Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-04
FACTS AND e

324 use tobacco. onlJ
Iowa has a million and a half of
to be turned into pork this winter pigs
Tobacco contributed, last year, saa
1885, 1888 to the internal revenue fund WIZ
-Philadelphia's real estate asseseron.
this year exceeds that of last wear h..
$20,000000. "
1t is stated that 10000 girls in Swift
zerland gain a livelihood by maxine
watches.
The cost of the proposed tunnel III.
der the railroad tracks at Columns q
is estimated at SOL ,344.
Over 5000 children were taken on ov
cursions by the Boston Committee, last
summer, at the expense of ninety cents
each.
The yearly production of maple SUGAR
in the United States, It's territories, a~d
the British possessions, is said to amount
to 6O,000,00O pounds, with molasses to the
amount OF 100000 gallons.
There are now published in New York
City seventeen morning newspapers, ten
evening papers, and one hundred and
slXty-four weekly Journals, together with
seventeen Sunday papers and as many
semi-weeklv papers.
The total shipments of iron ore from
the Lake Superior iron district this sea
son, up to and including November 8, is
$50 BAT tons, against 709, 922 tens at the
same date last year. Pig iron shipments
this year amOun to %, 115 tons, which is
some 1000 tons less than the shipments to
the corresponding date in 1872.
Ten = ars ago, the receipts and ex-
ports at Montreal amounted for three
years to $50, 000, 600. For the three wears
ending 1872 they amounted to S150,000,
600. This is an increase of eiehty-fve
per cent, and nearly all trade diverted
from New York. Cause, the insufficient
cy OF the Erie canal to carry the grain
brought to it. There is yet time to alter
all this, but New York must look sharp.
"A man in Trenton, New jersey, who
found several thousand dollars over two
years ago, and has advertised it every day
since that time, gets great credit Tor his
honesty. Any man would have quit look
ing for an owner long ago; yet this Tren-
ton man keeps on advertising. But he
owns the paper in which it is advertised,
and pays at full rates out Of the money
ib"NS' -AiNS IL ~ Sol IN y us
ing, the whole amount will have been alb
sOrbed.
The estimates Of the War Department
for the next fiscal year exceed $4,000, 000,
or S14, 00O,0O0 more than the a~ppropria-
tons for the present year. About one
fourth Of the amount is for pay, and the
remainder for Notifications and other ex-
penses. The army now numbers $4,000
The estimates show that we have one
commissioned officer for every fifteen
men. 1t is an army of skeleton regiments,
with a full array of all the officers, and
a few enlisted men; $50, 000, coo divided
by $1,000, shows the average cost Of our
War-like operations to be over $500 per
mum for each man in the army.
The receipts Of the ~post0fice depart,
mcnt, last year, as shown by the annual
figures, were $4,000, 900, and the expendi
lures about $4,000, 600, including 1925
coo in subsidies to steamship lines, being
an increase of Z per cent, against 9 per
cent. the year before. The expense OF
carrying official mails, or the saving made
by the abolition Of the ranking privilege.
does not appear in the figures of the
present annual report, since the free mat
ter was not cut of till the close of he last
fiscal year. AS regards the postal cards
the demand mas much exceeded tha est
mate. For the five months ending
September 80, there had been ISSUED CT,
100000. The estimates for the year end.
ing June 30, 1874, are as follows: Elk.
penditures, S30,S63, 600 revenues, $236l9,.
600; rom mOney-0rders, 100000 increase
from postal cards, $S33,0 600; total revenues.
$24, 552, 1000. Estimated deficiency, Sc,
210,0C0.
There is a great reyuision against iron
ships in some quarters. AS sailing vessels
and for general freight purposes they
have failed most conspicuously. A Liver.
pool firm offers over 300 iron vessels,
many of them screws, for sale. We be
llcVe some of the Swans at the recent
scientific meeting at Portland predicted
an early return to wooden walls" OF
course such a tendency is well for Ameri-
can commerce. Great Britain beats the
world in iron ship-building, but we have
an equal superiority in wood. An aprOpos
report Of the ship-building interests of
Bath, Me, for 1878 shows the construc-
ton Of As craft at that port, of 10000 tons
burden. AS measured now, the tonnage of
the banner year in Bath 1850 was $1,000
tons. In 1856 it was 40, 600, since which
time 1t has never been so large as it is this
year. The decline began, therefore, long
before the war. Now. more than half OF
the vessels are three-masted schOOnerS, a
craft known only 10 be laughed at, eight
wears ago.