Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-09-10
FACTS AND FIGuRES.

ALTHOUGH in its infancy, the raisir
crop of California is estimated 10 Weld ,
profit of $500, 900 annually.
DURING the last fifteen months SOs fam
lies of Mennonite emigrants, NUMBERING
4,444 persons, have settled in Manitoba.
AT laundry near Jersey City 3.OOC
pieces are washed daily, and 100 barrel,
OF soap are used per week. big wash
ingr'
TWENTY LONE cities in England, with a
! population of over 6000, 900, do not owe
as much money rs the single city of New
ORR, with population of less than
100000.
A BIcyard ofsand or earth weighs about
30 cwt; mud, 25 cwt; mari, 2G cwt: CLAW
81 cwt chalk, 36 cwt sandstone, 30 cwt
shale, 40 cwt; quartz, Al cwt; granite, AZ
cwti trap, AZ cwt slate, 43 cwt.-Scte,ttttfc
american.
SINCE 1867 the heather in California
have consumed $500 boxes of opium, at a
cost of 50 ,421, 1856. During the wears he.
tween 1867 and 1870 the amount fell of
steadily, but since the latter. date it has
grown TO an enormous figure.
FROM paper published by an Austrian
officer 1t appears that the British Empire
contains a larger population than the En-
pires of Russia, Austria, Italy, France and
Germany combined. The total population
of these is 223,000, 900, while that of Great
Britain is 100000, 000 The calculation
Is made in reference to the war power.
BosToNIANs are complacent over the
annual report of the Calumet and Hecla
Mining Company, which has divided
IS, 100, 900 among its stockholders since
May, 1871, on an original cost of 81 1000
OOO. Its present value is estimated at
Sl2, 100000, and the solid men OF Boston
are well represented among its sharehold-
ers. Copper is its product and the north
shore of Lake Superior its location.
The Silk Association of America have
made up-a comparative table of the i'm
ports of the manufactures of silk at the
port of New York in the months of
August, from 1858 to 1875 inclusive,
which shows that the total gold value of
imports during the past month, S2.S5O,-
7S0, averaged well with the last five wears.
and is Il considera BILE increase over August
OF 1874 OF the $50 bales received, 1865
came from England and the Continent, |
BIB by the overland route and four by the |
lsthmus of Panama; and this amount rep
resents nine-tenths Of the entire foreign
silk imports of the United States, from
which the Government derives about a
million dollars in duties.
AT the close of 1874 there were in En-
gland, Scotland and Ireland 16,449 miles |
of railway. Twenty years ago they num-
bered only 8,053 miles The gross capital
invested in railways in the United King
dom at present is $3,049 459, ,655--exceed-
ing. the debt of the United states by near
y $1,000000 900. About 40 per cent of
5he whole is represented by various forms
Of Indebtedness. The capital has nearly
doubled in twenty years. In 1874, Al
$40, Ill passengers were carried, the total
receipts for such service being $110,071,-
800. The total receipts during 1874 were
s205, ,27S, ,575. OF these 43.01 per cent.
were derived from passengers The Gov
paid $3,2S0, ,96j for mails and the
accrued from freight charges.
The net receipts were $133, ,215, ,215 The
owned II $3.50 locomotives and
go, 800 carriages. If all these locomo-
ives and carriages We're made into -nna4
I would extend from New i York cfty cfftit to
Salt Lakeland it would carry without
.rowding about 100000 people.