Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-10-21
Industrial.

Wilton, N. H., has & steam cheese fac.
tory which turns out 10000 pounds annu-
ally
Delaware has shipped over two and
a half million baskets of peaches this
year.
Eight silk factories are located at
Mansfield, Mass, and all are doing Il good
business
Over 100000 bricks have been made
in one brick yard at Glenn's Falls the past
season.
New York has commenced the con.
struction ofa State Capitol at an estimated
cost of $4,000,000
The Mississippi State Fair will be
held at Jackson, beginning on the Goth of
October, and lasting five days.
"A shoe mandatory of the capacity
of 100000 per annum is about to com
mence operations in Dalton, Ga.
The cultivation of flax in Minnesots
has brought. the old-fashioned spinning.
wheel into renewed use.
Seven hundred acres of good Tennes-
see bottom land, in Hardin county, was
sold few days since for the small sum of
SO per acre.
The gross receipts of the st. Louis
Fair Association, during the recent fair,
were 500, 100-over $4,000 in excess of
last year.
Some of the leading citizens OF San
Francisco have organized the California
Emigrant Union, to promote immigration
to the Pacific coast.
Many of the farmers of Rockingham,
Va, will be compelled to fatten their hogs
upon oats and wheat in consequence of
the almost total failure of the corn crop
The Ohio Farmer estimates that the
corn crop in Northern Ohio will not be
more than one-third of an average, with
half crop of fodder, ana that the whole
State will not yield more than half crop.
There is on exhibition at the Indus
trial Exhibition, in Buffalo, n Y, the
largest and longest wrought iron beam
ever rolled at single heat in this coun-
try. 1t is seventy feet long, twelve feet
high, and weighs 5000 pounds
The New Jersey cranberry crop this
season in Ocean county alone is valued at
$2,300,000 An acre of good cranberry
land is now estimated to be worth from
$1,000 to $4,000. The demand in market
Is always in excess of the supply.
The latest statement of the manufac-
turing industry of Fall River says that
that city has 54S,SS0 spindles and 12,617
looms; consumes annually 5S,S51 bales of
cotton, and manufactures 13,U7250 yards
of print cloths, 3,500,0O0 yards of sheet
ing, and 100000 yards of shifting.
Three years ago a Georgia planter
sold his plantation for $4,000 As the
purchaser was unable to make the pay
ments, he was compelled TO take the land
back and cancel the bargain. Since then
he has made three good crops of cotton
on the land and few days ago he sold it
for S1S,150
The following are the advanced rates
established by the Elevating Association
OF Buffalo until further notice: Two cents
per bushel including ten days storage,
and quarter of Il cent per bushel to the
vessel. Storage after the first term, one
fourth of cent per bushel for ten days, or
parts thereof.
Coal has been discovered beneath
Providence, r. l., in boring for well of
water in foundry yard The drill passed
through bed OF coal fourteen feet thick,
at depth of one hundred and nineteen
feet, and second bed of coal of six feet
IN thickness, st the depth of one hundred
and thirtyfour feet. The well Dorer
stated that there were not any intervening
states in the beds of coal An expert ex-
AHMED the specimens Of coal taken out,
apd judges that they contain eighty per
cent. of carbon. The coal can be raised
TO the surface at a cost of less than two
dollars a ton.
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