Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-02-10
INDUSTRIAL BREVITIES.
An Estimate of the Gold and Silver Yield
in Montana During Last Year
Horses Cheap in Idaho.

The Suez canal cost 100000, 900.
American ice cream is now sent tt
London.
America mines 100000 barrels o
salt year.
Aluminium horseshoes are now made
for record breakers.
France only uses 4,55S,OO0 bottles Of
champagne per annum.
Kansas has progressed up to the point
OF producing reeled silk.
About $4,000 persons are employed
by the American railroads.
Fine solder is an alloy OF two parts
block tin and one part lead.
Alexandria, Ind, is to have a glass
works that will employ 1000.
The estimated fire losses OF the coun-
try during 1892 are $l33, l54, 1874.
Over 1900 100000 postage stamps
were used in this country last year.
The latest whaleback steamer Pills
bury is lighted throughout by electricity
Over 81 900 yards of carpet were woven
in 1892 by Berks county (Pa.) Jail birds.
Many coffee planters in Mexico make
profit of $50 per cent. on money in
vested.
There are $1,000 policemen in Great
Britain-about the number OF the Amer
lean army.
The West Side Street Bar Company of
Chicago shows net earnings for the past
year of sl,932,9l4.
The largest cannon manufactured by
the great German gunmaker, Krupp,
weighs 100000 pounds.
The mineral production of Idaho for
1892 was $l3,075, 900, falling off of near
ly DO per cent. from 1891.
Cotton receipts for 1892 in Arkansas
and Indian Territory show 80 per cent.
decrease from 1915 figures.
The production of the iron mines of
the Lake Superior district for the wear
1892 is placed at 9,025, 000 tons.
The people of many OF the South Sea
Islands manufacture their entire suits
from the products OF the palm trees.
Horses are a drug on the Idaho mar
ket. The other day 1900 good Young
animals were sold in bunch for $24 a
head.
Railroads in Europe are fenced in.
with gates and tenders at all the cross,
lngs OF country roads, as we'll as at street
crossings in cities.
The worlds production OF silver in 1891
was $4,000, 900 ounces. No wonder the
Treasury purchase of $4,000, 900 ounces
Was unequal to the task OF raising silver
10 the price it stood at in 1873. when
only 5000 600 ounces were mined in ali
The world.
1t Is estimated that the yield of gold
and silver in Montana last year was sos |
10000, and the total metal production
s45, 000, 900, against $24, 00o. zoo gold and
silver and $SS,000,000 total production
n 1891.
The output of pig iron in the States. as
direct from the producers
to l,a54, 295 gross tons in 1899
Is compared with ,7uS, 1855 tons in lsgi
being an increase of 2i5,3 tons. or
nearly 10 per cent.
Henry G. Myers of Sydney. Australia
. examining the conditions existing in
he Southwestern States, with a view IN
ranches for the propagation
II kangaroos. IL things are favorable
ne Will make the new business jump.
Among the new Southern industries
or 1889 were $50 woodworking estab-
26l mining and quarryiny
Enterprises, 81 brick works, 1874 electric.
light and power plants, l01 water works
. textile mile, III Touring mills and SO
Machine shops and foundries. Such e..
Adjustments are indices of solid and
ubstantial growth. AN