The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-04-14
VARIOUS ITEMS.
J. B. HoRNER.

Georgia farmers will plant more corn this
year than last
A cotton factory is to be started at East
Providence, r. I.
Fifty thousand slate pencils are made
daily at Casteton, Vt.
Montana expects to ship this year 80, 600
sheep to the eastern markets.
One hundred men have been discharged
from the locomotive works at Dunkirk, ,
N. Y.
it is estimated that more than 200. 600
cattle will be driven north from Texas this
this spring.
Southwest Virginia is every year rapidly
increasing in Importance as tobacco Sec
ton.
Last year l5, 900 hands were employed at
the Paterson silk mills, and turned out SIG,
00U, 900 worth of work.
Memphis cotton seed oil mills have been
so busy that there is a scarcity of seed in
the vicinity for planting.
Silk cnltnre in Louisianashas of late be-
come a thriving industry. and to-day
promises an abundant production.
A tannery at Chattanooga is to be en-
larged one-third, when it will be the largest
in the world, the Times says.
1t requiaes, on an average, 100 acres of
land as range for ten head OF cattle, in
the stock-raising portions of Texas.
W. HI. Gleason of Biscayne Bay, Fla,
has $50 growing cocoanut trees, and is
setting out another grove of 1000 trees
The Marshal, Ia, Canning Company
will put up during the coming season l50
acres of corn.
Eighty-fve turbine water, wheels, which
equal 1900 horse power, run the Wisconsin
factories on the Neenah and Menasha
water power.
Agricultural implements manufactured
in the United States for the year 1880 were
valued at S69,374, ,Os6, and gave employ
ment to IS, $40 hands.
The sumac business is quite an important
interest iii Virginia. The present prcduc-
ton is 10000 tons per year, and the pl &c
Is $40 per ton.
The Harrisburg, Pa, Car Manufacturing
Company employs nearly 1900 hands, and
products are furnished to the value of S3
100000 per year.
There is extraordinary activity just now
in the ship building yards of the Tyne.
The weekly pay roll of one firm was lately
within IS of $50. 00O.
The Delaware Beet Factory has sus-
pended the manufacture of sugar from beets,
claiming that the quality of beets required
cannot be grown in the State.
The annual value of the hosiery product
of the United States is stated at over $l5,-
900, 900, of which the Philadelphia mills
produce nearly 100000 worth.
Black, blue and lemon-colored pocket
hankerchiefs of sheer linen, embroidered
with contrasting eolors, are among the &C.
centric novelties lately imported.
Not less than 5000 children under ten
years of age are employed in st. Louis fac
tories. They wor.> from 10 to IL hours a
lay at an av ,raye salary If So per week.
A linseel oil company, with capital
stock of $1,000 has been organized at
Boone, Ia. Half of the stock is to be paid
up and nsed in the erection of the works.
The large manufactures of heavy gloves
1T Johnstown, Fulton county, N. Y, have
had scarcely any call for their goods this
season, owing to the warm weather.
Three years ago firm in Texas invested
s33, 900 in cattle. A few weeks ago this
stock and its increase was sold at SIS per
heal, and the sale amounted to more than
$4,000.
The Texas cattle trade promises to be
unusually large the e,nin season. The
lrive, it is estima5ed,- will b. about 300, 900.
including those which will come from the
Indian Territory.
The building AMI repairing of fences in
1873 in the United States cost S7S, 629, 900.
1t is estimate | that the sum expended on
them in 1881 was Sl,747, $40, 93l. Their
length was 5000, 900 miles.
There are over 10000 men aud lO0, 600
horses AMI mules employed in railroad
building in Texas. There are a.m O
miles Of road under contract, and about
5000 IN IRE to be contracted for
The Wisconsin State Fish Hatchery Is
about to plant 5000, 900 young white fish
i'll Lake Michigan, and 100000 brook
trout in the interior waters of the State.
The number stated are estimated at the
rate of 10, 600 trout to the quart measure.
G. S. Paine, East Bethel, VT, with
herd of eight wei selected CO vs. of common
stock, made during twelve months ending
December |, 1881, 1000 pounds of butter,
an average of 250 pounds per COW. The
average for the State is thought to be not
far from l25 pounds per cow.
President Isaac Kline of the Window