City intends turn
ing out ~ oOcOJ sets of hoops. valued at ss5 co.,
Over al 500 was paid out in Huntingdon
county, Aennsy lvania. last year In bounues LOT
killing h Awks and owls.
A seam IF anthracite coal, to Ia feet in thick
ness Is reborted as having been discovered IN
| the Cascade mountains, Nyoming.
| The Massachusetts peach crop, which last
year was almost total failure, bids fair TO be
good one th4 present season.
II is estimated that the sales of tobacco in
Danville, Virginia the present year viii foot up
10000. 600 pounds.
tured at Trenton New Jersey, for San Fran
The cabbage shipments this winter from
Wythe county, Virginia, will yield the county
The tanperies\of Tiogn county, Pennsylvania,
annually consume the hemlOck bark from 15, 900
II seems Incredible but 1t is said that $780,
600 worth of coal IS annually wasted in the Pitts
burg mining districts.
J. NJ. CoiemanI ex-postmaster OF Crystal
springs, has purchased 10000 coc5ons, and in
tends trying silk culture in that place.
The leavenworth Canning company has
leased 100 acres of Qand near the outskirts OF
| The city, They viii nlant tomato vines on l0O
acres add the remainder win be put in sweet po-
Within the last ten days the steel rail mills Of
this country have closad contracts for IL 0O0 tons
OF rails prices rangipg\f from t3s to $40, accord
ing to quantity and place Of delivery;
now estimated at 6T4.OtO tons, and there were
20, 900 tons left over from last yeer.
The newly ted csnsus Of the iudustrlal
establishments Of Philsds shows that Ss I, 70.
more persons are employer than reported py the
9 The coal fields west oil oa.cados have been
partially explored ana mex y ons 81 c sooa nla
minous coal found in The green nver county,
Idaho.
Five million dollars win b inverted in erect
| ing buildings on twenty acres OF Rrounc, AZ Bea-
yer Falls. Pennsylvania. aud fhe estabhshment
of barbed wire works.
The real estate buEinefs OF Montgomery, Ala
bama Is on a boom. II IA estimated that the
transactions for the past fiyeA months exceed
those Of the past five years.
abe walnut timber ON large tract of land
near CoyinRton, Tennessee. has been sold 10 a
Memphis firm at a 10 go per Thousand. accord
me coal coal mines of New Mexico Ore the largest
outside OF Pennsylvania, and as they have been
but little developed, IL impossible 70 accu-
rately figure on the future OF these belts.
Abe Western Union proposes 10 lay pneumatic
tubes In New York city 10 Foriy-scqoDd street
"a Al me etudine Of messages In thu manner IA
snocessful poles and overhead wires will be
The total exports nom the port Of Rhiladel
phia last month were valued a. % t6zSlO OF
rhfoh f7os m was taken out IN American yes
eeh INC total showed an increase Of t26i, ls5
o.sh .rs zoo Cinnamon. 90 lnundries and
n C7,inese groceries in New YORK city, and q
neWrpaper printed in chinese characters has
been started 20 secure thfir patronage.
about starting two new manufacturing Inter
re- cotton nnnufnciuring company has acspi-
iai Of fs500e0.
new citV directOry, contains population u 90
90 is 70 be lighted By electricity at cost Of slA