The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-07
INDUsTsIAL ITEMS. ETC.


INDUsTSIAL ITEMS. ETC.
Sugar beets yield from GO TO 100 tons per acre.
The live stock of Ohio is valued ct sls2, $50 0O0
The annual wool crop Of the United States is
estimated at over 100. Oo0. 900 pounds.
The first experiments in making macaiamized
roads were made In 1915.
American sewing machines have been intro
duced into Italy.
A trader in Paris, Ky, shipped loo tons of tur-
keys to Boston last year.
Great Britain annually CONSUMES 100, 000, 900
tons Of coal.
There are over 200 letter carriers in New York
city.
There are 1000 distilleries in operation In the
United States.
During 1865, dealers 10 Louisville sold So l42 900
worth of boots and shoes.
The first paper mill in Kentucky was erected 10
1765, near Georgetown.
New York city has four velocipede manufscto-
ries, and the demand exceeds the supply.
Some twenty cotton factories are being put up
in Mississippi. That is industrial reconstruction.
1t is SAID that American dsirying now represents
q capital of 500 100000.
England lost 10000 head of cattle By the
plague, valued at e., $4,000.
There are nearly 1900 book and job printing
Offices in the United States.
One mandatory in Philadelphia turns out
2,CC0c00 artificial teeth annually.
In 1865 the United States exported 95 900, 600
gallons of petroleum.
California is sending canned salmon to the East.
ern States.
1t is said $4,000 men are engaged in running the
railroad trains on Sunday in This country.
New Zealand produces Eli 900 600 gold annu
ally.
Since 1876 more than leo 900 of the Mccormick
Keepers and mowers have been manufactured.
Glass thread Is now made so flexible that 1t can
be worked in sewing machine.
During 1868. Providence, R. l., sold 400, 900
pieces Of printing cloths.
The total imports into New York city in 1868,
were valued at 1851 600 OOO and the exports 1884,
OOO,OOO.
In Hopkinton. Mass, boots are pegged by ma
chine driven By steam power, 2lO pairs being CON
sidered days work.
During 1868 the consumption Of coffee in the
United States was 1924 tons per month, and foreign
sugar 50 900 900 pounds per month.
During December last the internal revenue de-
pertinent sold $4,000 worth of cigar stamps in
New York and Brooklyn.
The United States, 10 1858, used ,225 900 tons
of railroad iron, Of which 700, coo were imported
and SIS 900 tons manufactured in the States.
The present duty on railroad iron adds nearly
$1,000 per mile to the cost of building railroads in
the United States.
The annual production of sugar in the world is
estimated at 10000 tons, of which 800 900
tons are cane sugar.
At Rockville, Conn.,, two new silk factories will
soon be put in operation and one wooden mill has
recently changed to silk factory.
The annual consumption Of coal In the United |
States furnishes power equal to the labor of l5O,.
0C0, 900 horses.
A. ]. Going, Of Clinton. La, has invented and |
patented an improvement In cotton seed plant
ers.
The corn crop OF the United States 10 1868 ia |
estimated at 905 900 coo bushels being 1877 900 900
bushels more than the crop of 1867. |
In 1868 the ten Southern States produced 222,. |
100000 bushels corn, being 40 ,0O0. 900 more than
IN 1857 |
Lombsrdy, Italy, produces annually SIS, 100000 |
worth Of silk, 100000 of cheese, SO, 900. 900 |
gallons of wine, and 800, 900 bushels of wheat.
In England so, 900 persons, nearly all women |
and children. are employed In the manufacture Of |
straw plait.
In the United States there are issued 542 daily,
1925 weekly, IS tri-weekly and 63 semi weekly
papers; 297 monthly, 46 semi-nnonthly, bi-month.
ly and "a quarterly publications.
The population Of France exceeds that OF Great
Britain by about 100000. France consumes
annually 90 900 tons of meat, and Great Britain
consumes 100000 tons.
Three cotton factories at Columbus, Ca, have
now running 500 spindIes. and expect to add
] 500 more this year. There Is also wooden mill
turning ont fine cassimeres and blankets.
During January, 1869, there were 54,l65 cases
OF boots and shoes shipped from Boston, Of which
9l5s cases (more than sixteen per cent? were
shipped to New Orleans.
factory at Smethwick, Epglsnd, makes auna.
ally 1000 tons Of iron cotton bale ties for the
American market. The same establishment turns
out 100 tons Of bolts and nuts daily |
During 1865, there were 46, l5S cases OF boots
and shoes shipped from Boston to New Orleans,
Of which 1851 cases, (more than fifty five Der
cent? were shipped during the past three months
Of the year.
For thirty years previous to ls40 the increase in
the production OF pig iron 10 the United States
was about 10 per cent. per annum since that time
the average increase has been about per cent.
annually.
Since ls60 the increase in cost Of food, clothing
and shelter for families in cities, towns land VII
sges IN the United States has been about vs. Der
cent, and the average increase Of wages only so
10 60 per cent.
Georgia editor estimates the value of the cot
ION crop In that State at fS5, 900 900; of which
'um slO,O 100000 viii have to be paid 10 the Nor.h
vest for pork and bacon, 81, $50 900 for corn.
IND 81 $50 600 for mules leaving only sl2 600 600
= surplus, part Of which viii be required to pay
or iron, salt, manurss. etc.
lcERERe.-Frank Richards, the genial and popu.,
az proprietor OF this veli.known saloon, possessed
y 'ne great secret Of pleasing each and all has Just
supply of imported liquors, among