The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-10-16
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BUSINESS AND PRODUCTION.

Inc aggregate rolled iron pFOduct IN
1874 was ], 7S9, $50 tons.
Large amounts Of California wool are
now coming into market.
The expectation of live cattle to Eng,
landhas proved success.
Less than onefourth Of the lands Of
Louisiana are under cultivation.
Cotton is now arriving at Augusta, Ga,
atthe rate Of 700 bales per day.
Cuba in single year exported beeswax
and honey to the amount Of S65O,OOO,
The Pittsburgh bolt works which cost
100000, have been sold for $4,000,
The Elgin Watch Company has an Or
der for 5000 watches for the English mar
ket.
France has $4,000 industrial estab-
lishments, giving work to about 100000
men.
About two thousand shuckers are en-
Ployed in the oyster packing trade in Bal
timore,
An immense ledge Of isinglass has been
found in the mountains on the Snake
river, Idaho.
The hop crop in Central New York is
SO heavy that large amount Of hops yet
remain unpiGked,
The Minnesota log cut, which last year
amounted to l55,00O,00O promises to go
to 2O0,000,0O0 this year
The stamp duty on patent medicines
manufactured in Great Britain last year,
amounted to over $57l ,Gl0.
The trade in New York oysters is ex.
pected To reach 100000 bushels this
year, The bivalves are Of superior quail
ity.
The aggregate imports Of silk last year
fell of $5O,0O0,0OO, but the imports Of
the silks classed Us broad goods increased
SS0O0,OOO.
Up to the present time one million
tons less Of coal have been sold in New
York this season than last year or sew
eral previous years.
The Louisiana sugar crop for 1915
is estimated at 1lG,9G7 hogsheads, against
S0,40S last season. The mOlasses crop is
estimated at II ,6l6,S2s gallons,
Some idea of the depression in the iron
trade may be gathered from the fact that
iron rails which In 1872 were sold at $S5
per ton scarcely at present find buyers
at $45.
A very considerable impetus has been
given to the trade in firearms by the late
rifle matches in Ireland and England,
and trade in this branch Of American
manufacture is better than ever.
The Paterson, MI, Guardian says that
the outlook for the locomotive works Of
that city was never darker than at
present. There is scarcely any prospect
OF work for the coming winter.
The Keely motor produced by recent
test in Philadelphia pressure OF 1850
pounds per square inch. The pressure,
however, was not continuous, and de-
Clined 800 pounds within half an hour.
As an evidence OF the overstocked oil
market II Is stated that II not one drop Of
petroleum were hereafter produced, there
Is sufficient oil stored and in the market
to supply the world for year to come.
Near Egg Harbor, N. j., about $500
acres are devoted to the culture OF the
vine, A large amount Of wine Is MANN
featured, one OF the largest growers hay
Ing now ten thousand gallons stored in
his cellars.
In grand totals Of all kinds Of iron and
steel manufactures last year, Pennsylva-
mia takes tho lead, with 70S,l00 tons.
Next comes Ohio with 2O,370 tons; third
Illinois, with lS4,OO3 tons, and fourth
New York, with 1888 tons.
Missouri has all the materials for the
production Of plate glass, and its manu-
iacture is now being carried on at Crystal
City, at the debouChure Of Platin creek
into the Mississippi. Half a million dol
lars has been invested in this enterprise.
Chicago, the largest grain market in
the world, handles about 00,00O,000 BUSH
els annually, and has now in operation
eighteen steam elevators, with capacity
OILS, $4,000 bushels, or more than the
average product Of 100000 acres.
The amount OF business done in the
glass trade annually in tlriB- country Is
about $25,O0O,00O. The capital employ
ed by the manufacturers and merchants
is $12,O00,0O0. The production Of the
entire United States in set down at $22,-
100000.
The Lake Huron and Lake Erie Tow
ing Association, which controls forty-two
tug.boats, has eighteen Of them laid up.
OGthe remainder six are towing RATS and
barges, and eighteen tow vessels. The
towage rates from lake to lake are thirty
per cent. under those Of last year.
Notwithstanding the coal mines on the
Pacific coast, and the frequent reports Of
new discoveries, importations Of coal to
that section from the east are on the in
crease. There have been imported this
year 293,600 tons Of coal, against 235,SO6
tons during the same period last year.
Gold is valued at $146 per cubic inch.
AT this rate cubic foot Of the precious
metal, which contains 1928 cubic inches,
will be worth about $252,2Ss. The entire
quantity Of gold now known to be in ex-
istence Is valued at about $4,000, 900, 900,
80 that II it were welded into one mass II
could be contained in cube the side OF
which would not measure over twenty
three feet.