Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-11-13
FACTS AND FIGURES.

065, 1926. P''-
Lafayette, Ind, is to have 100000
poor house. '''''
-Mankato, Mimi, makes e,5Ooooo
matches day.
There are 1000 hackney coach drivers
in New York
Detroit brick yards this year have
made 10000, 900 brick
The frost has taken the quicker ont of
Indiana persimmOns.
The Ohio tobacco crop is estimated
at 10000 hogsheads.
"A firm at Detroit is freezing FISH to
send East during the winter.
One railroad train in Wisconsin re-
Gently carried 5O4,O eggs
The number of Oranges is officially
reported at GREE on October 10th.
The largest heifer in Maine is four
years Gid and girts over seven feet
Iowa has 35,2SS,2OO acres of land
which is worth SO an acre in cash.
"A copper mine in Montgomery coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, is yielding two tons
daily.
The highest point of land in Minneso-
ia is only SOB feet above the level of the
sea.
The running expenses Of the Mime
apolis public schools are about $4,000 a
month.
Odd Fellowship is quarter of cen
fury old in Iowa, and numbers IL, 900
brothers.
The total debt of Maryland has de-
creased since 1864, when it was $15,3 14,
1858 to $1O,590,9S2
The production of anthracite has been
greater this year than last, the increase
being about 797, 800 tons.
Rhode Island has more wealth in
proportion to her population than any
other State in the Union.
The net debt of the new city of Bos-
ton will be about $4,000, 900 when con-
solidation takes place.
The New York Central Railroad is
having about 1000 new freight cars and
fifty new engines manufactured.
From January to October 1, Bruins
wick, Ga, shipped 40,952,017 feet of tim
Der and 14,949,95S feet of lumber.
France lost during the Franco-Prus-
sian war 100000 horses There are now
100000 horses left in that country.
Three hundred million feet of lumber
have been run this season down four
rivers of Michigan and Wisconsin.
The ratio Of increase in the popula-
ton Of Washington Territory during the
last three years has been over thirty per
cent.
The average fall of the Missouri river
along the Iowa border is one foot per
mile; that of the Mississippi six inches
per mile.
There is in store and piled up at
South Vallejo, Cal, awaiting shipment,
SO, 900 tons Of wheat, nearly twenty ship
loads.
The expense Of the Pennsylvania
Constitutional Convention, up to NOvem-
Der 1, was $475,000, leaving $4,000 IN
expended.
Out of a normal population of $4,000,
Memphis retains only 10000, the remain
der having left the place for safety or for
the burying ground.
The 1856, 900 double eagles forwarded
to the Treasury from Philadelphia re-
Gently, was the largest single delivery ever
made at the mint.
The debt of the city of Paris now
amounts to $320,00O,0OO, involving an an
nual expenditure for interest and sinking
fund of $1S, 100000.
There are 10000 bushels of barley in
store in Davenport, which cost its owners
from ten to fifteen cents more per bushel
than it can be sold for to-day
A party of capitalists have made ar
engagements to build 500 brick dwelling
houses in Chester Pa, to accommodate
the growing wants of that thriving To-
cality.
The expectation of gold from Austria
liza this year, up to August 81, amounted
in value to $31 ,O70, 235, an increase of more
than one-third over the value Of the ex-
ports in 1872
The catch Of salmon for the season
of 1873 on the Columbia River, Oregon,
was 10000 cases Each case weighed
forty eight pounds. Besides this amount,
there were 4,S00 barrels of salt salmon.
The amount of live stock weighed in
the Union Cattle Yards of Chicago dur
ing the past seven years exceeds the av-
olrdupois of all the human beings in North
and South America by 100000 pounds.
The Chicago, Alton & St Louis Rail-
fodu nave IlleQ mortgage OF So,OUO,UUO
on their property in Mclean County to
secure the payment Of that sum to the
United States Trust Company, of New
York.
The Florida pecan nut is profitable
one for cultivation. For instance, ten
acres could well sustain 210 trees which
would yield the seventh year about 800
bushels, making over $4,000 from ten
acres. That is nearly equal to an orange
grove.
Prof Hitchcock states that the total
area OF the coal fields in the United States
amounts to $50, $50 square miles, besides
the strata which belong to other torma-
tons than the carbOniferous, as for in