Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 30, 1889, Page 3

CONDITION OF IRON TRADS, Manufacturers Are Making Up for Former Losses. THE OUTLOOK VERY BRIGHT, In the South a €cene of Activily Prevalls—Prospeets of a Remarkable Extension of the Business. on on the Noom, Tt may be broadly said, so far as such a genoral statement is admissible in an indus- try 80 varied, that the iron and steel trade is now in an excoptionally prosperous condi- tion. In some lines, indeed, quite extraordi- nary profits are reaped. In others, manu- facturors are now earning the returns which compensate them for years of meager divi- dends or actual loss, says the Tron Age. Of course, local conditions and the individuality of the management cause such wide differ- ences that anything boyond generaiization s impossible. Nor do we in this country possess the guide which the reports of public companies furnish, notably in England and in Germany. Still some data are common property, which enable a pretty clear iaca to be formed of the returns in certain lines of industry and in certain parts of the country. They allow of the pre- mentation of some general figures at least. Thus Alabama iron-makers whose statements must be accepted os conclusive, claim to be vroducing pig iron for between £0.50 una 10 per ton. Realizing, as they do, from $14 to #1450 aus the average of the grades, the profit is between &4 and 80 that they arc eatning about § month, for one furnuce, net. The invest- ment, of course, varies within wide limits, including, as it often does, large tracts of mineral property far beyond the require- ments of the plant. It is known that some of the Virginia entororisos have been paying handsomely even during the depression, and theactivity in the building of new plants in certain sections of the state by parties inter- ested in going concerns indicates that the re- turns have beev vory encouraging. In the west the makers of Bessemer pig and in some instan of special grades or foundry iron huve a very bright future be- fore them. When Bessemer pig was selling at 16 at furnace and a shade less early in the year, prices were: aamittedly close to cost. Making the most liberal allowances for the increased price of ore, say §1 per ton, for next season, taking into account the ad- vance of coke, 'in wages and froights, cost has certainly not risen yet to $10.50. But sales bave been made ot $24 to $24.50. Ac- oepting the former figure, we have an appar- ent profit of .50 per ton. Modern furnaces come close to a production of 5,000 tons per month, which would represent a monthly profit of #2,500, In the stecl branch modern wire rod mills are generally accoraed the distinction today of bemg the best vaying property. The cost of rolling is liberaily put at 30 ver ton. Added 1o the cost of billets at buyer’s miil of say, 835, & margin of about §6 per ton is probable, Rolling at the rate of 85,090 tons a month, a plant representing an imvestment including working. capital, is 000 & month, mportant branches the returns aro not exceptionally large, because the price of the finished product has not kept uce quite with the rise in raw material, $nsed on $23 pig ivon, with an allowance of 15.2 per cent for waste, $5 for labor and §.50 for moulds, refractories, magunese, repuirs and naturai zas fuel, soft steel 4x4 wire billets would cost 335. The recent |~~~ —heavy advance 1n_essemer pig has: thero- fore cut, out the profits if sales were to be made at the figures named, using material at present quotations. In the rail trade ana in the steel cut nail business a similar state of affuirs exists for those who are dependent, upon the open murket for their supplies of raw material. ‘The profits of the ore miners for the coming year promise to be unusually lurge, while the sums ecarped by the coke producers must at present prices compen- sate them fully for years of disastrous cut- ung. ‘The large returns secured during the past few months and reasonably sure for the tirst half of 1890 are likely to stimu'ate new con- struction aud expansion in a remurkable de- ree. 1In fact, haraly aday passes without ts roport of extensive betrermonts and of new enterprisss of magnitude. The south particularly is the scence of feverish ac- tivity, from Virginia to Alabama. Some of the figures which wo have quoted pale into insignificance beside the protits promised by promoters and town-lot venders, There is every indication that the crop of ventures will be enormous during the next few months, and that there will be a very liberal sprinkling of immature, il'-advised schemes. The trade zenorally is not hkely to waste much sympathy upon those who become yictims, put it will regard.them with serious miseivings, because the plants, the products of folly and extravagance, rewain a thorn in the flesh to better-planned enterprises, old and new. In spite of the fact that with modern meth- oas uf work v takes furless time to start works atter the ground has been broken, few of those now being planned will be able to participate n the fugitive benefits of a Drief season of great profits, Over n year is at least required, and pastoxperience hes that, unfortunately, good years como singly. Investors who accept a8 typical balance sheets based on the operations of going con- cerus during the past three months or oo the promise of the first half of 1800 are doomed to the sharpest disappoiutment, Enter- prises which can not pay a fair manufactur- iug profit when prices are on the level