The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-11-19
L.IBOR'S ADTANCE.

Five car loads Of cotton goods were recently sent to
China fron the mills Of Selma, Ala
EuropeS CONSUMPTION of cotton is 1871 900 bales per
week, against i27,o.n bales last year
In the III INDUSTRY in Italy 10 $50 women isGo1
alone gives work to 715t. hands aud s ia spais.
Three thousand hands are employed in the washhurn
M"em MMmntnc.rns S"mpany viii sixteen ENGINES
ton of iron aud steel wire
swer mr., sS S,o S sG f,c mill. SmFSyns
fncn works. with 67s hands.
TetMss Of the saw mit by swGGns process The yield
resin, and quantity of tar per cord.
Eight lunches inches, Of matches z year for every man.
M ns %"a Sn rs sN " a no
thousand cords of wood are consumed.
Amudt cotton gin Is to lie established at Iogansvile.
starts II one Point 4 VIII not stop until it comes out
snorn year - wages. In the city are 2,ln1 opera
sumption of cotton in single year was iG''si bales
Lead'lle during the past i've, years, has produced
forty Thousand tons OF lend aud twenty six thousand
" 0f n G s" SS or q" one hundred tons
S the no s frC S I"h 'm
The advance of cotton manufacturing in the South is
maryeil",s nearly every doilnr OF eapi'n having been
third Of it since iss6 There ARE nov IS, cotton mills in
the Sos! M an actual iays,,rh capital q al
cards nf these mills North Carolina has O6, Georgia 80
anu SOulH 'hipllha ID
Railroad building ia being carried on TO n stupendous
extent. II costs about S2bUpp per mile. aud yet fully
1Opb miles VIII he added To the facilities of the United
States during the year l-'2 This II exclusive uf "A
siderable addition of lines in Canada and Mexico in
which American capital is Interested some of the road
IL double track, and most of 1t laid with steel rails The
pruNcmcnt reaches annually about S2junpUp.
Farmers in tn, United states have Sl22lO 2j33l0 of
capital ated in their business or this amount the
value Of farms il plnccd at Slnnis@6iI, EARN nipple
mrnts nj Sos t6o2 live stock SpppSa ls7 fertilizers
tona Governments and Boards OF Education unnunlly
collect taxation from these incrs nearly hundred
millions of dollars. TIL" total contribution or production
credited To the farmers foos up in round numbers
S2,JJJpbD,pl
tains 100 miles southwest of Denver Col IL the highest
in either America Europe. aud its approaches de.
scrh~l marycls of engineering skill laid through
unTivuled for grandeur aud mHgniiCrncs II
no feet in length Hul ll,1D feet above the So
nicely the engineering done, that when workMen
met he variation in the hurus WINS only about inch
II the work Of the Denver md South Park division
OF the Union Pacific Railroad
Some Of the recent enterprises In railroad construction
are the pushing of the Denver aud Rio GrSndr toward
the Colorado me. the project of constructing ruud
from Chrngo to Hannibal; another To pierce the col
fields Of Gnlipois ON the ncN Chattanooga line, from
Rome 10 Atlanta and M.cou, distance Of 3i7 miles
through trains have begun to run. Another division
runs from Macon due uOrth INTO East Tennessee The
Georgia Pacific IL being pushed ahcai at the rat. OF half
mile day surveys are being made thrOuI the rich
coal iIo<ls Of Alabama.