The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-21
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS. ETC.

/ into the United States.
Europe produced '6lO,eOO tons Of beet-roo
! sugar last year.
During the last eleven years over $4,000 Ger
mans arrived st New York.
The stock of sugar In the principal European
markets January LIST. 1869, was Sl6.446 tons.
San Francisco exported sec, s5s, O97 in treasure
during the year 1868.
The fifteen late sIsveholding States produced
l0432, goo bushels of corn last year.
During 1868 there was 500 100000 worth o
shoes made in Massachusetts.
Maine has s4O,Oo0,OO0 capital employed in mar
ufacturing.
1t takes 1000. 100000 pounds of rags to suppl,
| the paper mills of the world year.
| Last year I'll 1853 immigrants arrived at New
York, OF whom l04 SIS were from Germany.
The petroleum trade of Pittsburg amounted q
slS,oO0,0Oo last year.
The Antiquarian Society library Of worcsstet
Mass, contains $4,000 volumes.
The Bodleian library, at Oxford, England. COD
tains 1000 volumes.
In Berlin, Prussia, 1000 horses were Slaughtered
and sold for human food last year.
1t takes $4,000 900 yards of sacking annually, Il
bag the California grain crop.
II ia said that an acre of peoples viii yield fifty
pounus or opium, worth us 70 so pound (
| The sugar crop of Cuba amounts to about COO, !.
900 tons per annum. 4
The railroads of Massachusetts, last year carried
| 6.537 goo tons of freight. 4
The Tennessee river is being improved at an ex'
| pense of s4,O50,O00. J!
II is estimated that the residents OF New YorS
| city consume 81, COO oranges daily. 1
The citizens Of Milwaukee are said to drine
S,O6s, 900 worth of liquors annually. !
Massachusetts expended over 81 900 900 lass
year building schoolhouses.i
The pork dealers of Cincinnati are said TO have
made 100000 the past season.
In 1868 there were $4,000 bales of cotton
shipped from Norfolk, Va. i,
Cotton grown in 1889 was sold in Augusta, Ga.
last year. how long will cotton keep
The James river and Kanawha Canal and
branches, 22l miles long, cost SIC, 437 900. /
Between 1880 and 1861 the tolls of the Eric
Canal were reduced from $40 % to 81 40 per ton
England has a, 00o. 600 acres of land, of which
only Is, 0O0,0O acres are under tillage. =.
factory in Greensboro, N. c., turns out daily.
HOO ak and pick handles. +
bakery in Chicago consumed ,le9 barrels al
-four last year. III
two in German and one in the French lacguags.
Ipswich, Mass. makes annually $1,000 goldfish h
lines, worth fifty cents each.
The tanners of Chicago turn out annually about
100000 sides of leather. and 100000 sheep skins.
1t takes 27, 43O, 900 clover seeds to make bushe
and 81 $4,000 timothy seeds make q bushel II
The Wanda Company of Charleston, S. c., il
turning out daily 40 tons of their prepared phosi
.ra@o Il AbaI ov,. 4 L, ALL. u
The internal revenue of the United States for
1868 was slsl, $50, 564, being ga, $4,000 below
that of 1867.
The railroads of the United States are repre-.
scented by nominal capital of nearly 81 900, 0O0,-
600. III
A scythe factory at East Wilton, Me-, EMPLOYS
twenty operatives, and turns out 1000 dozenslll
scythes annually. Isl
The annual yield of the maple sugar in theAl
United States is .O0o 900 pounds and ,597, OO9
gallons of syrup. III
About 900 valentines were sold in New \
York city week before last, and 100000 sens
from the manufacturers there to other Cities ri
The shoemakers of Chicago propose organizing Il
cooperative association, with 100000 capital.
to manufacture shoes. III
New York city has IS ice houses, with capacitg{
for sSS&.00o tons. capital Of s3,OOO,e00 is in
vested in the business. III
There has been s., 100000 worth of mules sent
South this season from the Kentucky "blue grass |
region" Ill
The Boston and Albany Railroad Company hss |
established railway library of 1000 volumes fo- |
the use Of its officers and employees. III
During the season Just closed Cincinnati hss |
slaughtered $50. sos hogs, about 1000 less tha,
last season. (,
The Chickasabogue paper mill, near Mobile, |
makes an excellent article of paper from tts3 |
stalks of the okrs plant.
The exports of tea from China and Japan ffr |
the season. up to Sd January, 1862 was 100 900 go
pounds.
The importation of sugar into the principtl |
markets of Europe during 1868, was l.O5O,etO |
tons.
During the week ending 30th January, more |
than 100000 pounds of tea arrived at Londen \
from China and the East Indies.
The total receipts of wool at New York in 1863 |
were 47Oe7 600 pounds, and the stock on hand /
'snnsry lat. 1869, was IL, 49,, 900 pounds.
The Massachusetts, society Tor promoting ar.i.
culture will. LIST March, 1872, award prizsa AZ
$500 and $500 for the two best establishments in
that State for the culture of fish.
The Georgia White Oak Lumber Company.
organized year ago, now have in operation on
The Ocmulgee river, floating steam factory turn.
ng out 1900 finished pipe slaves per day.
recent estimate makes the total quantity of |
gold. in all shapes, in the hands of man, equal N
oO,0O0,0OO ounces, and of silver about 400, 600 900
in value to e. 200 900 900 sterling
The debt of the State of New York Is s44. et3..
100; the debt of New York city and county ia
2.l90, 600; and the debt of the city of BROOKLYN
8 sls,559,oo0.
The aggregate wealth of Great Britain ia esti.
mated at 10000, O00. 900, and its annual ne, II.
rease at ESQ, o0o, oOO or about eighty three ann.
redths OF one per cent. per snnum. l.
The United States annually exports to Brazil
omestic products valued at 81, 055 900, and i'm.
orts from there $40 $4,000 in return, of which
yer sl5, GOO, 900 is in coffee.
A canal has been proposed to pass steamboats,
'om Gadsden, on the Coosa river, to Guuter,s
andng, on the Tennessee, the distance being
bout rs miles.
Seven companies are engaged in working the
neral hat uoax Nho-io...