American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-07-10
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS,
WAirrES FOR The CITIZEN sy "CHYRRa

1ooJ N estimated at 9,OOO, OOe lbs.
A peach orchard at Ridgway, n.
g., has 100000 trees.
The strawberry crop of Delaware.
this season, is over 62, $3.50 bushels.
St. Clair county, Mo-, has produced,
this season 100000 bushels of
wheat.
1t is estimated that tho railroads
of our country WIFI this year, trans
port $4,000, 900 ions of freight.
The receipts of the Pacific rail
road from through traffic are csti-
mated at 500, DOC, 900 annually.
Pennsylvania produced 14,5I2. 900
tons of coal in 1867, and 1888. OrO
tons in 1868.
The German Customs Union en-.
ploy $4,000 steam engines in their
various manufactures.
a valuable bed of bloodstonr has
been discovered in st. Genevieve
county, Mo.
The WilIistOn Button Factory at
North Hampton, Mass, employs $50
operatives.
The new railways now in course
of construction in this country will
require 400, 900 tons of iron this year.
The dairy interests of the United
States employ s7OO,OO0,OOO capital,
and yield an income of 1925 600, 900
annually.
One firm at New hernia, La, dur
ing the year ending Both June, shipp-
Ell 5000, 900 worth OF eggs and chick
ems to the New Orleans market.
The Brittania Company, at Meri.
den, Conn, employs 700 hands and
turns out annually $4,000, 900 worth
Of nickle-silver ware.
Last year Europe and the United
States consumed 1904, 1O5 pounds
of cotton, against 1,076,25O pounds
in 1858.
Sugar is made from pumpkin in
Hungary. The juice yields so per
cent. OF molasses, and about 4 per
cent. of sugar.
The Augusta Factory, consumed,
during the year ending June 18th,
6,362 bales of cotton, and paid 20
per cent. in dividends TO it's stock
holders.
The Lehigh Zinc Company, at
Bethlehem, Pa, employs 700 hands,
and turns out annually 5000 tons of
white oxide of zinc. $3.50 tons of
spelter and 100 tons of sheet zinc.
Of the 1902 81, eco furs sold in St.
Petersburg last season, 5000, 900
we're from Siberia, and the balance
from Alaska. They were valued at
s., 400, 900 III gold.
Pittsburg has over 80 iron rolling
mills, between so and co iron foun-
dries and 6 steel mills; and in the
immediate vicinity 1903 colleries,
which yield 10000. 900 bu. hels of
coal per annum.
In 1854 the U. s. exported $1,000
barrels of flour to Buenos Ayres :;
and 1856 only 200 barrels. This de-
cline Is caused by the cxtention of
wheat cultivation in that country.
The assessed valuation of Boston
is 5000, 100000; of New York about
800, 100000 Boston has about
$50, 100000 banking capital; New
York about s7O,OOO,OOO.
Nj. Cambalon, of Paris, has manu-
featured 800 Egyptian mummies for
provincial museums. a skull, a dogs
skin, two fillets of veal, and some
linen bands are all the materials me-
cesar. to fit up a first class mummy
Gen. Alcorn, of Mississippi. advo
Gates the construction of the Mis-.
sissippi river levees by Congress,
whereby 100000 acres of land
would be reclaimed, which will yield
an average of 900 to 5000 POUND,
OF cotton per acre"
Statington, Pa, in 1868, turned
out 100000 feet of roofing slate
100000 school states, and large
quantity of fogging, slate for man
ties, black boards, billiard tables,
&c, valued at nearly $4,OOO,OGO
Slatiugton is seventy miles north Of
Philadelphia, is three years old. and