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YOL. 1 N0.331 Cahtbusvill'k if§j>. j consolidated 1887.
FACTS AND FIGURES.
\ Strong 1 better From Hon.
Joseph M. Brown.
Hl* !>•** Thar PiR Ii Can t Manu
f*<tur*i Cheaply in Carteraville
at in Birmingham or Chatta
nooga—The Beat Iron
in the World.
Kiutouh Atlanta Constitution: I wan
verv g-lud to see your editorial published
about- a week ago in which you called at
tention to the precious metals which un
,]er\ie the soil of Georgia, and gave some
figures which as far as they go are con
vincing proofs that capital invested in
mineral property of northwest Georgia
is money well spent.
I am glad to note that one of the lead
ing newspapers of Georgia has a good
word to say for its own State. The cus
tom for the past year or two has been to
call attention t-oeverything which showed
Birmingham and other Alabama cities to
|,e splendid localities for profitable in
vestment. The truth of the matter is
that northwest Georgia is richer in ores
than northern Alabama, and is better
situated for the successful conducting of
large iron and steel establishments than
is northern Alabama.
To come directly to the point, Birming
ham is in the midst of a region which is
underlaid with iron ore, but this ore is
too soft to make first-class iron, unless it
is mixed with a proportion of harder
ores. Although the output of the Birm
ingham furnaces is immense, yet the
prices at which the Birmingham pig iron
is sold and graded is less than that at
which the output of the furnace at Ris
ing Fawn, Ga., is rated. The pig iron
from the Rising Fawn furnace has for
years been at the head of the list.
This furnace is to a very large extent
supplied by ores shipped from near Car
tersville, Ga. From Rogers station alone
about 2,000 carloads per annum of iron
o e are shippped to Rising Fawn furnace
and the Chattanooga iron furnace; from
Stegall’s station, also on the Western
and Atlantic railroad, just south of Car
tersville, there are between one and two
thousand carloads of ore shipped to the
same furnaces; and from these two points
I have fov some years past been furnish
ing rates upon which large shipments
have been made to Birmingham to be
mixed with softer ores in the making of
iron. Some of this business goes via
Chattanooga and the Alabama Great
Southern road, and some of it comes via
Atlanta and takes the Georgia Pacific.
From Rogers station, also from Car
tersville, for years past, shipments of
manganese ore have been made to New
’i ork, for export, and to Pittsburg. The
Carnegie Bros, take all this Georgia man
ganese which can be furnished them, and
pay the freight from Cartersville and
Rogers to Pittsburg.
Now with these facts being apparent it
has long been a wonder to me that iron
furnaces for working this ore were not
placed at or near Cartersville instead of
in Tennessee or Alabama. You may say
'hat it is the question of the location or
materials; still, the ores as 1 have shown
are near Cartersville, and coke can be
'fought from the coal mines on the line
"1 the East and West railroad of Ala
baina, or from mines beyond Chattanoo
ga, and the East and West railroad of
Alabama would doubtless be perfectly
"illing to guarantee a rate of eighty
ents per ton on coke from Broken Arrow
<,r Fairview to Cartersville.
Ihe Rising Fawn furnace, as I under
hand it, pays about seventy cents per
" 0Q on coke from the mines to the fur
nace, Therefore the freight on the coke
w °uld be practically the same as to Ris
lnß Fawn, and only about fifty cents
mor f than the Birmingham furnaces pay,
and only about twenty-five cents more
!l, an the Chattanooga furnaces pay, from
’henearer mines to both those points;
hie furnaces at Birmingham and Chatta
l,oga from the more distant mines pay
'much as sixty or seventy cents per
ton.
hime rock is essential in iron making,
au h it is found in the greatest abundance
1 Bartow county near Cartersville.
mdstone is accessary in the building of
“ furnaces, and there are considrrable
b r es of it not very far from Carters
le - Therefore all the materials which
necessary for the making of iron are
hie immediate vicinity of Cartersville.
I hnv,as to the freight rates on pig iron.
I at all times make from C’arters
“ to Cincinnati, Louisville, Chicago
all northwestern points the same
II as ig or will be made from Birming
fk fhe rate on pig iron at present
Rirmingharn and Chattanooga to
■ * York, Philadelphia, Boston and
..T 1 ' eastern cities is #3.75 per ton.
