Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-09-20

They we're lying on the stones out u
the sun. The cotton was poorly packed
some of the bales were open ana th'
white wool seemed to be bursting ou'
I'm every direction. | hear complaints
everywhere about the poor packing o.
our merchandise. and especially aOou'
the pOorly packed cotton. Complaint
are common at Manchester ana Liver
pOol. and unlayurabo comparisons ART
made ms to our shippers and those OF
India and Egypt The custom officer.
were samphng the bales while ] passed
through the cotton wharves. Thej
opened each bale and took out bun
die IN order to assess the duty upon II
They did their work well hut II seem
ed to me that the amount Of cotton re-
moved was unnecessarily large.
THE BIG HORSES OF FRANCE.
The hauling Of the cotton from one
part of the wharVes TO another IS done
by Percheron horses. finer than any
horses employed about the wharyes OF
New York. | saw one hauling 10 cot
ton bales which must have weighed on
the average 500 pounds each. and ! hnd
that the usual French load Tor one
horse is from three TO five tons. In the
country one horse Is expected TO haul
at least three tons, and this Is 50
throughout north France. The horses
are wen kept and are apparently no
worse for such loads. They compare "a
vorably with the Clydesdale and Shire
horses which | described In my letters
from Liverpool, and they viii haul
about as large loads The streets alo1g
the Havre docks are paved with cob
bles, and as far as can see they are no
better than similar streets In New
York In the country the roads are ma
cadami2ed. You can drive for hundreds
Of miles and not find a rough place, so
that the horses can haul great loads.
Nearly an the hauling here Is done
upon one horse carts. If there Is a
second hose II goes in front Of the one
In the shafts. three and four-horse
teams sometimes being so hltched up
! tandem. The carts have fiat beds
about Is feet lang and three feet wide,
with shafts about half the thickness OF
telegraph poles The shafts are on
hinges. and the loads are raised and
lowered by means of n wIndlass where
the shafts Join and on the left of the
cart. This windlass also binds ropes
about the loads 10 hold them on The
wheels are about as high as the hind
wheels Of a farm wagon and the aver
age cart itself viii weigh, / should
| think, about q ton. All weights are es-
| timated in kiogra ms and was shown
! loads which ! was told weighed az
much as 5000 Kilograms hauled by one
horse. II IS roughly estimated that L.
| Oo0 kilograms equal one ton
SOME QUEER AMERICAN EXPORTS
Among the curious exports | see here
| are dried apples from New York and
! corn oil cake from Chicago The dried
| apples are used for making French CT.
der and are brought here from America
for that purpose France takes some
thing like II. 100000 pounds of such APP
pies every year.
| The cider made from them IS sold at
all the restaurants and cafes. II costs
but few cents a glass, and 1t Is better
than any hard cider have ever tasted
! IN the United states. The corn oil cake
/ Is refuse of our Indian corn after the
oil has been squeezed out Of Il. 1t Is
used for feeding, as is also American
cCttonseed meal and oil cake The
ccrn cake | saw came from Chicago.
| FRANK G. CARPENTER.