Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-12-28
FACTS AND FIGURES.

NORTH CAROLINA has public debt of
$42 100000.
THE gold yield of California this year
is estimated at $40, 100000.
CHICAGO has set her figures to cut and
pack 2, 1000, 900 hogs this season.
GREAT progress has been made in the
use of iron for building purposes. One
of the most remarkable iron structures
recently erected is the church splre of the
cathedral at Rouen, France, which is 493
feet high.
AN advance statement of the earnings
of nineteen Western and Southern rail
road companies shows an increase in earn
lngs from the 1st of January to the 31st
OF October, 1876, of 1891, 037 as COM
pared with the corresponding portion of
the year 1875.
CRAWFORD COUNTY, Pennsylvania, has
sixty eight factories, producing $4,000
pounds of cheese; Erie County, twenty
two factories, producing $780, 900 pounds;
Mercer and Venango counties, eleven fac
tories, producing CAT ZOO pounds. Total,
1O1 factories, producing ,557 ZOO pounds.
Nlne-tenths of these factories manufac-
ture strictly full-milk cheese.
DAIRYING requires but a small amount
of capital, demands less labor, teams and
machinery than most branches; provides
profitable employment for both the male
and female members of tbs family, keeps
up the fertility of the land, concentrates
the values of other farm products, and its
products can be put in market at favor
able seasons and comparatively small
cost.-Erchanqe
HE Boston grain and provision trade
of the present year shows a very hand
some gain in several articles that con-
tribute largely to the support of human
life as compared with the receipts the
previous year. The receipts at this port
for the eleven months ending Nov. 80,
1876, exhibit gain in corn of $500, 779
bushels, in flour of ", 1862 barrels, and in
bacon 73,107 boxes. The decrease in
wheat, amounting to 562 1923 bushels, is
owing TO the falling off in the foreign ex.
port of this article, but the general con-
dltion Of the trade in both breadstuffs
and provisions denotes progressive
movement that is quite encouraging to the
future growth of our commerce.-Bost0n
Journal.
The assessed valuation OF taxable prop
erty in Texas for 1876 is $500, 900, 900
The estimated revenues for the year are: :
From one half of one per cent. on the
toIal Valuatlon, 81 800, OO0; occupation
tax, $350,000; collection of taxes of
former years, $3.50 900; office fees, $75,
900; total, $1,975, 900. The deductions to
be made for cost of assessing and collect
ing and delinquencies are 1898, $50, leav-
ing net revenue of 81 SOL $50. One
fourth the net revenue goes to the support
OF public schools. 1t will amount to
1922, 612. The assessment for 1876 is
$40 900 600 greater han TN at for 1S75 and
SIS ,O0O,000 greater than that for 1874.
The debt of the State is $5,21O,00O, being
an increase of 1874 ,978, which increase
is attributable to the necessity for frontier
defense and other extraordinary measures.
Gov. Coke estimates that under the for
mer revenue law lone third of the prop
erty and values in the State escaped taxa
tion,' and that at reasonable estimate
the assessment ought to be $3.50, 900, 900.
The estimated deficiency in the revenues
for the present year is 100000.