The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-04-18
INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS.

Good apples are selling in Maine at
81 Is barrel. e#
The trade value OF the bride bits Of
the country is estimated at more than
&, 500. 900.
Boston shoe shipments are 10000
cases ahead of what they were at this
date last year.
The total number of hogs packed in
the United States during the year ended
March 1st was ii 1886
The $1,000 travelling salesman OF this
country cost about 500, 000.0 900 a year.
including about $40 .ooO. 900 for expenses
alone.
Toronto master carpenters have Of
fered to give workmen ~ cents an hour
increase, and nine hours day after July
lst.-Toronto Globe.
Capitalists Of London and Charleston
have subscribed s., 900, 900 with which to
build furnaces in a new iron district
twelve miles from Birmingham, Ala.
Nearly 5000. 900, 900 would be due
were al insured Americans to die at
once. Nearly 81 600 900 900 have already
been paid on death losses in the United
States.
An inventive genius in Chapinville,
Conn, is said to have had a wagon so
constructed, that a crank connected
with the rear axle is made to churn but
ter during his daily drives.
For the season the total shipment OF
apples from all American ports has
betn S05, S4S barrels. Last season
the total shipment was 746,773. This
seasons shipment is not yet furnished.
Sugar cultivat' ouha been initiated in
Southern Florida. Over two hundred
acres have ben prepared for the plant
ing of the cane near KIssimmee City,
where a sugar factory will be erected.
New England farmers complain that
the price OF eggs has not been so low for
a quarter of q century. Ii is doubtful
whether there will be profit. in import
ing eggs from Holland this year.
Various processes have been brought
forward for producing satisfactory
substitute for the ordinary wooden pail.
and the most successful effort in this
direction appears to have been accom-
plished with paper pulp.
The English government proposes to
try experiments in tobacco cultivation
in England, with the hope OF raising as
good, if not q better article than that
grown in this country. According to
the opinion OF experts there is small
chance Of success.
Lumber dealers say that the collapse
OF roller-skating has left large quantities
of lockwood on their hands without q
market. The various processes of photo
engraving upon metal surface have
further reduced the former demand of
engravers for lockwood, which is be-
coming cheaper.
Charles Godshaw, a Louisville man,
has invented a new bottle for beer.
champagne and other effervescent
liquors. which he claims does away with
extra fastening for the cork. The hole
for the cork is in the side OF the neck Of
the bottle, and there is no opening at
the top. The harder the gas pushes the
faster the cork stays, says the inventor.
An interesting experiment in distribu-
tive cooperation is about to be insti-
tuted in st. Louis. A large manufac-
turing firm there invites its employees
TO Join in testing the usefulness Of re-
tail cooperative store. The firm pro-
poses to furnish the room and buy the
first stock Of goods. The employees are
asked TO select managers and control
the store themselves. All business is to
be on a cash basis.
1t is said that the use Of natural gas
at Pittsburg, Penn. for manufacturing
purposes is so general as to remove from
the city It's dirty and smoky appearance.
Instead of smoke pouring fourth in
clouds the sky is clear. The gas costs
20 per cent. less than coal. The profits
of the business are immense. One COM
pany has a capital of S. 1000 invested,
aud its revenue is 81 500, 600 a year. al
fording dividends of / per cent. per
month, while q great surplus is being
heaped up. Some wells have been
yielding gas for fifteen or twenty-five
years and are still supplying all that is
required from them.