The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1893-12-02
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.

New York has over 300 labor organi-
cations.
The government controls Swiss tele-
phones.
The highest railroad bridge Is the Gar.
abit viaduct in France.
Nearly lfO different machines have
been invented 70. boring rock.
The crop Of cotton seed OF the South
will bring s3O, 900, 900 this year.
quarter Of million Of commercial
travellers are abroad in the land.
The process of carbonizing WOO, 10 get
ting special attention in Germany.
There are now thirteen cooperative
qusrries in the New England States.
There are 100 government buiidings
under way, which will cost t8s, 215. 73l.
Coffee was brought into England in
l64l. In 1885 the crop was 7l8 900 tons.
The most extensive mines are those Of
saxony. The galleries are 1913 miles
long. /.
In Germany nearly IL. 900. 900 people
are insured by compulsory State insur.
ance.
In making a shoe 100 steps are taken,
and only experts at each step are en-
ployed.
Alcohol has never been reduced to the
solid state. but becomes viscid ut very
low temperature.
There are eighty-five women in Great
Britain engaged in the occupation Of
chimney sweeping.
The largest creamery in the world 10
said to lie at st. Adams. Vt. Capacity,
% 600 pounds daily.
the steamers between Europe and
North America carry on an average about
70, 900 pas ,engers month.
The Carnegie Steel Company has cut
the prices on steel rails, and asking IA
TO SIS a ton instead OF s29.
More than 81, 90 600 il invested in
clubhouses and Understanding facilities
along the Chesapeake Bay.
The agricultural capital Of Europe has
doubled since 1870; that OF the United
States has increased skiold.
Previous TO 1910 nails were made by
hand. Ii cost 81 .000. 900 to perfect ma.
chine that came into use that year.
1 A New York hotel is said to use ma
chine that washes and dries 600 dishe,
an hour. Two persons attend to it.
In August, 1892. go SIS, $50 cigarette,
were manufactured in this country Tn.
figures for August, 1898, are 357 $40 $50
The average annual production OF the
precious metals in the world from 1874
10 1850 WAS: Gold, tllg, 1875 goo; silver
tll2. 500 900.
The coinage OF gold in the Philadel
phia mint during October was create
: than for any other month since the min
WAS established.
The Canadians bought last year 1871
0:6 tons OF soft coal mined in the unites
States. and they sold in the United State
$50. 3ss tons mined in Canada.
At a Kansas City packing-house a few
DAYS ago in eleven hours 3.2lS cattl
were killed and prepared for the bee
market, an average OF about five min
ute.
No one country OF Europe produces s
much wool n the United States does
but the combined production OF the Eu
ropean countries 10 about tws and one
half times rs much As our production.
Statistics Just issued by the geologica
survey show that the total coal outpu
OF the United States during last yea
was Ia 90 900 tons. valued at the mine
a, $e07. 565. 3sl. More than half, or 90,
. ooo. 800 tons, was mined in Pennsylvania
Australia, New Zealand, Tasman'
and the islands produce nearly twice a
much wool as the United States does
thea comes Argentina. with 1000 o.
: pound. more than We produce. Tn
A United States comes fourth in the list g
lMool uroducers.