Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-10-19
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.

bushels.
Chinese people eat 100000 dogs
annually.
Italian bakers get 81 a week and
tailors $40.
Japan is the greatest producer OF
sulphur.
A full-grown ostrich is worth from
$500 to $400.
The present coffee crop is the larg.
est ever grown.
Tea is cut every forty days the year
round in Japan.
American cotton factories use 15,-
100000 spindles.
Cape Colony has debt Of $3J5 ior
each white resident.
Iowa produces 1865 100000 of farm
products every year.
There are 5,44G miles OF electric rail-
ways in this country.
In parts OF Australia water is sold
at 4 pence per gallon.
Tea culture is profitable on 25l 600
acres of land in India.
An aluminium factory is to be estab-
lished in Turner, Kan.
The wine-producing capacity of
Italy is 672 100000 gallons.
The ship-building industry has again
begun to flourish in Sweden.
Pennsylvania has $2GO,OOOOOO in
vested in iron and steel mills.
There are $50 lights on the Missis-
sippi and 45S on the Ohio rivers.
Connecticut's oyster yield promises
to be the greatest in her history.
The rye crop of Russia this year is
estimated at 5S7 600, 900 bushels.
India rubber heels are regarded as
an improvement on French shoes.
More than 1,OOO,OOO,OOO feet OF
lumber are cut in Texas every year.
The electric railways in the United
States are capitalized at $135,OOO,OOO.
1t costs $265 per word to send
message from New York to Demerara.
One man can make 5000 tin cans a
day by the aid OF improved machinery.
Owing to the altitude it is difficult
to boil potatoes in the City of Mexico.
A single plant of wheat is capable
of producing 1000 seeds in one season.
Nine hundred convicts in the Michi-
gan penitentiary compete with free
labor.
In all the world there is in coin
$685., ,6O5,OOO of gold, $4,O42. 100000
of silver.
South Carolina leads the other
States in her rice crop and stands fifth
in cotton.
The aggregate volume OF our trade
with France exceeds in single year
$l55,6OOOOO.
The corn crop in the West is large
enough this y ear to allow POO bushels
to every man, woman and child.
In 1898 shipments of anthracite
coal from the Pennsylvania mines
amounted to 43,OO9, ,537 gross tons.
1t is estimated that Florida's crop
of pineapples this year will aggregate
$4,000 crates, or fully 100000 pine
apples.
The railroads OF the United States
carry in year 6OO,OOO,OOO passengers
and transport SOO,OOO,OOO tons Of
freight.
In New York there are more than
a score of trained janitresses" who
are able to command $400 year and
upward.
1t is estimated that the completion
of the Siberian railroad will send down
the price of grain to the lowest point
on record.
| The first savings bank in this coun.
try was the Philadelphia Savings Fund
Society, organized in 1916. 1t is still
i'll existence.
| The first barrel OF "coal oir' was
commercially used in 1926. In 1898
3S,S20,3O6 barrels of that product
were consumed.
In times OF war the armies OF Eu.
ropean nations can be raised to 1896,
OOO men and the daily expenses will
be nearly $50 900 600.
The capital invested in the lumber
industry amounted in 1890 to $6l5,
100000, with an annual product o.
more than $jS7 100000.
The cities of New York owe Sill,
OOO, 900 the towns $l4,OOO,OOO and the
villages 50, 100000, while the counties
owe less than $l4,O00O0O.
The Pueblo Indians have on theil
vast reservation 100000 sheep, $50 ,OOC
horses and 100000 goats. Their WOO
averages 100000 pounds annually.
The value of the egg product OF the
United States is equal to one-third
that of the wheat crop, the figures be
ing approximately 100,000,OOO and
S3OO.OOOOOO.
Fifty thousand people assist in pre-.
pairing for market the hops grown in
New York State. The area Of cultiva.
ton is chiefly in Oneida, Madison and
Otsego counties.
The iron foundries of Scotland rely
for their profit not on the pig iron they
turn out, but on the products obtained
from the waste gases, which in this
country are not put to use.