Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-30
'Not included IN totals.
BUSINESS BREvIT1Es.

ONTARIO crops have passed through the
trying weather very well.
THE Little Annie mining property Of Sum.
mitville, CAL, was sold under foreclosure at
Del Norte, Thursday, to Posey & Crawford.
Price, se50000.
UNDER the new Cuban tariff law importers
and exporters will have to pay $l,10o year
at Havana, $500 at second-class ports and 500
at all other ports.
place special agents at all Cuban ports to
report all packages of goods legally or llle-
gally brought into CUBA.
THE New York building trades strike
against the Iron League has extended TO q
dozen more buildings and $1,000 more men,
The number now out is 10000.
CARPET and upholstery dealers OF the
.'The Renaissance Grub" A clubhouse will
be opened in New York City this fall.
DURING the fiscal year ending June 80 H.
557 vessels passed through the $500" Canal,
2027 more than in 1891, the largest previous
year. The tonnage also increased 17.5 per
cent.
WHAT is claimed to be the first rteel foun-
dry west OF Pittsburg, will be ready for
work at st. Louis in few days, employing
from 200 to 300 men. The Shickle, Harrison
and Howard Company are the owners.
Ex-CoyeREssMAN FISHER, of West Day City,
and j. I. Hurst, of Wyandotte, Mich, have
purchased p square miles OF pine land on
the WahnipitB river, Georgian BAY district,
which 1t is estimated will cut 50l 0o0, 600 feet
o! lumber.
Mr.. PIrcATTHY, of Denver, and Mr.. Wilson.
of New York. are in St. Johns, N. b., in con-
ference with the proprietors OF the Joggins
conl mines. Negotiations are going on for
the purchase of This property by syndicate
of New York capitalists.
TIE Executive Committee of the New Eng
land Granite Manufacturers Association
passed a resolution that, fnasmuch as the
cutters did not see fit to accept the manu-
facturers' terms the latter refuse TO make
any further proposition.
THE Western coal sales agents Thursday
made no advance in price for August. The
Eastern sales agents took the same action
and fixed the production for August Mt 3,OOo,-
900 tons. which is the same as in August.
1891. and 500, 900 tons less than the production
for the present month.
ACCORDING to the budget law shortly to be
enforced in Cuba. q transitory duty will be
imposed upon all imported goods except the
following: Flour, lard. hams bacon, corn,
wheat. jerked beef, vegetables, vermicellf
oil, crude petroleum. ice, cheese. salted fsh,
meat and potatoes. To the above articles
will be added those contained In schedules
A and D Of the commercial treaty with the
United States
IRON and ore shippers seem to be getting
in chape to be measurably Independents of
the grain movement by fall. Yet vessel men
point to the large stock piles at certain non
Bessemer mines and argue that sooner or
later if the 1000. 600 ton movement of the last
wear ia TO be oaralleled, this ore will come
down, and that while the ore men, who have
already sold well up, are having present
advantage, the sales to late furnace buyers
will bring the vessel owners opportunity.
The grand officers of the Order of Railway
Telegraphers and the officials of tho Monon
Railroad have signed an agreement which
raises the pay OF operators all around and
makes the working rules much more accept
able By the terms of the company all Of
fees which formerly paid s35 month will in
the future pay s45. the latter being the mini
mum price to be paid to operators. Those
over is and below SIS are raised $40 month.
Train dispatchers are raised from SS5 and $50
for "Trickmen" to $105, while the chiefs will
receive Sis. The operator. will also receive
extra compensation for over time.