The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-04
BUSINESS ITEMS.

A sleeping car costs, ON an average,
about 81, 600.
From November IS. to Januarv 5, Cir.
cinnati and Chicago sailed down 1876
coo hogs
From 1915 to January /, 1881, Califor
MIA turned out in gold aud silver 81, 1885,
$4,000
The American Miller puts the area of
the United States available for wheat at
AGO, 000, 900 acres.
There are now 569 cities in the United
States supplied with water works, invol-
wing $4,000 miles efpipc. 10, 900 of which
are of cast iron.
According 10 The estimate of the state
| agricultural bureau, the farm. and 1--we
stock products of Illinois in 1886 agcre-
gated S236, 900 900.
The debt of the city of Chicago has
been reduced 100000 during the past
year, and 81. 100000 of available funds
still remain in the treasury.
The exports of grain from the port of
| New York during the year 1880 reached
10T, 100000 bushels, an excess of nearly
100000 bushels over the exports Of
any previous year.
Eastport, Maine, exported 65, coo cases
| OF sardines last year. worth $3.50, 900,
| against q, 900 in 1879. Seyen new fac
tories were erected, making thirteen now
in operation.
The total value of Englanj's imports
for 1880 was e409, 900, 600, an increase of
about e40,000,0O0 over 1879. Liv-
ing animals were imported to the value
of &c, 242, 903. The number of eggs i'm
ported was TAT, AIS, 40, worth 6, 241 ,300
The revenue books show that during
the year 1880 So, 561 300 were received
for revenue stamps from the match man
ufacturers of the United States. This
would make the number of matches con-
sumed 50, 613, 600, 600, or about 700 match
es per year to every man. woman and
child in the Union.
A majority of the railroads of the
United States show gratifying increase
IN their gross earning for the month of
January over the same month of 1880.
Eleven roads report decrease of $685.
952 and thirty roads an increase of 81 ;
392, 921. The leading roads of the coun-
! try are included.
The chief of the bureau of statistics
reports that the total value of the ex-
ports of petroleum and petroleum pro
, ducts for the month of December, 1880
was $3,041 ,63S, and during December
! 1879, So, 939, 446; for the twelve months
, ended December 81, 1880, $34, sos, 645
and during the same period in 1879, S37,
S50,4oI
The number of Immigrants landed up
: on the shores of the United States in
: 1880 reached S6,06S, the largest tota
: for single year on record by 125, 600
The average increase OF the native popu
| lation for the last decade was SOS, 900
and it Will be seen that the increase fron
immigration last year was 20 per cent
of that number.
! The glass manufacturing interest O
4 | Ohio forms in itself no inconsiderabl
! element in the prosperity of the state
, The following counties are officially re
! cognized as the glass sections: Bel
mont, Franklin, Jefferson, Licking
s Muskingum, and Portage. In this sec
Q ton there are thirty-two furnaces, Be
;, mont county having fifteen and Portsg
), six. The value of glass manufacture,
g yearly aggregates over 5000, 900.
l. An old resident of New Orlean
1t writes: When first came to this city
II fifty years since, there were only fey
d orange trees in the yards or gardens, an
- thirty years ago there was not much a
IS tention given TO the cultivation. Yestel
s day l was talking with some of GU
e largest dealers, and they told me tn
e shipments to distant cities and countr
= towns for the last two months average
d 5000 barrels day. They are shippe
by the car loads, loose, to Chicago. S
Louis, and other cities, and this year
IS crop will bring about $12,000,O00, an
its production is increasing every year.
1t In an article on railway foreclosure
Tor 1880, the Chicago Railway Age show
e that 81 roads, with a mileage of 3,37
e miles, representing an apparent inves
r ment of $116, 100000 in bonds and $97
Is 100000 in capital stock, total of 1913
Re SOC, 000 were sold out at loss. Wit
st the exception of the Atlantic & Ores
d Western, with mileage of 512 mile
the roads foreclosed were of a smallt
e class. Many OF these roads becam
5, bankrupt years ago. The age argue
q from this that the public has been ben,
n fitted more from the railroads than hav
Al the projectors and owners of the lines.
d Much has been said of the possibilit
re of substituting some home product fC
0f the foreign sugar which VIC impor
r Beets would seem the most probable r.
d source, having proved so nearly suff
y cient, as they have, for European d.
mand; Commissioner LIE Due, of th
lie agricultural department, has pinned b
N faith to. sorghum. A contemporary say
IS of him: HE has firmly made up hi
mind that the sugar problem is the larl
y est question now demanding solution l
at this country; he knows that if we ca
lie make our own sugar and syrup we wi
re save from $50 ,000,000 to $3.50, O00, 900 al
'r nually, which We now pay to fOreig
countries for those commodities; he b
N lieves that sorghum solves the problem
s and with the sublime faith IN himse
L which seems necessary in any one VIII
T. would become a great benefactor of h
at fellow men, he proposes to convince I'll
country that he is right and his critic
81 arc wrong on the sorghum question"