The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-07-26
FACTS AND FIGURES.

A ten of straw will make $50
= pounds of paper.
;, American cotton bales average
AS pounds.
,, Reading, Pa, manufactures 100,-
900 bricks per day.
The Keokuk Rapids improve
ments will cost 81, 1000
A narrow gauge road is pro-
, jected from St. Paul to La Crosse,
Wis.
II Sixty thousand acres of land in
Florida were recently sold for 3d.
600.
In Bremcr county, Iowa, corn is
worth only eighteen cents per
bushe1.
The Big Woods of Minnesota
include a region of 5000 square
miles.
The wheat crop of Covelle coun-
| ty, Texas, viii average twenty-five
: bushels to the acre.
The city of Pittsburg, Pa, has.
| over ], 800 established manufactor-.
les Of various kinds.
A million dollars is the price of
a we'll established and successful
sugar plantation in Cuba.
! Nearly nine million dollars
worth of lard has been exported
from this country within the last
six months.
Boothbay, Me-. made, in 1871,
354, 000Igallons of menhaden oil,
and 1900 tons guano, valued total
at $4,000
The Nashua, N. H., fan company
has received an order for fifty |
thousand fans for the Worlds |
Peace Jubilee.
A fine specimen of lead ore is
said to have been discovered in |
Parker county, Texas, yielding % |
per cent. of pure metal.
A French engineer suggests the
building of a railroad from Paris
to Pekin, the cost of which he es-
Inmates at 22O,OOO,O00 francs.
Ironton, Ohio, manufactures
iron to the value of $2,75O,OOO an
nually, and the pig iron shipped
to and from her wharf is $l,1SS,-
600.
Tho average value of the direct
trade between Great Britain and
New York for the past year has
been estimated in round numbers
at $23, 100000.
The receipts of New York city
from its markets during 1871,
were 1878, 907. O4, and it cost the
city $79, 2S0.S9 to clean, sweep and
keep them in order.
Iowa has $4,000 square miles of
surface, and is divided into one !
hundred counties. 1t has been
estimated to have ample capacity
for population of 100000.
The manufacturing statistics of |.
the Census Bureau are so far COM !
pleted as to show that the gross
product of manufacturers for
the last year was $4,O0O,O0O,OOO.
The model cheese factory of +,
Utica made last season 211, 500 {
pounds of cheese, which sold for
$2S, 77G.S1. The business will !
be largely increased another sea-
son. ;;
The expected Peruvian loan {
will be one of the largest financial
operations of the year in the Lon
don market. According to rumor,
its amount will probably exceed
$4,000, nominal, and per
haps reach $200,000,000.
There are now in the State of
Connecticut ninety-four fire insur- :
ance companies and forty life in ,
surance companies, the former ]
having $70,OOO,0O0 in assets, and I
the latter $25O,000,0O0. II
These are 1872 mills in the State /,
of Nevada, used in the crushing ,
and reduction of various ores. {
Their capacity equals 1925 horses; I
they carry 2,S4s, stamps, and cost I
over 100000.
One firm at Quincy, Ill, is pre- {
pared to contract for 10000 bush {
els of tomatoes and $50 acres of 4
cucumbers, to be delivered this
year, which quantity they intend
to pickle.
The total stock of foreign rice ,
at all the ports in the United
States, Including the Pacific and
Gulf, at present, is about 100, 600
bags, or four to five times as
much as at the same time last
year.
Four years ago, Lincoln, the
capital of Nebraska, was away out
on the prairie, ana was called
Young's Colony. Before the close
of the present season it will have
six railroads and be lighted with
gas.
Hon. E. II. Stiles has an artesian
well on his place in Ottumwa, Iowa.
It is seventy feet below the sur
face, and discharges a constant
stream of pure water winter and
summer, amounting to six gallons
a minute.
Condensed milk is becoming a
large and now trade. Factories
for its production have been es-
tablished in Great Britain, the
Argentine Republic, and even in
Australia, whence it is exported to
Europe.
The aggregate international
commerce of the world, at the
present time, is estimated at So
237, 100000 in value. OF this +
amount Great Britain is able to
control within q fraction of So, 000,-
600, 000-or nearly one third of the
worlds commerce.
The largest iron steamboat ever
built on the Mississippi was
launched from the iron works of
House & Dean, at Dubuque, last
week. She is 125 feet in length,
26 feet beam and 4 feet deep
hull, deck and nosing all of iron.
She will cost $4,000.