which they occupied durivg the first half of this year are unsound, They will simply swell the number of concerns having a fitful una vrecarious existence, Unless it can beshown that in ordinary times of fierce competition @ plant can denver to the marketa its prod- uet ut prices close to the cost of the majority of wellsituated, well-managed and well- equipped works, capital should shun it, Un- fortunately only oo mavy schemes are floated because” tho first set of buyers of stocks and bouds purchase them without the least idea of holding them as a permanent investwment. They propose simply to make a turn, It is not too much to say that the principal factors in thus fur proventing a boom 1n this country rivaling the advance on the other side of the Atlantic have been the wonder- ful development of the iron ore mining in- dustry in the Lake Superior region, the ex. pansion of steol-making plants east and west and.the development of pig-iron pro- duction in the south during the past three yoars, Had it not been for tnese develop- wents we would probably have kept close to the lmémrunw point, when now we are in many branches selling as low and even lower than they do in Europe, This, by the way, is & fact which must sorely puzzle those who claim that our duty is added to foreign cost, and fl,uru out bow many hundreds of mill- dons of dollurs consumers here have poured anto the pockets of iron micers and manu- facturers, 1t is a strange fact, however, that hardly has our demand succeeded in catching up with our greatly expanded produvctive ca- Pacity than we arc foverishly at work pre- paring the destruction of the equilibrium, e —— South American Railways. Beyond question one result of the meeting of the Pan-American congress will be the formation of a scheme for all-rail communi- cation between North and South America. ‘Whether a practical plan for uniting the two great divisions of the continent by a continu- ous railway will be formulated by the con- gress will be a matter of doubt, But that such encouragement will bo assured as shall lead to the projection of such a plan is un- questionable, says the Washington Post. At present the railway system of tne United States finds its southern terminus at the City of Mexico. What seems necessary for the purpose indicated is that the Mexi- nter of Central Amlflc:‘ with the :::r:vft:e-l:; res) Ve vern s of 4150 which Would thas bring the raliwey Feverish aystom of the northern half of the continent 1nto contact with that of the southern half tircotest and speediest way, pond, the commerce of both divisions, may be worth while, therefore, to note the present condition of the railway facllities of Central and South America. ‘I'ne greatest railroad undertaking that has been attempted in South America is the Transandean railway, which traverses the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacifie, and which extends from Buenos Ayres on the one hand to Valparaiso on the other, adis- 2 0f 81 miles, ‘I his enterprise was com- on years ugo, and will be fin- . Already 725 miles of its leng! have been comp leaving only 146 mi to be built. On its completion, this road will make the fourth of the direct railway connecting links between the Lwo oceans on each side of the American continent. 1ts construction is re- latively Far more costly than any of its north. ern compeers, on account of the dificulty of its grades, it having sod the Audes through the Cumb of 10,450 feet abovo the level of the sea. But its importance to the commerce of South America is us groat a8 that of the Union Pa s to us, and it may eventually be- ©ome of the utmost consequence to the trade of the whole continent An examination of the rajlway systems of the South American countries wili show that very considerable progress has been made there in that dircetion. Brazil in 1888 had 5,250 miles open for trafic, 890 miles in pro- cess of construction and 2,100 miies pro- Jected. connect, ir there were in the Argen- tine Republic 4,700 miles open to traftic and more being built. Chili has naarly los and Poru about the same numbory has 540, Ur Venezuela with as many more under con- struction, and Guatewala, Pavaguay and Ecuador about 100 h. I'nere are now in actual operation about 16,000 miies of railway, with thousands more eithier 1n construction or in coutemplation, These railways traverse lands the rich re- sources of which have been but slightly de- veloped, and the large areas of which are but scantily peopled. In view of the vast results which must follow the growth of population and development the importance of a grand trunk railway line from north to south can scarcely be overestimated. - The Manuf uring Outlook. Six new cotton manufacturing enterprises are reported this weck, and six new fac- tories will rected, snys the Boston Com- mercial Bulletin, v one of these mills will b located in the south, and operations will be commenced shortly. It is quite remarkable how New England capital is seeking investment in these southern cotton fuctories; not that northern cotton mills are unremuncrative, as witness the splendid showing of the I'all River factories, but shrewd investors aro secking great oppor- tunities in a locality, the home of the raw material, and are actng accordingly. This week’s record of the woolen mills shows a few instances of mills renewing operations and two or three new factories contem- plated. Among the knit goods wmanufac- turers there scems to be a more confident feeling, and several factories in New York were started up this week, while three new mills in different sections of the country are reported., The shoe factories havo plenty of orders ahcad, und are in the main running busily. Considerablo of the present activity in shoe factory buildiug in this state is caused by the recent Lynn Hre, manufacturers stiil looking for shops in which to locate. 