Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-22
A BOOM FOR THE TOBY
An Order for Several Thousand Just
Received From Mexico.
WORKING GAREALESTATEMYSTERY
Revival of the Sorghum Industry That
May Help Western Pennsylvania.
MOVEMENTS In STOCKsANDPETROLEUM

The fragrant and economical toby, so dear
to the heart of the Pittsburg smoker, is to
be given trial IN Mexica, an Allegheny
City manufacturer having received an order
from Tampic for several thousand, as an
experiment. This is the beginning of what
may develope into a large trade in this
luxury. Who knows but the toby may
take the place of the cigarette in the atfec-
tions of the fair senoritas of the land of the
Montezumas?
Unless signs go for naught something un-
usual transpred in the real estate market yes
terday. Persistent pumping failed to elicit
any information as to the significance of the
movement. but nobody denied that something
big was in the air. One delegation of dealers
took observations on Diamond street and held
mysterious consultations afterward. prom
inent capitalist was one of the party, and was
very eloquent in stating or explaining some
thing. One of the oldest dealers on Fourth
avenue paid hurried visit to the East End,
accompanied by a stranger, and another went
over to the Southside, where he was closeted
for some time with an iron manufacturer
That something was up was certain, but what
it was, and is, is as much of a puzzle as the
authorship of the letters of Junius.
The new stories added to the Lewis block
contain 1OO rooms. Although not completed,
it is said that all of them have been engaged
for offices at good prices. Property in that To-
cality is in demand at $500 foot, and one or
two deals at those figures are in progress. The
average price for property on Fifth avenue,
between Grant and Market, is about 5000
foot.
There are ITO iron bridges in the county
making Excluding half lengths of three inter
county bridges) 65543 lineal feet, or one and
| twenty-five huDdredths miles of iron super
structures. These bridges were erected at
cost of, in round numbers, S2S0,0O0. If the
county roads were in as good shape as the
bridges, it would be better for the business of
Pittsburg As it is, it is impossible at certain
seasons of the year to haul farm products to
the city. Farmers have good cause to kick
against this neglect of their interests.
A Butler county farmer. just from Kansas,
said yesterday, that the manufacture of sugar
from sorghum cane is becoming an important
| industry in that State. The production last
year was 100000 pounds of sugar and 100000
| gallons of molasses-both of superior quality.
Before the war sorghum was extensively culti-
waited in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and was
profitable crop. Why it was abandoned has
not been satisfactorily accounted for. The But
| Ter county granger thinks so highly of sorghum
that he proposes to devote several acres to its
cultivation this season. Sorghum has been
| grown to some extent in Western Pennsylva-
mia, but seems to have been given up. 1t is too
valuable crop to be ignored.
According to correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Record, oil land in this State is becom-
ing very scarce, and territory which is at all
| promising is being steadily bought up. The
great oil fields of Butler, Clarion. Venango,
Warren and Mexican counties are now worked
exclusively for second crop wells" that is to
say, small wells in old territory that few years
ago would hardly be accepted as wells at all.
! Washington county continues to be the richest
picking for the oil hunter, and the deep and
expensive drilling is no encouragement to
him. The most activity in the matter of work
ing over an old field is in Venango county,
where the drill is bobbing in almost every
township.