Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-03-23
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.
Comparison Of Average Wages 10 Mas
sachusetts and in England
London's Railways.

The four great ocean routes employ
LOO steamships.
All the street cars of Toledo are pro-
PEELED by electricity.
Lees than l cent is the value Of the
raw material in violin.
More than 200, 900 men are employed
in American journalism.
A New York Central locomotive is TO
go eighty-two miles an hour.
There were 100000 passengers on
American railroads last year.
About 1000 miles of railroad track
were laid during the last year.
A Maryland canning factory put up
4,0O0, 900 cans OF corn last season.
Chicagoans expect a $4,000, 900
Worlds Fair revenue from cash admis-
sions.
The contract for the construction of
the South Gila canal in Arizona has just
been let. The work when completed
will cost $2,O0O,0O0.
An English company has been incor-
porated with $4,000 capital to manu-
facture electric bicycles. The storage
battery is to be uged.
An Englishman has invented combi-
nation folding bed billiard table, settee,
table and bureau-all taking up no more
room than an upright piano.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Western Union Telegraph Company has
over 739 600 miles OF wire and nearly
600 Offices, it opens an average OF go
new Offices annually.
The twin. screw and triple-screw steam
ships with improved engines develop
more power with less coal than the elm
/ gle-screw engines. The Etruria burns
about 800 tons day.
Engineers are discussing water-stor-
age project for better supply OF water
to the Erie canal, involving dam l3C
feet in height across the Genesee river
at cost OF $2,76O,0O0.
II Ia stated that in England those parts
OF locomotives which are liable TO rust
are made Of galvanized iron, and that
this includes the inside OF tender tanks
and also the coal spaces.
Nine cents mile is the cost the Ninth
avenue New York; street-car line re
Gently ran storage-battery experiment
car for. The car weighed ak and one
half tons, and carried l44 storage cells
A clerk in a bicycle store in Kansal
City has designed and is building new
buggy with pneumatic tired bicycle
wheels and mum Der OF improvement
calculated to add strength, lightness anC
speed to the vehicle.
Carroll d. Wright, chief OF the United
States bureau OF statistics, reports tina
wages in Massachusetts average $l.70 Il
every dol ar paid in England, while tn,
cost OF the same mode OF living ia 81 l.
here TO 81 in England.
An alkaloid prepared from atropin,
Gan active principle Of belladonnal
which is used by opthalmic surgeons {,
expand the pupil of the eye, is said Il
sell for S2,l00 a pound. The coet is o
itself enough TO make one open his eyes
The wages paid TO Chinese laborers il
China are about . pence per diem, will
Tations. The workers are easily con
tented, demanding only the plainest o
food, while for housing they are satsfie,
in winter 10 creep altogether under
long, low mat shed with solid back h
the north wind.
Within a six-mile radius OF Charini
Gross, London, there are 270 miles o
, railway and 255 stations, and within
. tweye-mile radius over 4J0 miles of lin,
and 30l stations. The average numbe
OF passengers carried on week day b,
the public conveyances OF London, in
; Guiding omnibuses, is 100000. Tn
total for last year was M 100000.