5 cases of new shoe factories, either already in process of construction or contemplated, are reported in our manufacturing this week,and there are one or two instances of idle shops commencing work. The great strike at Woburn is tho principal feature in the leather manufacturing industry. ‘Uhe question at issue is not only one of wages but whether the manufacturers or émployes shall conduct the business. -The manufac- turers have seen this matter coming for some time and wore determined to bring it to an issue when they formed the association and gave out a new price list, Some twenty shops are idle and tearly two thousand men out of employ e New Industries in Moxico. Efforts to establish new dustries similar to those which many cities in the United States bave put forth are proposed in Mex- ico, says Bradstreat's, The legislature of Colima has issued a decree exempting from all kinds of taxation for fifteen years capital invested in new cotton or woolen mills, in improving the machinery of mills atready in operation and in starting paper wmills or uny other new industry. Exveriments in new branches of agriculture, especially the culti- vation of textile fibers and the vine and the olive, will receive like favors. Spinning and weaving mills already standing are to have their tuxes reduced 50 per cent when they run in full and on full time, e g 1f yow've got a pain-or ache or a bruise, Salvation Oil will reach the case instantly. Price 25 cents, Attention Voters—By resolusion passed by our legislature, all good citizens are request- ed to use Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup and recom- mend same us the people’s remedy for coughs, colds, ete. 25 cts, Ll Statistics of Hunchbacks, Ten years ago this present month, in December, 1879, a remarkable character died in Parvis. Ile was known ull over France and the greater part of all Burope as *'The Learned Hunchback.” He was very wealthy and spent a mint of money in tho last fifty years of his lifo, traveling in all dirvections making researches concerning his hunchbacked brothren, It was in the milder portions of Europe that he found the misfortune the most prevalont, Spain supplied the greater number, and in a cir- cumscribed locality at the foot of the Sierra Morena he found that there was one humpbacked person to every thirteen hn{mbitunm. They were also found to be quite numerous in the valley of the Loire in France. The little humpbacked statistician came to the conclusion that, taking the world over, there was'one humpback in each 1,000 inhabitants, or an aggregate of 1,000,000 ngainst the estimated thousand millionsof the entire earth, After the death of this eccentric in- dividual his heirs found in place of a will a voluminous manuseript of 2,000 pages, all concerning humps, The last page, although it said nothing about the dis- position of property, expressed the au- thor’s wish to bave a hump of marble raised over his grave with this inserip- tion: ‘‘Here lios a humpback who had o tasto for humps and who knew more about them than any other humpback,” —r——— We are the People. Business men from Nebraska for Chi- cago, Milwaukee and all eastorn cities will please nota that by the new time schedule (in effect from and after No- vember 17, 1880), they can arrive at Omaha about 4 p, m,, can do business or visit with Omaha merchants and friends for nearly two hours and can then take the through t'ullman sleeping car of the Chicago, Milwaukce & St. Paul railway short line fast train at Omaha depot of the Union Pacific railway at 6 Iy. m. (supper served on dining car leav- ng Council Bluffs at 6:30 p. m.), and arrive at Chicago at 9:30 a. m. (break- fast also served on dining car), in ample time to make connections with the fast morning trains from Chicago on the Frlncipal eastern and southeastern ines; ov if desived, passengers for the east can vemain over in Chicago a few hours for business or pleasure and re- sume theiwr journey by the afternoon last and limited traius of all the eastern roads, In aadition to the foregoing, another through short-liae train leaves Omaha daily at 9:15a, m, and Council Blufls at 9:40 a. m., arviving in Chicago at 6.50 a. m., making close connection with the express traius of all eastern roads. 'or tickets and further particulars ;Pply to the nearest ticket agent, or Lo . A. Nash, general agent, 1501 Farnam street, Omaha, Neb, THE WORLD ON WHEELS, Remarkable Invention of a Plutsburg Philanthroplat, Pittsburg Dispateh: The world un- doubtedly moves, and now an 1ingenions inventor has arisen in our midst who proposes that our urban popuiation shall **'get a moveon.” Like all men of genius this inventor is modest and re- fuses to disclose his name to the publie. Neither does he seok for any pecuniary feward, but Qonates his idea to o hustling and ofttimes weary peopla. The invention, which is to revolution= ize locomotion in ¢ 8, i8 o ser of tra ng sidewalks, composed of slats on an endless chain, like the floor of o horse power motor. Electrie motors, stationed at suitable distances, will fur- uish the power to movo these sidewalks at a rate of four miles an hour. As the