American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-10-23
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y farmer III ANtaN3t county, Aid, 49,
as a dock of 100 goats. "
A stove factory is to be establish p
4 at Montgomery, Ala, =
1t is estimated that by working up
ur cotton into yarns for eXport"- "
ion a profit Of $40 per bale would Z
Ne realized over and above the profit p
# growing it, thus adding s50,000,- Ii
100 per annum to the net profits Of !,
crop.
\ company has been organized 4
md are preparing to put up a cotton :
actory at Bainbridge, Ga. :,
It is estimated that South Austria
ia will have $4,000 tons of flour for :
export this season.
A quarry Of photographic stone of |
the best quality, has been discovered
within five miles OF st. Louis. :
Philadelphia has nearly G,000
in operation producing ,
chgcka aud other cotton goods, car
petings, etc.
Chester, Delaware, and Montgom-
cry commit ss, in Dcl3HaIe, have over
seventy cotton and wooden factories
il operations
O1r item in the i paul fur trade
Ia t ,etsln was l.U00,01o mu KRAFT
Shiu&.
Last wear there were 23,5t0,000 /
cigars Manufactured lit Baltimore.
III 1854 tie trade # British Iudia
was GI4 O0J0J0; il 1868 il amount |
ed 10 GI23, 0o9, $50.
| II 1862 tie American tonnage
clsnred from East Indian ports was
CO., gG2; in 1857 It MAS only "+,o91,
\ new cotton mill, with 5000
spndles, and looms to produce
$4,000 yards Of sheetings and shirt
ings per day, will commence opera
tions in Utica, n. Y, about LIST No
vember.
New Britain, Conn, has an esta5-
lishment for the manufacture of silk
and cotton lace.
In 1850 the wool crop Of the Unit
ed States was 60, 511 900 pounds in
1868 it was III 600, 900 pounds.
A lady in California makes artifi-
cial flowers from waste silk cOcoons.
) The value of goods manufactured
annually in the United States, com
, posed wholly or partially of wool, is
/ estimated at 1915 100000.
Great Britain has 49, lines Of
= ocean steamers, composed of 5000
= vessels, with an aggregate of l 400
! 600 tons.
5 The Rock Island Manufacturing
0 Company, at Charlotte, n. c., ARK
Il turning ont a very superior quality
I, Of cashmere.
l. Charlotte, n. c., has received an,
sold !arga quantities of dried black
u u berries, apples, peaches, SC, thi
: season.
;. 4 firm in Connecticut annuall
:. work up $4,000 pounds of brass int
shoe3tilng. tips.
Thera are 113 col!irrics in opers
ton around Fittsburg, empl0yin
, 1000 miners. The annual proGut
-. 100. GOQ. 600 bushels. TIE capital il
y yvz7rxyi 90 900.
u There are more than 500 steaGi
boats engaged in trade on the Nj
Sissspi ana its tributaries, with a
or aggregate tonnage OF 202, goo; va
mod ut S3Ot EGN Heil
In the wild beast market an Ell
,t plant brings 1850, a giraffe SO GO
" hippopotamus $1,000, a lion or
tiger 50 900, gnu $500, and an 0
trich $500.
" It is said there are 1000 differei
kinds of butterflies and moths in Il
United States.
" An English traveller in Chil
20 writes home that "tbe Chinese a
l. tho smartest traders under t
Sun-are as far superior to the il
as is one Of that race TO q Christian
I II John II. Dalrymple, of Moo
W. county, n. G., made $50 bushels
81 sweet potatoes on an acre last 81
son, ana expects to make 500 bus
els per acre this season.
An extensive pork packing esta
,ed liShment is 10 be opened i'll Lexin
IA, ton, KY, THIS fall.
he A broom factory at BowIi
ne Green, KY, turns out $500 worth
ne brooms per week.
Of A broom factory capable of tui
ire 1 Geo dozen broGms per week is to
as. started soon in New Orleans.
Die One factory in the West shi
or 500 dozen brooms per week to
the New Orleans market.
- A factory in New Orleans
,,,n making baskets from the wood
,,a the magnolia, which was burn
.no down last summer, has just be
,,,i started again. We wish it mu
nav success.
rca An extensive stoneware manuf
ers tory has been commenced IN Abil
don, Virginia.
80, I' The wool clip of the United Sta
on ,', tor 1869 is estimated at 1877 ,000,(
!" !, pounds, eins 100000 pounds |,
din than last year.
for The woolen mills of the Unit
of States decreased One-third DUR
mi the past two years.
ace Monroe county, Iowa, has pol
ltio lation Of 800 persons owning
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