Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-11-30
Big Sums Of Money.

Dis ou"S VI MOutys
A valuation of 40O,OOO,OO in round
numbers is reported on property in
Texas this year.
The sum of 50 $50, 900 is now invested
| in the manufacture of iron in the Biz
mingham, Ala, district.
In the ten years from 1870 to 1880
the value of the silk production of the
| United States rose from 81, 210,662 to
$34 4lO, 1853.
1t is estimated that the total wool cut
OF the United States this year will ag-
e-egate 3O0,O00,000 pounds, worth
800, 100000.
During the last fiscal year the federal
government received from inspection
| of steam vessels and officers licenses
$27S,SS9
For several weeks the banks of Gal
weston have been receiving and express
ing to the interior an average of $780,
| 600 per week.
The enormous sum of 1902 100000
is invested in the submarine cables of
the world, supposed to aggregate $4,000
miles in length.
A union depot $50 feet long. with
covered tracks extending 1000 feet,
and costing about 100000, IS to be
erected at Minneapolis.
A 100000 mortgage has been re-
corded in West Virginia by a Phila-
delphia trust company on lands in the
rich camel coal formation.
Charleston, S. c., points with pride
to o Wholesale trade of nearly $5,OO0,-
900 last year an increase of about 81
100000 over the proceeding year.
According to the Mississippi Hand
book, there are IT'S 251 white and 251.-
43S colored children attending the free
schools in the state, at a cost of $780,
701.
Hawaiian coins 10 the amount of
100000 and corresponding in value
and denomination with our silver coin
age, are to be struck at the San Fran
cisco Mint.
The trustees of the Slater fund have
selected the Rev. DR.. Haygood, of
Georgia, as agent to manage the gift of
81 600 600 for educating colored people
in the South.
For the year ending June 80, the
revenue Of the Dominion of Canada
amounted to $323S1, 1881, the expen-
ditures to $27 ,154. 902 leavinga surplus
of s6,225 479.
The German Empire has now about
"a, 600, 900 acres of forest, valued at "a :
100000, and appropriates $500, 900 every
year to maintain and increase the
growth of trees.
The late Catholic Bishop of Vincen-
mes, Indiana, who died in France, was
a Count and during his life gave $780,
600 to the Catholic Church. His body
is to be buried in Vincennes.
| II. H. Bancroft, historian of the Pa
cihc coast, has spent ever $500 900 in
collecting his private library. He is an
Ohio man, and made his money in
mercantile business in San Francisco.
1t will require the expenditure of at
least s., 900 600 by the Italian govern.
ment to make good the damage done
to roads, bridges and public highways
by the inundalon, to say nothing OF
aid to the sufferers.
The new Iowa state capitol has thus
far cost s.. 600, 000 and it will requir q
$500, 600 to finish 1t. 1t is 365 feet long
from north to south, and measures 274
feet from the sidewalk to the top of the
central dome.
About 1900 miles of new railroad
we're put into operation in the south
ern states last year. The gross earn
ings of southern roads reached $685.
600, 900, and the net earnings increased
rom Is 100000 in 1880, to more than
S24 ,000, 900.
In the production of coal, Illinois is
now second only to Pennsylvania. The
state bureau of labor reports that the
output has increased from O00, 900
in 1880 to 100000 tons in 1882, and
that the value at the mines has been