Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-09-14
BUSINESS BREyITIES.

over IOO kinds Of wine are made in
Australia.
An aluminium bridge over Gibraltar
Is proposed.
There are $1,000 lady telegraphers in
the United States.
New South Wales has over 5000. 900
acres OF tin-ore fields.
Belgium has 10000 "schnapps -
houses and 5000 schools.
Europe has $685. 900 acres in beets,
producing 40, 100000 tons.
Wine CHARTERS in France use more
than SO,OOO,O00 eggs a year.
More than 3,OOO.OO0,OOO cigarettes
were sold in this country last year.
The soldering of glass and porcelain
with metals is novel French process.
The average wages paid in the Clyde
snip yards are reported at cents per
hour.
The State Of North Carolina has mined
nearly $l0,000,OOO worth of gold since
1874.
American cotton goods are gradually
taking the place Of the English product
in Hayti.
1t costs but 25 cents to transport ton
OF coal by water from Buffalo TO Duluth,
1000 miles.
The weight OF the rail used on the
American roads has been increasing
steadily during the last twenty years.
Sixty million dollars worth of leather
is required every year to provide boots
and shoes for the inhabitants OF Great
Britain.
The steam engines Of the world repre-
sent the work Of l,000,000,000 men, or
more than double the working popula-
tion Of the earth.
The three Northern States OF New
England will receive government boun-
ties amounting to $40, 900 on this YEARS.
maple sugar crop.
The cigarette smokers are doing their
best TO keep the government IN funds.
They dropped $2,000,000 into Uncle
Sans strong box last year.
Chill is the most prosperous agricult-
ural country Of South America. There
are 7,0l0, 900 acres under cultivation, OF
which 100000 are irrigated.
In the opinion of the Portland Oregon
ian this is agood time TO pay small debts,
~ " 500 viii pay $l 900 o, debts ia one
day II kept moving actively"
The total product OF the Mexican sill
yer mines from their opening by the
Spaniards to the Independence OF the
country in 1921 was 2,368, ,052 600.
BY the tenth census %, 3,OlO,0 600 inhabi-
tants of the United States were sup
ported by agriculture, II 100000 by
manufactures and l5,6200O0 by COM
merCe.
Homestead farmers in this country
earn per cent OF the total earnings OF
the nation, and their farms and stock
represent Z per cent Of the national
wealth.
Chamberlain, s. D., has the largest
artesian well in the world. The flow is
5000 gallons minute. The well il eight
inches in diameter, and the water is
thrown fourteen feet above the top of
the pipe.
Daily consumption OF something like
5000 600 needles all over the world makes
pretty big total. Every year the WON
en- OF the United States break, lose and
use about 300, 100000 OF these little in
struments.
A new dredge, said to be the largest in
the world, has been put into operation
on the Mersey ut Liverpool II is 800
feet in length, and it il calculated that il
will raise II, 900 tons of matter daily
from the bar Mt the mouth of the river.
Germany's average annual production
OF wine during the last thirteen years
has been 56 900 600 gallons. The area of
land under vine cultivation has varied
but little in that time, being about 300
600 acres. A third of the total produc.
tion is made in Alsace and Lorraine.
The most important engineering ope-
rations now being carried on i'm the
world are the building of the Manches-
ter ship canal, upon which already al
most S5O,O00,000 have been expended,
and the opening OF the Iron Gates of the
Danube, which will cost when done from
$4,000, 900 to $20, 100000.
The countries relatively richest in
horses and horned stock are Argentina
and Uruguay; Austria has the most
sheep; Servia the greatest relative num-
ber of pigs to population. The poorest
in horses is Italy; in cattle, Portugal; in
sheep, Belgium; in hogs, Greece.
The French government, controlling
the pearl islands OF the Pacific, has re-
Gently prohibited the use OF diving ap.
paratus by pearl hunters. This is be.
cause there has been such demand for
the beautiful pearls OF the Pacific that
the supply is being depleted, and in
little while apparently there would be
none left.