average podestrian possesses . threes mile gaitthis will enable a man to travel ensily at the rate of seven milesan hour. Ounly half the sidewalk will travel, that portion nearest the house line being stationary. The cost of constructing and main- taining these sidewalks, 1t is suggested, shall be defrayed by gencral taxation, It is also expected that Lo money and othor valuables accidentally dropped through the slots in tho pavement will form a sinking fund which will mater- ally lighten taxation T'here are, of course, some objections to this innovation, 1t may be said that it will require some practice to step on and off the sidewalks without wnking a tumble. The inventor cails attention to the fact that the American eitizen pretty generally gets on and off horse and cable cars while in motion. While the fairer and weaker sex might experience some difficulty in gotting the knack, still they can return to the use of the bustle until they become proficient. To prevent collisions at street cor ners the electric sidewalk will be car- ried underground at crossings, Some caution will be necessary., For instanco, if a solid citizen with a family basket full of groceries stops at the cor- ner of Fifth and Smithfild to argue the political situation, and in the heat of discussion places the basket on the moving sidewalk, he may suddeniy awake to the fact that ho was unwit- ungly donated a good Sunday dinner to some unknown but doubtless deserving South Side family. Again, suppose a fond mother with the family treasure in a baby buggy steps off the sidewalk to investigate some dress goods marked down below zero, it may be necessary to telephone to the folks of the road to head off the wandering heir, Another source of trouble will arise from the fact that the sidewalks on either side of the stect move in oppos- ite directions. Mr. Allnight will start for home at 1 a. m., after spending a l)lmm\nb evening with the bo) He heads Lawrenceviile at a two-mile-an hour gait, but, after walking for two ov three hours, unaccountably finds b self in Birmingham, He has merely taken the wrong side of Smithtied street, and has been walking on a side- walk that is traveling backward at the rato of four miles an hour. The advantages claimed for this in- vention are pumerous and startling, and but a few of the more striking will be mentioned. In the first place there will no longer beany necessity for street cars, and there will be more room in the roadway for vehicles. No one would ery aloud for the cutting down of the ‘‘hump.” The sidewalk would travel as easily up hill as upon a level. In summer, the member of the Fat Man’s club, to whom loco ‘burden, wotlld leave his dence in the morning, carrying a camp stool and fan. With a good cigar in his mouth, and seated on the shady side of the street, he would placidly read a newspaper while being easily and swiftly carried to office or store. The police could sleep upon their beats and no one could grumble. If a citizen wanted an offieor he would sim- ply wait untilone was carried by and then waken him up. Again, we could abolish the patrol wagon system. All officers would be selected for their weight. When a criminal was captured he would be thrown upon the sidewallc and 260 pounds of municipal authority would sit upon him until the police sta- tion was reached, when the offender would be yanked into a cell. Moving day would be deprived of many of its horrors, The express wagon with the broken springs drawn by a horse whose bones rattle, and driven by an autocrat, could not realize %5 for moving a load of furnituve three blocks. The citizen would divide his family into two companies. One would stay at the old home and carry the furnifure onto the sidewalk, while the other con- tingent would stana in front of the new house and identify and drag off their household goods as they came sailing up the street. The strongest objections against pa- rades would be removed. 1In times of great political excitement, on the eve, say, of a presidential election, the en- thusiastic republican and democrat could turn out in gala array without the awful anticipation of walking over miles of cobblestones, or plunging through mud up to his ankles. Neither ueed he dread the awful spectacle of strong men breaking from the ranks and 1mpairing the beauty and solidity of the column when a saloon was being passed, All that would be changed. The parade would form on the best street in the city, which would be swept und decorated for the occasion, and there the brave voters would stand, shoulder- ing imitation muskets and blowing real horns, while the populace would pass by and review them from the electric sidewalks. And if a member of the Thirty-seventh Ward club became dizzy, how ensy it would be to attribute it to watching the human-freighted sidewalks going around, Then the lovers. What bliss is in store for them! Ferdinand goes to Clarinda’s home in the Enst End Sun- day evening and proposes that they go to church. “Certainly, Clarinda. to?” “Let us go to one in lower Allegheny. It'11 not take us quite an hour to walk there.” 