Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-10-19
BUSINESS BRRvpTIEs.

II has been figured that Philadelphia
took about 10000 baskets OF peaches
this season.
The Aztecs filled quills with gold dust,
sealed them and passed them from hand
to hand as coin.
New York claims the distinction Of
being the only State that produces both
rock and brine salt.
A paper has been invented in Germany
IRON which ink writing may be erased
with moist sponge.
The aniline dyes were invented in 1926.
and now over 81, 900, 900 worth are annu-
ally used in the United States.
Female tramps are disposed TO claim
their share Of a business which has here
tofore been monopolized by men.
The largest gold coin in circulation is
the " loof" Of Anam, which weighs az
much as 325 United States dollars.
Pennsylvania ranks first in the cigar
output OF the country. New York, Ohio
and Florida follow in the order named.
The largest gold nugget ever known
was the g Sarah Sands" found in Aus
tralia. 1t weighed 233 pounds ounces
troy.
Reports OF increase OF street railroad
earnings where electricity has superseded
mule power in large cities average 90 per
sent.
More than 10000 tons OF salmon were
packed by the canneries on the Frazer
river, B. g., this season. 1t took nearly
30,000,000 cans.
Among the curious products of the
State Of Maine are wooden bottles. These
are made not for liquids, but for pills,
powders and tablets.
Cuba has 1872 coffee plantations, 700
sugar plantations, $500 tobacco estat, =,
5000 cattle farms and | 700 small farms
devoted to various products.
The silver product of the United States
IL about 80 per cent Of our total min
eral production, which according TO the
census was in 1880 1851, ,230, ,GG2.
Commander Ludlow of the Mohican,
which has been patroling Behring Sea
all summer, estimates the product Of pc
lagic sealing this year at 10000 skins.
The stoppage of silver mining will re-
duce our annual supply Of gold by one
third. Just about 80 per cent Of the
yearly yield Of gold is taken out Of silver
mines.
A telegraphic printing instrument, re-
Gently perfected, threatens not only to
supersede the telephone as at present
employed, but TO revolutionize telegra-
ply in general.
Counting the bearing and non. bearing
orange trees in Florida, there are esti-
mated TO be TO- 600 600 trees. California
il credited with having 100000 trees
and Arizona about 100000.
One tow boat on the Mississippi in a
good stage of water can take from st.
Louis TO New Orleans u tow carving
10000 tons OF grain, quantity that
would require fifty trains of ten cars
each.
The whaling industry has fallen Off so
much as to play but small part in the
worlds commerce. The latest figures
obtainable show the production TO aver
age between 1900 and 10000 tuns OF
252 gallons each per year.
+. F. Loomis, formerly United States
Consul at st. Etienne says that from an
investigation he made he finds that about
$4,000 Americans OF the better class visit
Europe every year, and that they spend
about 100000, 600.
Erastus Wiman is reported ~ saving
in II late address that there are $i55 ,0OO,-
600 in the forty-one savings banks of
New York and Brooklyn, held by more
than 1000 600 depositors, and the capi-
tai OF all the national banks in the coun-
try is only 400, 100000.