The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-07-27
TKADE llEais.

the jam Of logs In Muskegon river is thir-
sy-ive miles long, with Newaygo in the
centre.
Forest fires thus far this season have been
unusually destructive.
South Carolina has 1853 flour grist and rice
mills, employing 4,310 whites and blacks, EN-
ploying capital OF $2,755,15O, and turning out
sj,2SS,6OJ worth of flour, feed, etc.
The total sales OF wool in Boston since Jan
gary /, 1881, have been 55,D,IM pounds,
against 62,2l7,Ii5 pounds for the correspond
ing period of 1888, decrease of 6,2lS3l6
pounds.
The total shipments Of boots and shoes
nom Boston since January have been 1885,
SIS cases, against l,3I5,593 cases for the cor
responding period in 1888, and l,2i5, iS3 cases
In 1882, and ,692 cases in 1881.
Dominion farmers complain of the toll on
peas through the Welland canal, and threat
en- to ship through tine United States to Liv-
erpool.
HoIyoke, Massachusetts,, is expected to be
come not only the greatest paper manulac-
surfing, but the greatest paper exporting city
in the world.
1t looks as If the "sardlne" packing bust
ness in Maine had been overdone The mar
ket at present Is over supplied, and there are
dozens of idle factories along the shore. The
great profits which were promised last year
have been eaten up by the competition.
A party OF cotton-mill men at Fall River,
Mass contemplate removing their mill to
Hot Snr'ngg Ark They have machinery
which cost over 100000, embracing $500 spin
dies, ITO looms, an engine Of lS0-horse power,
Ant other property when they will plant in
the valley. Their proposition is to stock the
soncern, taking $20,OOO themselves, and ask
Mat the citizens subscribe $4,000, putting In
Ale whole at $4,000.
The aggregate receipts OF wool at Boston
since January have been PISSED bales do
nestle and -, SO bales foreign, against 1875, t73
bales domestic and 2S,J1S bales foreign for the
corresponding period of 1883. This is an
increase of 2,626 bales domestic and OF 3,59S
bales foreign.
COOS De Lesseps, In calculating the cost OF
his canal, estimated that N, 100000 cubic me-
tiers would have 10 be taken out TO complete
the work, and that the canal would pass
through the opening In the hills at Culebra
which is 31sz miles from the Atlantic ocean
and the highest point on the line. De Les
seps and his party of engineers were here In
1880. The engineers said the canal would cos
3l6S, 900 In gold. DE Lesseps, while ON tn,
way TO New York, reduced their $685. 900, 900 Il
tlD,OOO,0OO. He IL not an engineer. He GU
down the figures OF the experts $4,000.
go, aud fioated his first issue Of
stock for canal at 1920 600 600 gold, or 800 600
90 francs. His engineers now find that tn,
Sulebra level can not be used, az the curve
would be too short for the canal, and that the
next best level is 100 feet higher, making the
sut S63 feet there instead OF 263 Ne Lessons
lad intended TO have steep banks. In the
tropics they are not practicable, but Will have
10 he at least one In four for the right incline
40,0O0,OOO cubic meters of earth at Culebra
which, at the present cost of labor, will in.
volve an expense of 100000 gold, not In.
alluded by De Lesseps In his $l2O, 900 900 clrcu
lation.
New South Wales has an area OF 30s,O0
square miles. and in 1883 had Sl7 ,iGS inhabit
ants and l,Sl5 miles of railway, whose averag,
cost was fl2,l6l per mile. Their gross earn
ings1n 1881 were 81 ,65S,S their net earning
f764,229 which Is equivalent TO fl,417.8 gross
and fSl2.l6s net per mile, f235 more net thar
the earnings OF railroads in the UniteI
states. The net earnings were 5l-6per cent
On the capital expended, an emlnently salts
hctory result, as the Interest paid by tn,
government is less than that. The Govern
ment has authorized the expenditure OF ell,
10000 more for railroad construction, o
which f3,OOO,0OO was negotiated last year
This is the only Australian colony that ha
adopted the English and American standar,
gauge of5tfeet 81 inches. A connection o
me Victorian railroads Is almost completed
and one with Queensland, the colony mex
Rorth, Is In progress.