Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-05-04
BUSINESS BREyITIES.

Iowa raised 22O,OOO,OOO bushels OF corn
last year.
Goldfish dried by machinery loses its
best flavor.
A woman in France is not allowed to
witness will.
Over 100000 hogs are annually
slaughtered in this country.
A West Virginia farmer has cut &c, 900
hooppoles during the past winter.
There are 1850 cities and towns in
this country which have electric lights.
Welding is done by electricity by the
Johnstown Iron Company, Johnstown,
Penn. .. ..
South Africa still supplies the greater
part of the ostrich feathers used by
manufacturers.
Railroad-building last year was only
one-third that in 1887, or 1904 miles
against 1000 then.
A population of 25, 900 live in the Gro
ton watershed, from which New York
is supplied with water.
Cincinnati claims 1904 different in
dustrial concerns, with an annual in
crease of from 800 to 800.
A Sewell City, Kansas, firm will send
10000 dozen eggs to the Worlds Fair,
not to exhibit, but to eat.
1t Is estimated that the standing pine
in Ashland county, Wis, will measure
about 10000, 100000 feet.
The largest suspender factory in the
world is at Williamsport, Penn, and it
turns out 1000 pairs day.
Women in the employ of the govern
ment at Washington receive salaries
ranging from 5000 to $500 year.
Aluminium slate pencils are being
manufactured by an Illinois firm, and
are reported to find II good market.
According to statistics, the production
of beet-sugar in this country has more
than doubled during the past year.
There are now 1000 building and loan
associations in the United States, with
membership OF 100000 subscribers.
Experiments are being made in tea
planting in Cordoba, by a Mexican syn
dicate employing Chinese and Mexican
labor.
A ton OF gold is worth s607, 1921; OF
pure silver, SS7, ,7O4.S4; 81, 900, ,OO0in gold
weighs 3,6S5,l pounds; of silver, 5S,-
929.9 pounds.
For several years past nearly all the
slate pencils used throughout the United
States have been made at one factory in
Charlottesville, Va.
1t is estimated that during the last
five years the turpentine gatherers OF
Georgia have destroyed $780, 600, coo
worth OF pine lumber,
London devours every year AGO. .OOO
oxen, 100000 sheep, 10000 calves,
100, 900 hogs, fowls innumerable and s, :
$1,000 gallons OF milk.
The most expensive fur is the skin OF
the black fox OF kamsChatska. These
animals are scarce and hard 10 kill, and
q single skin sells for about 81 900,
Between the wears 1850 and 1870 there
were g., ,SO0. 100000 new life insurance
written in this country and but 81 goo,
100000 in the whole British empire.
The 10000 600 men OF the United
States arc wearing an average OF twenty
buttons each, making 4OO,OOO,OOO but
tons for all, estimated to weigh 5000
900 pounds.
President naz, in his annual message
10 the Mexican Congress, saws: "In the
last six months SS miles OF railway have
been constructed, and there are now
6,sSl miles altogether,
II is said to cost less 10 send the mod.
uct OF an acre Of wheat from the States
OF Dakota to England than it does "a
manure an acre OF land in England SC
that It can grow good wheat.
Some idea will be formed Of III,
amount OF traffic in Rio when it is stated
that il is harbor Of the first class, and
that ON an average 5000 steamers and
other vessels touch at it every year.