Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-10-15
FACTS AND FIGURES.


DELAWARE this year will make 10000
gallons of peach brandy
TIE coinage during the month of Sep
tember amounts to $0,974,300.
A CRANBERRY marsh at Madison, Conn,
yields 1900 bushels this season.
CLARK COUNTY, KY, boasts of mule
1I19 hands high, and still growing.
A PLOT Of ground in London of 5000
feet has been recently let at a ground rent
of $4,000. This is at the rate of $155, 900
per acre, equivalent to purchase price of
1876, 900.
ENGLAND consumes 10000, 900 pounds
of cheese more than her own production,
and the United States furnishes nearly CO.
0O0,0O0 pounds of this amount. The re-
ceipts of cheese in New York alone for
the year are estimated at 100000 boxes.
THE soil of Louisiana is said to be very
productive. With ordinary cultivation a
crop of cane or cotton often amounts to
$150,000 or 100000. Of the 100000
acres Of forest, about 6,000,000 acres
are covered with pine and 5000, 900 with
cypress.
SINCE the first issue of postal cards, two
years ago, 155, ,47S,00 cards have been is
sued, for which the Government has paid
the contractors $357, ,349.s5, and has col
lected 81, ,554, ,180 from the people. The
entire shipments of the cards weighed 006
tons, and would I'll a freight train of
ninety cars.
THE report of the Australian Railway
Commission recommends the construc-
ton of thirty-one lines of railway includ-
ing in all ,3151@ miles OF these eighteen
are regarded as of pressing importance,
their total length being S21 miles. The
Government, as may be gathered from the
Treasurer's statement, has resolved upon
carrying out eleven of the lines, the ag-
gregate length of which may be roughly
set down at $50 miles. AS the sum of
81 100000 is to be borrowed for these
railways, it follows that the average cost
per mile is expected to be something un-
der $4,000.
THE Bureau of Statistics have some in
teresting figures relating to immigration
for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1875.
During the year 227, ,49s immigrants ar
rived in the United States. This is 180,-
140 less than the year preceding, and not
over one-half of the arrivals in the year
1873, Dr. Young, Chief Of the Statistical
Bureau, estimates the value of immi-
grants at $500 head. This, as compared
with the year 1878, would make falling
off in the immigration to the value of
S329, 1853, 200, or more than enough to pay
the interest of the national debt for over
three years.
NORMALLY, carload is 20,000pounds.
1t is also 20 barrels of salt, 20 of lime, 90
of flour, 60 of whisky 200 sacks of flour,
6 cords of soft wood, 1S to 90 head of cat
tie, 30 to go head of hogs, 80 to 100 head
of sheep, 5000 feet of solid boards, 1900
feet of siding, $4,000 feet of flooring, 40
600 shingles, one-half less of hard lum-
Der, one-fourth less of green lumber, one
tenth of joists, scantling and all other
large timbers; 300 bushels of wheat. 400
of corn, $50 of oats, 400 of barley, 300 of
t1ax-seed, $50 of apples, 430 of Irish pota-
toes, 300 of sweet potatoes, 1000 bushels
of bran.
THE Pottsville (Pa) Miners Journal of
the 1st inst. says 1.-THE quantity Of coal
sent from the SchuylkiIl region during
the past week was, by rail, 1909 tons !;
by canal, 81, ,274 tons; total, las, 1893 tons,
against 131 ,430 tons for the corresponding
period of last year; increase, 1883 tons.
The total so far this year is 2,973, sos tons,
against 3,31S,583 tons for the same period
last year; decrease, 334,9S7 tons. The
quantity sent from all the regions for the
week was Anthracite, 56S, ,155 tons; btu
minous, 1912 tons; total, $50, ,067 tons,
against All, ,007 tons anthracite and 76342
tons bituminous for the corresponding pc
riod of last year. Increase of anthracite
81 ,14S tons; increase of bituminous, 1850
tons. Total increase, 112,7 tons. The
quantity sent from all the regions this year
foots up IA, ,04S, ,636 tons anthracite and g.
708, 1867 tons bituminous. Total, 10, 1877
603 tons, against IA, ,430, 42S tons anthracite
and 1904 ,66S tons bituminous; total, IT,
OBS, ,095 tons for the same period of last
year. Decrease of anthracite, 3S1 ,791
tons; increase Of bituminous, 104, 200
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