The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.

line rice crop OF LOUISIANA IlllS
year is estimated at 100000 barrels.
Last years crop amounted to 100000
barrels.
England imported from this
country last year 100000 pounds
of leather amounting to one-fourth
of her annual consumption.
Georgia is rapidly developing
| great lumber business. The esti-
mated product for this year will be
300,000,000 feet. valued at more than
$5,O00,OO0.
The paper wheels on the new
cars of the New York, New Haven
4 Hartford railroad cost S110 each.
Steel ones cost little more than
half that sum.
The entire cost of planting and
culiivating an acre of cotton, gaining
the product and delivering it on Il
railroad, is stated by South Caro-
lima planter at $l1, or about 3-8
cents per pound.
Dakota Territory is rapidly
being supplied with railroad fscili-
ties and new towns are springing
up "all along the line" The North
ern Pacific company has 400 miles
of road in operation in that terri
tory.
The mania for high-priced Jer-
seys, it appears, il on the increase.
AS high as $4,000 has recently been
paid for single imported animal
Col. Moore's Short-Horns at this
rate ought to be worth three times
this sum.
--Fifty-eight national banks were
organized during the past year; five
have failed aud twenty-one Went in
to voluntary liquidation, leaving an
increase for the year of thirty-two
banks. The total number of nation
al banks now doing business is
2,102.
Work Oh the Texas Pacific rail
road is progressing finely, and the
| directors make the announcement
that they will run trains from FL
Pas0 to New Orleans within one
wear. This company is now Ope-
rating SIT miles more road than thi.
time last year.
Tho manufacture of agriculin-
raj implements doubled in tho Unit
ed States during the last ten years.
Ohio leads off in this branch of man.
ufactures, giving employment to up
wards of 10000 people; Illinois fol-
lows. New York comes next and
then Pennsylvania,
Black walnut timber is i'll de-
mand not only at home but abroad.
Agents for English manufacturers
have recently been through Iowa,
Indiana and Missouri for the pur-
pose of buying this wood, which .
quarter of a century ago was but
little appreciated for any purpose.
This timber abounds i'll Texas.
The expectation of American
live hogs to Germany, tried as an
experiment in the early part of last
year. has been found profitable. and
has largely increased. About two
and half per cent. OF the hogs die
on the voyage. Butchers in Berlin
are said TO be very eager to be sup
piled with these free-born swine.
There are six. moss factories in
New Orleans and vicinity All the
moss ginned is shipped abroad, az
the furniture manufacturers do not
buy it ginned, prefering 10 pick and
clean it themselves. The total
amount paid for the rough moss by
the ginners, upholsterers, and mat
tress-makers of the city is above
$500, 900 per year. Texas produces
large amount of moss and could
supply vast deal to the consump.
ton which goes on all over the
word.
The directors Of the mint says
that the mines of the United States
have produced during the last seven
wears about S2sO.0OO.0O0 of gold and
$2SI. 500. 900 of silver. sn average
production during that time Of $40
100000 Of gold and So, 10000 oi
silver per annun. He estimates that
the amount of domestic bullion used
in the arts and manufactures during
the past fiscal year was about S5.-
10000 of gold, and $4.O0O.OOO OF sill
yer, and that the total eonsnmp-
ton in all forms was abent SlOOOO.-
900 in gold and S5,0O0.000 in silver