Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-11-17
FACTS AND FIGURES.


One California orchard ships about:
twenty tons of peach stones every year.
Chicago parties have recently pur-
chased 4,300 acres of land in Leon
County. Alabama, for thirty cents per
acre.
The Brooklyn-New York bridge
will be the largest suspension bridge in
the world. The length of the main
span is 1855 feet six inches. IN y
sam.
There were recently shipped at
Victoria, b. c., $4,000 cases of canned
salmon for England. AS each case is
worth So, the value of the trade can
readily be understood.
"A few years ago Government en-
velopes sold for 81. so per 1000, exclu--
sive of postage. Now they are only
50. and after January will be reduced
to $3.50. Besides they are of better
quality Chicago Inter Ocean.
The length of the submarine cables
in the whole world is estimated to be.
$4,000 miles and their value to be
$500, 000,0 The length of all the.
wires in the world would reach forty
eight times around the earth.-N. T.
Herald.
-Georgia's corn crop is the largest.
since 1859, and will reach 30.O00.O 900
bushels. The oat crop reached S,000,-
600 bushels, and the wheat crop $780,
600 bushels. 1t is thought 1000. 900
bales of cotton will be raised. O.
Hcdyu1le.
The Cambria iron-works at Johns
town, Pa. has thirty-five miles of rail-
road on its property. and employs ten
large and ten small locomotive engines
for yard service. The 100000 tons of
coal and limestone annually used in the
manufacture of iron and steel at these
works are mined by the company, as
well as a part of 100000 tons of iron ore
required by it. The works are valued
at 81 900, 600, and give employment to
nearly 5000 men. - Chicago Times.
The number of railroad casualties.
is really very small, considering. In
1879, nearly forty million passengers.
were carried an average distance of
fifteen miles each in Massachusetts, and
seventeen were killed. all in one acci--
dent; in 1880, forty-ive million pas
sengers were carried. and one-a '.char-
ity' passenger on freight train-was
killed; in 1881, nearly fifty million pas
sengers were carried and four were.
killed. 1t is the employees who are
killed mainly. y Post.
1t is claimed that the Qu'Appelle
Valley Farming Company of Manitoba
owns and operates the largest farm in
one block in the world. 1t is ten miles
square, and after deducting the Hud-
son Bay Company's sections and the
school sections, comprises $4,000 acres.
The company is bonded to break 1000
acres year for five consecutive years,
each year placing within their tract fifty
tenant families. and spending in oper-
ating and improving during the five
years $600,00U.
Owing to the terrible forest fires of
1881, which destroyed 5000 square
miles of the best pineries of Michigan,
dealers have found it necessary to look
in new direction in order to obtain
enough pine lumber to meet the de-
mand. Agents have been looking up
the pine lands in Louisiana and Missis-
sippi, and it is said that one of them has
negotiated for 1000. 600 acres in the two
States named. Prices of timber lands
have gone up accordingly, SO an acre
having been offered and refused. where
50 an acre would have been considered,
a high price few years since.-N. y.
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