Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-08-03
BUSINESS BREVITIES.

II is estimated from the census Of 1890
that the insect pests cost the fruit grow
ers Of the United States about "a, 900, 900
year.
Statistics are said TO show that the in
PRODUCTION Of machinery into manufac-
tories has decreased the number Of the
unemployed.
The Wagner Company owns 700 par
lor cars and sleeping coaches, valued at
$40 800, 600; the Pullman Company 2, ,366,
valued at ;33,O0O,OOO
To make l 900 cubic feet Of illuminat-
ing gas eight pounds OF coal, costing 2
cents, and four gallons Of naphtha, cost
ing II cents, are required.
In the five or six months OF the year
during which the sardine fishery lasts
SOC, 100000 Of these little fish are caught
off the coast Of Brittany alone.
The entire number of locomotives
owned by the German railways in 1892
was l4,7S8. The number in the United
States in 1891 amounted to 1858.
There are over 1000 miles OF COM
pleted electric railway in the United
States, and in a year to come there is
little doubt the total will be doubled.
At the Maple Sugar Laboratory at
Montpelier, VT. during the past season
4,75O,762 pounds Of sugar were tested.
The bounty on this output will amount
to about $72,5O0.
In the central part of the State of New
York over 1900 people are engaged in
the cultivation OF more than 10000 acres
Of grapes, which produce annually from
40, 900 to 81, 900 tons.
The average wage per week OF women
in Kansas and Wisconsin is 1921; in
Minnesota So. In indianapolis the sum
paid for shirt-making ranges from 30
cents TO 80 cents dozen.
Admiral Belknap thinks that "since
steam and electricity have taken posses
sion OF the naval soul seamanship is al
most decried as a lost art by the rising
generation OF naval men,"
The area planted in cotton the present
year il estimated at l9,70l ,3S5 acres, an
Increase over last year Of 7.20 per cent
ana about the same as IN 1887; also
showing very little difference from 1888.
The 10000 which the hat manu-
facturers Of the country have to hand
over to the inventor OF the sweat band
used on hats affords a striking iIlustra-
tion OF the value OF genius when it makes
Il hit.
Women do a fair share OF farm work
in nearly all European countries. They
are especially efficient in Norway and
Sweden. Too many men are withdrawn
from profitable occupation to serve as
soldiers.
The total receipts at the New York
custom-house for the fiscal year that
ended June 80 were sl38. .032, ,02S. "a, COM
pared with Sl20, ,732 1880 for the previ-
ous fiscal year, or an increase of nearly
$l7 100000.
The largest State building in the United
states and the seventh largest building
in the world is the State capitol of Texas.
IL was begun in 1881 and finished in 1888.
1t cost SO 800, 900, and was paid for by
5000, 600 acres of public land, decided to
the capitalists who had the work done.
In 1890 there were about 275, 900 women
engaged in money making occupations,
as follows: One hundred and ten law
vers, 1855 ministers, 500 authors, 5SS
journalists, 2,06l artists, 2, 1876 architects,
chemists and pharmacists, l,lO6 stock
raisers and ranchers, 5l35 government
clerks, 2,43S physicians and surgeons,
1882 professional musicians, 56,S00
farmers and planters, 81 OF clerks and
bookkeepers, II, 465 heads OF CONNER
cial houses, l55, 900 public-school teach
ers.