Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-06-06
Scientific and Statistical Items.

The World says that there is a mil,
lion and and a half dollars worth of
currency in circulation in New York
City, an one,third of it is counterfeit,
- The reported mineral region of
Texas is now attracting good deal of
attention, particularly in the upper
counties. Large companies are being
formed, some for the gold region of the
Pecos, and others for the copper mines
OF the Wachita.
Archbishop Purcell of Cincinnati
carries as a present TO the Pope silver
medal Of the yacht Henrietta, with a
cargo Of $4,000 in gold pieces The
model is to serve as n reminder OF the
enterprise of our nation, while the cargo
will serve as specimen OF the libenlity
OF Cincinnati.
The proportion OF works of art from
different countries at the Paris EXposi-
tion may be seen from the space each
occupies in the catalogue. OF the 240
pages, the French galleries occupy 80
pages, containing more than thousand
works Prussia and North Germany
have Is pages; Bavaria, l6; Italy Is
England, 80; Russia, 5 United States,
5 and so on.
The Cast,steel of Prussia was worth
little over 100000 in 1850, rose to a
million and a quarter in 1860, and
amounts now to nearly 100000 per
anuum. The manufacture of pig, cast,
and wrought iron has also been multi
piled three or four times in the same
period, now amounting 30 nearly $50,
100000 per anDum. 1t is not specified
how far the latter expansion is due to
conquest.
Among the latest mining news on
the Upper Missouri is the discovery of
very rich and extensive copper deposits
in the valley of the Muscleshell about
sixty-fve miles from Helena, Montana
Men who formerly worked in the cele-
brated Copperopois lode of California
say that the deposits, judging from APP
pearance, are the richest they ever knew.
This is an item of Importance to boat.
men, as the ore will most Likely be
smelted in st. Louis
The large deposits of iron ore con-
sisting of specular-oxide and rel and
brown hermatites, on the lands AMI line
of the Southwest Pacific Railroad, are
attracting the attentiun OF Eastern
iron masters, and a large freighting
business in iron ore for their furnaces is
being inaugurated over this rOad-the
superior qualities of the iron, and the
large yield to the ton of ore (frOm 50 to
80 per cent, much more than paying
the increased cost Of transportation.
Thomas Paine was probably the
first man who suggested the practibiity
of constructing bridges of iron, and he
conceived the idea from contemplating
the fabrication OF spiders web when
he was in the United States. In 1887
Paine presented to the Academy of
Sciences at Paris the model of bridge
which he had invented, AMI when be re
sided at Rotterdam, in Yorkshire,
bridge chiefly Of wrought iron was con.
structed under his direction by the
Messrs. Walker.
The Parkersburg Times states that
reliable advices from the Burning Spring
oil region present ample asSlraOces that
the prospects Of increasing ABILITIES for
transporting oil to this market has
already given an unusual impetus to the
efforts of oil producers. Mole than forty
new wells are now going down on Burn
ing Spring run. A much lager amount
Of work is now laid out in tAe develop
ment Of oil than was performed last
year, and it cannot be doubted that this
rich oil-feld will yield handsome re.
turn upon the increased Investment be-
fore the season is over. There is nothing
that will stimulate the efbrts of oil
diggers so much as the prospect of get.
ting a prompt return from Dill produc.
ton through the medium Of Increased
and cheapened TRANSPORTATION facilities.