Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-06-25
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Chicago has one saloon for every 140
of her population, including women and
children. tJ t ass q
Over 100000 acres of land are open
for homesteads and presumption in Da-
kota
The value of the silk raised annually
in the United States is from thirty to forty
million dollars. f<t4
New York City does butter and
cheese business of fifty millions of dollars
a year. and the dealers in that city, who
number 130, have resolved to establish an
exchange for the Accommodation of this
trade
"A recent calculation relative to the
principal European languages shows that
English is spoken by ninety millions of
persons, German by fifty-fve millions,
Spanish by fifty-fve millions, and French
by forty five millions.
There were built last year in the
United States 6,043 miles of railroad,
which, with the relay of new rails on ex-
listing roads, made total consumption of
l,472 S42 tons of rails. Of these, 530,S5O
tons were imported, and 951, 1922 were
manufactured at home.
The value of the raw cotton imported
into Great Britain in the three months
ending March 81, this year, was SS7 $685.
$780, as compared with $4,000, $50 in the
corresponding period of 1872, and $685.
660O75 in the corresponding period of
1871 In these totals the United States
figured for $50,08S,060, SOL, 1854, $780, and
$69,2SS, 800, respectively.
1t is believed that, under favorable
conditions, $500 miles of new railroad
will be built in 1873, divided among the
several sections Of the country as follows
Northeastern States, 435 miles; Middle
States, 1905 miles; Western States and
Territories, $3.50 miles; Southern States,
1910 miles; Pacific States, ETC., ITO miles
The capital required to complete this eX-
tension will amount to $240,0OOOOO. The
money necessary to advance this railroad
progress will probably, for most part
come from abroad. There is a great pie,
thora of capital in Germany, seeking a
good investment in the United States, and
with this foreign capital and the supplies
Of capital from our domestic resources,
the $240OO0, 1000 will doubtless be forth
coming. @ r-
1t is said that probably about
100000 or 100000 Goldfish are taken
from the seas annually around the shores
of Newfoundland But even that quantity
seems small when we consider that the
cod yields something like 100000 eggs
each season, and that even 100000 have
been found in the roe of single cod
Other fish, though not equaling the cod
are wonderfully productive. A herring
six or seven ounces in weight is provided
with about $4,000 ova. After making all
reasonable allowances for the destruction
of eggs and of the young, it is calculated
that in three years single pair of herrings
produce 100000 Button said that il
a pair of herrings were left to breed and
multiply undisturbed for period al
twenty years, they would yield a fish bulk
equal to the globe on which we live. The
cod far surpasses the herring in fecundity
Were it not that vast numbers of the eggs
are destroyed, fish would so multiply as to
fill the waters completely.
Pittsburgh claims to have in process
of construction a pair of engines which
will be the most powerful in the world
Reducing the capacity of some of the larg-
est pumping engines to uniform lift OF
one foot in twenty-four hours, it is foun
that the one at the Lehigh zinc
mines will lift 3,456,000,00O gallons; the
pair at the Chicago water-works, 4,500,-
100000 gallons; the pair at Harlem, Hol.
land, 1O,OOO,OO0,O0O gallons; while the new
Pittsburgh engines will lift 1920 600, 900