Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.

THEss are over 900 building and loan as
sociations in Cock County, H., with 5000
share-owncrs.
Iris predicted that the iron product OF
Washington Territory will soon exceed that
of Pennsylvania
TEN-cENr fans are now decorated and
sold for one dollar. It is not the raw ma
terial, but the art that costs.
TEE annual copper production OF the world
is 275, coo tons, and the French syndicate Is
said to control $4,000 tons OF it.
THERE are, it is said, at least 25O, 600 wom-
en- in Massachusetts alone who are earning
living by industrial occupations.
CAsToRs made Of leather are new inven-
ton. sure to prove useful A sound leather
castor viii save many rug or carpet
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, is the great fur
piture-Inaking center Of the United States.
1t has forty-two furniture factories, which
employ 1900 men.
THE United States possesses SS4 paper
factories, Germany 500, France 40. Great
Britain 361, Italy 20, Russia 1S3, Austria
600, Australia 4.
IMPORTANT platinum discoveries have
been made In Maricopa County, A. T. The
ore yields ten per cent, which IS perhaps
the largest in the world
An organ with glass tubes is the work Of
a Providence Or. L. inventor; and it Is
claimed to be superior in tone and volume
TO those of metal, and much cheaper.
Two HUNDRED and eight miles of huge
piping is to be laid between Chicago, Ill,
and Lima, O., at cost of seven thousand
dollars per mile, for the purpose of trans
hitting coal oil.
As CHINESE immigration is now prohib-
tied the Chinese launGrymen OF California
have combined to advance the price Of
washing, no longer fearing competition
from their countrymen.
THERE is said to be one house in Chicago
which maintains seventy commercial trav-
elers in single State, and whose yearly ex-
penses were made $4,000 greater by the
passage of the Interstate Commerce law.
THE best genuine Vanilla beans are pro-
duced in the Misautta Valley, Mex. and
they command s12 to S14 q pound. There
were exported from this valley last year
about sixty million beans, most OF which
were sold in New York.
ACCORDING to prominent newspaper d.
rectory Of all the papers, including dailies,
weekGes, etc, now published in the United
States, $3.50 print not more than 1,500 copies
each issue; 2,029 print 5 600; 519 print %, GOO;
81 print IS, co., and only % print over 100000
copies each issue.
INDIANS in the United States last year
cultivated 227, 265 acres of land, and raised
724, Sos bushels of wheat, 934, 912 bushels OF
corn, 512, 1877 bushels Of oats and barley,
524,010 bushels of vegetables, and 101, S28
tons of hay. They also owned 356, 33334 horses
and mules, 111,407 head of cattle, 1871
swine, and 1, 117,273 sheep.
IT is estimated that 1850, 1900 fire
crackers are exploded in this country
each year. A box of fire crackers costs Is
cents in China, each box containing 1850
crackers, neatly packed and subdlvided, all
ready for the retail trade. A million OF
these boxes were imported by the trade for
last season and were all sold
A MACHINE is said to have been patented
in Milan, Italy, for type-founding and COM
posing which, by means Of keyboard.
casts the letters in the order required,
planes them, and expedites them into the
composing stick, and ali this by the revolu-
ton of main cylinder, The typefouEder-
man or Incorporating the machine thus
becomes also typesetter.
VERMONT was the first State to announce
the result of the maple sugar season of
1883. The output is estimated at 1900, 900
pounds, the value of which is 1880, 900.
To obtain that amount Of sugar 100000
urees were tapped. 1t is thought that were
all the full grown maple trees in the State
utilized, the sugar production would be So
O00,000 pounds-I50 pounds to every inhaDit-
ant of the State