Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-04-06
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.

Bottles are blown By machinery at
Vinelsnd, y. ].
Uncle Sans boys have $50, ,0OO, 900 OF
capital invested in Hawaii.
The Angora goat supplies the hsu
TnIcn adorns ordinary doiis.
Te ephone chat costs 81 for three min
utes between Paris and London.
There are now nearly 200 women prac-
ticing dentistry in the United States.
Eighty-six OF the S55 towns in Massa-
chusetts contain no resident physician.
There are in the United States more
than l, 700 distinct and separate railways.
The Litchfeld Car Works in Indiana
are about TO be moved to Birmingham,
Ala.
Over 100 electric cars are to be built
at once at Pittsburg for Chicago COM
pany.
New England capitalists have pur-
chased $75J, 900 worth OF Texas tim Der
lands.
Several fleets of river boats are to be
established this year on the Western
rivers.
The Armour Packing Company has in
corporated in New Jersey; capital, 81
100000.
Wooden-soled shoes are being slowly
introduced in the cheap shops.-Phila-
deiphia Record.
The novelty of the Columbian stamps
is wearing off, and the old-timers are re-
turning to favor.
MsLo-, oF ,oor1a a,,oor q, Uarpoopf s- -
that the supply this year will exceed
1850. 900 pounds.
The Lingham gold mine in Belmont,
Hastings county, Ontario, is proving
highly profitable.
In some OF the Eastern shoe blacking
cellars you can have your high hat pol
ished by electricity.
Canning factories, it is reported. are
being erected in large numbers in vari-
GUS parts OF Georgia.
1t is reported that Melbourne, Aus
tralia, is overflowed with men who want
work, but are unable to secure it.
Chautauqua county, N. Y, has l4,000
acres OF bearing vines and 500 acres OF
young vines not in bearing.
For fifty-tvo consecutive miles on the
Boston and Albany railroad, it is said,
there is not grade crossing.
An ounce Of pure gold is worth s2O.64;
therefore, a ton of pure gold, which con-
tains 4,0J0 ounces, is worth S495, 1850.
Last year there was borrowed ont OF
banks and trust companies in New York
and Brooklyn on real estate $58, ,000, 900.
1t is said that 5000 miles OF electric
road will he added this year. One road
in Pennsylvania is to be eighty miles
long.
A Clearfield (Pa) lumberman, Simon
Flynn, will run 35,C0J,00l feet OF logs
down the Susquehanna river to the saw
mills.
The turpentine gatheters OF Georgia, it
Is estimated, have during the past five
years destroyed 5000, 100000 worth Of
pine timber.
Millions upon millions OF herring are
taken every year. 1t is said that there
are more herring eaten than any other
kind Of FISH.
1t is estimated, the Pittsburg piSnls{F
says, that Al 800, 900 cottages could he
erected out of the standing timber in the
State OF Washington.
There came into New Orleans in two
days OF last week nine steamers and one
schooner, bearing l02,000 punches OF
bananas and $1,000 cocosnuts.
The largest pumping plant in the
United States was that placed in nine
at Iron Mountain, Mich. 1t pumps
100000 gallons in twanty-lour hours.
Now that the Pennsylvania miners
have an eight-hour law, some people are
Inclined to think they will have to Keep
well organized to get ary good out Of it.
A strong ef,rt is being made in New
Jersey to defeat the law which makes
fity-ive hours the limit of weeks
work. It is claimed that the law is un-
constitutional.