Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-09-09
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Industrial.

S291, 462,9D,
1t is estimated that $4,000 vessels
passed through Martha's Vineyard Sound
last year.
A poor family in Virginia has re.
moved to Indiana on foot They have
walked eight hundred miles.
There are pear trees in a garden in
the town of Elliott, Me, from which fruit
was taken $40 years ago.
Another Atlantic cable to unite the
United States with Prussia is projected,
to be begun by September and finished
within two years,
"A single grain of wheat in Boise
valley, Idaho, has produced one hundred
and twenty stalks bearing heads averaging
thirty grains each.
A Dclawarean has a peach orchard
covering 300 acres. From the peaches
raised upon this vast orchard he contriyes
to save $4,000 bushels for the New York
market,
A large bone crushing factory has
lately gone into operation at lndianola,
Texas, and the prospects are that large
quantities Of r~~ t..v will be sent North
from that region
The actual time of the transmission of
the message announcing the result Of the
recent great boat race on the Thames
from the telegraph station near Mortake
to,New York, was only twelve minutes.
The Thornton estate, containing 1900
acres, located at Thornton Station, Va,
near Washington, has been purchased by
Northern capitalists for $lj0,000, and will
he divided into small lots and town laid
of, after the plan of Nineland, n j.
The National Land Company, for the
Kansas Pacific Railroad Company, has
sold $4,000 acres Of land to representatives
Of an English colony Of 200 families, The
land lies in a body, northwest of junction
City, Kan, and the average price paid is
about $50 per acre.
A Pennsylvania paper tells Of two Gu
cumbers, one measuring 14l5 inches and
the other 15l5 inches long; the latter is 10
inches around the middle. A Troy, Kan
sas, editor beats this. He knows of one
that measures IS inches in length and
another - inches.
Between the mouth Of the Willamet
and Astoria, in Oregon, there are now
twenty-five salmon fisheries, giving en-
ployment to over two hundred men. They
have put up over 100000 pounds Of sal
mon in cans, and the salmon put up in
this form sells for about 50 per case of
torty-eight pounds. About 1900 barrels
of salmon have also been put up on the
river, and the business is rapidly increas-
ing.
The small steel chain which winds
round the fusee Of watch is about eight
inches in length, and contains upwards of
five hundred links, riycted together. 1t
is not thicker than a horsc-hair and the
separate links can but just be perceived
with the naked eye Most of these watch
chains are manufactured at Christchurch,
in HantS. The links are punched out by
girls from plates Of Steel and very young
girls pick re ,,Ie links and rivet one to the
other.
There is grape vine near Santa
Barbara, California, the trunk Of which
measures thirteen inches in diameter, the
branches covering an area of siXty-tive
feet in diameter. 1t is trained upon a
trelliswork supported by sixty four posts.
1t is stated that the vine last season yielded
six tons of grapes, which brought $500,
The vine is twenty-tOur years old. An
other vine, trclised in the same way,
eleven years old, bids fair to outstrip the
old one. 1t now covers an area Of thirty
six feet in diameter.
The New York World has a cor
respondent who writes strongly of the
peach crop in Maryland and Delaware.
He says; eve have had no crop equal to
that Of the present season since 1865. In
1866 the crop was very fair. In 1867 there
was good yield. In 1868 the crop was
almost complete failure. 1t is believed
that the yield of this year will exceed that
of 1867 BIZ 100000 baskets, reaching the
aggregate of 100000! Some dealers
estimate as high as 100000.