Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-08-14
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.



Oregon has the heaviest hay crop,
this year, tbs: WAS evSs gISsn ia'ihe
Stale
Vermont farmers are buying largely
of Western corn 20 make up for The de-
nciency Of the hay crop.
The fruit crop in Southern Illinois Is
so small this yesT that lie Illinois Central
has no, run special train. As is usual.
in many paris Of Michigan the apples
have nearly 81 fallen from the trees in
consequence u the drouth. A small crop
Of this king Of the fruits is predicted.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany is erecting a telegraph line from
Msckinaw 10 Marquette, via Sauh ste.
Marie. distance Of 800 miles. From Old
Msckinaw submarine cable 22,OOo ieet
long is 10 be laid.
Montana Is, bv reason Of her isolated
position. heavily weighted in the contest
with other Territories land the fact that
she maintains prosperity, and Is constant
ly increasing In permanent population
and sober industries, points TO extraofdin-
AIRY natural resources.
--Ieeches, for medical uses, are largely
found In ponds between TaDgier and
Rbat. Morocco. They are In color either
green or black, the latter selling ut six
dollars. and the former at five dollars, per
thousand: hey are forwarded TO the mar.
ket in boxes OF wet sand, containing 1--WE
thousand each.
A man at Holyoke, Mass, ID making
an attempt to utilize the refuse pulp OF
the paper mills He buys the pulp at the
wriiing-paper mills in It's wet state, packed
in barrels. and has IL spread ont and
dried, 50 as 10 be used again in the
manufacture Of some Of the coarse kinds
Of wrapping paper.
Iron screw steamers, with compound
engines. can carry more freight than
wooden side. wheeIers Of the same ton
mage. at precisely half the cost. II costs
the China ships Of the Pacific Mail $780,
900 10 make the round trip TO Shanghai
and back British screw steamers, carry
ing more freight and passengers, make
the same trip at cost of $4,000
The demand for black walnut timber
steadily increases. II must not, however,
he supposed that all black walnut IL
equally valuable That from Michigan
first, then that Of Indiana and Ohio bears
the highest relative prices in the market.
Walnut from Tennessee is not marketable
al present, IL being too hard to work, and
il n probable that all Southern timber
would have the same defect.
--Mr. Emmett Dewsmore, Of England
has invented writing machine. IL Is
about The size Of small sewing machine,
has key board with three rows Of keys
each marked with a letter or number
which connect ingcniOusly with duplicate
letters and figures in metal. These i'm
press themselves, when properly manipu
lated ON wooden cylinder, around which
is rolled the paper 10 be written upon
BY its use II Is claimed that an expert can
print sentence or an article from 80 tc
100 per cent faster than IL can be possibly
written with a pen.
during the year 1872 there were in
operation in the United States S12 paper
mills, owned by 705 firms, and Of an esii.
mattel value Of over $35000,0O0. In ad-
diiion 10 this actual value Of mill proper.
w, there Is 10 be added the usual working
capital, twenty-five and half per cent
of the value of the mills, thus making
the total capital invested in paper making
throughout the country about $43, SOC, 600
The mills employ 3,420 male and 7,7Ol
female hands, besides 922 children, or a
total Of 22,042 laborers, whose wages
amount yearly to the large sum Of nearly
10000. 900. Their product amounted
last year 10 81, 3T tons, valued at 500,
475.s25 The total number Of engines
running il 3,293, besides 200 FourdrinicI
and $50 cylinder machines.-Paper Trad,
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