The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-03-11
Brief COmmeroiaI and Ildus.riaI
Items,

Brief Com meTciaI and InduStriaI
Items.
TIE leading adamantine candle manu-
taClurers Of the country have resolved to
discontinue the practice OF putting up
short weights
THE world uses $50 100000 pounds Of
tea each year and 719, 100000 pounds OF
coffee China furnishes nearly all the tea,
and Brazil over one.half Of the coffee.
Tue summary statement Of the grain
and mOlasses distilleries Tor the month of
February. shows 9 total Of $50 distilleries
Of both grades, an increase of thirty.six
for the month. "-'' 49, -.
THE Verdigo Mountain, eight mikes
north OF Los Angeles, and containing 9, ,122
acres OF land and stone, has bean sold at
public auction for 5000 cash. Its princi.
pal value is found in ledge Of good lime
stone.
THERE are about three million eight
hundred thousand head of cattle in Texas.
Seven hundred and fifty thousand calves
are raised and branded every year. All
are raised on the great Texan plains,
which cover an area Of 152, 600 900 acres,
The shipments OF wool from California,
in 1871, show the extent to which the
overland railroad has diverted the freight
traffic from the water routes. The ship
ments Oi wool In that year ffoln Califor-
MIA, amounted TO 22,S29,504 pounds, Of
which 1874 1888 pounds came overland.
The value of all the wool sent East was
$6,697, 900! - - " ~ hiA NJ y
THE public debt OF Canada is rapidly
increasing, and after certain improve.
'ments now projected have been carried
out, will amount, 1t ID said, 70 $45a head.
The debt oithe United States Is only $50
ahead, and is rapidly diminishing. Our
debt Is the result Of q prolonged and ter
rible rebellion, but 1t is difficult to find an
explanation for that OF Canada.
TIIE,mAuufaetire Of grape algar Is an
important All in Germany 1n1869 there
were sixty factories engaged in preparing
this substance, the total product Of which
was 22,OO0OO0 pounds Of syrup and near
ly 5000 pounds Of sugar. This SRngar is
prepared by a chemical process from pota.
toes, which are cultivated in large guam
titles for this purpose ~ ! q ''-''0''
THE operatives In the fax mills of
Leeds, England, have struck for reduc-
tion Of their time Tor labor to nine hours
per day. They are conducting themselves
In an orderly manner, and no trouble is
appr6hended. The number of persons on
the strike Is between ten and eleven thou
sand. sSJ6
SECRETARY BpuTwELL's Report; on
Steam Vessels in the United States shows
that there were on the Atlantic coast In
1871, 14l0 vessels, with total of 415 400
TONS The casualties in that year were
by fire, siNs BY explosion; four; by cOls
lisiou, one; ;saRds by wreck, T. nines THE
number ot lives lost was 161, and the value
ofproperty lost or destroyed was 81, ,S24,-
200. The number and the tonnage Of
steam vessels, on both the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts, has been increasing year
by year since the close Of the war.
y A SOMEWHAT remarkable corporation,
styled the Pacific Hidden Treasury Com
pany, was incorporated at San Francisco
last month"; Its object is to conduct
searches and explorations for money,
treasure, treasure.trove, and valuableS
upon Cocos Island, and at other places in
The Pacific Ocean or elsewhere, to recover
anu divide the same among the stockhold.
ers The capital oi tho new corporation
y to be $50. 600 600 In forty shares of
S76OOOO each, and It's articles OF incor,Io.
ration hold good for fiftv wears. - : :