Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-08-07
FACTS AND FIGURFS.

The paper mills of Poland, Me,
monthly manufacture $50 tons Of paper
from 1875 tons of rags.
1t is estimated that the wool crop of
Texas for 1872 reached 617, SOB pounds,
showing an increase over 1871 of 351 ,0SS
pounds.
The Cleveland Herald boasts that over
a thousand new houses have been put up
in that city the past year, at cost of ST.
l03,201.
-Hartford's twenty-three factories en-
ploy 1926 hands, and produce yearly a
value of sS,515,000 in manufactured arti-
cles.
The statement that the Government
has parted with 100000 acres more than
the whole area of arabic land in the Uni
ted States is officially denied.
The big elm at Rutland, Vt, is 100
years old, and measures twenty feet in
circumference two feet above the ground
The top is 100 feet in diameter.
The exports of coin from New York
since Jan. 1, 1878, are stated at $50, 941,
S52, against $44,145,611 in same time last
year, and $4S, 403, 1913 in corresponding
time the year before.
The freight traffic on the N. Y. Cen
trail and Hudson River Railroads has in
creased in ten years from 2, 15S,0 900 tons to
4,5O0, 900 tons, and the passenger business
from $4,000, 900 to $S,O0O,OOO,
The lis National Banks in Illinois,
report specie on hand, $72,3990O; loans
and discounts, $19,176,572; deposits, &c.
O94, 710.96; capital stock, 81 1913, 900; I'M
divided profits, 81 1875, 71056.
Up to the Gath of July the total num-
Der of immigrants who had arrived in
this country this year was 1896 which
is only between 700 and 800 less than the
figures at the corresponding time a year
ago.
1t is understood that the Government
will press the cases against the parties
who have been importing Inferior watch
movements into this country with forged
names ofAmerican manufacturers engrav-
ed on them.
The Boston public library now com
prises 211,667 volumes and 1926
pamphlets, an increase since the 1st of
May of 1 ,211 for the former and 1925 for
the latter. The Barton library, when in
cluded will swell the aggregate of the
collections to nearly 5000 volumes.
A large number of Postmasters hold
ing minor offices, having falIed IN their
efforts for general readjustment of their
salaries, will appeal to the Court of
Claims A number of claims have already
been filed there, to be followed by many
others. 1t is supposed that the aggregate
sum claimed viii! be at least 100000.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
says that the aggregate annual production
of paper is 1,O6O, 600 tons, of which nearly
one-third, or 1887 tons is produced in
the United States, while Germany pro-
duces 10000 tons, and Great Britain ex-
actly the same quantity as Germany, the
French product being las, 900 tons. In the
United States the number of paper mills
has increased about fifty per cent. since
1S5O-the present number being S12, and
the value of their average annual product
nearly $67,OOO,0OO.
Take the grain generally used for
observation-disclosures assuming that each
inhabitant requires five bushels per an
mum for his consumption, then the $751;
924 people of New England will require
17439, $50 bushels for their consumption.
But they grow only 936, 100 bushels, and
therefore require $685. $50 bushels of
wheat, or its equivalent in -four, to be