Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-08-08
BUSINESS BREvITIES.

Japan talks Of building fourteen rail
n roads.
There are 6,455, 900 owners of farms il
France.
|. On one ranch in Texas there are 600.
900 sheep.
The fire losses for June last exceeded
SIC, 300, 900.
Women are commencing to drive cabs
in New York.
Looms are successfully run by electric
ity in saxony.
Gas motors are proposed for running
Chicago street cars.
bank still doing business at BARGE
Iona was founded in 140l.
Italy has AZ 900 miners. The marble
quarries employ 90, 900 more.
Mulhall estimates that the civilized
nations annually pay $l3, 900, 000, 900 for
food
| Silver dollars are shipped direct to
China from Mexico by Chinese mer-
chants.
Philadelphia has 1892 retail liquor sa-
| looms; in 1887 there were 5,773 licensed
saloons.
The United States acreage in grain is
greater than the entire area of the Ger
man Empire.
Celluloid is paper chemically treated, |
reduced again to pulp and then nodded |
into its final form.
For the labor temple to be established |
in Philadelphia fair will be arranged |
to open October 2.
The Railway Age believes that the to-
tai construction for the whole year will
be about 5000 miles.
Horses are not so much used as before
the age of steam, but the world still has
need OF 81, $50, 900 OF them.
Since 1860 the value OF grain crops has
steadily diminished, while that OF pas
toral products has increased
The fact is worth noting that not a
dollar has been lost by any deposition in !
the bank failures of this year.
The agricultural capital OF Europe has
doubled since 1910; that of the United /
States has increased over skiold. a
According to the United States Consul t
Vt Singapore One-half of the worlds tin
. mined IN the Straits settlement. A
Reductions in wages of 10 TO 20 per h
ent will be made by the Otis Steel Com
'any OF Cleveland TO meet competition.
A new cigarette machine has been in |.
ented that will feed, roll, paste and Il
make 10000 perfect cigarettes in ten b
ours.
One OF the foundry firms at Chicago h
bat refused to concede the demands OF C,
ne molders Is now in the hands Of a re- oil
eiver.
There are about 900 women EMPLOYED pl
typesetters in Boston, working at 20 N
} % per cent lower than the union scale NJ
Ills for.
The fall in the price of cotton during G
10 last few months represents loss to CO
he planters OF the South on last years or
op of $50, 10000
The valuation Of the entire State OF pr
dorado is little more than quarter ri
the assessed valuation OF Boston for of
lrposes of taxation.
Five methods OF anchoring bolts in tn
me were recently tried at the Worces- tn
folytechnic. The best test was borne tn
sulphur setting in straight hole. DIT
In 1874 the average wage OF a London
edie woman was 2lad an hour. The ha
lges Of many poor needle women in wi
'hdoh DO not now exceed I'D per sta
ur. tut
The Provident Savings Bank of Boston.
Q greatest institution of the kind in ha-
Is country, has 10000 depositors and les
posts OF $4,000, 900 in sums of 81 900 las
less. I 't'a
| he statement is made on apparently ,
ID authority that s345, 900, 900 of Amer a.
N capital has been invested in bust h t.,'
ss enterprises in Mexico within the We; ,e
t three years. ing
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