Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-01-09
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.

BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.
Now they have electrical toys.
The best matches are made of cork
pine.
Cut-glass handles for umbrellas are
new.
The best bricks are made In Central
Asia.
There is cotton palace at Waco.
Texas.
The largest watch factory Is to be at
Liverpool.
The tobacco tax in Germany is to be
increased.
Nineteen Chicago trains arrive at
New York daily.
New Mexico ranks eighth in silver
and seventh in gold.
The yield of wheat in Texas this year
is 8. 900, 900 bushels.
Twenty-Five thousand men are en-
ployed at the Carnegie works.
French trade with Madagascar
amounts to about S., 100000 year.
One man makes a fortune to eight
that become bankrupt in England.
Manchester, England, gets its water
supply ninety-five miles away.
Cotton has not been 80 cheap at Liver.
pool as it is now for forty-s years.
Raw silk Of the value of 500, $3.50, 900
was imported during the last fiscal
year.
Three thousand persons are to be EN-.
ployed by ST. Louis tobacco factory.
The output of gold for the United
States this year is estimated at $43,-
100000
The manufactured products Of Great
Britain amount to about 81, 1O0,0 00.-
900 a year.
The value of the leaf tobacco ex-
ported by this country in 1890 was
$40. $40. 900.
Twelve million postage stamps are
used every day by the inhabitants Of
the United States.
The total amount Of deposits in the
savings banks of this country in 1898
was 81, 1856, $50, 795.
Baltimore still has one horse railway
but it is to be converted into an electric
road next year.
On the average there are 10000 ad-
vertisements day in the eight London
morning papers.
In New York there is talk of build.
ing 200 feet wide by 600 feet in length
and fifteen stories high.
Every bushel of grain which left New
York for Europe last year was carried
under foreign flag.
Within the last three years 220 miles
OF electric track have been laid in and
around Baltimore.
Sioux Indians of South Dakota sell
more than 500, 900 worth of grain to
the Government every year.
1t is said that the gold product Of
Montana this year will show 70 per
cent. increase over that of 1898.
If all our carrying vessels were an.
chored in one harbor there would be q
fleet of 80, $50 sail and wheelers.
Pennsylvania 8 printing. done by the
Public Printer, cost $l39,771 last year;
supplies and paper, $4,000.
The Swiss Postoffice conveys any.
thing from a postal card to barrels Of
wine, scythes and bundles of old iron.
The South contains over 200. 900. 900
acres OF forest land-over half of the
woodland area of the United States.
In most parts of Syria, Palestine and
Arabia fig trees and date palms are
counted, and tax is levied on each
tree.
During the reign of the celebrated
Walker tariff we exported $456, 000,-
900 of gold to pay the balance of trade
against us.
The Southern corn crop will be near
ly 00,000,0 900 bushels, according to
United States Agricultural Depart
ment. an increase of 48, 900, 600 bushels.
There are forty -eight different mater
ials used in constructing piano, from
no fewer than sixteen different coun-
tries, employing forty five different
hands.
The University Press, Cambridge,
Mass, was founded in 1889, and, with
a lapse of about one year, has been
running ever since. 1t employs from ,
800 to $50 hands.
Sir Arthur Sullivan is said to have
realized $50, 900 on the sales OF his
song, 1.-THE Lost Chord. a sum greater
by $4,000 than Balfe received for II
Dreamt Dwelt in Marble Halls"
A capias has been issued at Saginaw