American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-05-29
INDUSTRIAL IfEM;ISS
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PRODUCED in the United States.
The various minis in Mexico coin
ID 81, 1G3, 205 in silver last year,
In 1865, Savannah, GA, exported
$50, 226, 900 worth of domestic pro
luce.
There are 22l diStiIlcries in Schie- .
dam, and 200 to SOC more in other
towns in Holland.
There are nearly 1900 Angora, or
wool-bearing goats in the United
States.
A cotton seed oil manuflctory is
being established at Greenville,
Washington county, Miss.
In the United States 10000 persons
are employed IL the production Of
pig iron.
It is estimated that 100000 per
sons are employed in the collicries of
Europe.
There are 2j steam engines EN-
ploycd in the shoe manufacturers Of
Lynn, Mass.
In the duchy Of Alvey, Germany,
there are 23S hives of bees to the
square mile.
Last year New York exported 99S,-
600 barrels Of -four and 5,7S5,5 800
bushels of wheat.
Salt Pond Mountain, i'll Giles CO.,
Va, containing $4,000 acres, has
been sold for 100000.
The total production Of raw silk in
Italy, last year, is estimated at 2S,-
SG9, 900 pounds, valued at %, j43, 900
francs.
There were 2,075,O00 chinchona
plants in the government plantations
at Dareling, East India, on the LIST
Sept. 1868.
G. y. Rose Of Columbus, Ga, has
discovered and patented u process
for making paper out Of fine straw
and cotton stalks.
About S5,50O,O0O worth of silk
worm eggs were exported from Yc-
kohama, Japan, to France and Italy,
in 1868.
The deaths from drunkenness in
England are 10000 annually; in the
United States 81, 1000; and in France
! 800.
In the southeastern part of the
State of Nevada there is a mountain
of pure salt, about five miles Iong
and 600 feet high.
Oliver Dalrymplc, of Minnesota
has sown 1900, acres of wheat this
season, and expects yield of 50,09(
bushels.
There are eight manufactures OF
rubber shoes in the United States
turning out S3,O00,O0 worth per an
mum.
y steam tanncry at Augusta, Ga.
is prepared to turn out $4,000 side:
of leather yearly. Another at Athens
Ga, turns out 10000 per annIm.
1t is estimated that the planters o
the Mississippi valley have received
31,000,000 for their cotton seed thi,
season.
In the dairy districts of New York
the milk of 10000 cows has beel
transferred from the butter to The
cheese factories.
j. II. Lick, of Santa Clara, Califor
MIA, planted cork oak acorns in 1853
and now has 50 trees from IS to z
feet high, and from to 10 inches il
diameter.
In Northern manufactures the an
nual average consumption Of cottol
per spindle is about 60 pounds. il
Southern mills it is about 13j pound
per spindle.
The largest quantity Of indigo
551 chests-ever brought to the [
:. in one vessel, arrived at Bosto
last week from Calcutta. 1t was va
ucd at $4l5, 900 currency.
Last year 100 vessels. aggregatin
10000 tons, were built on the CLYDE
OfthcSG only If were built cntirel
Of wood some were iron hulled, bu
the majority were wholly of iron.
, \ tug-boat, with six barges, al
rived last week at New Orleans froI
Lansing, Iowa, with Il cargo OF nor
than 100000 bushels Of grain, an
/ nearly 10000 barrels of flour.
y firm in Canadoga, \. Y, are Ell
= gagged breeding minkS. The expense
are light, and they ".claim that on
mink with her increase will equal tn
, avails Of a COW"
The falling off in the exports {
cotton goods from Great Britain duI
ing the first quarter of 1869, cen
pared with the same time in 1865
, amounts to 10,S07, 000 pounds {
, yarn, and 81, t1G,000 yards OF good
The ore from the tin mines on tn
st. Francis river, Mo-, yields froi
four to five per cent. of pure meta
r while that of Cornwall, England
yields only two per cent. The L.
,, annually imports $5,000,o0o wort
: of tin from England.
; Twenty-eiGht Northern and Yves
, crn railroads, with an aggregate ell
. ital in 1861 of $2S7 ,00O,O 0O, have il
creased their stock ny what is know
. as the watering process" to 81
00G, 900, showing an average inllatiO
Of nearly - per cent.
ThcScraps which accumulate in I'll
! cutting of sole leather are Workc
t up again into a material called ''pal