The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-05-20
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.

japan radish is ten feet in length.
Servants are getting scarce in Eng.
land.
Mahogany is the right thing for furni-
ture again.
Liverpool is the largest shipping port
in the world.
The West Grove, Penn, bank has TO-
600 dimes on deposit.
There are over 100000 miles OF railroad
in the United States.
new horseshoe is made Of canvas
and Is cemented to the hoof
Louisiana has GAIT bearing orange
trees and 81 900 pecan trees.
Before it is ready for the hand a glove
goes through 219 manipulations.
The total production of pig iron in this
country last year was 9,213, ass tons.
In Colorado the Southern Pacific Rail.
road is ballasted for some distance with
rock salt.
The cost per family OF food in the Uni.
ted States is $243.65 year, against
$22?.52 in Europe.
The census shows that the value Of
tropical and semi-tropical fruits grown
in this country is nearly 500, 100000.
One hundred and twenty. three thou
sand two hundred and twenty. seven
cocoanut trees have been set out recently
in Florida.
There are over four hundred fertilizer
factories in the United States which pro-
duce more than s20, 900, 900 worth OF fer.
tilzers annually.
The handbook by the Federation of
Labor shows the strength Of the seventy.
four national trade unions of the United
States to be 675,1l7.
Wages are so low in India TINT men
may be hired for 81 II month to do house
hold work. A dollar is great sum to
them and one meal day the rule.
The shipment OF Alabama coal from
the Gulf ports of Mexico, Texas and
other points is rapidly becoming one Of
the most important of Southern indus
tries.
Raising sheep for wool alone in Ohio is
no longer profitable. Meriho sheep arc
fast being bred with Shropshires, and the
woods of the State now begin to show
the change.
From Electricity we learn that two 10
horsepower motors are now generally
used for each electric street car. Tho
price OF equipment for car is from
81 800 to $1,000.
1t is estimated that the best three sugar
factories of California, the two in Ne.
braska and the one at Salt Lake City.
will each produce 5000, 900 pounds "
sugar during the present season.
At the present time there are forty
nine Minnesota iron companies fully in
corporated and on the market, their COM
bined capital stock amounting to Sl12.-
100000. The companies are stocked
from 81 900, 900 to 80, ,0O0, 900 each.
The United Kingdom OF Great Britain
and Ireland has neither petroleum nor
natural gas. Our product Of eacl, in 1888
was nearly So. .0O0, 900 on the spot-the
aggregate. as given by the latest report
of the United States Geological Survey.
being over s47, 900, 900.
The amount Of capital invested in the
lumber business in the United States is
placed at S75, 5,000,0 There are 3,OOO..
900 people, or nearly one twentieth Of
our population, engaged directly in the
handling and manufacturing Of lumber
which is tho largest industry in this
country.
The wonderful growth in the beet
sugar industry is shown by the following
statistics: In 1887 there was only one
such refinery in this country. This pro-
duced 400, 900 pounds Of sugar. In 1888
the total output was 100000 pounds,
while in 1891 California produced 10, ,0OO,-
600 pounds aud Nebraska and Utah
6,000, 900 pounds each.