Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1874 — PACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

PACTS AND FIGURES.

—During the lastjyear 1,350 new buildings have been fcjlilt in Chicago, at a total cost of about $12,694,200. —The earnings of the St. Joseph bridge, Mo., for the month of October footed up a little over $t3,000. —There are drawn from the waters around Newfoundland nearly 100,000 codfish every year. —We have imported from Canada during the last four years a yearly average of 4,500,00 b bushels of barley. —The old iron mine of Salisbury, Conn., which has been worked over 150 years, recently declared a dividend of 115 per cent. —Careful estimates put the yield of the precious metals this year in ttah at $10,000,000. This is against $5,000,000 last year. —According to the new military survey of the Russian Empire, the monarchy extends over 400,000 geographical square miles. —The manufacture of watches in this country employs a capital of nearly $5,000,000, the number of watches made annually being about 200,000. —The largest cargo of oats ever loaded j on any vessel in the port of Chicago ' was shipped on the propeller Davidson, ' consisting of 111,000 bushels. —Oregon is growing in wealth. During the last four years the increase has been four fold.’ With a population of only 100,000, the exports exceed $10,000,000 in value. —ln the Royal Mint at London great care is taken es the “ sweepings” of the various rooms and offices. Last year the ! amount of gold rescued from these sweepings realized more than $11,476. —Boston ought to have money to lend pretty soon. The dividends due in the month of November and payable in Boston foot up $3,059,342, of which $924,145 is in gold. This is comfortable. — Chicago Inter-Ocean.

—At Chicago, during the month of October, 18,380 car-loads and 122 canalboat loads of grain were inspected into store, aggregating 7,691,999 bushels, and 7,787,509 bushels were inspected out of store; grand total of bushels grain inspected during the month, 15,479,488. —The Assessors’ returns, as made to the Auditor of the State, showed there were 1,000,604 hogs in lowa this year. As these hogs will average, at the present prices, at least sl2 each, here is the nice sum of $42,007,248 coming into lowa this winter for this one product alone. —The Louisville Courier-Journal estimates the aggregate of the tobacco crop in the United States thi§ year at 105,000 hogsheads and 65,000 cases, as compared with 265,000 hogsheads and 140,000 cases in 1873 and 272,000 hogsheads and 145,000 cases in 1872. Addihg in the stock left over, the total supply this year is 260,860 hogsheads as compared with 370,423 in 1873 and 373,803 in 1872. Calculating that the requ:’rements will be the same as in previous years, the supply left in the markets October, 1875, will be only 2,000 hogsheads, as compared with 135,000 this year and 115,000 in 1873.