The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-29
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All the wooden mills on the Pacific coast are in
successful operation.
The dwellings of 25,OooO 600 people in this couu.
Wy are chiefly OF wood, as are their outbuildinVs.
turkey In Vermont laid l25 eggs the past
season. and then Matched and raised brood.
santa Clara county, CAL, has II 900 English
walnut trees. e'''A
at Ridgway N. c., there is a peach orchard of
100000 trees being planted.
Since January LIST, Boston has received I50 ono
hogsbeads and boxes of sugar.
pig weighing 500 pounds was slaughtered in
Shreveport last week.
Two counties in California have 20 600 orange
trees and 5000 lemon trees.
The beetroot sugar crop of Europe last year
was valued at 100000.
The Amoskesg Mills are building 400 tenements
for their employees.
cotton factory is to be established in Terra
Haute, Indiana, with a cash capital of 100000.
1t is stated that in the immediate vicinity of Cen
tralia, Illinois. were 2O52 acres planted fruit.
A right to fab in Taunton Great river Massa-
chusetts, has just been sold for $l7s. -.rr
Ii costs $25, 00O, 600 annually to supply seepers
to the railways in the United States.
The annual value of French cutlery is about
20, 900 coo francs.
A farmer in Ohio has, this season, 1000 barrels
Of apples from an eight-acre orchard.
Last year Paris consumed IA, 900 tons of perch
fish and "a 900 900 dozen oysters.
On the 9th inst. Chicago had in store 900 500
bushels Of grain.
The largest and best French prunes come from
Touraine.
The expenses of surveying the public lands are
considerably over $500. 900 year.
sixty-sx occupations subsist principally on the
use of wood, and they must annually use more.
The aggregate earning Of fourteen Northwest
ern railroads, during October, amounted to S..
044, coo.
The cranberry crop of New Jersey, which has
just been harvested is the finest and largest ever
gathered in that State.
An egg.dealer in Worthington, Ohio, sells his
egg-fruit, according tG size. He has board with
three holes in it. by which he grades the eggs.
There is in Washington City a special manufac.
tory of theodolites and surveying apparatus of
various kinds.
1t takes $4,000 acres of wheat, averaging fifteen
bushels to the acre, to keep one of the Chicago
-four mills employed all the year.
A vein of coal three feet in thickness has re-
Gently been opened out about two miles from Ro-
chester. Cedar county. Iowa.
The annual earnings of the American people are
estimated at 81 500 ,O0O, 900, and their domestic
trade as nearly 1000 100000 a year.
The weekly capacity of the Communipaw, N.
j. abattoir for slaughtering, is from $500 to 1000
beeves, Is 900 sheep. and 200 swine. -sar
The number of trades unions in the United
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bership of 79,39S.
During the last forty years 81 100000 square
feet of granite has been taken from the quarres
in Quincy, Mass.
committee of Michigan fruit.growers has
visited the region of Cairo, H.. and think it the
finest fruit country in the Union. -..t t.i
The Vermont house Of Representatives have
passed a bill, fixing the standard weight of a
bushel of onions at 81 pounds.
The Children's Aid Society Of Brooklyn, New
York. is engaged in teaching girls and women how
TO operate sewing machines Of every make.
The manufactured goods of Newark alone last
year amounted to 100000 600, and her sister cities
to about $40, OcO 600 more.
way of giving an elegant polish to Quincy
granite has been discovered and is being utilized
for works Of art.
In Hanover county, N. c., mine Of mica is be-
ing worked in which sheets are found "a inches
long by l6 in width.
An iron furnace will begin operations at Rock
wood, East Tennessee, in few days. Its ca
pacity will be some ten tons daily.
From st. Adams, Vermont, there was sent last
year 2,720,2s4 pounds of butter, most of which
went to Boston.
The castor oil beans in the st. Louis market
range from So 80 to 81 rs per bushel. Last year
so 900 bushels were sold in that market.
A New Haven inventor has machines now in
operation which will pour out perfectly made
fish hooks as oats run from tanning mill.
Wood now pays more than one-half the entire
internal revenue of this country, as used in build
iDgs manufactures, mills ships, TOOLS roads, rail-
roads, etc. H Al
Mirsbeau said that 80 per cent. Of the whole area
of land should always be timbered. Rentzsch
places at 20 to 20 per cent, in order to keep the
rest productive and tillable.
MIR. Hills, of Vernon Center, Iowa, has one
hundred hives Of bees, ftom which three thousand
seven hundred pounds of honey have been pro-
duced this year.
A recent account of the industrial establish.
ments in Leipsic states that the number of print
ing Offices amounts,to 60, with about 800 COM
positors. aaf .e.ta .f.ra
The yield Of wine in California this year will
reach 600 900 or 60OO0 900 gallons. to which must
be added from 800 600 to 400, 900 gallons of grape
brandy. ... v4-
II is stated that at least $50 900 900 are involved
in the mining of copper in Michigan, and $4,000
to 40 600 people are dependent upon the mines in
which this large capital is invested.
During the week ending the 18th there were
Is $40 cases boots and shoes shipped from Bos-
ton. of which 1888 cases were shipped to New
Orleans.
From fsryrn.ary TO 3lst October, 1865, New
York imported IL GOO pacKass--Almonds, 900
nsckares walnuts, 2,740 packages flberts, sus-
A Ols OOo cocosnuts the whole valued at 1851, 9OO
Two hundred and fifty millions oil passengers
having els 600 GOO for their tickets, Travelled last
Iesr. on s,5OOOOO trains. over IO,OeO.ooO miles
ON the railroads in England.
The crop of Barbados for the current year has
hsep ALI shipped. Ii comprises $500 hogshesds OF
.upsr. % .64s puncheons of rum, 1918 hosshesds
and 1855 bbls. of rnolasses.
A reservoir intended to hold OO,OOo.OOo gal
Ions of water is being built In san Andress val
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