The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-08-02
FACTS AND FIGURES.

a GEORGIA sportsman claims TO have
killed 6,OO2 deer, but he probably lies.
Two TH0UsAND American firms have
announced their intention of contributing
to the Paris Exposition.
The City of Boston owes S43. 657 1888,
ito debt having increased to that amount
from $500, 600 in the past seventeen
years. During al that time there has
been no reduction until laat year, when
the sum of $342, SIT was paid of.
MEssRs. MONROE AND SETH GREEN
have Matched out altogether 4,676,O 600
shad fry this year and turned them all
into the Hudson River except $4,000,
which were placed in the Black River, .
tributary of Lake Ontario. This is g. $50.
600 more fry than were Matched out last
year.-N. =. Ecenin0 Post.
A RUSSIAN work, by N. Dogolubsky,
on Gold and Gold Mining in Russia"
is worthy of notice. it contains very in
tcrcsting information upon that industry
in Russia and Siberia. We observe that
the area of gold mines occupies in the
Russian Empire about 100000 square
miles, and now yields yearly about 81, 900
pounds of gold, in value upward of e.
100000 sterling. The total amount of
gold produced in Russia since 1852 has
been upward of Z, 500, 600 pounds.
In the course of the United States Geo
logical and Geographical Survey of Colo
| RADIO, 1.16O typographical stations have
been established within an area of about
| 20, 900 square miles, and the surrounding
country sketched from each station. One
member of the Typographical Corps made
over 1000 profile sketches during the
field season Of 1875, each page being six
by ten inches. Mr.. Wilson, the Director
Of the primary triangulation, made some
500 pages of MISUNDERSTANDING
himself the thousands of angles necessary
to locate all the points.
A PAMPHLET by N. Lasaowski, which
has been issued from the Russian Minis
try of the Interior, gives formidable ac-
count of the ravages of wolves, from
which it appears that in European Rus
STA alone about zoo, 900 of these beasts are
harbored, q number which shows an in
crease rather than . diminution during
the last decade. In the three years end.
ing in 1851, 1875 persons were killed by
the wolves, and in 1875 161 persons met
their death frolh the same cause. Official
reports show that every year about $50 900
head of large animals and $50. 900 head Of
small fall victims to these msrauders; but
these numbers are inadequate, since much
destruction is wrought which is not off,
cially reported. The female wolves nour-
ish their young on fowl, and in the one
Government of Kasan they dispose of some
| II 900 geese annually; beside this they
kill at least 100, 900 dogs in the same time,
and altogether cost European Russia
about 81, 600, 900 rubles per annum.
The increase in the production of
American wine has been very rapid dur
ing the last thirty. five years. Thus, in
1910, the total production was 124, 1874 gal.
Ions; in 1850 it was 221, 240 gallons; in
1860 it was $3.50. 006 gallons. and at pres
ent the annual supply is probably at least
20, 600 900 gallons. The relative amounts
of wine furnished by the different States
appear TO have changed considerably since
1850. In 1850 the chief production was