Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-02-03
INDUSTRIAL BREvITIEs
Expectation of American Beef to England
Causes Large Reduction In the
Price to the Consumer.

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Germany is building paper houses.
Japan has thousands of them.
A locomotive that consumes its own
smoke has made its appearance.
The principle Of the bicycle 10 applied
to the propelling Of small boats.
The rice crop in the South this year is
estimat to be 225, L0O,CO) pounds.
The forests OF Germany pay an annual
government revenue Of $26, 0O0,O 600.
In Douglass county, COL, $4,000 fruit
trees are irrigated by one company.
France sent almost 20,0JO.000 bottles
Of champagne to this country last year.
The anthracite coal fields produces
more than As, 00O, 600 tons OF coal every
year.
In only thirty-six OF Oregon's new or.
chards there are 100000 young fruit
trees.
1t is said that the iron-pipe foundries
of the country have formed so, U0O, 600
trust.
1t is said that / 900 rose trees are re-
quired to supply two ounces of altar of
roses.
Edison has 200 women In his employ,
making the most delicate electrical in
struments.
Some 35, 900 lambs are being fed and
fattened in the Cache IL Poudre Valley,
COL, this winter.
A single row Of pearls as large as peas
and perfectly round were sold recently
in Paris for $l25,0O0.
The real-estate brokers In New York
city sold property worth In the aggre-
gate $45, COO, 900 last year.
The time Ia not far distant when q
paper bound book, we'll printed and il
Illustrated, will be sold for cents.
Canada takes in proportion to her In
habitants almost three timee az much OF
British goods as the United States.
Denmark, France and neighboring
countries sell about $50, 000, 600 worth OF
dairy produce annually to England.
The silver output of Aspen, COL, the
8,000,0OO ounces OF the preceding year.
The number OF persons carried by the
railroads OF the United States the last
year was in round numbers 6OO, 200, 900.
Sixty-five thousand incandescent
lamps are manufactured every day at an
average selling price OF about 75 cents
apiece.
The buttons OF the wedding dress of a
New York millionaire's daughter recent.
ly married were made OF jewels, and cost
500 each.
Commercial travellers support two
thirds of the country hotels, to say
nothing OF instructing the proprietors
how to manage them.
An acre grows 500 mulberry trees
each tree has twenty pounds of leaves !;
from twenty pounds OF leaves one pound
OF cocoons is produced.
Probab y the heaviest rudder on record
is that made for the torpedo boat Vul-
can. 1t was forged in single pieces, and
weighs twenty-five tons.
The application OF the factory laws re-
ducing the hours OF labor in factories,
mines, ETC., has caused reduction of
wages throughout France.
The feeces OF ten goats and the work
OF several men for half year are re-
quired to make genuine cashmere
shawl yard and half wide.
The expectation OF American beef to
England through all seasons OF the year
has, it is said, caused reduction of Az
cents a pound to the British consumer.
Colorado's total mineral production
during 1892 was valued at SAL 1865, 124, of
which 1923, 81 Ill we're in silver. Her
total mineral output in 1891 was $685.
648,9
1t is estimated that the approximate
cost of cable which it is proposed to
lay in the Pacific between North Amer
lea and Australasia will be about $10.-
100000.
At Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, alone
200 men and women are employed in
the lobster industry. Five million lie the
annual catch, which represents $3.50, 600
In value.
The returns of the salmon pack at
British Columbia shows total of 22l,-
797 cases, as compared with 3l2, 2l1 cases
for 1891, decrease for 1892 Of 90,4I4
cases.
The value OF the pig iron produced in
this country is now greater than the
value OF gold, silver and copper COM
bined. The value of the coal product is
greater than that OF pig iron.