The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-12-19
BUSINESS ITEMS.

The United States had 90 miles of rail
road in 1880; at the end Of 1878 she had
81 ,955 miles.
1t is estimated that $4,000 tons of fin.
ished barb fencing have been made and
sold during the present calendar year
| This article is made entirely of bessemeI
steel.
In consequence of the improvement in
the coal trade, the Delaware and Hudson
and the Delaware, Lackawanna and
! Western companies have increased the
wages of their miners 10 per cent.
1t is stated that ST. Louis merchants
and capitalists will subscribe 81 900, 900
to carry out proposition to make Port
Royal, S. C., great exporting and i'm.
porting point for the west and south.
The receipts of English and Scotch
pig iron at Boston and New York dur
ing the week ended the 22d ult., are said
to have been larger than during any sin
gle previous week for the last twenty
years.
The entire coin circulation of Ger
many amounts to 1864, 500, 900, consist
ing of $429, 000, 900 gold coin, $97, 500
900 are thaler pieces, $20,000,O0O Aus
trian thalers, $1O6. 75O, 900 fractional sill
yer currency, and eli, 25O,0 900 nickel cur
rency.
A German journal says that varnish
composed of 100 parts mercury, 10 parts
tin, 20 parts green vitriol, 100 parts wa
ter, and 10 parts hydrochloric acid of 1-2
sp. gr., furnishes good coating for iron
that is exposed to the weather.
According to the Worcester Spy the
cotton mills ut New England village
have been sold to the Coates and Finley
d Son of Scotland. The purchasers will
begin the manufacture of linen thread
as soon as the machinery can be intro
duced. II is understood that the COM
pany will ultimately employ 900 hands
As an indication of the activity in the
Boston wool market il is stated that one
house sold in q single week last month
over n million pounds, of which about
three-fourths was fall California, two 9TH
ers about three-fourths of a million each,
and quite a number of others between a
quarter and a half a million each.
During the month of November 1907,
GEO pieces, valued at $2,69O,451, were
coined at the mint in Philadelphia. OF
this number 24,3l0 were double eagles,
72,5l0 eagles, $3.50 half eagles, 10 three
dollar gold pieces, 10 quarter eagles, 10
gold dollars, 100000 silver dollars, 400
five cent pieces, 400 three cent pieces,
and 3, 100, 400 cents.
Five counties in California contain
quicksilver mines. During the past
three years the aggregate production has
been, in TASKS: Napa county, Reding-
ton mine, 1894; Lake county, Sulphur
Banks, 30,S49; Great Western mine, a.
266; Sonona county, Oakland, 4,6S7;
Fresno county, New Ida, 1886; Santa
Clara county, Guadalupe, 1889; New
Armada, 56,4SS. A flask of quicksilver
contains 76li pounds.
Late advices from Buenos Ayres state
that the wool clip this year promises
to exceed that of any previous season,
while the wheat estimates are 30, 900 tons
of Argentine wheat TO be exported up to
the end of October, and 10000 tons the
export of the ensuing season. With the
growth Of the wheat trade, Hour exports
have risen to such magnitude that many
believe the day is not distant when the
Brazilian market win be wholly sup
piled with River Plate -four