Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-05-05
BUSINESS BREvITIES.

Iowa raised 900, 900, 900 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 80, 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 1900 then.
A population of $4,000 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 600.
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 100000 900 feet.
The largest suspender factory in the
world is at Williamsport, Penn, and it
turns out 10000 pairs day.
Women in the employ of the govern
ment at Washington receive salaries
ranging from 5000 to 81 800 year.
Aluminium slate pencils are being
manufactured by an Illinois firm, and
are reported to find 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 Mexican syn-
dictate employing Chinese and Mexican
labor.
A ton of gold is worth 1907 ,799. 81: of
pure silver, $37 ,704.S4; 81 900, 900 in gold
weighs 3,6S5.l pounds; of silver, S.
029.9 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 500, 900. 600
worth of pine lumber.
TApJn,, Jo,.o.s
oxen, 100000 sheep, 800, 200 calves.
1000 hogs, fowls innumerable and o.
500, 900 gallons of milk.
The most expensive fur is the skin Of
the black fox OF kamschatska. These
animals are scarce and hard to kill. and
single skin sells for about 81 900.
Between the years 1880 and 1890 there
were 50 500, 000, 900 new life insurance
written in this country and but 81 600
100000 in the whole British empire.
The 100000 mon OF the limited
States are wearing an average of twenty
buttons each, making 100000, 900 but
tons Tor all, estimated to weigh %, 0OO,-
900 pounds.
President Diaz, in his annual message
to the Mexican Congress, says: SIN the
last six months 205 miles of railway have
been constructed, and there are now
1881 miles altogether.
1t is said to cost less to send the prod-
uct OF an acre of wheat from the State.
of Dakota to England than ii does to
manure an acre of land in England so
that 1t can grow good wheat.
Some idea will be formed of the
amount OF traffic in Rio when it is stated
that 1t is harbor of the first class and
that on an average 5000 steamers and
other vessels touch at it every year.