The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-07
TRADE ITEMS.

TINS coal production of Ohio last year was
| o. $50 600 tons
For supplying London with water there are
now S2Sa miles of pipe constantly charged.
The irulI-growers of southern Illinois have
not felt so hopeful of an old time peach crop for
several years.
One hundred and my millions of dollars is
the sum devoted TO the egg business of the
A cutlery mandatory, the first in Canada, is
ABOUT TO be established In Montreal.
A hoop factory in West Fay City intends turn
ing out l2OOOOOO sets of hoops, valued at 2S5 CO.,
| this year
Over 1880 was paid out in Huntingdon
county Pennsylvania, last year in bountes for
killing hawks and owls.
A seam of anthracite coal, 9 to IA feet in thick
ness isreporIed rs having been discovered in
the Cascade mountains, Wyoming.
The Massachusetts, peach crop, which last
year was almost u total failure bids fair to be
good one the present season
II Is estimated that the sales of tobacco in
nianNlle virginia, the present year win foot up
4OOO0,0O0 pounds
A cable 2O,4iO feet long has been manufac
tqred OF Trenton, New Jersey, for u san Fran.
CISCO cable road
The cabbage shipments this winter from
, Wylne county, Virginia, will yield tho County
The tanneries of Tioga county, Pennsylvania,
annually consume the hemlock bark from Is, 900
II seems incredible, but II is said that $1,000,
wv worth of coal is annually wasted In the PITTS
burg mining districts.
@ j.. M. Coleman. cx.posimaser of Crystal
Springs nus purchased 10000 cocoons and in.
tends trying silk culture IN that place
The Leavenworth Canning company has
leased 100 acres of land near the outskirts of
lhe CITY. They Will plant tomato vines on 100
acres and the remainder will be put I'm sweet no.
tatOes. ~
Within tho last ten days the steel rail mills Of
WIS country nave closed contracts for 20U0 tons
OF rails, prices ranging from s3S to Gao accord,
inR 70 quantity and place OF delivery.
The ice harvest from the Kennebec river ia
now estimated Mt G7i,M0 tons, and there were
AoAoOo tons left over from last year
me newly completed census of the industrial
establishments OF Philadelphia shows that GS, 7Oi
United States returns
The coal fields west of Cascades have been
partially explored, and new veins CONTAINING
al rough estimate S0.001C00 tons of good btu.
Idaho. COMMIT
Five million dollars will be invested In erect.
ing buildings on twenty acres of ground at Bea.
yer palls pennsylvania and the establishment
OF oarbed wire works.
The real estate business of Montgomery Ain
bamil Is on IL boom. IL IL estimated that the
transactions for the past Ave months exceed
those OF tho past five years.
Inc walnut timber on large tract of land
near Covington, Tennessee, has been sold 10 n
Memphis firm at 81 to slO per thousand, accord.
ing TO Size.
The coal mines of New Mexico are the largest
outside OF pennsylvania, and as they have been
rately figure on the future of these belts
The Western Union proposes to lay pneumatic
tuDes III New York city TO Foriysoeond street,
anu u me sending of messages I'm this manner Is
successful, poles and overhead wires win be
The total exports from the port of Philadel.
pnia last month were valued at So 3G2 $40 of
wmch S,O6177 was taken out in American yes.
sens. inc Total showed an increase of s26l, 1856
over January. 1882.
There are 5000 Cinnamon, go laundries, and
81 chinese groceries In New York city. and a
newspaper printed in Chinese characters has
been started to secure their patronage.
The citizens of Franklin, Massachusetts,. aro
hpout starting Two new manufacturing enter.
piises, one OF rubber and one of cotton goods,
tai of $3.50 0bO f'
Savannah Georgia, which, according to tho
new city directory, contains population of 40, .
600 per annum. '''
II Is said that fifty years ago shad were so plen.
uiul III me savannah river that fishermen ex.
corn for one shad
The demand for oleomargarne Is increasing.
Inc Wholesale price Is about 20 cents and retail
70 cents The facilities for its manufacture are
increasing annually
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nuisance TO the sheep farmers, and although
Tc00, OOO skins have been produced IN less than
WE'VE months, there Is no sign of diminution
san francisco during the past year shipped TO
| foreign ports agricultural implements, hardware
ana machinery to the amount of 81, 3S6. $50, the
greater portion of which went to Mexico and
the Hawaiian Islands.
Inc brewers Of New York have aseertained
mat SiO 700 worth of barrels have been annually
stolen and sold outside the city by the collusion
OF drivers and coopers.
Inc tobacco industry is one of the most i'm.
pOrtant Ill Germany. There are Is, 900 manufao.
turers, and, directly. about $780, zoo persons earn
their living by the growth and Manufacture OF
this important article
Arkansas City Mail: Colonel L. UQuhart, of
the Little Rock OIL " Compress company has a
skeih OF hber made from cotton STALKS. which,
III appearance and strength is equal to hemp OF
good quality. tits the product OF machine In.
| York" ''N"
The Watertown. New York, Times states tina,
recently In all OF tho local butter markets of st
Lawrence county, prices have dropped 10 "
cents for the very best quality. The decline has
been caused by the ascerialnment of the fact
that the city markets are stocked beyond any
present demand, and are likely to DO for some
time TO come.
1t proposed to establish three oreamerles In
ontario at government expense to give ins,ruc
uons III butter.making. Creamery butter sells
from 10 III cents per pound higher than ordi
nary butter. One enterprising young farmer IN
ottawa went over into the states, took lessons IN
an American creamery and now his butter sell,
10 cents higher than that OF his neighbors
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HARTMANN