Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-16
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COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.


SWITZERLAND sent oS925 watches to
Japan in 1887.
JAPAN lately shipped 10000 orange trees
to California.
KEY WEST spcngers market yearly over
800, 600 pounds of sponge, the bulk OF which
goes to Paris.
A FRENCH manufacturer makes white
artificial stone from sand, which has been
used for polishing plate glass.
THERE was recently organized in San
Francisco an electrical development COM
pany, with a capital of 81 ,00o,D0.
The United States stands first in the pro-
duction of cereals, Russia comes next, then
Germany, and fourth is Australian
1t is an odd fact that among the German
exports to this country is grease extract
ed from wool, and shipped as a Substitute
for giycerine.
OF the one hundred tons of zinc annually
produced in the world, Missouri turns out
twelve tons, and the industry is only partly
developed there.
THE dry-goods sales of Marshall Field &
Co., of Chicago, this year exceed $50 000 00O,
more than those of any similar establish
ment in the world
TIE total receipts of Sicily and Italy
oranges during the past year at New York
were 40l $50 boxes, and at Boston 123, 39o
boxes. In lemons, 1,021, 972 boxes were re-
ceived at New York, and 1864 in Boston.
1T is reported that in one year Great
Britain imports 81, 900, 900 pounds of butter,
requiring upon the ordinary estimate 49,
100000 gallons of milk TO make it, This
milk in its return would require for its pro-
duction LII, 600 cows.
THE fifteen private misunderstanding
establishments of the United States and
Canada built 1912 engines last year, while
the railroad shops turned out 3iS. 1t was
the largest production on record. the cost
of the locomotives being near $50, 100000.
TIE enormous amount of six and one-half
tons of diamonds is said to have been eX-
tracted from four South African mines dur
ing the last few years. They were valued
at s2Oo,OO0,000. The other great diamond
field of the world, India, is also British
possession.
IN only sixteen years the production Of
iron in the United States has increased 200
per cent, and the length of railroads 1873
per cent The new land brought within five
miles of the new railroads built in the last
twelve months is much greater in area than
England and Wales.
SAxoNY and Thuringia are the home and
paradise Of dolls. The annual production
of dolls stockings alone in Saxony Is 81, 900
dozen. Thousands of shoernakers find con-
slant employment in making dolls shoes.
The export Of dolls to England, France and
America is very large and increasing every
year.
THE best sponge of commerce is found in
the Mediterranean, and is known as Turkey
or Smyrna sponge. The sponge is obtained
by divers. Bahama or West India sponge
is coarser and is secured at a much less
price. Much sponge which is used in this
erp Florida.
A MANUFACTURER of Pittsburgh has de-
vised and tested successfully foundry
cupola in which natural gas can be used as
fuel The charge is supported by a series
Of pipes, covered with fire clay tiles, the
pipes being ventilated with currents of air.
Ia addition there is combustion chamber
attached which reduces the consumption of
gas and prevents chilling.
I THE total expectation Of canned Holsters
( from Canada to Great Britain in 1886 was
f,69S,0 pounds, and Canada's total export
of lobster IA, 096, 572 pounds. Next TO Great
Britain comes the United States, and
Franco is third in the same line. The total
value of exported Holsters is 100000. An
inquiry was instituted by the Dominion
Government, and the commission has re-
ported that the fishery is being overdone,
and stringent measures are to be taken to
save the industry from destruction.