The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-04-11
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side OF the buses in Pssis every year.
More than 100000 cans Of oysters are an
nually packed IN Maryland.
There are seFenty:ave OF Hoes revolving
cylinder presses In use; 10 this country.
Baltimore has 100000 invested In the oyster
and fruit packing business.
The Augusta, Georgia, factory has just declared
quarterly dividend Of per cent.
The phosphate beds Of South Carolina cover On
area Of so 10 100 square mlIes.
The receipts Of the Atlantic Cable Company
average $500 in gold per day..
The total product OF ihe Comstock Silver Lode,
since its first opening, has been about sS5 900 900.
The annual consumption Of emery in Great
Britain, 10 about 5000 tons.
There are 107 cabinet manufactures In New
York city. employing over 5000 men.
The Philadelphia water works supply $50 manu-
featuring establishments.
The Oxford iron works. near Lynchburg, Va,
have lately commenced sctve operations.
manufacturing company In New Britain, Con-
necticut. makes Il coo fruit baskets daily.
Philadelphia has 1857 Federal Office -holders,
drawing 81 ,S7S,595 pay per snnum.
Last year New York city consumed l,4SO,OOo
sbeep and lambs and Boston 4s2,7s4.
The coal fields Of Tennessee cover On area Of
6l00 square miles. allE
The number OF clerks in New York city Is esti-
mated at 100, 600. ..-s
The cotton factories Of the Southern States con-
sumo about 10000 bales annually.
Last year Salem. Mass., manufactured 100000
worth Of leather.
ton Of brush to three acres OF broom corn Is
considered good yield.
New York city has recently contracted for
Confederate armed ships destroyed about 900
vessels valued at sl3 100000.
taDnery at VIM, Name uses about 1000
oordsof bark, and turns out 10000 sides of sole
leather annually.
The number Of farms IN North Carolina Is said
TO be "a, 203, and the average number Of acres 10
each farm 10 316.
A factory il being erscled near Greensboro N.
c.. for manufacturing duercitron from black oak
bark for the European .markets.
Wooden fabrics are manufactured at Frederick
burg, Alexandria, Chd rlottsvilie, Stanton, and
other places in Virginij. -e.1
II is stated that thert.is now only 100000 gal
Ions Of whisky in bont against 100000 year
ego. rt
In the Paris markets}frogs are sold at twenty.
Eve francs per thousan{ and snails at seven and
half francs per thousaiH.
Last year, J. J. M3chi, OF Engiand, proaucea
GA bushels Of wheat ptt acre, weighing 63s pounds
per bushel.
An association with capital Of 100000 is be.
Ing organized in Mis- ,uri for the purpose Of i'm.
porting and breeding N kinds of stock.
The annual apple CHIP OF Ohio Is estimated at
10 COO 600 bushels, al y the peach crop ct one
sixth OF that qaanttyk rn
The Concordia Color Mills, at Hampstead.
Texas. are turning Dit 1000 yards of cloth per
day.
The Bath paper mil ), in South Carolina. are
adding $40 600 worth 81 new machinery to their
establishment.
&c. Richers, Of Gikaer, Upshur county, Texas
has made application br patents on slxty.two new
Inventions. stl "a
New York city sndft the neighboring towns con.
eume annually 5O0,Ofo tons Of coal for the pro-
duction of ,O0O, OOO, 90 cubic feet Of gas.
There are eighty-si3 cotton mills IN the South
ern States, running ut 900 spmdlss. and consum
Ing over Al, 900 600 pJands of cotton annually.
The New Almedepf mines, In California, pro
. duced 25,62s TASKS CTs3 pounds each,) Of quick
silver last year.
An establishment iot the manufacture OF barl
extracts on large }cae, for the use OF tanners
has been put up at bhnsonville, Tennessee.
The shipments OF tes from China and Japan Il
the United States, IRON, LIST June, 1868, TO 25tl
January, 1869, were b s67. 900 pounds.
Co operative SOCIETIES are proposed amonl
farmers for the putchsse OF expensive labor
saving farm machines.
There are now 81 te ssels bound from San Fran
cisco to Great Britain, with cargoes sggregatinl
100 900 sacks Of wheat.
A pottery near Montgomery, Alabama, 10 4
successful operation. The clay is taken from
bed near the factory.
Last year Norfolk county. Virginia. raised an
shipped to Norshern markets fruits and vegeta
bles to tho amount d. over 100000.
In 1867 Great Britain produced l0l 500, 90
tons Of coal, Of which s,7eo,Ooo tons were ez
ported.
One firm In Pbilsdelphis manufacture meel
schaum pipes to tbs value Of more than 81 900 90
annually.
DR.. John J. CLOVIS cultivates the Ar7ms Escs
lentum at his PLACE on the Atchafalaya riyel
raising 800 bushels OF tubers per acre.
IL is stated that 10000, 900 have been sent OF
of Spain for the purchase Of grain, to make q
for the deficiency Of two bad harvests.
The sorgho machine works, at Nashville, Tepn
employ forty hsnds, and turn out eleven sizes {
nails and thirteen sizes and patterns Of eyspt
Iators.
The deficiency III the cotton crop OF the Bon
bay Presidency foe 1859, Is estimated ct twent
i've per cent. as compared with last season, WIS
the crop for expor, was !, $50 900 bales.
II is estimated tllst the Mission olive orchard,
San Diego, Cslifor.is, will yield las gallons Of Q
this season, and inext year much larger qual
tity.
The average tost Of transporting grain fro
Chicago via lake and canals to New York, incl
ding insurance, trfnsfer, etc.. Is 40 cents per 1
pounds.
Preparations arp making for putting up ma
nfsctory OF costor'' sewing thread In New Orlesn
Our mid climate ind damp atmosphere special
adapt 1t to such sA enterprise.
In the department of CharenteInferieul
France, 575, 900 aires are under vines. In Is