The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
RuSINESS ITEMS.

The English Mercantile Gazette states
that in 1878 431, 400 acres were de.
voted to the sugar beet crop, while the
number of acres occupied with the beet
root in 1873 was about LOIS, 600, thus
showing the great increase of 647, 200
acres in five years.
In Belgium there are 10000 persons
engaged in braiding straw hats, and
5000 in sewing hats. The yearly income
accruing to these workers is 100000
francs. The greater part of this amount
represents labor, the value of the raw
material being very small. The larger
portion of the material is wheat straw,
cut before it is quite ripe and bleached
in the sun.
The increase in the product of pig iron
in Alabama, this year, over last, will be
fully 10000 tons charcoal and 1900 tons
coke. In Georgia the increase will be
IL 500 tons charcoal and 6,000 tons coke.
East Tennessee will produce $4,000 tons
more of coke irons than last year; max
ing an increase in these three southern
states of about 10000 tons of pig iron.
California contains about 10000, 900
acres of land, of which about As, 600, 600
acres are unsurveyed. The San Francis
co Bulletin says that there is not much
exceeding 10000 acres under cultiva-
ton, although something more than
100000 acres are enclosed with fences,
and that there are in the state 5000 900
or 100000 acres. more or less, which
can be bought at from $1.25 an mere up
to 81.
4 Pittsburgh pillow firm, says the Amer
lean Manufacturer, has branch houses in
Hamburg, Bremen and Vienna, and
keeps a travelling man on the Continent
of Europe. They have recently made
large shipments of plows TO Brazil, Cuba,
and Australia, and a short time ago
shipped some to Athens, Greece. The
increased German import duty has
caused some decline in the demand from
that.country, but the firm Is stin able to
undersell the native manufacturers.
II is said there are II mills in the
state of South Carolina, running in the
aggregate 30, 438 spindles and 1888
looms, and which employ 2,296 opera
tives, who receive in wages about $685.
500 per month. The total capital ia
vested amounts 10 So, 133, 200. The ag-
gregate product amounts to 10l 1873 yards
Of cloth and IL, 1873 pounds Of yarn for
each working day of the year, consum-
ing 81 ,049 pounds of raw cotton per day.
The mills are said to yield profit of 10
to 20 per cent per annum ON their in
veStment-
The British Mercantile Gazette SAYS
although France used TO be our best
customer for Tin, and the figures show a
considerable increase for the first quar-
ter of the present century, compared with
1878 and 1879, the United States has come
to the front during the recent quarter,
with GAG, sol. as against eS654 and e30,-
5TS for the same period of 1878 and 1879
respectively. France figures at Ga, 7S,
for January, February. and March this
year; Germany, 1855; Russia, e., 04 /;
and Turkey, g, 195."
The lower branch of congress has pass
ed bill requiring corporations existing
under the charter of other states TO abide
by the decisions of courts of those states
| in which they are doing business, and
where the cause of action arises. It
ought to pass the senate and be made a
| law promptly. Many corporations of
other substantially life insurance COM
panies-have subjected claimants 20 I'M
necessary expense and delay by running
suits into the Us. courts from state
courts.