The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-08-23
FACTS AND FIGURES.

THERE were distilled, in 1876. in Gin.
cinnati, nearly nine millions of gallons Of
spirits.
The refined oil shipped from New York
10 Europe from January to July was TO-
OOO,UO gallons; from Philadelphia, TO-.
UO,OOO; from Baltimore, II, 600, 600. New
1orK snlpped, in the same period of last
year, $1,000, 900; Philadelphia, N,OOO,.
wv, ana Baltimore, IL, 600 600. The total
exports from January to July were $780,
same period of last year were 90, S44 1905.
THERE is subterranean forest in the
New Jersey flats; it consists chiefly Of
cedar trees, which have become very hard,
and, in some instances, have paid the cost
of extraction. The time of their burial
has noty ct been determined, but the cause
is undoubtedly due to the slow subsistence
OF the State of New Jersey, which
sinks now at the rate of about sixteen
inches in century. II this sinking has
been uniform. 5000 years would have
caused q sinking Of forty feet, and thus
the forest may, 5000 years ago, have been
thirty feet above Underwater, while now it
is ten feet below.
THE Chicago 8. F. T. p. o. c. T. A.
has lately brought out some strange facts
in relation to dOings in the stock yards of
that city. 1t seems that when cattle ar.
rive there they are kept from twenty -four
to forty eight hours without water, and
then fed salt to increase their thirst. This
makes them nearly frantic, and when at
last they get access to the liquid which is
called water, in Chicago, they drink such
immense quantities that their weight is
increased from ten to twenty pounds, and
at this juncture sale takes place, which
is money in the pocket of the virtu0us
Chicago man. The 8. F. T. p, etc., in.
tend to put stop to this cruelty.-Detr0it
Free Press.
THE wool clip of the United States for
1876 was about 200 900 900 lbs. Of En-
gland. Ireland and Scotland, about 1872.
00O, 600, mostly combing; of the Continent
Of Europe, about 463, 600 .OO0; of Australia.
STA, about $50, OOO, 900; Of Buenos Ayres
and River La Plata, about 207, COG, 600 lbs.
These are the principal wool grOwing
countries of the world, and produce
1852 GOO, 600 out Of the estimated 1,4l9,.
600, 900 produced on the entire globe.
The selling value of the total clip would
probably aggregate $45O, OOO, 600. Out of
]. AIS, 900 600 pounds of wool 1.-THE esti-
mated clip, there would be fully loss of
667 ,0O0, 900 lbs. in securing, making the
net yield of clean wool about $50 ,OOO, 900
lbs.-Scientifc american.
SPECIMENS Of sllver.ore recently taken
from the Cerro de Pasco silver mines, in
Peru, show that the submerged portion of
the mountain ID very rich, and trough esti-
mate shows that boly of ore will be ex-
posed by the new tunnel which Henry
Meigs is 10 build, worth from $500, OOO,-
700 to $500, OO0, 900. These mines have laid
under water for fifty years, and are scarce
iy known to the present generation,
though they hsd been worked for $50
years, when the miners had to stop on &C.
count of the water. Peru has now dis.
covered that tunnel can be built which
will drain the mountain completely, by
draining IF the lake from which the
water in the mine comes, and she is 80
much in earnest about it that he first
loads of the now submerged ore are ex-
pected to reach Lima in four months. It
is predicted that, within ten years.. more
silver will be taken out than from the
silver.mine in Nevada.