The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-01-15
FACTS AND FIGURES.

A CORRESPONDENT of leading Lon
don weekly points out that there were
in Ireland, in 1870, 526, 628 tenants at
will-that is, without any certainty or
security of possession. Taking the
average of each household at four, this
gives 2,106,512 persons who are de-
pendent upon suferance for a home.
The receipts at seaboard ports, from
January l to December 6, 1879, consist
ed of 10, 444, 156 barrels of flour and
293, 593, 400 bushels of grain. The cor
responding receipts were in 1873, 9, 1885,
756 barrels of flour. and 238.614, 76O
bushels of grain; in 1877, 1880, 165
barrels of flour and 157, 474, 743 bushels
of grain, and in 1876, 9,48O, 849 barrels
of flour and 157, 724,42 bushels of
grain. -EGchGssge. farg..'ls
The change that has been effected in
the foreign commerce OF the United
States of late years is more marked in
the volune of commodities imported
and exported than in the value. Dur
ing the last fiscal year our exports az
gregated in weight II, 100, 900 tons Of
2,24O pounds each, against $500, 900
tons in the fiscal year ending June 30,
1869; while the imports in the same
peri period d j sSsS ts, Ese
Hss THE receipta 81 grsin md four at the
Western u re and riveraPorts, from
mtary 1 p December g. 1879, con-
listed f 6,HS, 1913 baTelssof hour and
$40. 560,11s bushels If grSan. These
Efgnfss representsa rge crease on
tlqe receipts of PREVIOUS years. which
|consisted. in l&7&, of-5A22 203 Barrels
81 dour and 91& 63344, 88S4 bushels Of grain;
<17; Of xf246H lbStreD IL -four
md al, 1875, 7g9 bushels IL rain; and
hl6s6s' of $3.50, aS7 barrels of flour and
16h,67O, 587 bushels, pf grain. the main
>p6Sfion of this incrs sse, sloweVfr, was
thA movement Of the Oh cfop. rather
tbanin the snoyemsnt Of the crop of
lis year, ,as,the receipts az, the West
ern AXE and liver points during the
r4riod frsm AugHSts l. TO Deceuber 6,
consisted, id 1873, ssQf 2,84O. Q33 barrels
81 Hour snd lis Ss7, s9a bushels OF
grain, while theis1rresponding y.eceipts
IN 1875 werGisss ~. ga barrels IL flour
and III. 1859, ~ bushels Or seh.-Er-
.sSessrza<s6Gn1bs. =, ia i, s.sy.ean
Mnch Thirty veal ago it
tequired 4AQRdiy s isSor 70 Sonstruct
4 loconsptss.sil a. will nd exceed
k5OOy s1lsa fassh ficr mach Y In ev-
cry respect. There are 5000. locomo-
tives in the United States, and there
are over $500 different pieces in each,
all of which will have to be renewed
everv ten or twelve years. LOcOmO-
tives that retain their identity twenty
wears or more, as claimed by some
roads, are something like, the boys
jack-knife which he'had ten years, but it
had nine new handles and thirteen new
blades. The present capacity of all the
shops is not far from 100 locomotives
per year, and tie different reads build
in their own rspdirs shops about 100
more, making $500 ayeaxsin all. Now,
allowing fifteen years as the average
life Of an engine, you will see that the
shops can build 81. 600 in'the meantime,
showing that the present capacity OF our
locomotive shops need not be extended
for 3 long time To- coMe-ssf .s-rs. =, ~
TH1RrY.FouR railways reporting to
the New York Stock Exchange show an
increase N SIOSo 0nAHIA N".S ~
e. s;s y &; l 1 Ss :'s;
Der, 1873. Twenty-nine companies re-
port an i9crsess during the period.
from JANUARY ists to November 30th, of
81, ops, 542, the gross earnings in 1879
being @1OS, 539, 1888, and, during the
first eleven months of 1879 $96, $780,
BAG. The largest increase reportediby
any company in November was that OF
the Chicago. Miyaukeer 4 St: Paul.
amountingat6 $@f DSs ah6the largest
increase reported during the first eleven
months Of the present year was that OF
tho Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe.
amounting to 92,112,66S. The inn
provement In traffic has been nearly
universal. a. twenty-eight out of thirty