The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-06-21
INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

The average cost of building a
mile of railroad is S44,225 in this
country.
The railroad connection between
st. Louis ana Galveston will be
made early in the summer.
In Cincinnati the amount of
property returned for taxation is
SIS, Sc, 299. OF this S1I9,00S.250
is in real estate.
It is said that rich silver mine
has been discovered near Wilson's
post office, Anderson county, Ten
nessee.
The silver production in Nevada
for 1871 foots up to SIS, 000,O 900, of
which the Comstock mine furnished
S11,000,000, the Phoebe S4,000,00O
and the Eureka S2,000,000.
Leavenworth, Kansas, contem-
plates vast smelling works for the
extraction of silver from lead ore,
and the manufacture of the. latter
into red, white and bar lead.
The total consumption of sugar
in the United States is set down, by
careful stalisticians, at 450, 600 tons.
OF this, Louisiana, before the war,
furnished nearly half.
The total value of the taxable
property of the State of New Jer-
sey is estimated by the comptroller
at 1854, 40, $40, and the amount to
be raised by taxation this year is
S1,753, 304, or three mills on the dol
lar.
The total value of whale catch
ings imported into the New Bed
ford district, during 1871, was ST.
594, 743; total for 1870, So, 10000;
for 1869, S4.067.5 65 for 1865, ST.
Ola, 452; for 1867, 81, 36l ,O0S-show-
ing progressive decrease.
The Green Mountain cheese fac
tory at Peru, Vermont, worked up
496, 230 pounds of milk in 81 work
ing days last year, making 3D.
141 pounds of green and 50,l24
pounds of cured cheese. This was
at the rate of S.6S pounds of milk
to one pound of green cheese, and
80 to one pound of cured.
The amount of logs cut in the
State of Michigan last winter was
2,2l5, 000, 600 feet, or 1S4, So, 600 GU
bic feet, board measure. OF this
amount l, 1865, 100000 feet were put
afioat in the log, and 100000 car
ried by rail. The lumber is mostly
pine and is valued at from $25, Co.,
600 to S45,000,000.
The mines of Georgia are more
numerous and better defined than
those of California, and yet the
average monthly yield of gold is
less than $1,000. The loss floating
to waste in the debris is estimated
to be $4,000 at least. The gold is
disseminated in finer particles and
over q greater extent than in any
other gold mining country.
An annual account rendered by
the bank of England shows that ut
the commencement of the year 1872
the dividends on the national debt
due and not demanded amounted to
E914, 315. In pursuance of statutes
81 and As, George III, ES76, 739 had
been advanced to the government,
and E67, $40 remains in the hands of
the bank.
1t seems to be admitted that the
American cotton crop of IS7l-2 will
not much exceed, if it reaches, 81
100000 bales, against 100000 in
1S70-1. This great falling off makes
the apparent supply of American
cotton insufficient for the wants of
the world at the rate of consump-
ton supposed to prevail during the
last twelve months.
In1S7I California produced 6, 00O,-
0O0 gallons of wine, 100000 of
brandy, and sold table grapes to
the amount of 100000; the total
value was $1,000, 600, an increase of
81, 075,O over 1870. The wool
clip for the year was $4,000, 900 lbs,
per cent. more than in
1870. The total cash value of these
products and wheat for 1872 is es-
timated at S35,9S0,2 200.
The aggregate assessed valuation
of personal property in all the
States in 1870 was SALTS. 986,732,
against Sl2, 0S4, $50, 005 in 1860, while
the true value of the same was $780,
06S, 51S, 507, in 1870, against Sl6,159,-
GIG, 06S in 1860. The increase in the
ten years has been about IS per
cent. This does not include prop
erty owned by the United States.
The States paying the highest
of taxation annually are
New York, S4S, $4,000; Massachu-
setts, S24, 900; Pennsylvania,
S24, 53l 600; Ohio, S23, 526, coo; ILL
nois, $2l, 1921, 600. These are all
which pay over S2O,OOO,O00 of tax
q year. The cities of the State of
New York pay over S24,0O0,OO0tax-
alton those of Massachusetts,, Sl2,-
100000; Pennsylvania, S14,00O,OOO;
of Ohio, S12,000,000; and of ILL.,
nois, $13,000,000.