Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-11-24

A valuation Of 500, GOO, 600 in round
numbers is reported on property In
Texas this year.
The sum Of $3.50, 900 is nov invested
in the manufacture of iron in the BIfna-
ingham, Ala. district.
In the ten years from 1870 to 1890 the
value of the silk production Of the
United States rose from 81, ZIG, 662 to
$34,4l043.
II il estimated that the total wool
clip Of the United States this year viii
aggregate 300,000,000 pounds. worth
elO. ON0M IS.
During thslast fiscal year the Federal
government received from Inspections OF
steam vessels and efaesS isoases $27s,-
$50. co. - zfssE fsssEs
For several veeks the banks at Gal
weston have been receiving and express
ing TO the interior IN average Of ESQ.,
600 per week.
The enormous sum Of 39o2, 0oo, 900 il
invested in the submaTine cables Of the
world, supposed to aggregate 6A.0O
miles in length. @
A union depot $50 feet long, with
covered tracks extending 1000 fest, and
costing about 500. 900. u TO b erected
at Minneapolis.
A 100000 mortgage has been re-
corded in West Virginia BY Philadel-
phia trust company On lands In the rich
camel coal formation.
Charleston, 8. c., points with pride to
Wholesale trade of nearly $75, O0O, 900
last year, an increase Of about a ,000, 900
over the rra0Af1inO vAaY -'t
According to tho Mississippi Hand
book there are 175, Isl white and 25l ,46
cOlored children attending the free
schools In the State, at . cost Of ESQ.,
70l.
The new Iowa State Capitol has thus
far cost $2O0O,OM. and Il will require
$500, 700 to finish it. It is 365 fest long
from north to south, and measures 274
feet from the sidewalk to the top Of the
central dome.
About 200 miles Of new railroad
were put in operation in the Southern
States last year. The gross earnings of
the Southern roads reached $63 600, 600,
and tho net earnings increased from
SIS, OOO, 600 in 1880 to more than 81, Co.,
GO.
In the production of GOAL, Illinois is
now second to Pennsylvania. The State
Bureau of Labor reports that the out
put has increased from 100000 tons in
1880 to 1900, 600 tons in 1882, and that
the value at the mines has been nearly
$l4,OOQO0Q.
During the five years 1S77-l88l, the
average loss by fires in the United States
and Canada in the month of September
alone Was $5,95O.O00. This year omit
ting the fires in which the loss was less
than $1,000, the record shows LIB in
number, and the aggregate loss sc, 205,-
600.
Mining operations on the Menominee
and Marquette iron ranges, in Michigan,
employ about II, 900 mon and So, O0O, 600
in capital. Adding this industry to the
lumber interests, the result will show
nearly, il not quite, as large business
record in the upper peninsula as the
lower section, south OF Maokinac
Straits.
The Commissioners in charge Of the
building of the new Indiana State Capri
toll report that work already done and
contracted for will cost 81. 63l 600, and
other items of expense will bring the
anticipated outlay mp to 81, 762, 207, leav-
ing 1881, 1872 to expend without exceed
ing the limit, $1,000 900. The walls of
the second story will not be completed
before winter.
A huge salel Of lands in Mississippi
is noticeable because there has been
comparatively so little push reported
in that State since tho var. A syndi-
cate Of English capitalists have agreed
to purchaseiand improve 800, 600 acres.
Tho sum Of $4,000 Is available for the
preliminary operation, that Of cutting
up and preparing for market the timber
now standing, after which the company
will 60 extensively into cotton raising.
Work is progressing rapidly ON the
library which Mr.. Pratt is building
for the city of Baltimore; and whom
completed it will have shelf capacity
of 10000 volumes. The value Of the
grounds and library building is esti-
mated at $225.OW. This Mr.. Pratt has
given to the citizens, together with the
sum of $tS; 1893, which will yield $50,
600 per annum, in consideration that
the city will adopt an ordinance for
creating ind granting perpetual an
nuity Of $4,000 for the purchase and
maintenance Of the library, with four
branches in different sections Of tho
city. Tho central part of the building
10 already under roof, and the whole Is
expected to be rooted by the middle Of
December, but the building will not be
ready for occupation in less than year.
At the coming election the question of
accepting the gift will DO decided by
popular vote.