3 They go, and reach home shortly be- fore midnight. Clariuda’s mother de- mands an explanation, *Why,mamma,dear,we came straight home after the service was over.” And so they had, but=for some unac- countable reasov had forgotten all about the electric sidewalk on their return, and walked close to the houses where the pavement was solid, while Ferdi- nand talked about the moon and quoted Ferdinand.” responds *What church shall we go poetry. There is no end to the possibilities of this invention. The originator thinks the sidewalks would soon become 80 pop- ular that the idea would be carried fur- ther, and we would bave rapid transit roads, — Beecuam’s Pills cure bilious and nervous ills i K ng for a Nighr, Sir Ben jamin Phillips, whose death was announced in London recently, be- longed to a group of distinguishcd Hebrew families who boast an_excecu- ingly interesting ancestry, The first name of importance in their pedigree is that of the famous rabbiof Padua, Meir KatzenollonbogeH] of Maharam, one of the most considerable authorities in the Jewry of the sixteenth contury, however. from Maharam's grand- son, Saul Wahl, that. the families de rive the tradition which constitute their social pride. ted to Poland, and, under the protéction of Prince Radziwill,who Lad beer a [ellow- student with him atthe university of Padua, became one of the wealthiost and most influential men in the country. Tho story goes that when, on the death of Stefun Bathory, the' Polish nobles, divided into two angoy .factions, met at Warsaw to elect o king the tumult was g0 great that no decision could be ar- rived at. As night approached it be- came evident that if the unssembly separated without agreeing on a King the next day would see the outbreak of acivil war, ‘“‘How would 1t be,” sud- denly shouted Prince Radziwill, “if we were to elect my factor Saul this night, and resume the discussion tomorrow?” The bizarre proposal caught the humor ot the crowd, and, amid the laughter and cries of “Long live King al1” the nobles sheathed their swords and went home. The next day the comedy of the situation dissolved all party pie- sion, and Sigismund of Sweden was peacelully ¢ The legend is much doubted by historical scholars, but it has secured w firm place in Jewish folk- lore. Sir Benjamin Phillips was a lineal descendent of Saul Wahl in the eleventh generation. phesuin T A (COMBATIVE GIRL, How An Americ n Lady Vanguished a Russian Mistre:s of Evigquoetes, The following is a narative of an in- cident which occurred in St.Petershurg some years ago. The American lady concerned is the daughter of a promi- nent public benefactor, has for vears been a social leader in Washington, is the wife of a leading republican statos- man and would be recognized instantly if her name might be montioned. The half dozen initiates will remember the incident now publishea by the Wash- ington Post. A grand reception was in progress at the pilace of a high Russian dignitary, Members of the cabinet, generals of the army, grand dukes, the nobility of the empire, and the diplomatic corps were presont. It was u notable affair. Four young ladies—three Russian and one American—had gathered into a littlo nook screened in palms,and were discussing in French the dowdy appear- ance of a high court lady. Someeaves- dropper caught their remarks and bore them to the criticized lady. Shein turn indignantly reported the conver- sation to a noble duchess, who held the peculiaroffice of **mistress of etiquette.” Ghe retived to a private room and had the four culprits summoned befors her. They appeared, the Russian girls in fear and trembling, the American calm and selfpossessed. : “Young ladies,” suid she, “you have beeén commenting discourteously upon the personal appearanes of Lady ———. You have committed'a grave breach of etiquette, and it is my duty as court mistress of etiquette to pu Olga, your slipper!” The tre Olga took off her slipper and meekly received a sound punishment of the sort, confined in America exclusively to the nursery. “*Katia, it is your turn. Give me your slipper” said the inoxorable duenna us the weeping Olga arose from her castigation. Katia'took her gruel with audible lamentations, and Tania followed the suffering Katin. All the while the American girl watched and waited! The indignities thrust upon her companions roused the *Hail Columbia in her. Her eyes flashed and her little fists clenched with excite- ment. ‘It is your turn now,” said the mistress of etiquette to the fuir Ameri- cun, “your slipper, please.” Columbia’s blood was up. There was fighting stock back of her for genera- tions. She removel her slipper and drew near, but sho held the slipper by the toe. At proper range she swung the missile and struck the old lady in the mouth a fearful clip. Then she sailed in. Lace, feathers, and fur- belows flew. Finger nails fotched blood. Gray hair and the St. Peters- burg fashions of 15863 filled the air. Tho screams of the thovoughly frightened mistress of etiquette brought a crowd. The door was battered down, The three Russian girls were screaming in their respective corners, The old lady was hors du combat, and a lie et{flnd- dess of liberty stood in the center of the room waving a tuft of gray hair in one hand and a jeweled hair dagger, with which she had been trying to stab the Russinn, in the other. The mistross of etiquette fairly screamed with impotent rage, showered maledictions in broken French, Ger- man and Russian upon her conqueror, and demanded that the most condign punishment be metod out to her. The matter was carried to the czar. Nicho- las made a pretense of punishing the young lady by issuing some order against her appearing at any ball for a cerwnin period, but the old liberator was immensely tickled. He showered the most embarrassing vresents upon the American, beautiful slippers of every kind and descriotion, silver slip- pers and gold slippers, and finally wound up by sending hera hair aagger set with diamonds. s OMAHA WHOLESALE MARKETS. Groceries, Produ Fruits, Ewe. "Euas~smcuy fresh, 21@23¢; cold storage, c. Hipes, PeLts, TALLOw, E10.