The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-07-08
BUSINESS BREVITIES.


New York State il said TO have more
newspapers than the entire Southern
lcmisphere.
The Mcrrimac river IL said TO move
more machinery than any other stream
in the world.
The American Aluminium Company
will erect a manufacturing plant near
Clayton, Mo.
There are twcnty-eight passenger
trains daily from New York and Phila-
deIphia to Chicago.
About $20,000,OOO are annually sent
by Italian laborers in this country 10
their families in Italy.
There are less than 1000 Spaniards,
Greeks and Portuguese in any one Of the
chief cities Of the country.
Half a million patents issued by this
government bear excellent testimony TO
the cOuntry's inventive genius.
1t was only llG years after the discov-
cry Of America that the first glass works
were established in the colonies.
A smelter has begun operations at San
Luis POtosi, Mexico. II is the only
smeltcr in Mexico working copper ore.
England bears the palm over all coun-
tries, even the United States, in the
number Of women employed by govern
ment.
The Philippine Islands export more
than 100000 cigars annually, almost
5000 tons OF coffee and 10000 tons Of
sugar.
Europe produces almost as much to-
bacco as does the United States, Austria
supplying about one-third Of the Euro
pean crop.
The corn exported to Mexico from the
United States during the recent famine
would fill a solid train seventy-seven
miles long.
Last year New York city paid for its
school bill $4,000000; for its amusement
bill, $7,000,0O0, and for its drink bill,
$G0,0OO,00O.
Gutta percha was first introduced into
Europe from Malaga in 1852. The an
nual consumption now amounts to 4, ,000,-
900 pounds.
The average cost of travel on the Lon
don roads is only Is of a cent mile, and
the Great Eastern comes at .046 OF a
cent mile.
Japan's foreign trade during 1892 ex-
ceeded that Of 1891 100000 yen. The
principal increase was in the values Of
silk and tea.
There are $4,000 Chinese inhabitants
in the chief cities of the United States
A,0O0 of them in San Francisco and
5000 in New York.
Grand old Missouri is without a rival
in the world in the amount OF lead out
put. The annual lead product of the
State is 30,OOO,O00 tons.
There are several dozen men in Lon
don who earn their living by catching
rats. They are mostly employed at ho-
tells, clubs and restaurants.
The schooner Good Intent, which was
launched at Braintree, Mass, in 1918, is
still in service, plying between Bangor,
Me-, and neighboring ports.
The orange industry of Florida has in
creased from 100000 boxes in 1885 to
$500, 600 for the past season. This years
crop will exceed 100000 boxes.
The fluctuations of the stock market
a few months after Jay Gould's death
increased the value of his estate to $780,
600, 900, and afterward reduced it to $61,-
900, 900.
This country exported 10, ,675, 900 yards
of cotton goods to Brazil during the
eight months to March /, an increase of
over 80 per cent over the same period a
year ago.
The New Hampshire experiment farm
finds that milk from the best COWS costs
IL cents quart; from their poorest,
Az cents, as it costs just as much to feed
the smaller producer.
The whole length OF the main Siberian
line is LOO miles and its estimated cost
$l96, 100000. The line, with branches,
will cover 5000 miles, to be built by an
expenditure of $200,000,000.
The total production of silver in the
world during the last year was placed at
145, 100000 ounces troy, of which the
United States produced 100000
ounces, or upward of Al per cent of the
whole amount.