The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-03-07
TRADE ITEMS.

TINS cotton mill at Aurora, Illinois. Is rapidly
approaching The stage when Il will be In condl'
. ton to receive Us machinery
Traverse City has about l00OO,OsO feei or lum'
Der cut lat year on hand.
The bum g OF the Calumet Iron and Steel
onpAnys stock -house will In no way Interfere
tntii thet steel furnaces or nail mills. The Bay
Visw wills are also steadily at work,
y-Ths electric Light appears to be doing better
III Englfnd than in this country. There are
ninety English electric light companies, with a
total capital OF s26.t 600 which Is almost as
much as that OF III. gas companies 200
The cigar faclo ~ seviils 10 nV ieet iong
make cisaiett.s and COO women 70 mak6oi-
rsrs. Ten thousand pounds Of Tobacco a e
consumed each day The W. ges are about 30
cents day for twelve hours wors.
n There are at ihe. present iime over $500 saw
mills in the United States making lumber but
the staten Mt IS made by u journal devoted TO
the lumtef interest that thele are not now In
All OF flen 100 hrst-class lleIs and sawyels.
Will there are over 1000 millmen who arc
willing TO pay hrst-class men al the wages they
ask. r., a.
mon OF r bruary were IS g.Ol; the expen'
ditures were era, 1880. leaving profit fof The
month ofs4,00O 81.
The imports OF foreign merchandise at New
York during the past week were slightly above
the ususl average, The total being Is, 239,O1l o.
which s6,35i 600 represents general merchan-
disc aad the remainder l,ss716D dry goods.
The receipts OF coffee, sugar. nnaiessed hides,
hemp, aud imports aggregate s76 800, 7lS. against
tSo eos, 2O5 for the corresponding period OF 1883.
The Kirby -CarpCnter Lumber company, Me.
nominee Michigan, has 81 600 0e0 fett Of logs
-Four log drives started last year are hung up
mt poiuts on the Muskog1n river Michigan,
There will ba about 49, 600 0 iGet OF logs
bank "a on he ChipteHa hyer, wisconsin, this
winter
Up to February ith the Mexican government
exchanged, in accordance with the con ract
$50 100 zoo OF silver for the =ckel money, which
caused so much recent rebeliious feeling IN
some Inc prov lIgor. 4 AS OyAsl.Ss S.-llel ~.
an exchange OF $4,000 day. but the demands
for silver ON the 18th amounted D. only s2y37
Arizona show Cd u very 10 narkable progress
during the past year, her population OF 5000
having do nled IN three years Assessed
wealth, s2i. 200, 0OQ against sl2tO1,OO0 IN lSS
rraln productions 81 $4,000 pounds cattle,
2s5, COO sheep $500 900; stock increase during
the year, so per cent; silver and gold bullion
outpu, Tor the year, SEQ 900 copper bullion
2s 90 900 pound: v In OF the total product Of
the precious bullion and copper In Arizona the
last four years. 35 ji2,OC0
The mills along the wisconsin q niral rail-
road make q sho sing Of ltS 900 feet OF lum-
bcr and &c 7iTOO shingles manufactured last
year in excess OF $50
The boys In the neighbOrhood OF Jonosport
Maine contain millions OF tons of the best
quality of peat for fuel
In Nap. the grape crop varies from five to
Afteea tons 10 the acre. Eight tons u grapes TO
the acre excite no more attention there than
fhivty bushels OF wheat 10 the are do Ia this
county The rulirg price OF grapes last year
was about 81 per ton. Therefore. vineyard
or 20 acres In good yesr will yield 100 tons OF
fruit, that will bring ut s3l ton, just sL9d9.