Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-06-11
FACTS AND FIGURES.
California has 10000 Indians.

| California has 9,OO0 Indians.
| See, in another column, the advertise
ment headed II ao5H help any man."
1t is figured up that Americans will
spend S75,OO0,OOO gold, at the lowest
estimate, in Europe this year.
| The State of Illinois, with only 2, Co.,
600 inhabitants, has more miles Of railway
than the Kingdom of Italy with a popula-
ton of 26, 716,809.
| 1t is estimated that the annual con-
sumption of tin in America and Europe
was, in 1868, about $4,000 tons; in 1870,
900 tons; in 1871, $4,000 tons.
There are $50 German newspapers
published in the United States; 90 OF them
in New York, and So in Pennsylvania.
"a are political; A educational; 30 religi-
Gus, and the rest devoted to other special
ties, fashion and gymnastics being repre-
sented amongst Others
| An almanac has been published in
the Armenian language at Constantinople
for the first time. Among other interest
ing articles is one on the statistics Of the
race, according to which the Armenians
are 100000, Of which 100000 are in
| Turkey, outnumbering the Greeks, and
| 100000 in Russia.
Since our National Mint was estab-
| lished, about twelve hundred million
dollars have been coined. Up to the close
of the year 1870 the number of pieces Of
| money issued exceeded 9,097,OO0. In
the cabinet Of coin at Philadelphia there
| are 5211 specimens of coin with very few
duplicates. These are collected from
various nations.
AT the recent celebration of the TWEEN
tieth anniversary of the Young Mems
Christian Association at Washington, it
was stated in the discussion that there
were 10000 children in that city who did
not read, and $4,000 adults who could not
write, and a whisky saloon for every forty
persons.
1t is computed that there are now on
the great Northern lakes 5,429 steamers,
sailing vessels, and barges, with an aggre-
gate capacity of 717,229 tons, and valued
at $50, 900. In 1862 there were only
1910 vessels of all kinds, with capacity
Of 412, 127 tons, and valued at $23, 229 600.
The increase during the last ten years has
been 3,7S9 vessels, with a capacity of
3O5, 172 tons, valued at $50, $4,000.
The "Great West" may be better APP
preciated from the following statistics
There are eleven Territories, two or three
of which are twice or three times as large
as all of New England. Colorado is thir-
teen times as large as Massachusetts,
while Dakota and Arizona are half as
large again as Colorado. The eleven Ter
ritories contain over one billion and a
quarter acres, exceeding by nearly two
hundred thousand square miles the aggre-
gate territory of all the present admitted
States of the Union The Territory of
Alaska contains 369, $4,000 acres.
In 1872 there were surveyed in the
six Minnesota lumber districts about 400,-
100000 feet of logs, and in the Chippewa,
Black and Wisconsin River districts about
the same quantity. The production of the
season of 1878 will be even greater. The
lumber from these logs is distributed to
the vast treeless and rapidly settling re-
gion west of the Mississippi, including
within it's area portions of Minnesota, all
Of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri,
and besides the supply to Illinois, the
railways which tap the commerce Of the
Mississippi at frequent intervals bring
grain and live stock from interior points
and carry back lumber.