Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-07-06
BUSINESS BREvITIES.

New York State is said to have more
newspapers than the entire Southern
Hemisphere.
The Merrimac river is said to move |
more machinery than any other stream
in the world.
The American Aluminium Company
will erect a manufacturing plant near
Clayton, Mo.
There are twenty-eight passenger
trains daily from New York and PhiIa-
delphia to Chicago.
About $20,OOO,0OO gre annually sent
by Italian laborers in this country TO
their families in Italy.
There are less than 1000 Spaniards,
Greeks and Portuguese in any one OF the
chief cities Of the country.
Half million patents issued by this
government bear excellent testimony to
the country's inventive genius.
1t was only 1l6 years after the discov-
cry Of America that the first glass works
were established in the colonies.
A smelter has begun operations at San
Luis Potosi, Mexico. 1t is the only
smelter in Mexico working copper ore.
England bears the palm over all cOun-
tries, even the United States, in the
number Of women employed by govern
ment.
The Philippine Islands export more
than 100000 cigars annually, almost
5000 tons Of coffee and 10000 tons OF
sugar.
Europe produces almost as much to-
bacco as does the United States, Austria
supplying about one-third OF the Euro
pean crop.
The corn exported to Mexico from the
United States during the recent famine
would fill solid train seventy-seven
miles long.
Last year New York city paid for its
school bill $4000,000; for its amusement
bill, 81, 100000, and for its drink bill,
s6O,OO0,OO0.
Gutta percha was first introduced into
Europe from Malaga in 1852. The an
nual consumption now amounts to4 ,0O0,-
600 pounds.
The average cost of travel on the Lon
don roads is only .l6 Of cent mile, and
the Great Eastern comes at .O46 of a
cent mile.
Japan's foreign trade during 1892 ex-
ceeded that OF 1891 20,000,000 yen. The
principal increase was in the values OF
silk and tea.
There are $4,000 Chinese inhabitants
in the chief cities OF the United States
$4,000 of them in San Francisco and
| 5000 in New York.
Grand old Missouri is without rival
in the world in the amount of lead out.
put. The annual lead product of the
State is 30,00O,0OO tons.
There are several dozen men in Lon.
don who earn their living by catching
rats. They are mostly employed at ho-
tells, clubs and restaurants.
The schooner Good Intent, which was
launched at Braintree, Mass, in 1913, is
still in service, plying between Bangor
Me-, and neighboring ports.
The orange industry OF Florida has in.
creased from 100000 boxes in 1885 tc
5000, 600 for the past season. This years
crop will exceed 5,000,0OO boxes.
The fluctuations of the stock market
few months after jay Gould's death
increased the value OF his estate to $780,
100000, and afterward reduced it to SCI, :
000, 600.
This country exported O,675 900 yards
of cotton goods to Brazil during the
eight months to March |, an increase oi
over 90 per cent over the same period d
year ago.
The New Hampshire experiment farm
finds that milk from the best cows costs
| = cents quart; from their poorest
~ cents, rs it costs just as much to feed
the smaller producer.
The whole length OF the main Siberian
line is 400 miles and its estimated cost
Sl96 600, 900. The line, with branches
will cover 5000 miles, to be built by an
expenditure Of S200,000,000.
The total production OF silver in the
world during the last year was placed AT
i5,OOO,00O ounces troy, OF which the
United States produced 10000, ,0OC
ounces, or upward OF Al per cent OF the
whole amount.