Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-06-01
BUSINESS BREyITIEs.

A new medicine bottle indicates the
hours at which the drug is to be taken'
The deposits at American savings
banks amounted in 1891 to 81 ,654, 600, ,OOO.
Sixty per cent of the shoes used in the
United States are made in Massachusetts
The coal and coke business OF Colorado
is now in the hands Of four great COM
panies.
The exports OF petroleum from the
United States last year were 582,2OO,OOo
gallons.
1t is estimated that Butte, Mont, will
produce l30,O0O,O00 pounds OF copper
this year.
The gold and silver product oil Mexico
is about s70,0O0,00O per annum, prlncl-
pally silver.
The cost Of boots and shoes worn out
in the United States every year is more
than s4OO, 100000
Seventy per cent of the people of Cey-
lon live by agriculture. The percentage
in Britain is 1914.
Glassworkers are so scarce at Pitts.
burg that employees dictate what kind OF
glass shall be made.
During January and February OF this
year 902,06 punches OF bananas were
imported to this country.
Near Cordoba a Mexican syndicate is
experimenting with tea-planting. Chi
nese labor is used in part.
Steamers and sailing vessels under the
British flag number almost 1900; un-
der the United States flag, 3,297.
The newspapers in Germany are large
ly sold by women, and the small newsboy
Of America is unknown in Berlin.
In the Island of Ceylon 100000 acres
are devoted to the cultivation OF cocoa
nuts and 40, 800 acres to cinnamon.
The Edison Electric Illuminating Com
pany of New York has increased its cap
ital stock from $6,500,000 to $lO,OOO,OOO.
The Chaplin iron mine at Ishpeming,
Mich, has decided to add 800 men to its
force and increase production to 100000
tons year.
The product of pig iron in this coun-
try has very greatly increased during the
past few years, while that OF England
! has largely decreased.
In With, East Africa, they are making
sugar from cotton seed that is said TO be
fifteen times sweeter than that made
from Louisiana sugar cane.
Senator Mills says that for ten years
the railroads of Texas have been oper'
ated at an actual loss of 81 900, 900 a veal
TO the railroads themselves.
For the twelve months ending Apri
1000 IE0 ,,otinnai ho lyu trara acto a.
lished in the United States, with an ag
: gregate capital of $l4 4,325,0O0.
A German journal states that in thu
year 1889 the quantity of cotton pro
duced in the whole world amounted t,
! II ,400,0 900 bales, while in 1870 it reached
only 100000 bales.
In the past twelve months $4,000, ,00
OF the silver notes issued under the Law
of 1890 have been added to the circula
tion, while the gold certificates in circu
lation have decreased $4,000, 600.
: There are three large porcelain facto
ries in Great Britain, viz: Derby, Wor
cester and Stoke-on-Trent. The one il
Derby employs something like 400 hands
and many eminent artists are engaged i
, designing and painting for it.
|
/ The cocosnut tree Is the most valuabl
| of plants. Its wood furnishes beams
rafters and planks, its leaves umbrella
and clothing, its fruit food, oil, intox
cants and sugar, its shells domestic utter
sils, its fibers ropes, sails and mating
) The coffee fields of Brazil cover a
I area OF 100000 acres, and contain VI
ward OF 00,000000 trees-that is, Al
5 per acre-each tree producing on an aN
1 erage one pound of berries per annun
} The industry finds employment for ovC
, SOC, 1000 men.
The forests of the Northwest, which
few years ago were deemed source
almost inexhaustible supply, are shov
ing signs of exhaustion. Already thel
is talk of transporting lumber by ra
from Oregon, Washington and the Soutl
= ern forests to New York.