The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-05-03
TRADE TIE MS.

IHE last WOlI was killed III GTeaJ Dltdl
two hundred years ago.
Parties are now at work inspecting tn
gold mines in Madison county, Georgia.
Strawberry farms in the vicinity OF Lit
| tie Rock. Arkansas, pay an average prof
OF $lI per acre.
Colorado's coal output is estimated at
81 AGO, 600 for 1852, counting the coal wortl
So per ton at the mines.
A bout 450 miles of thread are made eacl
day in American mills. Thirty years agt
it was all imported.
A Detroit man is looking over Council
Bluffs with view Of establishing glucose
works there.
The Longfellow copper-mines at Clifton
cans and Cinnamon.
A Canadian has invented a method o
putting glass in sash without the emp oy
ment of putty.
Texas has this year furnished 70 the
world, outside her own limits, $l2O ,UtO,OOt
of products.
Umbrellas are made in France to thu
aggregate value of S6,0'00,0O0. Turkey ii
her best foreign customer.
The product of the Dominion fish cries
for the past year is valued at $i6,0S8,G72
being an increase in value compared witt
last year of $27l $40.
The Italian government charges admis
sion to al the art galleries. always free il
the pas, and makes 100000 year out OF
it.
1t is estimated that the commerce which
floats down the Hudson river annually il
worth S7G,pOO,0O0.
The new bridge across the Tay river will
cost $500 900, and, it is thought, will tax,
six years to build. Its center and longes
span will be 2i5 feet in length.
The government has spent S9,5OO,OO II
improving the rivers and harbors in the
state of New York.
Dur.ng the past year ending March l
sixty light new paper mills have gone int
operation in this county. and thirty-sevel
mills now in course of construction.
TIE aggregate value Of the property o.
coored people throughout Tennessee is SCI
$G7l, l79 over the preceding year.
Upwa.d of 1900 cars OF lumber and
merchandise are shipped annually from
Muakegon, besides the enormous lake
traffic.
During March 65,624 barrels of salt were
inspected In Saginaw county, 50,4 6S IN Ba,
county, and 9,4Ol in Huron county; total
l25, !93.
A gold vein has been struck in Gains
vile, Florida, by men digging an artesiar
we'll. 1t is believed 1t will assay from $50
to 600 per ton of ore.
The orange fever in Florida this spring II
higher than ever. Land that could hav,
been bought year ago for $40 an acre il
now held at $50.
France, in 1882, expended s., 100000 fo
| tobacco. talt million was for Havari
cigars, 81 100000 was for snuff, $4,000, 0U
for smoking tobacco, aud $l,S00,000 70
| chewing tobacco.
The Key West sponge fleet, numbering
seventy We sells AMI about 600 men, is on
on cruise. A large catch of sponge bring
about $500, 900 into that city.
The Norfolk Virginian estimates tina
there is coal enough IN the mines recentl
opened in Pocahontas county, West Vii
ginia, to supply the demands of the mort
| for two hundred years to come.
1t is estimated that in the two Carolinas
Georgia aud Louisiana total populdtlU
of about 100000 people, white and oolored
dependent upon the cultivation Of rice.
Some prospectors in the Wood rive
county, Idaho, have discovered platinum
mine OF marvellous richness. They shippe
| 100 lbs of ore to Omaha, and the return
were so satisfactory that 400 los. NOR
have been got ready to ship, which, if q
rich as the irst lot, will yield $4,000.
The total land area Of the United States
not including Alaska, is 900, 500 ,0C) acre,
and the total amount of farms, accordin
to the last census 5360Sl S35 acres. Th
| number of acres owned by the governmer
at the time that census was taken was l
273 $40, j3S.
New York city has 1000 rag-picker
whose annual collections are valued {
| $3.50 900, while the hand-carts engaged !
the same business gather 100000 wort
of paper stock. The entire rag trade of th
country amounts TO $50, 600, 000 annually.
Platinum has al last been found in Cal
! furuia dltei a long search ana great q
of expense in the interest of electric con
panies, who value the metal because
lasts longest under the intense heat that
evolved in separating the fight for illumini
ton with the least heat.
The official returns give the value OF th
tobacco consumed in France ia 1852 at 363
500. 600 francs. Cigars show a total Of 60
500 900 francs; cigarettes, 100000 an
chewing tobacco, 100000. The heavie
amount, 27s,0OO, 900 francs, was for ordinar
m)king tobacco.
A large amount Of capital is being inves
ed IN enterprises In the southern state
with the result oinot only bringing prof
TO investors, put Of adding very MATERIAL
to the wealth and prosperity Of that Sc
ton Of this country. The south to-da'
with its cotton mills and iron mines an
mills, stands as a promising rival TO IN
east and north, and northern capital
bringing about this result.
Tue imports Of foreign merchandise
New York during the past week were
very good prop 1rtiOns, the total being -
G12 $50. The movement Of dry goods as
usual about this season, is on the wane, N
total for the week being but 81, $40 973. Th
imports Of general merchandise, howeve
sre quite heavy. amounting TO the unusui
total, for this year at least Of S7.16l jJi
Sugar continues TO arrive In unusual
large quantities. the receipts TOR last wee
being valued at 81 967 .O74. The imports
coffee, hemp, iute-butts, undressed hide
and wool are also quite heavy. Since jar
nary ]. the imports at Ner York aggregai
sf3s O7l.3i5. AGAINST Sl49 3lO.2I2 ~ N
corresponding Deriod Of lss2, and sl2l 81
go for ISL,
During the month Of March . vessel
Jeff the port ol New Orleans. carr ing
IS Go bushels Of corn and 5l3 80 hushe
of wheat, a fOisl Of 2300.5s3 bushels
grain, against 800, 42l for March Of last yea
I'm increase Of about so per cent. Sine
seutem her !, the grain exports have bee
I3.134. pa bushels Of corn, against CD. SIS iai
vear and sos go bushels Of wheat. agsin'
So qZ7 in 1872. The Times Democrat. ]
giving these figures. says: There canDS
he d1ub. that this yesr's export of graf
from New Orleans, ike its export Of c0ttO'
l will Be the largest ever known. and thi
| our entire commerce vill exceed that of Oh
best wear during the flush times before n
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