Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-01-20
Industrial.

Industrial.
Galveston has castor oil manufac-
tory.
Hartford, Conn.,, put up $s,OOO,OOO
worth of new buildings last year.
"A Vermont farmer hauls wood to
market with team of eight sheep.
Farmers were blowing in the vicinity
of Boston on the last day of the old year.
The nail mills at Wheeling, w. Va,
manufactured $4,000 kegs. Of nails last
year.
in Philadelphia, during 1869, 5,511
buildings were erected, 5,3lS of them be-
ing dwellings.
Toledo tobacco manufacturers use ia
their business about 1880 hogsheads of
the raw material per annum.
:. The assessment for Portland, Oregon,
as returned by the Assessor, shows a to-
tai valuation of over $5,000,O0O.
During the past year nearly 100000
of acres of public land were entered
under the homestead and other laws.
From farm in Western New York
there is annually sold over $4,000 worth
of butter. The farm contains 172 acres.
Thirty cows are kept.
Mrs. Mary Puffer, seventy five years
old, at Madison, Ind, has just finished
quilt containing fifteen thousand eight
hundred and thirty-siX pieces.
Two little Milwaukee boys, who black
boots throughout the day and sell papers
in the evening, cleared enough during the
past season to purchase $1,000 home
stead tor their parents.
The Iron Trade Circular estimates
that at the end of the past year there were
laid in the United States, in round num-
bers, 100 miles of steel rails. These rails
are used On more than fifty different rail
roads.
Tennessee has ten cotton mills, run
ming 1920 spindles, which consume
1,847, 800 pounds Of cotton per annum.
Georgia, with twenty mills, rams 69,732
spindles, which consume 10,S64, $50 pounds
of cotton per .nnum.
The capital invested IN the live stock
trade of New York city is estimated to
exceed $5O,900,0O0 per year. Total re-
ceipts for the year: Becves, 2O,363; mich
cows, 1896; veal calves, 1Ol,6S7; sheep
and lambs, 1,455,677; swine, 8Sl ,544.
"A Pennsylvania correspondent Of the
Country Gentleman has practiced boiling
corn, oats or buckwheat for hogs for sew
sral years, boiling the grain until the ker-
nels crack open. He believes at least
every tenth bushel is saved in this way
Master J. j. Hubbard, lad twelve
years old, reported and received premi-
UNI for the best boys crop at the Opelika
(Ala.) fair He planted four acres in cot
ton, and raised two bales of cotton, weigh
ing FIVE hundred pounds each, and two
acres of corn, saving thirty five bushels.
The new beet sugar mandatory at
Sacramento, CAL, is said to be perfectly
successful, and nearly equals the Euro
pean in the per cent. of sacharine it ex-
tracts from the roots. One hundred and
forty pounds of graduated sugar are'pro-
duced from ton Of the raw material.
Several tons Of California fax have
lately been worked into bagging, and the
result of the experiment is said to be
highly satisfactory. 1t is considered that
the fabric made from the California arti
Gle 10 superior to that from the juIe which
is imported at heavy expense.
AT the Brennan (Texas) Fair, a bale
of cotton was exhibited which was pro-
duced by the labor OF two pretty girls, the
Misses Currie, one thirteen the other
fourteen year old. They planted the
seed, and did all the blowing and hocing
with their own fair hands, and then
picked the cotton when grown.
"A farmer in Bakersfield, VT, during
the past dairy season has made from III.
teen cows 5000 lbs. OF butter. He sold it
for As cents pound, realizing $3.50. He
also raised ten calves, now worth 300,
and 900 pounds of pork, which he sold
for $l30--making, as the proper income
of the dairy, 1880, besides supplying
his family.
There were received In Milwaukee
during 1869 765,042 barrels of -four and
17,79S,5e7 bushels of wheat Reducing
the -four to wheat gives grand total OF
24,623, TT bushels. The shipments for the
year have been 1,310,190 barrels of -four,
and 1927, 800 bushels Of wheat; or re-