The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-04-28
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NOTES OF INTEREST.


Fnrty-one warships were launched in
Great Britain during 1898.
In ten years the production of steam
engines i'll Germany has more than dou-
hltd
In 1897 Germany contained 100000
horses, lS,NN,uOO cattle, 14,2I5,0 900 pigs
and 100000 sheep.
Canada is building ten big steel
wheat ships of $1,000 bushels capacity
to traverse her 1S-fout canals to tide
water.
During lS.'S Switzerland's imports
r\rrrLeu it's exports by $tA,UO,WM. 1t
seems queer that Il great share Of the i'm
ports consists Ut Watches
--rnuchung tea, which has been pro-
,lured in FormoSa for eighteen years, is
the pure leaf artiticially favored with
the scent Of white jasmine or Olea.
The imposition by the United States
uf Il tax on tea almost ruined the tea
trade of FormoSa last year. The United
States furnish the chief market for For
mo>a Oolong.
Maj. NJ. Il. Marks of Orlando, Fla,
is financing an electric propelling device
which will. he maintains, carry Il ship
from New York to Southampton i'll three
and one-half days
Peanut or yround-nut butter has
been successfully made and marketed
W Wholesale. ut Is and II cents Il pound.
1t is put up III cans OF various sizes, from
one pound to 100 pounds.
The rapidly increasing population of
Etrullny neceS$ltates corresponding
increase in the imports Of provisions and
raw material. The masses are neither
fed nor clothed from home products.
\ large class Of Mexicans, commonly
called poems, wear Il kind of sandal.
These are called 'yuarOcheS, and con-
Si>t of Il simple sole Of leather held to the
feet with strings which pass between the
toes and are tied about the ankles.
WISCONSIN produces annually III aver
aye Of lo,OOO.OUO pounds of cheese. near
ly all Of it made by Swiss methods and
Swiss people, who initiate the home
product fairly we'll. Most Of it is
shipped to the Pacific coast aud finds its
market i'll the South American countries.
A. +. George, fish commissioner for
the Western Shore Of Maryland, has
been delivering fish along the Baltimore
X Ohio railroad at various points to
stock streams He distributed nearly
100000 brook and rainbow trout in Gar
rett county. visiting nearly every dis
trlrt
The government of the Congo Free
State. with the object of preventing the
Threatened destruction of the india-rub-
Der trees III that country, has promul
gated !, decree by which it is provided
that for every ton of rubber yielded am
nualy there shall be planted not less
than $50 trees.
The city of Bre>lau is about to grant
Il charter to the street railroad company
for i term of twenty-four years with
privilege of putting the same under cleo
trir motive power in place of horse
power. which is used ut present. The
reconstruction Of the roads must be
completed within two years.
The I.icSe international exposition
will he held i'll that city beginning about
May l. 1903, and continue six months,
'lE'icI the patronage of the government
VT Belgium and the province and city Of
has been selected, covering about POO
a''rr>, purity in the valley and partly on
III" hills.
American cotton has Il very keen
competitor in the Russian market in
.ASiatir cotton grown from imported
American seeds. This latter cotton is
"luaI i'll quality to mdllinS New Or
leans cotton. 1t is reported that this
-i>lat'' cotton deteriorateS after lapse
"t years. and that fresh seeds have to
be planted.
Three Steamship lines plying be-
tween Australia and China and Japln
;!rr now calling regularly at the port of
Manila, Philippine islands. These are
the China Navigation company, the East
rrn aud Australian Steamship company
and the Nippon YuSen Kaisha Ia Jap
'neSt' line). Each of the companies has
four fairly good steamers.
There are no large factories for max
llS shoes i'll Mexico, as in the United
MATES. There are extensive establish
mtntS III Leon, Mexico City and Guada-
lAl"r;s !'nt they are not exactly facto-
rieS. The shoes are made under a kind
If tenement system. Workmcn receive
4 stipulated sum for each pair of shoes
made according to quality.
The commerce of Hiogo tKobe) dur-
H's the YER 1898 was almost So, 800 900
IN rXcess of that of Yokohama, thus
making Iliogo the leading commercial
port i'll Japan, although the exports do
NOT equal those of Yokohama, The
trade returns Of Yokohama tiuctuate az
'"r''lng to the silk market. while the
commerce of Hiogo is more general,
The limited number of boots and
shoes imported into Mexico from the
nlt"i States comes from Boston and st.
l'"n'>. American capital has not ut.
tempted tn establish shoe factories in The
r'ruhllr: but it is quite possible that
S'l' n an industry, using all the modern
'I''"r-SavlnS devices and producing II
cheap shoe, would prove IL s,,c,,.ssfuI In.
't>tnrnt. "
he Port" Rican settlement ,f
Rome" 'lt Leon at CHparra, near tho site
or I"'tl" Eitj". across San Juan bay
IS now by more than hfty-tivc years the
frst town established within the nr,.s
rnt hor'!rrS of the United States. une
therefore. must give the prestige of IN,
flIulty. not to the Spanish town of S.
Augustine. Fla. of 1Jt;5, as formerly. bnt
I" Caparra, Porto Rico, founded in the
year 800.
There is Il branch ostrich :.farm" of
few acres i'll or near Jacksonville, Fla
y contains about 100 birds, most of them
Eatch"d i'll this country. The ostrich
breeding industry has it's drawbacks
and. Will" it has been regarded as fairly
i"nlrn'rativc under favorable conditions
the importation of feathers from Africn
t" this country is large and represents a
large amount of money, estimated ~,
from 81 100000 to 50, 800 900 per annum.
H. II. Beels, who constructed tho
Fort Arthur rTexas) canal, is n native of
Holland, and came to this country TWEEN
ty-three years ago. He entered the serv-
ice of the Kansas City, Pittsbure and
Gulf railroad in 1895. Some time ago he
was appointed resident engineer at Port
Arthur, in charge of all local SURVEYS
and work involved in the construction Of
the terminals and the building of the
Fort Arthur ship canal, which is expect
Ell to be of great commercial value to the
states of Missouri and Kansas as a gulf
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