Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-03-30
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.

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Detroit is building electric boats.
There are 4,5OO electric plants in Ger
many.
There are twenty-five national banks
in Chicago.
Twenty-eight thousand patents were
issued in 1892.
Steam power is successfully applied to
the telling Of trees.
Petroleum engines made Of aluminium
are to drive balloons.
The dynamite industries OF this coun-
try are worth f6,0C0,0O0.
A street car can be rented in the City
Of Mexico for $3.50 day.
There are estimated to be 38, 400 street
cars in use in this country.
The men employed upon the railroads
of the United States number 784 900.
A patent has been granted for device
for tapering fingers and reducing joints.
In Wyoming county, n. Y, farmers
are hiring hands at $25 a month with
board.
The census OF 1890 gives to the United
States 32,C67, $50 men and 30,554,37O
women.
During the last ninety-six years 34S,-
9lj 900 pounds OF gold we're coined in
France.
Tennessee is going into the canning
business, and many canneries are being
started.
The President Of the United States re-
ceives his salary in monthly installments
OF 81, G6.67.
Government statistics place the aver
age income of American farmers at So
cents day.
Cincinnati has some eight harness
factories, and their yearly output is
about S3,000O00.
The next big fruit farm to he organized
in Missouri will comprise l2,C0J acres
near Brandsville.
A hog at Fayetteville, n. c., owned by
John Garrison of that town, is said 20
weigh so pounds.
Sugar beets, weighing on an average
Floyd county, Ga.
A number OF farmers in Western Kan
sas sowed fall wheat in February, and
expect TO get Dig crops.
According to the trea ury computation
the Presidential salary of 5000 year
is at the rate of $l3S.88 day.
It is said that Ireland sends annually
10000 tons OF eggs-some SO, 90, 600 in
round numbers-to England alone.
The Florida coast has a floating hotel
which moves from place to place, whe--
ever the best fishing happens to be.
Silk sheets are now produced "as a
luxury" with the expectation that there
may grow up large demand for them.
I There are at the Sault hatcheries in
Michigan 5000, 900 whitefsh eggs, 400,-
0C0 of salmon trout and 100000 brook
trout.
} The State OF Ohio manufactured 2 $780,
ranking second in the amount OF pro-
duction.
/ OF the 10, 255, $40 tons of pig iron pro-
duced last year the South furnished
2,ll6,9S6 tons, or more than in any pre-
vious year.
The forty-one collieries in the Second
Anthracite district Of the State OF Penn
sylvania last year produced 6,O87 ,626
tons OF coal.
The annual expectation Of India rub
Der from Para is said to be upward OF
20,000,000 pounds, worth from $4,000, 900
to S9,0O0,OO0.
/ A new method of manufacturing glass
vessels which will not break under sud
den changes OF temperaturei is announced
from Germany.
More than $S9,OOO,OOo worth OF seal
skins have been taken in Alaskan waters
since the American ownership of the
sealing grounds.
Recently compiled statistics show that
the locomotive building in the United
States in 1892 was about Is per cent less
than in the year 1891.
A large party of Eastern manufactur-
ers recently started on tour through
Mexico for the purpose OF introducing
American goods into that country.
The licorice plant is chiefly grown on
the banks Of the Tigris and Euphrates,
in localities where for three months dur.
ing the prevalence OF hot winds the tenn
perature reaches 104 degrees and for
three months often reaches so degrees
below at night. The remaining six
months are moderate and healthy.