The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-03-14
NUMBER 26.
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The valuation of the 2l cities 6f
Massachuse Is is 81, 149. 982. .625, a gain:
Of S2a, 033, 224 on the valuation of 1881
The actual capital now invested In
Southern cot on mills is placed at S30.-
O0O, 0JO, giving employment to 10000
hands.
1T estimated that the annual iron
production of the world is l., ,487 ,6l0
tons. and of this Great Britain. the
United States, Germany and France
contribute SO. + per oent-the first two
64.3 per cent.
The work of draining Russian
marshes. actively carried on for several
wears past, has resulted in reclaiming
more than LOO. 600 acres, of which
33o,u00 are crown lands. The canals
which have been built to drain this great
domain are likewise adapted for float
| ing lumber from the forests which they
pene rate, to market.
1t is estimate that from $50. 600 to
| 500. 0e9 tons of charcoal are annually
made in the United States. No better
way to get through forests. 1t was this
which, more Il an anything else, de-
| prived Ireland of hers. Few countries
are now more barren of timber al
though ira iition AYERS that sluirrel
|
Antrim to Kerry.
The mines in the Wood River and
Saw Tooth districts of Idaho will, it is
esti rated. yield 50, 600. 900 in bullion
| during the present year, which Is double
the Weld the Territory of idaho three
| years ago. when these districts were
unknown. New discoveries OF value
are constantly being made in these dis
tr cts The amount of capital invested
| in the Wood River district alone this
year will be over $1,000,000.
The first snow storms for the past
fourteen years, sufic icient to whiten the
ground, have been as follows: 1869, o.
Iober %; 1870, October 81; 1871, No
vember IL; 1872, November 20; 1873,
November II: 1874, November 20; 1875,
| November 1; 1876, October 15; 1877,
November 29; 1873, December 9; 1879.
November 8: 1880, November 15; 1881.
November Is; 1882, November I'm
o. ri Gyune.
What is known as the Royal Linn
tied Express ira on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, as it is made up daily, repre-
sents over Sl20, 900 in cost of rolling
stock. The engine is put down at $12,-
0 o.; the baggage car at 81. 200; smoking
car, 800 ,; dining-room car. S12, 600
L We Cf1rSs -7lO,OOO caGA- NsE0l-
nary express trains are rated at S83, $40,
as. engine and tender, SO, 500; baggage
car, $ 900 postal car. S2, 600; smoking
car, $1,000; two ordinary passenger
cars, $4,000 each, and three palace
cars, S15, 600 each.
Some interesting statistics of the
public obs srvatories of the world have
just been published. Their number ii
lis: 81 bein in Europe, in Asia, , in
A rica u in America and in Oceania-
OF the European observatories Prussis
has y, Russia l9, England II, Italy 9,
Austria 8, France 6. Switzerland }, and
Sweden 3. Span, Portugal. Holland
and Norway each possess 2, whi e there
is only one in Greece. Belgium and
Denmark The most ancient observa
tory in Europe and in the world is tina
OF Lexden having been founded il
i32; then CO nes Copenhagen, foundet
IN 81; Par s, in 1t67, and Greenwich
in 1879 The Mo Cow observatory i
he oldest in Russia, dating from 1850
I Prussia. now the richest country in th'
world in, astronomical observatories
had none before 1905.