—Green salted hides, 4%;c; No. 2, g, 8. hides, 3! hides, 5w7e; calf Lides, 4. d less; sheep pelt £1.00; sheep pelts, ary, p . No. 1, 4¢; No. 2, 1401 yellow, 23g@ac. Burrer—Creamery, fanc, 20@21e. Dairy, fancy, 15@17c; cuoice, 14@ Country, fancy, ood to choice, 1 v, b@de, LES—Medium per bbl, $5.00; small, .00; gherkins, $7.007. Q & 13 chow chow, qts, §5.85; 35, " Porators—25@30¢ 16 thoice, ONION8—40@00¢, Saver Kraur—Bbls, 84.75; half bbls, $2.85, Sucars—Cut loaf, B3gus cut loaf, cubes, 8ifc; standard, powdered, Bl{c; powdered, Yc; ‘granulated, standard, 7ig confectioners’ A, 7i{c; white extra C, 63¢q extra C Neb, 03¢s; wmbor, 634c; California @450, 1 Lave Piaeoxs—Per oz, $1.50. ProvisioNs—Hams,” No. 1, 16-1b average, 20 to 22-1bs, Bife; 12 to 14-1bs s ers, bo; breakfust bacon, No. Dum sausage, 9¢; dried beef haws, 8¢} §0.00 per dozen; dry sult meats, by @b’ie per 1b: hum rouleite, O3c; add Lc per 1b for emall lots. 'er bbl, $10.25, Mess Pork ing to size, per buuch, HANANAS~Accord $2.00@@3.00, Buriesiye—Tubs, 1803 rolls, 4o, Cocoaxurs—Per 100, §5.00. ArrLe Burrer—oc. Ciper-—H3bls, $5.60; hf bbls, $8.00, MarLe SuGar—12§@15¢ per 1b. & CaANDY ~9 @22 per ib, CRANBERRIES—Cape Cod, $12.00@11.00, ORaNGES—LYlorida, per box, £3.00@h.00, Brekwigar FLoug—Per bbl, —l"ne, average. 22@c rse, average, 15@17c; cotts tud rough, uverage, 14@i6c Furs —HBeaver, per 1b, $2.50@4.00; otter, emll:. ggg&?.w;x vi‘all, a:u};%&"l.%; fianu, cuch, i wink, each, j muskrat, fall, b@vo: skunk, rat, 26@60c; badger, rat, OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 380, 1880, A@se; deer skins, fall, por b, 18@27c; winter, 12@2%. ¥ oico hand picked navy, $1.75@ i chowe hand picked medium, $1.05@ 1,70; ohoice hand picked country, £1.50@1.65; clean country, $1,50@1.60; inforior count Gave—Prairio chickens, #4.00; mallard Aducks, $3.00 350; mixod ducks, $1.50@3.00; tenl, $1.25@1.50: Jack snipe, $1.00@1.25; quail, $1.25@1.75; jack rabbits, $4.00@@4.50;: small rabbits, EL00@1.20; squirrels, $1.00(@1.10; plover, Thc@$1.00; venison saddles, 11@1sc; carcasses, 6 10. LeMoNs—Eancy, $5.50@7.50; choice, $3.50 @5.00. Crrery—Por doz, 50¢. CALIFORNIA GRiaPes—$2.00, SALSODA— 1% @ 4150 per 1b, STARCH-—-4%{ @S¢ per |b Srove PoLisi X IRoOMS ~4 tia $3.803 common, $1.5021, Laio— Tierces—Retined, figo; purceo leaf, 0140} kettle rendered, 03c. Add Yo to Jgo forsmallee quantitios. FARINACEOUS Goons—Barley, 8¢ faring, 4'g0: peas, Hoi oAt meal U3 macaroni, 1lo; vermicelli, 1lc; rice, ¥@ Be; sago and tapioca, 6@ic; lima beans, 87 per gross, ic, $2.20; stables, Roasted — Arbuckle's Ariosa, Y 245¢c; German, e, old goldon Rio, o3 Kio, ehoice Lo Rio, good, 1 bo; Java, fancy Mandehling, 2 Java, good interior, 24c; African, 201 CANNED Fisit—Brook trout, 8 Ih, §2.40; sal- mon trout, 2,253 clams, 1 1, $1 ciams, 2 1h, §2.00: clam _chowder, 8 I, §1. devilea erabs, 1 1b, deviled crabs, 2 1b, 3,503 codfish balls, 2 1b, §1, vie )x 1b, 1 1h, §3'40; lobstors, 1 b, $1.00; viled, 3§ 1, § 3 mackerel Wust: ard sauce, 9 I, $2.00; mackerel, tomato sauce, 3 I, §2.005 ovsters, 1 Ib, $1.10; oys- $ salmon, C. R.,1 1b, $1.003 <, 2 1, 82580, salmon, Alaska, 1 n’sulmon, Alaskza, 2 b, $2.65; shrimps, ) Frurr—Currants, now, 6c: prunes, 0 1hs, 41403 prunes, bbls or bag 41405 citron peel, drums, b8, 24¢; lemon peel, drums, 20 1bs, 20c; fard dates, boxes 12 bs, Yc; apricots, choico evaporated, apricots, jelly, cured, 25 1b boxes, 150: cous, fancy, Mount Hamilton, 25 1603 upricots, choice, bags, 80 s, 1414, ples, evaporated, Alden, '50 b boxes, 91¢c; apples, stur, 8%0; apples, fancy, Alden, b 1t 10c; apples, faucy, Alden, 3 1b, '10}g¢ biackberries, evaporated, herries, pitted, dry cured, 24405 Dilworth, 241503 Corree—Greon—kanc $22.5; mockerel 12¢3 peache 80 tha, 15¢; nectarines, red, 145 nectarines, silver boxes, 16¢3 pitted plums, ' Cal. 25 1bs, boxes, 81¢c; raspborries, evap. N. Y., new, 200, prunes, Cul. R C, $0-100 boxes, %o; prunes, Cal, R C, , 9c; orange poe 15¢; raising, California Londony, crop $2.25; raisins, Cal. 100se muscatsls, crop 1589, 2.103 1888, 8ige; Valencias, new, 7c: Cal. seadless, sks, T4c. CANNED MEeATS—Corned beef, 1 1b square cans, $1.20; corned beef, 3 1b square cans, $2.05; corned beef, 6 1b square cans, $6. corned beef, 14 1b square cans, $14.00. Lunch tongues, 1 1b round ca 2.60; lunch tongues, 2 Ib round caus, §: Brawn, 11b sauare cuns, $1.20; brawn, 2 Ib square cans, $2.00; orawn, 0 Lb square cans, §.50: brawn, 14 1b square cans, $14.00, Ox tongues, 11g 1b round cans, §.00; ox tongues, 2 Ib round cans, $5.00; ox tongues 215 Ib round cans, $7.00; ox tongues 3 b round cans, £5.00, Chipped beef, L Ib round cans, $2.00; chipped beef, 2 1b round cans, $1.00. Roast bent, 1 1b round caus, $1.20; roast beef, 2 1b round cans, §2.00. Potted ham, !¢ 1b ‘round cans, 5c; potted ham, 4 1o round cuns, $1.20. Deviled ham, { 1b round cans, 65¢} deviled ham, !¢ 1b rounds cans, $1.20, Pot~ tea ox tongue, Y 1b rocud cans, 6 ox tongue, !4 1b round cans, 31 prossed ham, 1 1b square caus, § prossed ham, 2 1b square cans, $2.75, % 21b round cans, $1.80, Minced collops, 2 ib round cans, $2.20. Boneless pigs fee!, 2 b square cans, $2.25. Onc pound cans are ked two dozen and four dozen to case. 