Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-11-09
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.
Japan has 10000 physicians.

Japan has 10000 physicians.
There are FL match factories il
Russia.
Australians pay $5o,ooo,OOo taxes
year.
Uncle Sam has 100000 horse,
and mules.
Annea,ed glass is new material fol-
filling teeth.
The heaviest anchors weigh about
1900 pounds. ,
There are over 10000 600 fruit trees
in California.
Russia's wealth is estimated at
$2I,7I5,OOO,OOO.
Colorado has 100000 acres under
artificial irrigation.
The negroes OF Texas own $4,000.
OOO worth OF property.
Russia has 13l,OOO,OOO bushels OF
wheat for export this year.
Russia has 100000 bushels OF
wheat for export this year.
The taxes paid annually by the
Americans amount to $500, 100000.
The wealth of the United States is
estimated at $50, ,475,OOO,OOO.
The number Of idle cotton opera
tives in Fall river is placed at 1920.
Women are employed as station
masters by Australian railroads.
Germany has an average of 437 doc
tors for every 10000 inhabitants.
In Germany the wages of rural
labor has been doubled since 1866.
Pennsylvania made over half the
total production OF pig iron last year.
Over $4,000 persons are employed
by the railroads of the United States.
The United States turned out l..
136, ,4oS gross tons of steel rails last
year.
There are between 300 and 400
women apothecaries in the United
States.
Arizona is fifth in silver, eighth in
sheep and live stock and ninth in gold
product.
The returns OF the capital invested
in English railways are steadily de-
creasing.
Sixty thousand acres of land in
Michigan are proftsbly used in rails
ing celery.
The average weekly wages paid to
female laborers OF all classes in Ger.
many is $217.
Over 80 per cent. of the area of
European Russia, including the Cau-
casus, is forest.
Over $1,000 pounds weight OF edible
birds nests are annually shipped from
Java TO China.
Authorities claim that two-fifths of
the land in the United States is unfit
for growing crops.
The production of coal OF all kinds
in the United States in 1893 was l62,-
81, ,977 gross tons.
The 250,OOO Indians of the United
States hold 90.OOO,OOO acres OF land,
exclusive Of Alaska.
West Virginia has $1,000 square
miles of coal fields, and produces an
nually 100000 tons.
The National Toothpick Association
claims an output of fifty-two carloads
OF toothpicks annually.
Only 100 miles of railway track
were constructed in this country dur
ing the past nine months.
New Hampshire cotton mills have .
capital OF over $5O,OOOOOO and pay
$4,000 annually in wages.
Salem county, N. j., claims the
tomato'canning record. Its output is
estimated At 100000 cans.
There are in Chicago $500 manu-
featuring establishments, employing
an aggregate of 250,OOO people.
Kent county, Maryland, raised co.
600 baskets of peaches this year,
which netted the growers 100000.
OF the steam engines now working
in the world four-fifths have been con-
structed the past twenty-five years.
The largest electric locomotive in
the world (2yOOO horse-power) was
built at Zurich, Switzerland in 1892.
Italian boiler-makers receive about
79 cents per day; machinists get
the same. Riveters get only GO
cents.
1t is stated upon English authority
more telephones are in use in the
United States than in the whole of
Europe.
The first barrel OF "coal oil' was
commercially used in 1925. In 1888
3S,S2O.3OG barrels of that product were
consumed.
In most parts of Syria, Palestine
and Arabia fig trees and date palms
are counted and tax is levied on
each tree.
The Suez Canal is only lightweight
miles long, but it reduced the distance
from England to India by sea nearly
1000 miles.
A granite bowlder OF 1000 cubic
meters and 12O feet in height was
moved to make way for the Mexican
Central railroad bed.
Arizona has produced more than
$SO,UO,OOO of precious metals. The
exports Of silver have exceeded IS, 5,OOO,.
GOO year, Of copper 100000.
The Massachusetts, Cotton Company
has voted to increase its capital stock
from 81 100000 to 81, 400. 900, and will
build an immense cotton mill in
Caorusa