Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1884 — FUEL. [ARTICLE]

FUEL.

Amount of Wood Consumed I'l 1880 The Census Bureau furnishes an interesting estimate of the amount of wood consumed as fuel in the census year 1880. Thp following was the consumption for domestic purposes by States. Number l of per . ons using wood for domestic purposes, 32,375,074: • •. raw. Alabama $,<>76,754 18,7'27.377 Arizi na 170,<<17 724.572 Arkansas' 5.922,400 5,<>95,821 Calitorn a. 73......... 1,148'62 7.693.731 Colorado. 426 719 1.638,783 Connecticutl 5 5 639 2,371,531 Dakot a. 422,948 3,098,300 Delawarel77,#'6 751,311 •D sir e , of Columbia 26,902 80,7' 6 Florid i.. 0 9.046 1,230,412 Georgia 5,910,045 8,279,245 Idilio.. 99.91'1 .183.689 Illinois.... 5.200,104 14 136,662 Indiana 7,059.874 13,334,729 l,v.a 4.94,649 1 >.611,280 Kansas 2 ( 95,439 7 328,723 Kentucky 7,994 813 1'1,313,220 I,OU 5ta1ia........1,944,858 4, '■ 7,415 Maine 1,215,881 4,074 137 Maryland 1,152,910 3,170,941 M issachnsetts 890.041 4,613,263 Michlg-n : 57,83<,904 13.197.241 iniiesota 1,669,’68 5,873,421 Mississippi 5,01f0,758 '.,146,116 Missotui 4,016,373 8,633,465 YToitaha.. 119,947 460,63 S Nebraska 9*'8.188 3,859,843 Nevada« 155,276 972,712 New Hampshire..... 567,719 1,964,669-: New Jerne >' 642,598 2,787,216 New Me icj 169,946 1,(6 ,360 New York 11,29.'J)75 37J»99,364 North Carolina 7,434,690 9,019,569 O 11.... .... 8.191.543 16.492,574 -USE 50n............. 482,254 1,25 ,511 I'enns vi vanla. 7,361,992 15,067,661 Rh de Island 15,953 706,011 South Carolina. 3,670,959 11,505,997 rennttssee.... 8,084,611 t 0.674.72Tc.y.'S 4. 4,-83.8 2 10,177,311 Utiil 171.923 418,289 Vermont. -782,338 2, '>( (9,189 —Virginia. .5,410,112 19,4'4,144 Was inigton 184,226 499.904 —Weet-Vi-^unia.. . i... r —-5r241,069 .3,274,701\V sconsiu 7/206,126 11,863,739 Wyomil.g 40,213 ,221,848 Total.. .............,1 40,53 ,41JW06,95< 1,040 Maine and Massachusetts imported some wood fi om Canada. The railroads used 1,1)71,813 cords, valued at $5,126,714; steamboats, 787,862 cords, valued at $1,812,083. There were used in mining and amalgamating the premous metals'~3sßio74 cbfds. valued at $2,874,593; in other mining operations, 266,771 cords, valued at $973,692. In the manufacture of brick and tile, 1.157,522 cords, valued at $3,078,331. In the manufacture of salt, 540,448 cords, valued at $121,681. In the manufacture of wool, 158,208 cords, valued at $425,239. The total consumption is 145,778,137 cordsy valued at $321,962,273. The consumption of charcoal in the twenty largest cities in the manufacture of iron and in the production of the precious metals amounts to 74,008,972 bushels, valued at $5,276,736. '