Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-02-17
INDUSTRIAL BREvITIEs.
The Gold and Silver Output Of Mexico fol
the Past Twelve Years - The
Ivory Trade Increasing.

Four fifths OF the engines now working
In the world have been constructed dur
ing the last twenty-five years.
In making champagne the grapes are
squeezed six times, each pressure max
ing wine Of q different quality.
One Of the oldest and most conserva.
tive trust companies in Philadelphia
holds 1890, 0Oo, 900 Of trust estates.
Electricity is used for making forgings,
auxers, railroad spikes, ball bearing and
other articles hitherto made by hand.
The value Of the honey and wax pro-
duced in the United States during the
past year has been estimated at $2O, 000,-
600.
II il said all the building trades Of
Chicago will on April demand increased
pay and contract excluding non-union
workmen.
Horses are 60 plentiful In Buenos
Ayres that every body has at least one.
II Ia said that even the beggars beg on
horseback.
English capitalists are reported to
have become Interested in the coal fields
Of Ohio county, KY, and propose to de-
velop them.
The Languedoc Ship Canal in France,
by short passage OF las miles, saves a
sea voyage Of 1000 miles by the straits
Of Gibraltar.
The hours OF !, 200 men on the Union
Pacific railroad system. have been re-
duced from nine to eight and only seven
on Saturday.
A druggist at Chicago believes that II
he could secure the soda water privileges
at the Worlds Fair his fortune would be
made for life.
An ingenious Boston man has Just pat
ented an electrical device designed to
automatically play banjos, mandolins,
guitars and harps.
A year ago there were only fifty people
In the mining settlement OF Cripple
Creek, Col. Now 1t ia thriving town
Of 10, 900 inhabitants.
Four hundred acres OF land in Linn
county, Mo-, fenced and seeded to tim
othy, but without buildings, was re-
Gently sold for $50 an acre.
The largest telephone center in the
world is that in the Exchange in Berlin,
Germany, where 1900 wires are con-
nected with the main Office.
An inventor who recently had an idea
patented in every country OF the world
where the patent law exists had to pay
just $14, $50 for the privileges.
One hundred thousand tons OF silver
and 800 tons of gold, representing a
money value of "A, 320, 0O0, 900, have been
produced In Mexico since 1881.
A recent invention is new type OF
refrigerator car that can be run for
twenty days without re-icing. 1t is
charged with ice and certain chemicals.
There is a scheme on foot for the estab-
lishment Of $1,000, COO steel plant at
Galveston, Texas, similar to the steel
works at Chicago, Pittsburg and Cleve.
land.
In 1860 the United Ststes produced
&C, 900 tons OF paper. In 1890 the pro-
duction was 100000 tons or 100, 900
tons more than the total product of
European paper mills.
Four million tons OF the finest ice ever
housed and $780, tons stacked for
early use, is the Hudson river winter
harvest. 1t has been gathered at an eg-
timated cost of 20 cents per ton.
A glass factory at Liverpool has ''glass
journal boxes for all its machinery, a
glass floor, glass shingles on the roof and
smokestack 105 feet high, built wholly
OF glass bricks, each foot square,"
Granite for columns, balusters, round
posts and urns Is now worked chiefly in
lathes, which, for the heaviest work, are
made large enough to handle blocks
twenty-five feet long and five feet in di-
ameter.
When Harrison W. Crosby first intro
duced canned tomatoes he sold them at
90 cents can. This was in 1848. For
a few years past the average price has
been cents for much superior article
than that for which Mr.. Crosby received
so cents.
IT the ivory trade increases at the
present rate much longer the elephant
will soon become extinct. One firm
alone in Sheffield last year received the
tusks of no fewer than 1890 elephants.
A few years ago 800 pairs of tusks were
sufficient for them.