The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-17
FACTS AND FIGURES.


--01e California orchard ships about
twenty tons of peach stones every year.
Chicago parties have recently pur-
chased 400 acres of land in Leon
County, Alabama, for thirty cents per
acre.
The Rrooklyn-New York bridge
will be the largest suspension bridge in
the world. The length of the main
span is 1886 feet six inches.-M Y.
Sun.
There were recently shipped at
Victoria, b. c.. $4,000 cases of canned
salmon for England. AS each case is
worth s., the value of the trade can
readily be understood.
I'm the season of 1882 more than
100000 trees were planted in Great
Britain, out of which number Scotland
claims about ,, 900, 600. England 600, 900,
Ireland 800, 900 and Wales 10000.
"A few years ago Government en-
velopes sold for "a. so per 1000, exclu-
sive of postage. Now they are only
50. and after January will be reduced
TO s1.S0. 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
5000, 100000. The length of all the
wires in the world would reach forty
eight times around the earth.-N. y
Herald.
-Georgia's corn crop is the largest
since 1889, and will reach 30.0O0.O00
bushels. ] The oat crop reached $780,
600 bushels, and the wheat crop $780,
900 bushels. 1t is Thought 100000
bales of cotton will be raised. ~ q.
Ricayune.
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 5000 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 part of 400, 600 tons of iron ore
required by it. The works are valued
at $1,000 900, 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-five million pas
sengers were carried, and one-a .char.
ityn passenger on a freight train-was
killed; in 1881, nearly fifty million pas
sengers were carried and four were
la1 = ln rhn
killed mainly.-N. 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 Ii 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 q 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 S600,00O.
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
ne ,gotiated for ]. 0O0. 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
n high price few years since.-N T.
Graphic.