The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-10
INDUsTRIAL ITEMS. ETC.


tPrepared for the New Orleans Crescsntl
California has s, 600, 900 mulberry trees.
Ohio has 1850, 900 sheep against 6,305, 900 il
1865.
The Ohio wool crop Of 1868 was 25,OOOOOO
pounds
Austria raised SIS ,cOO,OcO worth of beet sugar
this season.
During g recent snow storm in south, asterr
France 5000 sheep persisted.
During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1868, tax
was paid upon $50, 1856. coo cigars.
Copper mining in Michigan employs $50 coo ,oC1
capital and &c, 900 men.
The average use Of car wheels under passenger
cars is about As 900 miles.
The raisin crop Of Malaga, in 1865, was about
100000 cwt.
Philadelphia has more than 10000 shoe stores,
annually Supplying over SOC, 900 pairs of feet.
During the last twenty-one years New York city
has received 1855 900 hides.
The wine crop of Portugal for 1868 Is estimated
at 600 pipes.
In 1867 California exported $4,000 ounces of
silkworDg eggs to France and Italy.
During. 1868 the 0pelousas Railroad earnings
were s405 200, and the expenses s209, 626.
Ten mining companies in Nevada produced over
1886 600 worth of bullion 10 1867.
HolyoEe, Mass, has ten paper mills, turning ont
twenty six tons Of paper daily.
steel mandatory in Chicago, established
last March, turns out 26OO pounds of steel daily.
Silk was cultivated in South Carolina as early as
1888.
On the $1,000 miles of railway in the United
States, there are $500 locomotives in daily use.
Cape Colony, South Africa, has 226, 900 horses,
100000 oxen, 100000 sheep and LAO, 900 goats
The sulphur mines in Sicily give employment to
more than 20 coo men.
Several towns in Mississippi are preparing to
start cotton factories.
Danbury, Conn, turns out 600 900 hat boxes an.
nually.
The coal production of the world is ia, 900, 900
tonsIper annum.
A firm in Sheffield, England sends out sixty
tons Of steel templates per month.
There are more than $50 hat manufactures in
the United States, employing about lO,sOO hands,
ofwhom one-third are females.
Chsttaeooga has received and shipped South,
during the present year, over 1000 zoo bushels of
corn, preduced in Tennessee.
More than 900 elephants are slaughtered an
nualy ID amply England and the United States
with ivory.
It is estimated that during the Lest FIVE years the
railroad stocks of the United States have been in.
creased see, OOO. 600 by the watering process"
Up the Sd Of Dec. 1865, GA 400 boxes Of raisins
had been shipped from Malaga to the United
States.
The eprolled tonnage on the Western rivers for
the year ending June 50, 1868, was 1882 vessels,
with on aggregate of 4sl ,2l7 tons.
Amechanic in Cleveland, Ohio. has invented an
air engine, which, he says, can afford as much
power.as a steam engine.
The stock of coffee on hand in the principal
European ports, and in the United States, on the
30th November, 1868. was SO, 400 tons.
The imports of sugar into Great Britain during
the eleven months ending 30th November, 1865,
were S29,oS2 tons.
About four tons of human hair are annually
sold in New Ysrk, at prices varying from SIS to
$40 per ounce.
California produced 1000, 900 cocoons of silk 10
1865, and will probably double that product this
year.
During 1865 New York imported 1881 1892 hides,
of which 1,753,54s were from foreign ports,
30l ,sgf from Texas, and lac 1913 from New Orleans
e,product Of gold and silver on the American
continent, for 1858, is estimated at s74 ,500,O 900
gold, asd $50, 900 silver.
On the various railroads in the United States
there are $780, 900 truck and car wheels in daily
nse.
A mechanic in Paducah, KY, has invented
three Wheeled yelocipede, said to be superior to
all otbsts.
The exports of tea from China and Japan up to
nth November, 1868, were lis, 500 900 lbs, being
an increase Of 81 100000 lbs. on the exports to
same tlne the previous year.
Duritg the three months ending 30th December
there .ssre 224,ooS cases boots and shoes shipped
from foston, of which Is ,577 cases (more than
eleveraper cent? were shipped to New Orleans.
Thes shipment of coffee to the United States
from 20, from LIST Of January to Gath of Novem.
Der, 1868, was e99,5s4 bags, and seven vessels
then yseding with o capacity Of 1900 bags.
In The department of Disc, France, more than
a,ooo,e0o sacks Of beech nuts are gathered an.
nuslly, and the oils (about sixteen per cent. by
weight extracted. 1t is scarcely inferior to olive
oil.