The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-10-21
BUSINESS BREVlTlES

II has been figured that Philadelphia
took about 100000 baskets Of peaches
this scuson.
The Aztccs filed quilts with gold dust,
sealed them and passed them from hand
10 hand ~ coin,
New York claims the distinction oI
hcng the only State that produces both
rock and brine salt.
4 paper has been invented in Germany
irom which ink writing may be erased
with n moist sponge.
Thcanillnc dyes were invented in 1896
aud now over ~, 900 600 worth are annu'
| ally used in the United States.
Female lrurnps are disposed TO claim
their share of business which has here
loiorc been monop0lized by men,
The largest gold coin in circulation IL
the "lOoi" Of Anam, which weighs HI
much ~ 32b United States dollars.
Pennsylvania ranks first in the cigar
output Of the country, New York, Ohio
and Florida follow in the order named.
The largest gold nugget ever known
WIS the Sarah Sands" found in Aus
tralia. It weighed 233 pounds ounces
troy.
Reports Of increase Of street railroad
earnings where electricity has superseded
mule power in large cities average 80 per
cent.
More than 10000 tons Of salmon were
packed by the cannerics on the Frazer
river, Is, G., this season. II took nearly
20, 900 900 cans.
Among the curious products Of the
State OF Maine are wooden bottles. These
are made not for liquids, but for pills,
powders and tablets.
Cuba has 1872 coffee plantations, 700
sugar plantations, 1900 tobacco estates,
3, 2OO cattle farms and | 700 small farms
devoted to various products.
The silver product Of the United States
in about SO per cent Of our total min
cral production, which according TO the
census was in 1880 1857 230, ,G62.
Commander Ludlow Of the Mohican,
which has been patrolling Behring Sea
all summer, estimates the product OF pc
lagic sealing this year ut 10000 skins.
The stoppagc of silver mining will re-
ducc our annual supply Of gold by one
third. just about 30 per cent OF the
yearly yield Of gold il taken out Of silver
mines.
A telegraphic printing instrument, re-
Gently perfected, threatens not only to
superscde the telephone rs at present
employed, but 10 reyoutionize telcgra-
ply in general.
Counting the bearing and non.bearing
orange trees in Florida, there are est-
mated 10 be- 100000 trees. California
is credited with having 100000 trees
and Arizona about 100000.
One tow boat on the Mississippi in a
good stage OF water can take from st.
Louis to New Orleans n tow carrying
900 tons OF grain, II quantity that
would require fifty trains OF ten cars
each.
The whaling industry has fallen off SO
much as to play but small part in the
worlds commerce. The latest figures
obtainable show the production to aver
age between 1900 and 10000 tuns OF
252 gallons each per year.
+. p. Loomis. formerly United States
Consul ut st. Etienne. says that from an
investigation he made he finds that about
95 900 Americans OF the better class visit
Europe every year, and that they spend
about 800, 100000.
Erastus Wiman is reported as saying
in a late address that there are $455, ,OOO,'
600 in the forty-one savings banks oI
New York and Brooklyn, held by more
than 200, 900 depositors, and the capi'
tai of all the national banks in the coun'
try is only $7O0,OO0,OOO.