The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-02-18
BUSINESS ITEMS

California sent $l,eoo. 900 worth of
fresh fruit TO the east last year.
The grain crop OF Italy is this year
iarger by one-thiru than ia 1879
Louisiana will this Year "clean up"
SS,0VO,o0e hogsbeads OF sugar and 49,
vVVOo9 gallons of Inolasses.
The statistics Of the department of ag-
rlculiare, estimates the wheat crop Of
1850 al $50, l49.126 bushels.
An increase Of $4,000 firms doing bus
mess ia this country was reported last
year. Yet there were nearly 2,o00 less
failures.
In the present years Jewish calendar
for 5941 (lSS1 A. d. the total number
of Jews in the world is set down by the
editor at S.9l0,00e.
During 1850 the converting mill at
Joliet, Illinois, one of the largest in the
country. made 100000 tons of steel ingots
which were rolled into 10000 tons of
steel rails.
A company has been formed in Lon
don TO establish a line of steamers to DO
built with special facilities for trans
porting cattle from the United States.
The capital stock is So, SOC, 900.
According to figures furnished by the
census bureau, S227 ,451 $50, worth of 4
AZ and per cent. bonds are held by cor
porations. The national banks hold
| $40, POI 400, the sayings banks $131 ,224,-
400, private banks $1,000, $50, insurance
companies $50, S57, 45O, trust companies
$13, 4S4, 050. and express companies
$640, 100.
The cost of the SueZ canal was FAC
cording to report on the Darien canal by
Joseph Nimmo, Jr chief of the United
States bureau of statistics) 500. 273. 907.
/ The receipts last year were $5,973, 1856,
aud the expenditure including per
cent. interest upon the share capital, Is
sinking fund, $5,415,542 leaving bal
ance of 1857 ,645-
| The production of wheat in this coun-
| try last year reached 4Sl, 000, 900 bushels,
an incretss of SO 100000 over the pre-
vious year. The cotton crop last year
| amounted 10 6,761 ,252 bales, an increase
of 1889 bales over the previous year,
| while for the present year the estimate Is
/ 100000 bales. The iron production
last year was 100000 tons, an increase
of 55S, lat tons over the previous year.
Although Brazilian coffee makes up
about one half of the entire quality pro-
duced in the world, il seems To be held
of so little account in the markets that
to insure a sale 1t has TO be labelled as
Java, Porto Rico, Ceylon or Mocha pro
INuSC- Al tuC SOundy tuClC otC ~ iS~Ca
than $50, 900 900 plants. covering 81 800.
600 acres, and yielding 100000 tons, oil
which $4,000 are retained for home con.
sumption.
During the past year the production
of silk fabrics in this country exceeded
$50, 900 in value, and is steadily increas
ing. Thus Ear we are about as depend
: ent on foreign production for raw silk
r as England is for cotton; but with the
progress of time there Is little doub
2 that we shall raise as well as manufac
ture our own silk, and very likely som,
To spare for other countries. We huv,
:. every advantage OF climate and soil.
4 census table shows the assessed valu,
:, of Massachusetts, real estate 10 he 81,
" Ill, 160.O72; nf personal, $473, 500. no
{ Total, $l5S4, 756. 500 Total OF stale
county, city and town taxation, S24 1877
3-3 The total bonded debt of state
lcOuntieS, cities and towns is 500 1888
5. 94S; floating drb,, $l1 6SS. 297. DrducI
e ing sinking funds the net debt is SOL
$. l59,072, ar per capita, SOL 10. simil
Ie lar exhibit will be made as TO all III
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