Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-14
BUSINESS BREVITIES.
Paper barrels are q success.

Paper barrels are success.
The cigarette manufacture is decreas-
ing.
Locomotives now have electric head
lights.
England is building ship that will
cost $4,750,00o.
Europe is reported to have $4,000
match factories.
There are over 81 900 Western Union
telegraph offices.
The kegs used for the expectation of
gold hold $4,000.
The annual production OF pepper av-
erages $4,000 tons.
Electric lights are extinguished by a
| clock arrangement.
Twenty-Five cents day is good wages
for a laborer in China.
The New York Central has increased
its capital to $100,000,000
Birmingham, England, manufactures
1870 600 of pins weekly.
Twelve million fans are exported an
nually from Canton, China.
The highest price ever paid for silver
was S1.2l an ounce, August 10, 1890.
Lots OF land is changing hands now in
Franklin county, Kan, at $40 an acre.
! The sixty-four corn-canning factories
III Maine put up Is, 161 ,02S cans last year.
Twenty-one thousand persons arc en-
ployed making pins at Redditch, En-
gland.
| During the last year the imports of
WOODEN goods amounted in value to $685.
| 792,905.
During 1892 there were l, 76S strikes in
the state OF New York, involving 25, 764
persons.
roads are operated by electricity on this
Continent
| The Bessemer iron miners of Michigan
admit the formation of pool to limit
their output.
More gold has been obtained from
Spanish America than from any other
part OF the world.
A new wire, called the Hungarian.
Is covered with three coats of thread and
| two coats OF eelluloid.
From all sections of the Southern cot
ton belt come reports OF largely in
creased cotton acreage.
There are quite number of women in
New York who earn their living by tax
ing in baby boarders."
More than 100000 lizard skins were
shipped to this country last year from
the State OF Tobosco, Mexico.
The fish hatchery at Selkirk, Canada.
which has capacity OF $4,000, 900 fry, is
said to be the largest in Canada.
The silver output of Colorado was in
creased last year by 5000 900 ounces in
spite of the low price OF the metal
There is $l2 ,000, 900, 900 of life insur.
ance written in all parts of the world.
and of this nearly one-half is placed in
this country.
Many Americans are investing in the
coffee lands OF Mexico. The crop this
year will be very large, and is selling at
S27 per quintal.
controlling interest in the Lake SUI
perior mine, near Duluth, has been pur-
chased by the Wetmore- Merritt svndi
cate for S250,000.
The largest order for type since the
invention of printing was for rs .0O0
pounds, given to New York firm bv the
Government Printing Office.
II i1 NSiliiubNu AT W uSullgUOn THAT we
SOW $1,000, 600 bushels of wheat. and eat
SOC, 000,0 900 bushels, This approximates
1000, 200 bushels a day for our wants.
Twenty thousand tons of matches are
exported every year from Norway and
Sweden; this furnishes about one-third
of the entire number consumed in Eu-
rope.
Since the Cape diamond-felds were
discovered in 1867, 50,O00,OOO karats of
stones valued at $3.50, 100000 have been
exported. These would load up two big
coal trains.
The largest sheep ranch in the world is
IN the counties of Dimnlit and Webb
Tex. 1t contains upward of 400 900
acres and yearly pastures from 1000 900
! to 100000 sheep.