Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-11-03
BUSINESS AND 1xDusrRIAL.

nNsANE ESS AND 1NDJsfRtAKs.
Findlay's new gas wen runs 1000, 90,
feet
Toledo, Ohio, will have a beet susH
plant.
1t cost s597.s4O to widen a chicag,
street.
Two hundred styles of locomotives ar.
made.
London buttonhole makers get S5 cent
day.
There is garter rubber trust in Gin.
cinnati
Austria has 5000 ton a week sugar
refinery.
A big new shoe factory is to be erected
in Atlanta.
Connecticufs tobacco crop is worth
$50, 600, ,OO0
A s400, 900 cotton mill is to be run at
Riverside, Ala.
A new iron foundry is to be started at
Brewster, N. Y.
There is a new furniture factory at
Montgomery, Pa.
Iron is 10 be made at Chattanooga by
an electrical process.
An expert says kitchen range wants
cleaning every six months.
Pittstnrg Locomotive Works are to
have large machine shop
American Car Company, capital $780,.
600, is to start at ST. Louis.
A cotton mill to cost 81, ,250, 90 is to be
erected at Kansas City, Kan.
Order for 1000 tons of steel rails was
made at Pennsylvania mill.
The wheat crop of the Argentine Re.
public is valued at $50 ,000, 900.
Two Englighmen have established O
linen mill in the City of Mexico
Missouri has 27,OOO square miles of coal
land. and each is about a mile deep.
Frogs legs from Canada are esteemed
a great tidbit.-Philadelphia Record.
A Delawarian has contracted to furnish
100 tons of cat tails to firm in st.
Louis.
The new spool factory at Alpena, Mich,
has daily producing capacity of $4,000
spools.
There are over / 100, 900 railroad cars
and $4,000 locomotives in the United
States.
In Berks county, Pa, cigar fac.
tory four-fifths of the cigarmakers are
woman.
Six steel rail mills, five Of which are IT,
Pennsylvania, control the output of TIN
country.
Our copper output this year fell shor
of ha mt l.xr,
I 900 tons.
/ The resumption Of window glass fac
tories will give employment to 10, ,O0Ome,
and boys.
/ Lake Erie produces more fish to the
square mile than any body of water il
/ the world.
Plans are being made for the erection
of cotton mill in Enterprise, Miss, to
cost $500O
A S5OO,0OO stock company has, it is
stated, been organized to erect a bleach
cry near Huntsville, Ga.
I The Mullenhauer Sugar Refining Com.
pany, of Brooklyn, N. Y. has been incoI
porated; capital stock, 5000, 1000.
If the commerce which costs So. .O0O. .O1t
on Lake Superior was carried by the
railroads it would cost $3.50, 900, 600 an.
nually.
Between 1851 and 1866 the highcs,
price of gold was 2S5, in July. 1854. A
greenback dollar was worth then 35 cent?
! in gold.
The Philadelphia sugar refineries are
turning out about $4,000 barrels of re.
fined sugar daily, though their capacity
Is double that amount.
A bunch of grass more than three feet
tall and a carrot weighing nearly five
pounds are among the evidences Of tho
fertility of Montana soil.
In Texas the colored cotton pickers
have formed an organization, a rule OF
which says they shall not pick cotton un
der 81 per 100 pounds and board.
According to the last report of the
Massachusetts, Labor Bureau, 66 per cent
OF the workers engaged in the industries
OF that State earn under 81 a day.
Uncle Sam is richer this year than last
by 10000 900 bushels of wheat, 500, 600.
900 bushels of corn, and other crops OF
about the same proportion of increase.
The largest farm in the world is said tc
be in the southwest corner of Louisiana.
1t Is 100 by 25 miles. and embraces !, 600.
600 acres. It cost $50, ,00O, 900 to fence it.
Atlanta is about to open a large can.
ming establishment with a capital of SOS.
300 to begin with. Corn, tomatoes, okra.
beans, and all kinds of fruits will be
canned.
The Neao England Homestead places
the yield Of potatoes in this country at
1876, .O59 bushels. a gain of 49, ,0OO, 900
bushels from last year, but decrease of
100000 bushels from 1888.
The largest stud farm in America ia
near Greely, Colo, and is owned by syn
dicate of rich Western men. 1t is stocked
with 4,S00 Percheron horses, and is run
with capital of $500, 900 The farm
embraces five ranches with an area of
$500 acres.