Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-31
INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL
AND TECHNICAL.

Two MILLION and a half dollars
worth of Royal Turkish diamonds are
held in pawn by Paris money loaners.
FARMERS say the wheat crop Of
| Utah will average about twenty-five
bushels to the acre. The grain is very
| plump and solid, and will make Supe-
rior flour.
THE bronze and copper mines of
| Josephine County, Or, have attracted
the attention of men who will work
| them.
THE Georgia gold miners claim to
beat the Black Hills fellows "all hol-
low in finding rich quartz, coarse
gold and nuggets.
SO MANY Of the hotels and restau-
rants in this city have lowered their
prices that the reduction is likely soon
to be made general. The new scale of
prices is near that which prevailed be-
| fore the War.-N. 7. Tribune.
The fall in silver has occasioned a
shrinkage of nearly $33, 100000 in the
values of the Nevada mines. To-day
Consolidated Virginia is selling at $55,
equal to 1925 for the>old shares, and
California $58, equal to 1920 on the
old stock. Both mines will this
month pay the usual dividend Of So per
share, the one drawing from its sur
| plus to meet the demand.
THE agent of the Fall River cotton
manufacturers, who was send to South
America several months ago to open
a market for American fabrics, sends
home most encouraging reports of the
success Of his negotiations, and is san
guine that large trade can be estab-
| lished. The aggregate exports Of cot
! ton goods for 1874 from the United
States to the six principal States in
South America were only $2,264, 900,
while Great Britain shipped them near
ly 500, 100000, and France within a
fraction Of So, 900, 900.
DESPITE the unprecedented "poor
times of which every one is complain
ing just now, the railroad earnings for
the past seven months, as reported,
show an increase of about seven and
one-half per cent. over those Of the
corresponding months last year. The
earnings for July show decrease of
nearly three-fourths of one per cent.
| which is attributed to the hot weather
which prevailed almost all through
| that month.
A NEW and extensive sulphur bed
has recently been discovered in Washo
County, Nevada. The sulphur is i'm
bedded in a light cOlored formation
similar to steatite, which is half a mile
in width, and can be traced north and
| south for about a mile. The mine has
| been opened to a depth of some twenty
feet, and the sulphur is abundantly
met with in the shape of crystalized
| punches. 1t assays about seventy-fve
per cent. of the pure article, and is
worth fifty dollars a ton in San Fran
cisco.
ACCORDING to records carefully
kept, says the New York San, of a
trustworthy instrument hanging in a
shady place, and not exposed to re-
Elected heat, the month of July was
| the hottest we have had in New Y DIRK
for nearly sixty years. The mean indi
Gated was S0.18 degrees. The nearest
approach TO it was in 1866. 1t was
then 1910, 1.41 degrees lower. The
| lowest mean since 1915 was in 1867,
which was 1888 degrees, difference
1856 degrees. Until the 22d ult., the
mean temperature was above so de-
grees, except on the 1st, 9th and 10th,
and was above 70 degrees till the 30th.
On the 9th the maximum was 100 de-
greeS, and on the oath the minimum
was 81 degrees, a range of 80 degrees.
Rain fell Oh thirteen days-on the
3Oth and 31st, 2.45 inches, Heavy
showers fell on the 18th, in all 20
inches. The mean temperature for
twenty-one years 0S55-75) was "A. "a
degrees last month was 5.54 warmer.
| The mean III this city for forty-three
years is SO. IA degrees.