Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-25
STATISTICAL AND TRADE.


great cotton centennial exposition next year.
Two weeks of John Mccullough in Phila-
delphia realized $4,000, and two weeks of
the Langtry in Chicago realized over $685.
O00 3e
MASSACHUSETTS has reduced her pauper
list from 10000 in 1876 to $4,000 at present.
1t cost the State last year for their mainte-
nance s, 100000.
- ALL The cities and all but twelve of the
towns in Massachusetts, voted at the Novem-
Der election upon the question of license, and
the official returns show an aggregate of
IS, 1913 votes in favor of license and 76, 953
against it.
STATISTICS show that the arrival at New
York from foreign ports during the past
year by the various ste amship lines sggre-
gated 502, 307 passengers, OF which 81, 947
came as cabin passengers and 445, 450 came
in steerage.
The aggregate capital stock of the street
railways Of Boston is over 81 ,500,000 The
companies divided last year all the way from
four TO sixteen per cent. Nearly $4,000, 900
passengers were carried. There are $500
employees and 5000 horses.
THE New York Financial Chronicle speak
ing of last years business failures, says the
number "rot only indicates no unsoundpess
in business, but is really less than might
have been anticipated, especially when we
remember the great activity in enterprise
during late years."
THE first coke furnace in the South was
blown in about fifteen years ago. lis capac-
ity was yearly output of 5000 tons. The
industry has grewn 10 such proportions that
the estimate of an output of 400, 900 tons or
more of coke-iron for the pat fscal year is
fair one, while the production of charcoal
iron, added TO these figures, will show total
Of 500, 600 tons for the year.
A CONVENTION of all the cattle, sheep and
horsemen of Texas, has been called to meet
at Colorado City, February 1st, to discuss
the live stock business and the State land
question, to determine what course stockmen
shall pursue 10 secure legislation favorable
to their interests, and to organize commit
tee to look after their affairs at the capital
during the session of the Legislature.
KRUPP's works, at Essen, now employ some
439 steam boilers 456 steam engines, with
an aggregate horsepower of 1880; eighty
nine steam hammers, varying in weight
from 200 pounds to fifty tons; twenty-one
rolling mills; machines for making tools,
1922; furnaces, 1856, OF which fourteen are
high furnaces; twenty-five locomotives and
Eve propellers, with a tonnage Of about 5000.
Annual production, 100000 tons steel and
$4,000 tons iron.
The General Repertory of the French b.
reau Veritas for 1882 gives for the whole
world a total of As, 4S7 sailing vessels. with a
tonnage of nearly 100000. England
heads the list, and then come in their order
Americs, Norway, Germany, Italy, Rus.is,
and France, which only takes seventh place.
In steam it is England first and the rest no.
where. Great Britain has 4317 steamers,
carrying 5,500,000 tons. Next comes Amer
lea with 594; then France with Ala
THE report of the South Carolina depart
ment of agriculture fer 1882 shows that
there are twenty-seven cotton-mills in the
State, eighteen OF them with a capacity of
56l5 horsepower run by water, and nine oil
them with apscity Of 1906 horsepower
run by steam. The machinery consists of
1929 looms and $780, 21 spindles. The capt.
tai employed is s., 547 600; the number OF
hands employed, 1862; the wages paid last
year, S728, 600; the value OF materials used
| was s., 716, COO; and The value of the prod
| ucts was S3,047 900. This shows an excess
of product over mate: ials and wages OF
81 ,603, 600, or thirty-fse per cent. What
| the net profits were Is not stated, the com.
paniss showing a reluctance to giving ii.
Where The net profit is stated it ranges from
ten TO twenty per cent.
THE purchase of the main exposition
building at Philadelphia by Mr.. E. C. Mitch
| ell for S97 900 was q successful speculation.
| The cost Of removing the huge structure and
| other expenses amounted to about 500 900,
| and the materials of which il was built have
been sold for about $500, 900, leaving prof.
| of 100000 to be divided among Mr.. Mitchell
and FIVE other gentlemen whom he associated
/ with himself in the enterprise. At the time
| of his purchase Mr.. Mitchell wss franz
enough to say that he fully expected 10 make
large sum Of money by it, that he was pre-
pared to pay considerably more for the
building than the price at which il WA
| Knocked down to him, and that he was sur
| prised that Mr.. Richard Dobbins, who bull
l it, and was as well acquainted with its valu,
as himself, should have let such a pretty
plum slip through his fingers.
In 1850 there were 17,758 farms in Ar
kansas, with an area OF sos, PA acres; II
1860 there were SO, 004 farms, with an ares
Of 9,573, 706 acres; IN 1870 there were 1912
farms, with an area of 1887 ,296 acres
in 1880 there were "a 1888 farms, viii
an area of 17,780,629 acres. In 1S6'
the population was ABS, 40, and tn
total wealth was Sis, 256, 473. and the tota
value of farms was s9l, 649,473. In esii
| mating the weslth of that period we mus
include the value OF ILL., slaves, which
were lost by the war. The State then hat
thirty-eight and one half miles Of railroad
In 1870, owing to the war and o.her causes
the value Of property had declined, and thu
| value of farms was was only SAC, 029, 69S
and the average price per acre was 80 rs
the population 484,471 The decrease il
the value OF farming property Was Sd, 619,
775: the total wealth was $l56, 394, SCI, de
cline of s62s6l,7 1872 The population hst
| increased only 49y02I, or less than 5000 pei
supum. In these ten years the State ha'
| ninety-lhree miles Of railroad.