The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-11
Prepared for the New orle.n, Crescent. ,

INDUsT8IAL ITEMS, ETC.
PREPARED for the New Orleans Crescent1
Boston and vicinity annually consume 400 90
A pumpkin weighing 326 pounds has bee
grown in the valley Of the Loire. France. HI
season. 1t was sold In Paris for 800 francs.
An acre Of plantain will produce as much foo
a. fortyfour acres of potatoes, or one hundred an
thirty three acres Of wheat.
=. The British Museum has more than l20 900 varIe
lies OF coin. The Paris collection is still greater
oysters are worth SO to $50 per Thousand il
In the hemlock forests of the North and East
1000 barrels of the extract of bark are made daily
about four ifths Of which 60 to Europe.
Philadelphia has sixty marble yards and ter
steam mills for preparing marble for its various
uses.
The only mine Of chromate of iron In the United
states near Baltimore. and valued at 5000 900
The largest lead mines in the United States are
the Perry and Vale mines, In Jefferson county
Mo. They have yielded from 900, 900 to 900. COZ
pounds OF ore annually for the last forty years.
"A wrought iron jail has been built in st. Louis
and shipped TO Potosi. lsg % r.-. rr
A manufacturing firm In Peoria, Ill.,, turns out
i 900 steel plows per week.
firm In Racine, Wisconsin, manufactured over
LIS thfsshing machines last year. -
There we're 25s patents issued from the patent
ofice during the week ending 9Th October.
IL Is stid that $l5, 100000 have been expended
IN me states during the last ten years, in main
in England, there are over 700 cooperative as
socistioLs, and more than 500 in Prussia. -.
Life statistics show that printers and shoe.
makers i've but 80 years on an average after they
A man in Southern California made $50 600 last
year by gathering mustard seed.s
A factory in PoItlsnd. Me-, puts up 1900 cans
OF sweet corn daily. -'
New York city has at present 1 200 organ grind
ers and 10000 thieves. d ff-fE
In Louisiana there are. this year. 397, 29I acres
more land planted In corn than In 1867.
farmer in Lebanon N. H., this season raised
5000 bushels of potatoes from thirteen acres of
land. -
In 1902, merchants in New Orleans shipped
some ACC. 600 pounds Of indigo. the produce of
About seventy establishments in Baltimore are
engaged 10 canning oysters. They sell Them at
Ser ad22eeS 188ff 69Ss one RQ9pd caus and 81 80
The five (so-called military districts have 1885,
399 acres more land planted in corn this season
than in 1867. An average product Of twelve bush
els per acre will give 7sS bushels over last
years crop in these States.
The interoceanic canal at the Gulf Of Darien
will be about 81 miles long. For canal go feet
wide on the surface, l50 feet wide at the bottom,
and 81 feet deep, the estimated cost is o,OeO,-
600.
Brazil $500. 600. 900 in gold. 81 .r..,-r
During ,he month Of August last there were
ISL O2O boxes chewing tobacco, and 6.426 boxes
smoking tobacco shipped from Richmond, Va
The value Of oysters annually consumed ic Sew
York city y estimated at So DOC, 900. --'
The Pioneer Wooden Mills, in San Francisco,
contains 1000 spindes, ~ broad and fancy looms,
and emplor from 375 to 400 hands.
The Pacific Glass Works, near San Francisco,
turn out $1,000 worth Of glassware per month:
y Al O recent citing of the New York Agricul-
tural Society, il was stated that the writings OF
DIR. Asa Fitch Estate entomologist) had saved an.
nually to the single State OF New iork tne large
There are 3,64s Towering plants known in our
territory east of the Mississippi. .-.rag .sL
farmer near Milton, N. c., cold his last years
crop Of white beans for $500. W. ff-sr..g
A farmer In Glynn county, Ca, has an owe
. orchard of $50 trees-a portion of them now IN
fruit. He expects to make few hundred bottles
shrimps are shipped from Charleston, s. c.. to
New York, and sell for eighty cents per quart.
Bucking ham county, Va, has twenty steam saw
mills in operation, and about the same number OF
new mills being erected to run by water power.
In 1880 the United States had Al miles of rail-
road completed. By the end Of this year there
will be 40 600 miles OF track completed, at total
cost OF 81 500. Ooo0Oo Great Britain has IL, 2Ss
miles of railroad. - = aT.L
fitable. The average value of the stock Of fifteen
of the leading companies 10 now 1916 per share
for SlO0 paid In. No need for protective tariff.
During the two weeks ending 30th ult., there
were Ssl4 cases Of boots and shoes shipped from
Boston for New Orleans. -e 1aal ~, -.
tannery at Allentown, Pa, turns out loco
sides of leather per week. ft1 l1es
At the late fair Of the New Jersey Agricultural
Society, q hortculturist exhibited Us species OF
From $4,000 to 1901 900 orange trees were set
out in Florida last year.
Bayard Taylor is said to oe worth $50, 900, and
owns three shares in the New York Tribune.
One firm in Chicago turns out 70 cases boots and
shoes per week. and another turns out Is cases
of slippers per month. 49,. al.
The three copper fields Of Missouri extend
,ob nd ud acr
Of land. s.--.a--.a..s p -
The labor congress, which recently met 10 New
York city represented 600, 900 working men.
The Wenham Lake Ice Company have bought
Statistics kept for the last two hundred years
show that he lives Of New England minister's,
who preached two sermons on the Sabbath aver
An orange tree, on the St. Johns river, Florida.
produced this season 1000 oranges, which sold for
four cents each.
will meet at 0syka, Miss, on wednesday, l4th
There were 4s.2s7 exhibitors at the late great
exhibition at Paris 10 1867.
The Apprentices library ia New York contains
New Ems land and the Middle States produce
five sxths Of all the leather made in the United
States.
twenty. i've acre truck farm near Norfolk, Va,
yielded Sis per acre net profit
The British pound sterling is the basis OF cur
rency for ss, AZ 600 Of people The dollar is the
basis of currency for l37. 800 900; aud is the
cogpized standard Of commercial value for 4s7,
100000 more, or about three-ffths Of the whole
human race. - Uous uruLO .rEEarc
building and loan association has been organ
lied in Macon, Ga. 80
Out of go English sparrows bought for Boston
Common IL o died on the passage u T-FEI.
+. There are over 100 subordinate Typographical
unions in the United States ~.
n is estina ted that there win be 50, 900 miles q
railroad in the United States at the end Of 1870
comb Cssctory 10 in operation OF Alton, Ill.
turning out 100 dozen combs per day. .
A firm in atlanta, Ca. has received and shppet
200 600 pounds Of dried fruit tbs season. -
Since It's removal to Belgium. Rocheforts's Ian
terne has increased its circulation to l200o
coDies. L e.- ~ IL $3.50 r....