The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-29
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The London Times has sent, in all,
thirty-sevcn correspondents to report
the Eastern War.
DURING the past year the consump-
ton of cotton reached the highest point
ever attained in this country, while the
value of our cotton fabrics exported
has, despite low prices, increased ST.
100000 within two years, or from
$3,O9O,OOO for the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1875, to 80, 1S0,OO for the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1877.
THE following is the number of acres
under the several crops in the United
Kingdom
Oats ..... ABS 957 Potatoes .a92 7s4
Turnils 2 AIS, 2296 Clover. 496l 69l
Number of live stock in the United
Kingdom:
Pigs. .......... j, 73l 42l Horses . 1854 rs
THE timber used in the Comstock
mines costs $4,000 a day; the fire.
wood, mostly consumed by the steam
engines, $4,000; candles burned in the
mines, $4,000; the quicksilver lost,
$4,000; and the ice needed to cool the
water for drinking in the hot lower
levels, 81 900 day. The Consolidated
Virginia alone uses ice daily worth $780,
Over two tons of bullion, containing 40
per cent. in value of gold, is produced,
valued at from S13O,OOO to $15O,OOO.
A "CoLONEL KINGS farm on the
Rio Grande consists of 100000 acres,
all fenced. He has been growing in
wealth since the war with Mexico, and
now owns, beside the land, $4,000
horses, $4,000 cows, $4,000 sheep and
80, 900 mules. He employs 800 Mexi-
cans as herders. Most of the land has
been fenced at an enormous cost. He
despises g book learning" but has be-
come well educated in the ways of the
world. He lives extravagantly, and is
literally monarch Of all he surveys
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
says: ''The State valuation falls off
this year $1O1, 100000, being about
$40, OOO, 900 on real estate and 3O,OOO,-
600 on personal. This is the largest
reduction of any year yet and overdoes
in some measure the imitation of years
like 1872, when an increase of $780,
600, 900 was reported. The valuation
of the State, as now reduced, and with
out the corporations and the saving
bank deposits, stands at S1,668, 226, 900.
The depreciation at Boston, this year,
was over $62,OOO,OOO. The reduction
in taxation last year was nearly 80, OOO,-
600, but this year only 1861 900, show
ing that most municipalities made in
1876 about all the reduction possible in
their expenditure. The cities below
Boston, however, have retrenched more
sharply during the current year."
A sTATISTICIAN has been telling the
people of California how much it's min
ing interests cost the poor people and
how much richer the State would be
without any gold mines at all. He
finds that there are 5000 people in San
Francisco alone who live directly or in
directly from the purchase and sale of
stocks, averaging in their expenses
$4,000 year. Here are then S9,OOO,-
600 which the possessors do not earn,
but which is earned by their victims.
Mining is an unproductive industry,
and the value of its products are more
than eaten up by the gambling specula-
tiOns which it stimulates. Beside, la
borers can earn more for themselves
cultivating corn and potatoes than they
can in mines, SO all the labor of the
mines is really lostto the wealth of the
State. All the good gold ever did for
California was done long ago in settling
the State. Now it is tax.