The National tribune., 1882-11-23
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TO as wonderful achievements in masonry. The
entire span is 22o feet, or twenty in excess Of
the span of the famous Chester arch across the
Dee in England sixty-ejght feet longer than
the central arch Of London bridge; ninety two
feet longer than the noted bridge over the
Seine at Neuilly, and one hundred feet longer
than the arches of the Waterloo bridge over the
Thames The height of The Washington arch
is lOl feet.
The chief of the bureau of statistics reports
that the total values Of the exports Of bread
stufs from the United States during the
month of October, ISS2, and during the four
and ten months ended October 3lst, 1882 as
compared with similar exports during the
corresponding months of the preceding year,
were as follows October, 1852, $152o5lo3;
1881, $l4,S39gl4 -Four months ended October
81, 1852. $5ls>L7I9; Iool. $sO.2ll ,'i35 Ten
months ended October 3lst, 1oS2, $l49 737960;
1881, 1892 2292,555
INDUSTRY.
The aggregate coal tonnage of the various
PENNSYLVANIA carrying companies during 0cto-,
Der was 2945 037 tons, being an increase of
25S, ,983 tons as compared with the correspond
ing month of last year. This amount was made
up as follows: Philadelphia and Reading Rail
road, 727s65; Lehigh Valley Railroad, 6032S2;
Central Railroad Of New Jersey, 4l6, i62; Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, 470,-
O79; Delaware and Hudson Canal, 322,2 ,237
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad, 226,22f; Pennsylvania
Coal Company, 156,453; New York, Lake Erie
and Western Railroad, -, ,432. The total ton
mage of all the companies for the year to Octo
pf
675S66 tons, as compared with the correspond
ing period of last year. The stock of coal on
hand at tidewater shipping points October 31st
was 524, $50 tons, an increase of 10, ll6 during
the month.
The advance of cotton manufacturing in the
South is marvellous, nearly every dollar of
capital having been invested since the close of
the war, and more than one-third of it since
1880. There are now 252 cotton mills in the
South with an actual invested capital of
I.24I,450 having l,237, ,409 spindles, 2O,6O9
looms, and 1,93l sets of cards. OF these mills
North Carolina has 66, Georgia 80, and South
Carolina 50.
Leadville, during the past five years, has
produced 250OOO0O ounces of silver 10000
tons Of lead, and 26O0O ounces of gold, exclu-
sive of 100000 tons of ore shipped to other
towns for treatment. 1t Will pay this year to
the railroad companies 81 100000 for the trans
portation of bullion to the Eastern markets.
The business failures for last week reported
TO New York number 139, Of which 131 took
place in the country and eight in New York
city. The Eastern States had twenty-three,
Western thirty-sevcn, Southern twenty nine,
Middle eighteen, Pacific twelve and Canada
twelve.
The Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company, of
Scranton, Pa after two years Of unbroken and
prosperous activity, began November 10th
working on half time. The sudden falling off
in orders for steel rails, caused by tho shrink
age in railroad building, is the reason given.
Eight punches of matches a year for every
man, woman, and child are now produced. A
tax is paid 90 the Government Of S3.6OO,O0O on
400.000,UJO boxes. Nine thousand cords of
wood are consumed.
A model cotton gin is TO be established at
Hogansville, Ga, with machinery So arranged
that when the cotton starts at one point it Will
not stop until it comes ont packed bale 1t
VIII run thirty bales per day.
A manufacturing firm in Columbus, Ga, pays
out 100000 year IL WAGES. In the city are
2I67 operatives il textile mills that work $50
looms, and the consumption OF cotton in Il sin
gle year WIS 16,95l bales.
RAILROADS
The report Of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road Company FOR the year ending September
80, ISo2. shows gross earnings from all sources
Of $ls,553.S75: net earnings, 8, ,I5i,GG2 The
net earnings Of the main line and branches
were $1512,9i3; Of the Washington branch,
$22l 253: Parlcrsburg branch, $lGSO7O; Cen
tral Ohio Division, .3l4,&j2; Lake Erie Divis-
ion, $23i, ,70l; Chicago Division, SIG 1876; Pitts
burg Division, Sl,5l2 10; Wheeling, Pttsburg
and Baltimore Railroad, SIOI50 Newark. SOM
ersct, and Strai;syillc Railroad Company, $I3.-
O7s. After paying fixed charges and dividends
ofIO per cent, asurplus of$l Gls s97s was carried
to profit and loss making the amount to the
credit Of that account $500, SOS.
Some Of the recent enterprises in railroad
construction are the pushing Of the Denver and
Rio Grande toward the Colorado line; the pro-
ject of constructing q road from Chicago to
Hannibal; another TO pierce the coal-felds of
Gallipolis. On the new Chattanooga line from
Rome 10 Atlanta and Macon, distance Of 347
miles, through trains have begun to run. An
other division runs from Macon due north into
East Tennessee. The Georgia Pacific is being
pushed ahead at the rate of half a mile day.
Surveys are being made through the rich coal
fields Of Alabama.
The October statement Of the Philadelp phia and
Reading Railroad Company show the receipts
have been about Sl,340OOO; deducting from
this $4,000 for renewal fund, leaves 81 2G5,00O
for interest account. The net receipts up to
October lst was S., ,38O,Ol8, and the addition of
last months profits brings those OF the year TO
November l up to $96i5048 The net receipts
for October, 1851, were 81, 32,2G5, and for the
year to November, 1881, 9,O95. .939. This shows
an increase in the net profits of S549, ,I35 for the
current year over last year.
The tunnel cut into the main range Of the
Rocky Mountains. l50 miles southwest Of Dem