Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-11-06
FACTS AND FIGURES.

FACTS AND FIGURES.
California produced thousand bales
| Of cotton this year.
According to HudsOn's "JOurnallsrl
| in America" the United States has 5,S1
newspapers and periodicals, while the rest
of the world have but 7,642.
The granite platform quarried for the
| Winfield Scott monument weighs $50 tons,
| and is believed to be the largest stone
ever successfully quarried in this coun-
try.
The silk industry of Switzerland is
enormous, and rapidly on the increase, the
| exports of manufactured silks annually
amounting to 215,00O,000 of francs, or
SAB, 100000
There are $50,000,O00 in the savings
banks of California, and giving the popu-
| lation of the State, in round numbers, at
800, 900 of all ages and sexes, this would
give a net capital to each individual of
something over $83.
The coal mining interests of Kansas
are rapidly becoming important During
the mining season of 1872 and 1878, 400,-
| 600 tons of coal have been taken from the
| Carbonate mines, from 500 to 600 persons
| employed, and the payroll is $1,000 to
| $4,000 month.
"A table in course of preparation for
| the annual report of the Postmaster-Ge
| eral shows that by the recent read justment
| of pay on railroad routes for the year end
| ing September 80, 1873 the amount of the
annual compensation to all railroad COM
! panies has been increased 1928, 1923, being
now 81 015 900 per annum.
The passengers carried by the rail
ways of Great Britain in 1872 reached the
enormous total of 423,OOO,O00 The total
number carried in 1850 was only 1854
422. The increase is mainly owing to the
construction of underground and other
suburban lines leading out of the large
cities.
Cincinnati prides itself on being the
center of the peanut industry. 1t is a
great distributing point. Fox example,
Of the Tennessee crop of $4,000 bushels
for this year, Cincinnati received $4,000.
Her exports for the past year were 100000,
and the stock on hand at the close of last
month was 100000 bushels.
AT the recent meeting of farmers in
San Francisco for the purpose of devising
means to abate the squirrel nuisance,
statements were made by farmers in Contra
Costa County showing an average loss of
81 per acre in the grain fields by the raw
ages Of these little pests-the losses Of
nineteen farmers footing up in the aggre-
gate, ;s9,G123o.
"A new exchange for the butter and
cheese dealers of New York has recently
been opened with suitable ceremonies.
From the statistics presented at the open
ing the immense extent of this business
will be seen. 1t is estimated from the re-
ceipts since May l, that there will arrive
the current year, by way of the Hudson
River, 100000 packages of butter and
cheese, of the aggregate value of S50 ,000,-
600, while the value of wheat there re-
ceived will be but $4,000 900; corn, $26,-
100000; flour, $20,000,000; cut meats,
$12 100000.
The combined area of the six New
England States is 63,34S square miles; the
area of the single State of California is
nearly three times as much. The area of
the Middle States, including Maryland
and West Virginia, is 1877, 1864 square
miles; California has 1SS,9S1 square miles
within its borders. California is IS, 1875
square miles larger than the whole of
Great Britain, and would make twenty
four States the size of Massachusetts,, with
a couple OF thousand of square miles to
spare, or one hund d and forty-five States
as large as Rhode Island
The London Builder gives the follow
ing dimensions of bridge to be con-
structed over the Firth of Froth: The
structure will be the largest bridge in the
world 1t will be $50 feet in height, and
will contain nearly 100 spans. The great,
est span in the center will be 1 800 feet in
ldth, or nearly a third of a mile in ex-
tent, dimensions which are without
parallel for any similar piece of architec-
tural construction; and the smaller open
ings or spans will be $50 feet in width
being considerably beyond the average
dimensions Of the largest spans in ordi-
nary bridges. 1t will cost at least So
100000.
The report of the bureau veritas of
the maritime disasters for July shows the
following statistics: Sailing vessels
totally lost, 90; of these 43 were English,
Is French, 10 German, 7 American, 5
Italian, Norwegian, 3 Swedish, Danish,
and 3 Dutch, and one each Austrian,
Brazilian, Nicaraguan, and Argentine re-
public. One vessel was lost of which no
flag was reported. Twenty vessels report
ed missing are included in this list. Dur
ing the same month, says the report, -
steamers were totally lOSt-tnuS SuD-dIVld-
ed English, II g.; American and Dutch,
each. One English steamer reported
missing is included in this list.
What the War Cost France: War
indemnity, 5,0O0,O00,OOO francs; interest
On the same for two years, 3OO,0O0,OOO
francs; the keep of the German troops,
537,637 900 francs; requisition, 1921, ST.
900 francs; value of objects taken
without requisition, 254, 900 francs:
war contribution levied on Paris, 100000
francs, and so on till the account forms a
total Of 6,673,S11,0O0 francs. But this
enormous sum is exclusive of pensions to
the army, the damage done to material
and the expense of reorganization, which
would swell the total to 1900, 900 900
francs. The average value of a DAVIS
work in France is one franc and a QUAR-
ter, and thus it would take one man TO-
00O000,000 days or one million of men
thirty years to work it out
"A remarkable change in the channels
of commerce, consequent upon the build
ing of the Union Pacific Railroad, is
shown in the report of the monthly i'm
ports Of raw and other silk. Prior to
1870 the silk lamentations at Son Era,o;,