The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-01-29
agricultural.
SOUTHERN ITEMS.

Texas is furnishing Alaska with
horses.
Key West has a guava marmelade
factory.
A chalk mine has been opened at
Trinity, Texas.
The first coffee raised in the United
States was grown on the Manatee
river in Florida.
Five new tobacco factories are be-
ing built at present at Reedsville,
North Carolina.
Mining is being actively pushed in
the new gold mines in Murray coun-
ty, GA.
A new broom handle factory is to
be established in Gadsden, Ala, ca
pacity 5000 handles per day.
In Mississippi rich beds of iron
ore have been discovered at Duck
Hill. The deposits are said to be
very large.
Seven hundred barrels of oil were
taken from a whale found dead in the
Bay of Santa Cruz, Cal, recently.
It's estimated that ten million dol
lars worth Of grass is annually CON
sumed by the prairie dogs of North
ern Texas.
A company in Hickman county,
Tenn, is making alcohol out Of wood
and another makes metallic wool out
of furnace Stag.
Stockton, Cal, has a factory engag-
ed in making coffee from chickory.
1t is raised near there. The crop
brings, it is said, at the rate of $50
an acre.
Beds of gypsum of superior quality
have been opened for more than
twenty miles along the Holston and
Smith counties, Virginia.
Riverside, Fla, is the name of a
new town recently surveyed and laid
out on the banks of old Suwanee riv-
er, some twenty miles south of Live
Oak. 1t is said to be pleasantly and
prettily located.
There are now seven mills in Pitt
sylvania county, Va, engaged in the
manufacture of sassafras oil. 1t takes
seventy-fyc pounds of roots to make
a gallon of oil, which sells for s405
per gallon. 1t is used for flavoring
soaps.
The Pensacola Commercial says
that the moss crop of Florida is worth
more than the cotton, and can be put
on the market at less expense. The
demand exceeds the supply, and there
is not county in the State In which
this product is not going to waste.
The fish merchants of Cedar Keys,
Fla, report that they are unable to
supply the demand for fish this year.
Thousands Of dollars are invested and
hundreds Of men are engaged in the
business. At Lockloosa quite a bus
mess is done in shipping fish. Pan
asofka lake and the Withlacoochee
river also abound in fish.
Far out at sea along the gulf coast
Of Florida are several springs of fresh
water. They are well known to the
spongers and fishermen, who fire.
quently visit them to replenish their
water casks. On this same coast is
an oil spring which difiuses a calm
over troubled waters and affords a
safe refuge to small vessels during a
gale.
Mr.. Swcnsden, the gentleman who
has decided to move his sorghum SUI
gar mills from Kansas to Tennessee,
gives rs his reasons for so doing, that
not only is Tennessee cane richer in
saccharinc matter, but that the yield
per acre is almost double The aver
age in Kansas being eight, and in
Tennessee fifteen tons per acre.
Cotton seed is the Southern bonan-
"a. There are three and half
pounds Of seed to every pound of
fiber. More tlan 100000 tons are
produced annually, but, notwith-
standing the rapid increase in the
number of mills, only about ten per
cent of the seed is crushed, the rest
being largely thrown away A ton
Of seed yields thirty-fyc gallons of
oil, twenty-five pounds Of cotton, and
seven hundred and fifty pounds of
cake, used for fattening cattle The
oil is largely used for making fine
soaps, and when refined properly can
hardly be distinguished from olive
oil, which it is superseding for many