The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-01
BUsIN Ess NOTES.

Our mines have produced IS, 900 900 during the
year.
The total value OF property owned by cOlored
people In Georgia is IS, ,lS23OS.
The Erie railroad last year earned s5,2O4769
more than Its working expenses.
Illinois manufacturesEo Eone.half Of the farming
machinery turned out in this country.
The worlds production Of gold has declined
from SlS1 900 900 in 1858 to $50 6OOOO 900 in 1879.
The Cheboygan, Mlch Lumber Company has
cut u O0O 900 feet Of lumber this season with two
circulars
The latest British emigration returns show that
50 Ol9 persons emigrated In the last quarter, &c.,
10 were English G 727 Scotch and 12 1872 Irish.
Two hundred and three new buildings were
erected In Akron during the present year, repre-
sentiug value Of s252 700. This siSa magnificent
showing.
The value Of farms In the United States Is Sl1,-
100000 00O AMI the annual products So 900 100000
In four years, therefore, the farm products equal
the value OF farms.
The Philadelphia Mint is coming eagles and
half eagles at TIE average rate Of 100000 daily IL
is expected that the total coinage OF this Mint TINS
month will reach Sl0OOOOOO.
The Ames Company, of Chicopee, Mass are
said to have a contract for the manufacture OF
50, 600 more sabre bayonets and 10000 Remington
musketoons for the Turks.
The Treasury Department Is troubled over the
discovery Of numerous counterfeit notes, done by
the photograph camera so skillfully executed as
to battle any but the beet experts.
firm in Westphalia, Conn.,, a short time ago
brought to perfection new needle making ma
chine, by means of which 100 600 needles can be
stamped and bored in a day of ten hours
Philadelphia is the largest wool manufacturing
city in the world, and on Philadelphia looms
more yards Of carpet are manufactured than IN
the United Kingdom Of Great Britain and Ireland
A dispatch from Wo!verhamton, England, says
the iron trade continues brisk, and from ten to
twelve more blast furnaces were relghted before
Christmas, The mills and iorges are all working
fHll time.
The total shipment Of lumber from the st Law
renee river to South America during the past sea-
bOu nave Uctu iGSt ob"AAAps -
in 1878 87S7 1928 feet in 1877 and SSS7OOO feet in
1875 The largest shipment ever made was So
07S, ,9l9 in 1878.
The exports OF apples from the United States
and Canada have assumed large proportions oi
late, and promise to increase. The shipment by
the European steamers is very large especially
considering that this is an off year. In one week
about 500 barrels were taken.
The manufacture Of friction matches in this
country employs seventy Ave factories and twen'
ty live hundred employees, one-third of whom are
children. The revenue tax Of one cent per hun
dred yields the Government an annual return Of
over three million dollars.
Forty.fve huge manufacturing establishment
involving an investment Of $50 100000, embracing
one seventh OF All the spindles in the United
States and manufacturing one half Of all itsprin'
cloths line the course of Fall River, and form the
largest manufacturing centre in America.
The cotton crop of all countries, available OF
commerce for the current year, 1878 30, is esmat-
ed at 28 600 cwts ofhis the United States pro.
duces 20 100000 owtS; The remainder being sup
piled as follows; India 100000 cwt., Egypt 24OO,'
600, and other countries 600 cwt.