The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-01-24
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Olflclally stated ut S42,jOO,OOO, and in
Bombay at SlO,OOO,OOO.
In 1876 the United States cultivated
$40, 4j7 acres in tobacco. with yield
of 3S1 .OO2, 900 pounds, valued at $685.
2O2,96S.
THE agricultural population of
Georgia is 100000 souls, and the num-
Der of acres in cultivation is trifie over
six hundred thousand.
THE st. Gothard Tunnel has into the
bowels Of the land marched on without
impeachment distance of 5000 meters,
say five and half miles.
North CAROLINA contains 1925 dis
tilleries, the largest number of any
State in the Union. Kentucky comes
next, with 754 distilleries.
Mr.. LYMAN. geologist to the Japan
csc Government, reports that the ISL
and of Yesso probably contains hum
dred and fifty thousand million tons of
coal not yet explored.
The decline in real estate is not con-
fined to this country. A property
bought near Berlin five years ago for
villa sites at the price of 1850, 600
marks was sold the other day for $751;
40 marks.
THE shipments of oil from Pittsburgh
during November aggregated 1868
| barrels. The tota! stock in the pro.
| ducing regions at the close of Novem-
| Der was 2,471, 1893 barrels, against
2,5O4,O12 at the close of October, show.
ing decrease of 32,214 barrels for the
month, and 4S3, 294 barrels less during
| the year than in the corresponding
months of 1876.
In the three months ending Nov. sc
there were entered at the United States
Land Offices in Minnesota, and at Fargo
Dakota, 451 1864 acres Of land. In the
same period the railroad companies
disposed of $50, 1856 acres, making an ag.
gregate of over one million acres sold in
three months, nearly all for actual set.
Element and cultivation. This is near.
| ly three times as much as the average
sales and entries of previous periods,
and as the great bulk of the lands were
bought, not by SPECTATORS, but for i'm
mediate cultivation, it may be safely
predicted that the spring of 1873 will
open with a very lively prospect fol-
trade and business.
THE following record of great snow.
| storms in Connecticut is of interest
Last winter the first snow-storm oc.
CURED November 90, and gave good
| sleighing for forty-five days in success.
SION. On December %, 1873, the snow
| fell twenty-five inches deep on a level
also January 10, 1867, the snow fell
twenty-four inches deep in Hartford
January IL, Is and II, 1916, there was
a terrible snOw-storm, the snow falling
four feet deep. On February 10, 20 and
p, 1901, the snow fell five feet deep
The winter of 1741-42 was famous
throughout New England for deep
SHOWS and intense cold weather, the
first deep snow falling on the 18th OF
November, giving sleighing which
lasted until the goth of April. In Feb
ruary, 1717, occurred the greatest snow
storm ever known in Connecticut, the
snow falling ten feet deep on level.
The Sutro Tunnel has been pushed
on to distance of 18,4OO feet, being
within fifty feet of the great combina.
ton mining shaft (Comstock lode),
W utIc llS uSclulutSS anu tdluc Will IN
tested. The sound of the blasts can be
heard in the Comstock workings, com.
plete connection with which will be
made by April 1, 1873. Thus far the
| expenditure has been $3.50, 597; about
$3.50, 900 will be required to complete
the work, and $5OO,OOJ more to equip
! it. The object of the tunnel is to afford
natural outlet for the waters of the
Bonanza Mines, now pumped up from
the depth of 1890 feet, at an annual
cost of $3,OOO,OOO; with the tunnel ii
will only be necessary to raise it to the
1.8OO-foot level. Beside. the tunnel
will afford ventilation, and SO do away
with the necessity for expensive mining
where, the atmosphere being at 120
degs and the water at 16O degs., a
miner cannot work more than five min
utes at stretch, having then to take
refuge in cooling chambers to which
compressed air is forced. Further, the
cost of moving the ore from the bottom
Of the shafts to the open air will be by
the tunnel $3.50 day, as against "a, SOC
by the present system of hosting.