'wo pound cans are packed one dozen and two dozen to case. Half pound cuns packed two dozen to case. Quarter pound cans packed four dozen to case. All prices per dozen. net. Nurs—Almonds, 15@16c; Brazils, 1215 filberts, 123ge; pecans, 1lo; walnuts, 12bgc; peanut cocks, 8gc; roasted, lle; Tennessee peanuts, 7c. Saussce—Bologna, 4@4kgc; Frankfort, 7e; Leadcheese, be. doz, live hcns, $2.25: spring, dressed, per lb @3c; turkeys, live, S@10c: dressed, 8@10c; ducks, live, per doz, §2.50@3.00: dressed, per 1b, 9@11c; geese, Live, per doz, $3.009.00; d per 1b, 8@dc, s—Per bbl, common, $2.00@2.25; choice, $2.50@+4.00; fancy, &4.00(@5.00, MiNce MeatT--20-1b cars, Ti{c. HoNEY ver 1b for choice —01g@10c per 1b, t41gc ver 1b, 1, 16@19¢, AND CocoA—21@37¢ per lb; ory, red, Sc. ickled, kits, 75 tongues, kits, §2.35; pickled trip: pickled H C tripe, Kits, 8¢; hocks, kits, $1.15, Spices —~Whole, per 1b—Alspice, 9¢; sia, China, 9¢; cloves, Penang, pepper, 18@19e. !4 pints, £3.00 per doz, Young Americas full cream, f actory twins, 11(@1 oft grades, T(@3c: Sdon, $11,50 per doz; sap sugo, 23¢; brick, 1234c; limburger, 11¢; domestic Swiss, 18@14c. WrAPPING P per 1b, 1:@ 2¥c; rag, 2160 b@blges No, G RE% sesmnion Square, 85 per cent off list. Sarr—Dairy, 280 1bs in bbl, k, $2.10; best grade, 60, 7 2.30; best grade, 100, 3s, $2.401 best grad 108, $2.20; rock salt, crushed, $1 3 salt, Ashlon, 56 Ib bags, 85 4 1b bags, §3.25; common, in bbls, §1.25. i . l"’me —State, $4.00@5.00; fancy, $.00@ potted spiced pigs Kits, 65¢; spiced pigs Cas- ¢} nutmegs, PER—Straw, manilla, B, 40, Fisu—Dried codfish, 4}¢@Sc; soaled her- ring, 26c per box; hol. herring, dom., 5 Hamburg, spiced berring, $1.50; bol, herring, imp., 800; mackerel, No, 1 shore, $11.503 fancy me: #13.50 per 100 1bs; white fish, No. 1, 87. family, $2.75; trout, §5.25; sal- mon, #8.50; auchovies, S5c. OiLs—Kerosene—P. W., 934c; W, W., 12 headlight, 1214c; gasoline, 740, 12¢; lard, No.! 1, 44¢; No. 2, 40¢; salad oil, $1.25@9.00 per dozen. Soars—Castile, mottled, per b, 8@luc; casuile, white, per b, 13@15c, Twines and Kope. BiNpers' Twi 18¢; HY & Hf, 14¢c; manilla, 15 NEs—Cotton, 50 ft, $1.17: cotton, ft, ute, 60 ft, $1. Lwiy e, 200; medium, 19¢ heavy bewp, 140; light hemp, 16c, SaiL TwINg—B, sul, 20c; Calcutta, 1) manilla rope, 14c; sisal rope, 11}¢c; new process, Blgc; jute, 9 Jge; cotton, 16c; hide rope, 17¢, Lumber and Bullding Marerial. $700K BoARDS—A, 12, ine fect, $45. B, 12 inch, 8 1 3 f 100 12 wch, 8 18, 12 and 16 feet, £30.00; 1), h, 818, 12, 14 and 16 feet, $25,005 No, 1 com 1 2 feet, $15.004 No. 2 com 12 in, 818, nd 16 feet, §17.50@ 18.50; No. 1 com 12 1o, 8 1 8, 10, 18 and 20 feet, 818.50; No, 2 com 12 in, 8 18, 14 and 16 feet, $10.00. Porrar Lusser—Clear poplar box bds, 3¢ 10, 82 8, $35.00; clear popl panel, §20.00; clear poplar, % in punel, slear poplar, 3¢ in panel stock wide, s 2 s, §23.00; clear Doplar corruzated ceiling, %, $39.00. Posts -Waoite codar, 6 1o halves, 12c; white cedar, 53¢ in halves and 8 in quurters, 11c; white cedar, 4 in round, 16¢; Teonessoe red cedar, split, 16¢; spilt oak, white, 8c; sawed oak, 18¢. Suip Lap—No. 1 plain, 8 and 18 in, $17.00: No. 2 plain, 8 ana 16 in, $15,50; No.'1, O G, $18.00. DIMEMSIONS AND TIMBER, 1216 14t 16 6 18 1t 20 ft 2 15 00 15 00 16 00 ft 2 2x12, Ax48x5.16 00 16 00 Fexcino— No. 1, , 12 ana 14 ft, rough, $16.00@16.50; No. 1, 4 and 6 in, 16 ft, $17.00@17.50; No. 2, 4 and 6 in, 12 wud 16 {1, #18.50@14.005 No. 2,4 and 6 in, 16 ft, $15.00, Frxisuiyo—1st aud 24 clear, l!fl wch, s 2 8, $49.00@51.00; 1st ana 2d clear, 13 and 2 inch, 8 2 8, §47.00@50.00; 84 clear, 11¢ inch, & $13.00046.00; B3 select, 13,1 and 2 inch, 8 2 s, §37.00@88.00; 1st and 24" clear, 1 inch, 8 28, $45.00; 3d clear, 1 ivch, 8 2 s, $30.00; A select, 1 inch, » 2 5, 834,00; 3 seloct, 4 inck, & 28, $20.00. Barrexs, WeLL TusiNe, Pioksts—0. Q. EEEEEZE () 00 0 00 [0 00 LESHES zz 8E8EE es o o e i3+ g8gge 000 =88s8EE ERESEE § inch, 6005 O. (. Batta, 25@3, » n well tubing, 1. & M. and be : pickets, D, & H., flut, $22.00; o] & ., square, $19.00 ING--15t com O-uch, white pine, 2d com 6in white ploe, #1.00; 84 20 005 1) com 6-in white pine, $20.00; com 4 and 610 yellow pine, 15.00; Star4-in yollow pine, #17.00: 1st and 24 clear yollow pioe, 4 and 6 in, $19.00, SHINGLE XX clear, $3.20; extro *A, £250; standard A, #2405 5 nch’ clear, $1.60@1.70; 6nch ol $1.75@1.80; No. 1, #1100 1,15, rored ar, mixed widths, from Washington territory, #3.40; California red wood, dimension widths, $4.50; oypress, n.vl:'n:‘ heart, dimonsion widths, $3.95; laths, 2,40, Boanna—No, 1 com, a1 8, 12, 14 and 10 ft, $18.00; No. 2 do, $15.00; No. 8, do, £14.00; No, 4, do, (ship's cull), $11.00. Add b0c per m ft. for rough. CriiNe aNp PArmiTioN—1st com %-in white pine partition, 00; 24 cotn B¢-in White pine partition, 27,005 clear 81 yellow pine ceiling, $20.00; clear %-in Norway, $13.50; 2d com .-in Norway, §12.50, Lase—B CEMENT PLASTER Hatr—20¢. Buinisg Briok m; selected, $7,50: 10,00 per m, Sasn—60 per cent d ount. Doons, BLINDS AND MOULDINGS—50 and 10 per cent off. TARRED FRLT—82.00 per cwt. STRAW Boarb —§1.40 per ewt, Common, $6 00@7.50 per 00 por m; sewer brick, Drugs and Chemicals. Aci—Sulphurie, per pound, 2ic: eitrie, per pound, ble: oxalie, per pound, 14c; t taric powdered, per pound, 42¢; carbolic, @dde. Avvs—Por pound, 2ige. Aasoxia—-Carbonate, per pound, 116, ARROWROOT~Per pound, 15¢. Barsam—Copaiba, per pound, 63¢; tolu 52 ~Refined, por potind, 10e. INsecT Powoer—430, MORPHINE— OPIUM—$§3.6 ER-NITRATE—$1.20, Wmite Wax YeLLOw Wax—: TINE—D3C. 188007 O1L.