The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-01-23

at $50 AS. $40, and breaking the pre-
ceding years record by 10. 100000 bush
els. These two were the largest wheat
crops ever grown by any state.
The first year of the new century
was an all-around record breaker for
the farmers of the United States. The
entire years surplus of the products
OF field and farm sold abroad amounted
to less than $500. 900 600
Charles NJ. Schwab. president of the
United States Steel Corporation, is au-
thority for the statement that steel
has supplanted cotton in industrial
kingship: that it exceeded the cotton
industry in 1900 by more than $1,000
900 and for 1901 will exceed it by more
than $3.50, coo.
Reports of pig iron manufacturers
covering production in october show
that the month was record breaker,
the output reaching the great total of
1,400, 600 tons, of at the rate OF l6,eO0,
900 tons d year. All previous records
were broken during December at the
Carnegie steel mills in Homestead, the
total output for the month being So
sol tens, exclusive of armor and all
other government plate. This distrbu-
ton of wages on Dec IS, covering three
weeks. aggregated 100000. the biggest
payday ever known at this plant.
Imagine, if you can, live stock
train 1875 miles long-numbering 1887
cars and containing 34.7S5 head of cat
tie, 38. 466 hogs and 22,234 sheep, and
you will have some idea of the record
breaking day for receipts at the Union
Stock Yards. Chicago, on Wednesday,
July a. 1901. 1t was the biggest day
ever known in the history of this big
live stock mart.
The drought in the Middle and West
prr fat n cd
rush of stock to the market. The total
value of the days receipts was over
$500, 600. The cattle alone consolidated
in one mammoth animal would have
made a steer seven times as high at
the Masonic Temple, or in a single file
drove would have reached from Chi
cagO to Milwaukee.
Yhis herd weighed about 10000, 900
pounds on the hoof and furnished beef
eaters with about 20, 900, 900 pounds of
meat. The value of cattle shipments for
that entire week was estimated at over
$4,000, 900. The worlds sheep record was
smashed at these yards on Monday,
Aug. ), when 32,153 head were re-
ceived.
Taking a broader survey, all previous
records were broken in the live stock
markets of the West during the first
nine months of 1901. Treasury Depart
ment reports show that up to Oct. 1,
5,236,356 head of cattle had been han
died at the five principal live stock
centers of the West. During the same
period of 13,413, 500 hogs and 5,3S1, 1855
sheep were received, making an aggre-
gate of 2S,9S1, 1870 food animals, or l.
141, 209 more than the total for the same
period in 1900.
To conclude with a few records more
strictly in the odd class: Two prize
winning hogs were produced. Down in
Valdosta. Ga, hog was killed whose
gross weight was 1880 pounds; his net
weight was 955. Each ham weighed
1O2 pounds. This fat monster produced
$40 pounds of lard, or nearly fierce
and half-enough to last small fam
lily about four years Besides the lard,
there was nearly a wagon load of sau-
sage from this one pig. to say nothing
of big dish pans full of hogshead
cheese, liver pudding and other pro-
ducts.
The second pig giant was a Chester
white boar. weighing 1858 pounds,
measuring feet inches across the
back and 8 feet 6 inches from the tip
of the nose to the end of the tail 1t
was brought to the Chicago stock yards
Feb. 20 by S. A. Stephens of Dayton,
Ill.
Among other curious things, London
had a record breaking fog on Oct. Is,
the streets being rendered impossible
during all that evening by the densest
and blacklist fog known for years.
Park Policeman A. J. Stiles Of Chi
cago says he is the champion stopper
of runaways, having during the year
increased his total to 1876.
For Christmas remembrance rec
ordbreaking lot of American candy
Oh v,f.I
of it went in five and ten pound boxes
and was from parents to girls who are
attending schools abroad. 70 the
American girl with a sweet tooth there
is no candy like that produced in Yam
keeland.
Finally the entire postal revenue of
the United States in 1901 reached high
water mark, being in round numbers
Sill, 0000 900.