Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-08-14
FACTS AND FIGURES.

| The section OF the Chesapeake & Ohio
| Railroad, from COvington to White Sui
phur Springs, cost 100000 per mile.
AT the present time, there are over
%, 900 Americans in Paris, who spend, on
an average, nearly, if not quite, 100000 a
day.
| The annual consumption of tea in the
| United States amounts to about $4,000, 900
pounds-equal to ship-load for each
State in the Union.
The San Francisco Commercial Herald
says that there are $4,000 Angora goats in
California, from halfblood to near five
eighths, ard that in few years there will
be 100000.
M. Lernand Papillon has estimated
that man of average weight produces,
in the climate of France, $3.50 heat-units
per day, or a sufficient amount to raise
seven gallons of water to boiling heat.
The average American, in this weather,
can raise more than that
The Illinois Central Railroad made
an extensive land sale recently in South
ern Illinois. 1t sold 100000 acres, living
south of the Terre Haute & st. Louis
Railroad, to company of German CAPT
| talists, who, it is probable, will next year
| bring over colony for its occupancy.
Up to July 90, the Philadelphia Mint
had coined 100000 of the new trade dol
lars, and the San Francisco and Carson
MINIS are to be set to work at once, the
former to coming trade dollars at the rate
of 100000 and the latter at the rate of
100000 per month of the same coins.
The production Of gold in the United
States and Territories has lately been
officially stated at Washington at
100000 per annum. Of the produc-
tion of silver there is no official state
ment, but it is estimated all the way from
$25 100000 to $451 100000 per annum.
1t is said that the Senate Committee
on Privileges and Elections, which was
directed to report upon the best mode of
choosing a President and Vice President,
has matured report which will recon-
mend that the term Of office be increased
to six years, and that the President be in
eligible for reelection.
The new census, recently completed
in Bengal by the British Registrar Zen
eral, shows that the entire population
amounts to the enormous number of
67,O0O,0 900, which is more than the popula-
ton of Russia. These are divided as fol-
lows: Hindoos 42,674,OOO; Mussulmans,
20,664, 900; Buddhists, $1,000; Christians,
$4,000; all others, 1851 900.
Since the first of January last the ag-
gregate cost of new buildings in Louis
vile has been 81, 1868 with the further
expenditures of $131 1896 in repairing and
reftting old houses. The new city hall,
which cost $500, O00 and was finished this
year. is not included in the above esti-
mate To include it the expenditures for
building since the first Of January would
sum up S1,966,039.
The growth of the manufacture of
hanging paper is very marked. In 1850
the paper-hanging or wall paper business
was quite insignificant, the capital in
vested being only $40, 500, and the pro-
duct 100000. In 1860 we produced wall
paper worth $2,14S, 800, with an invested
capital of $1,0376 900, while in 1872 the
product of paper made expressly for this
purpose alone amounted to $10,S25, 800.
United States silver dollars, half dol
lars and half dimes were first coined in
1893; quarter dollars and dimes in 1896
and three-cent pieces in 1851. The two
cent and three-cent pieces now in use
were first coined in 1864, and the five
cent piece in 1865. Half cents were first
toiHCo III 1900 4NoHC "ClC lSSutu Ill
1898, 1899, 1901, 1912 to 1924 inclusive,
1927, 1880, 1887 to 1899, nor since 1857,
when the nickel was substituted for the
copper coinage.
The beer manufacturing interest is
very large in the United States employing
over $50,000,00e capital md 1912 brewer
les. Of these, New York has 60, while
other cities shows as follows: Buffalo,
AZ; St. Louis, 40; Brooklyn, 81; Chicago,
%; Philadelphia, 81; Pittsburgh, 40;
Cincinnati, SO; Cleveland, %; Milwaukee,
Is. Our 3S, 555, 900 people drink 100000
barrels of beer per annum, which, allow
ing for exports, averages little more than
six gallons, or twenty five and a. half
quarts head.
The tanning interest of Pennsylvania
is large one. At a recent meeting of the
Hide and Leather Dealers Association,
the following statistics were presented:
Number of tanneries, 500; engines en-
ployed, 294; water powers employed, 1872;
cords of bark used annually, 422, 10; No.
of hides tanned, 1908, 760; No. Of skins
tanned, $4,000; sides of leather tanned
annually, 3,517 $50; amount of wages paid
annually, S1,6S4,790 cost of bark annual
ly, 1890, 5S7; amount of all materials
used annually, $13,994, 900; amount of all
products annually, $16,92S,320 amount of
capital employed, $11 100000.
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