The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-07-28
TRADE ITEMS.

THE jam of logs in Muskegon river is thir-
ty-ffve miles long, with Newaygo in the
sentre.
Forest fires thus far this season have been
unusually destructive.
South Carolina has ,5GS flour, grlst and rice
mills, employing 4S10 whites and blacks, en-
ploying a capital of S2,755750, and turning out
600 worth of -four, feed, etc.
The total sales of wool In Boston since jan
uary /, 1891, have been 55,999,i29 pounds,
against ", ,7i5 pounds for thecOrrespond-
ing period of 1888, decrease of 0,2lS,3l6
pounds.
The total shipments of boots and shoes
from Boston since Januaryl have been l,32S,-
6SS cases, against l,3I5,5B cases for the cor
responding period In 1888, and l,2l5,l S3 cases
In 1882 and ,l6S 1852 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.
Holyoke Massachusetts, IS expected to be-
come not only the greatest paper manuiac-
turing but the greatest paper exporting city
In the world.
1t looks as II the "sardine" packing bust
ness in Maine had been oVerdone. The mar
ket at presents over supplied, and there are
dozens 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 Mt Fall River,
Mass F, con template removing their mill to
Hot Springs, Ark. They have machinery
which cost over 100000, embracing 1850 spin
dies, ITO looms, an engine of lS0-horse power,
ana other property which they will plant In
the valley. Their proposition is to stock the
concern, taking $1,000 themselves, and ask
mat the citizens subscribe $4,000, putting in
fhe whole at $4,000
The aggregate receints of wool at Boston
Ance January have been 2lS,S.g bales do
nestle and 32, 575 bales foreign, against TO-, Z73
bales domestic and 2S,yIS bales foreign for the
corresponding period of 1883. This is an
increase of 23,626 bales domestic and of 3,59S
niles foreign.
Count De Lesseps, in calculating the cost of
his canal, estimated that S700O,00O cubic me
ters would have to be taken out 10 complete
the work, and that the canal would pass
through the opening In the hills Mt Culebra,
which Is S74 miles from the Atlantic ocean,
Snd the highest point on the line. Dc Les
seps and his party of engineers were here in
lSSO. The engineers said the canal would cost
flbS, 1900 in gold. De Lesseps, while on the
way to New York, reduced their $l6S, O0O, 900 to
slO,0OO,00O. He is not an engineer. He cut
down the figures OF the experts $4,000
900, and hoated his first issue of
1oek for canal at tl20, 900 gold, or COO OOO
90 francs. His engineers now find that the
Gulebra level can not be used, ~ the curve
would be too short for the canal, and that the
next best level Is 100 feet higher, making the
cut B3 feet there instead OF 263. DE Lesseps
had intended 10 have steep banks In the
70 be NJ least one In four for the right incline.
This difference means the removal of an extra
iD,OOVO cubic meters OF earth at Cuebra,
which, at tSe present cost OF labor, will In
volye an expense OF sG2,OO0,O0O gold, not in
GUIDED by De Lesseps In his $l2O 10000 circu-
1aiion.
New South Wales has an area OF sos 900
square miles. and In 1881 had sl7, i6S inhabit-
ants and LBS miles OF railway,whose average
cost was fl2,lBl per mile. Their gross earn
mgs In 1881 were fl,O5S,SBi; their net earnings
f764,229 which Is equivalent 10 fl,i77.6 gross,
and fSl2.l 6s net per mile, f235 more net than
the earnings of railroads in the United
states. The net earnings were l-Gper cent
on the capital expended, an eminently salts.
factory result, MS the interest paid by the
Government IL less than that. The Govern
nlent has authorized the expenditure OF ell, =
eDOOO0 more for railroad construction, OF
which f3,OOO,0OO was negotiated last year
This Is the only Australian colony that has
adopted the English and American standard
gauge OF feet So inches. A connection of
he Victorian railroads Is almost completed
and one with Queensland, the colony next
north, Is In progress.