—No. 1, b7 SHROEDER & DEAN, GRAIN, Provisions = Stocks Basemant First National Bank. 305 South 13th Street, - Omaha} O JOBBERS DIRECTORY e Agricultural |mn’|amaplnk LININGER & METCALF 0., Agricalt’l Implements, Wagons, Carriages __Buskios, ete. Wholesnla. Omans, Nevrasks, MOLINE, MILBURN & STODDARD CO Manufactarers and Jobbors in Wagons, Buggies, Rakes, Piows, Bte. Cor. 9th And Pacific stroots, Omaha. AU HOSPE, Jr, Artists' Materials, Pianos and Organs, 1513 Douglns street, Omaba, Nebraska. i Boots and 8hooa. W. V. MORSE & CO, Jobbers of Boots and Shoe, 100, 110 1106 Douglas atroot, Omaha. M, Bummor Atreet, Bos ~__Coal, Ooke, Eto. TAN S W. THAT HER COAT 0Oy Miners and Shippers of Coal and Coke. Room 21 U. National Bank Building, Omnh TOMAHA COAL, COKE & LIME CO. Jobbers of Hard and Soft Coal, X0 Ronth 1ith street, Omaba, Nebra NEBRASKA FUEL CO., Shippers of Coal and Coke. 214 South 13th sireet, Omata, Nobraska, Commission and Storago. _ RIDDELL & RIDDELL, Storage acd Commission Marchants, Bpecialties Huttor, choeso. poultry, gAMe. 1112 Ko s, Neb, Cigara. “"DEAN, ARMSTRONG & CO. Wholesale Cioars, 408 North Oth Street, Omaha, Neb, “Hello" 1439, y Goods 2nd Notlons, _ M. E.SMIIH & €O, Dry Goods, Furnishing Goods and Notions 1102 and 1104 Douglas, cor. 1ith strect, Omahn, Nob, KILPATRICK KUCH DRY GOODS 00, Tmporters & Joubers in Dry Goods, Notions Gents’ Furaishing Gools. Cornar 1ith and [arney streots, Omihn, Nebrassa. _Furniture Y & \TONE, Wholesale Deaers m Furnitare, Farnaw street, Omaha, Nebrasca. CHARLES SHIVERICK, Furniture, Ouinhin, Nebraska. __Grovories. IRD, BRADY & CO, Wholesale Grocers, 15th And Teavenwerth str ots, Omaha, ~Haraware: NATIONAL BANK. Capital, - - - $400,000 Surplus, 40,000 NEBRASKA NATIONAL BANK U. 8. DEPOSITORY, OMAHA, NEB. Capital. . . ...$400,000 Surplus Jan. 1st, 1889.. . 62,000 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS: v W. YATES, President. 8 8. REkn, Vice President. Na, 3N, H. Patnick, . W. I, 8. HUGIiEs, Cashler THE IRON BANK, Cor, 12th and Farnam 8ts, A General Banking Business Transacted, W.J. BROATCH, Heavy Hardware, [ron and teel. Springs, wagos stook, haraware, luubar, ote. 1209 1311 Hartey strest, Omaha. HIMEBAUGH & TAVLOR, Builders’ Hardware and Scale Repair Shop Mechuntos Tools ana Bufialo Scales. 1403 Douglas street, Omabn, Neb. ___Lumber, Eto. _ JOHN A. WAKEY Wholesale Lumber, Btc. Imported and American Portland Cement. sxont for Milwaukee lydrrullc Cemunt and Quiroy White Lime. CHAS. R. LEB, Dealer fn Hardwocd Lumber. Woud carpets and parquot flooring. 9th and Diuglas strects, Qmalin, Nebraska. OMAHA LUMBER (0., Al Kinds of Building Material at Wholesaio 15th strect and Union Pacitic traok, Omaha. " LOUIS BRADFORD, Dealer in Lnmber, Lath, Lime, Sash Doors, eto. Yaris—Comor 7th and Douz.as. OmMoe Corner 10th and Douglas. FRED. W. GRAY, Lumber, Lime, Coment, Etc., Bte, Corner 9th and Douglas streets, Omaha. WANTED ISSUED BY CITIES, COUNTIES, SCHOOL DISTRICTS, WATER Correspondencesolicited. ¢ompaNIES, ETG, N.W. Hanris & Company, Bankers, 163-165 Dearborn Street, CHICAQO. 70 State Street, BOSTON. OMATA MANUFACTURERS, Boots and Shoes. __ NDALL, JONES & CO., Buccessors to Reed, Jones & Co. Wholesale Manufacturers of Boots & Stoes Agents for Boston Rubber 8hoe Co., 1102, 1164 sud 1103 Harney Street, Omahy, Nebraska. Z LER, Tager Beer Brewes. 1681 North Eighiteenth Street, Omans, Nebraska, —_—— EAGLE OORNIC ganufacturan 0f Galvanized Iron Cornice indow-capa and metalilo akylights. John Epencter, proprietor, 105 and 110 South 10t street. U. 8. WIND ENGINE & PUMP CO., Steam and Water Supplies, Halliday w.nl milis, 915 aud 920 Jones st., Omaha, . F. Iobs, Acting Munager. .C. N. DIETZ, Dealer in All Kinds of Lumber, 18th and California streets, O:nahn, Nobrasks, LR L L L llinery and Noti 1. OBERFELDER & CO. Tmporters & Jobbers in Millingry & Notions 203, 210 and 212 South 11th street. ON J. 1 Wholesale Notions and Farnishing Goods. 1124 Harney street, Omaha. _Olls. T S DU CONSOLIDATED TANK LINE CO., Wholesale Refined and Lubricating Oils, Axle Grease, ete, Omahs. A.IL Bishop, Managen —_— Wholesale Paper Dealers. Corcy a ntce stock of pr nting, wrapping nid writiog puper. Special attention gIven to card paper, Safes -to. 2 A. L. DEANE & CO.. * General Agents for Hall's Safes, 821 and 823 South 10th 8t., Omaha, i % H, HARDY & CO., Mo, Dl Alhmm “Fancy Goos, Chlldren’s Carriages, 1209 Owaba, Neb. BROWNELL & €O, Engines, Boilors and General Mach@lgr‘yl.‘ toam pumps. sa; ls, nWOrtl street, O PAXTON & VIERLING TRON WORKS, Wrought and Cest Tron Building Work Engipe: schine, and Y UL Py OMAHA WIRE & IRON WORKS, Manufacturers of Wire aud Iron Railings Desk rails, window guards, tiower stands, wire signs, éle. 1% North 106(h street, Omabi MAHA SAFE & IRO. g Man'rs of Fire and Burglar Proof Sales, Vanlts, il work, iron shutters and & hdieeh. piou v Cor Siihwsd oor: M. A. DISBROW & €O, sa h Wholesale maoufacturers of ll‘nrjl ~sours omaRA UNION STOCK YARD 00, Of South Quaba, Limited CHICAGO SHORT LINB OF TRE Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R'ya The Best Route from Omaba and Councl] Blufls to ———THE EAST TWO TEAINS DAILY BETWEE ¥ b b COURGE BCUES onana Chicago, Slaans, .J-—ANDl— Milwaukee, 'aul nueapolis, Cedar R: Rock Islaud, Freoport, Bockford, oo Clinton, Dubuque, Davenport, Madison, Janesville, Winona, La Crosse, . ‘And all other mpnmfi“ [ uds East, Northeast sud Lenst, h EEERANL ks lman Sleepers and the finest ing Cars in ld e e e ‘E,PI“\’I‘.I" Dy courteous loyes i jeneral Manager. | 'Y O A Gt ptnenr v THEAYFORD. Assistant Genaral Passenses LT LT T —