Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-11-30
Biz Sums d No.,

"A valuatiOn OF $4UO,OOO.OO0 in round
numbers is reported on property in Tex
as this year.
The sum Of $s, ,650, 900 is now invest;
ed in the manufacture Of iron in the
Birmingham. Ala, district. 474s =
In the ten years from 1870 to 1880 the
value Of the silk production of the
United States rose from $12. 2.2lO, ,662 to
$S4, ,410, 463.
u 1t is estimated that the total wool clip
OF the United States this year will ag-
gregate 30O,OO0,oO0 pounds, worth
$1O0, 600 900.
During the last fiscal year the FEEDER
al Government received from inspection
Of steam vessels and officers licenses
$278, 1899. =
The enormous sum of 500. 900, 600 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 $4O0, 900. is to be erected
at Minneapolis.
A $2,O00,0O0 mortgage has been re-
corded in West Virginia by a Philadel-
phia trust company on lands in the
rich camel coal formation.
Charleston, S. c., points with pride
to wholesale trade Of nearly $75, ,OO0,-
600 last year, an increase of about g.
OOO.0 600 over the preceding year.
According to the Mississippi Hand
book, there are 175, ,251 white and 251,-
438 colored children attending the free
schools in the State, at cost of $780,
7Ol.
Hawaiian coins to 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 Geor-
gia, as agent to manage the gift of 81
600. 900, for educating coiored people in
the South.
For the year ending June 80 the reye-
nues OF the Dominion of Canada
amounted to $33, ,S81, ,381. the expendi-
lures to $27, ,155, ,902, leaving a surplus
of $6. 1885, ,479.
The German Empire has now about
"a, 100000 acres of forest. valued at
$40O. .000, 900, and appropriatss $500, 900
every year to increase and maintain the
| growth of trees.
The late Catholic Bishop of Vincen-
mes, Ind, 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 Paci-
fic coast, has spent over $500, 900 in col
lecting his private library. He is an
Ohio man, and made his moneys in mer.
camille business in San Francisco.
1t will require an expenditure of at
least 5000. 600 by the Italian Govern
ment to make good the damage done
to roads, bridges, and public buildings
by the inundation, to say nothing OF aid
to the sufferers.
The new Iowa State Capitol has thus
far cost o., 600. 900. and it will require
$500, 600 to finish it. 1t is 365 feet long
from north to south, and measures 274
feet from the sidewalk to the top of the
central dome
About 1,500 miles of new railroad
were put into operation in the Southern
States last year The gross earnings lin.
creased from $4,000, 900 in 1880 to
more than S24,O00,0O0
During the five years of 1877-18S1 the
average loss by fires in the United States
and Canada in the month Of September
alone was $5,950,0OO. This year, omit
ting the fires in which the loss was less
than $4,000. the record shows 1913 in
number, and the aggregate loss &c.
205, 900.
Mining operations in the Menominee
| and Marquette iron ranges, in Michigan,
employ about IA 900 men and $50. .O00.-
600 in capital. Adding this industry to
the lumber. interests, the result will
show nearly, if not quite, as large q
business record in the upper peninsula
as the lower section, south of Mackinac
Straits.