I Vi' Central railroad and the Georgia
I *'°ad, loading from Atlanta via t>a-
I ~'' hp a-i<] via Charleston to eastern
I wiii* 5 ’ * iavß always expressed themselves
jjl to accept on this business from
m
THE Oil HaNT-AMKHH AN.
points on the same business from Bir
mingham and Chattanooga.
The Western and Atlantic railroad will
be perfectly willing to accept from Car
tersville to Atlanta the same proportion,
or in some cases, possibly, a less propor
tion than it gets on the Chattanooga
business. Therefore, from Cartersville
the siiine rates can l>e made on pig iron
to eastern points as are made from Bir
mingham and Chattanooga.
What, then, is in the way of
coming to Cartersville for the purpose of
ron manufacturing, instead of drifting
to Tennessee and Alabama?
Nothing reasonable that I can see.
With better ores, and with the general
cost practically the same, northwest
Georgia should lead either Alabama or
Tennessee in the manufacture of first
class iron. With her manganese deposits,
which have no rival in the south, she
should stand first in the facilities offered
for the manufacture of steel.
You make the point in your editorial
that Atlanta would be a fine place tor the
erection of a steel plant. So it would. It
would be one of the best points in the
south for an immense rolling mill. The
pig iron could be manufactured at or
near Cartersville and freighted to Atlanta
at a comparatively small cost, and could
here be made into bar iron, etc.
I have given you a few thoughts, as
they may possibly be of some interest to
your readers who have been in doubt as
to the question of freights and other
matters upon which I have touched.
Hoping that you will keep on with the
good work you have started of giving
Georgia a fair showing with Alabama, I
am, yours very truly,
Joseph M. Brown,
Gen'l Freight Agent, W\ & A. R. R.
Many People Ket'uge to Take Cod
Liver Oil on account of its unpleasant
taste. This difficulty has been overcome
in Scott’s Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil
with Hypophosphites. It being as pala
table as milk, and the most valuable
remedy known for the treatment of Con
sumption, Scrofula and Bronchitis, Gen
eral Debility, Wasting Diseases of Chil
dren, Chronic Coughs and Colds, has
caused physicians in all parts of the
world to use it. Physicians report our
little patients take it with pleasure. Try
Scott s Emulsion, and be convinced.
Dr. Thomas Hall, Holly Creek, Ga., says:
“I am using Scott’s Emulsion, in the
case of a little child one year old, wast
ing away, and it is improving fast.
Befbrtmotfiing would stay in its stomach,
but the Emulsion agrees with it
perfectly. jan 20-1 in
A Relic of Barbarism.
From the St. James Budegt.]
I t is many years since the traveller who
was advised to go and see India remarked
that he did not care to do so, as the gov
ernment had abolished "hook-swinging
and widow-burning. But some of the in
habitants of that vast peninsula are still
given to strange customs, of which little
or nothing is known to Europeans. It
seems that in the Nilam’s dominions there
is a caste in which this practice prevails.
When any of its members dies a flag is
attached to a bamboo, and the bamboo
is given to a man to hold over the corpe
of the deceased. Then, having retired to
a convenient distance, the men of the
caste open fire on the flag, probably by
way of showing their distress, and of
helping the souj of the deceased on its
journey to some other world. But not
everybody is a William Tell: and some
times it happens that the man holding
the flag is shot. This actually occurred
on a recent occasion, and notice was
taken of it by the Nizam’s government.
In the Tarida, or government gazette, it
is made known to all concerned that no
flag held over a corpse is to be fired at in
the future.
* * * * £ U pture radically cured, also
pile tumors and fistula 1 . Pamphlet, of
particulars 10 cents in stamps. World’s
Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo,
N. Y. '
Heirs to a Big English Estate.
Conyers, Ga., Jan. 22.—Mr. AY. E.
Jeter lias received reliable information
that a large estate in England, to which
he is one of the principal heirs, is about
to be distributed. The estate has been
in litigation since 1872, and has cost the
claimants a considerable sum in estab
lishing the justice of .their claim. How
ever, they have succeeded in establish
ing their relationship, and it is no longer
a question of trouble. The courts have
decided that the claim must be paid.
The estate is enormously large, and
originally belonged to Rufus Jennigs, of
Birmingham, England. It is at present
worth #438,000,000, and Mr. Jeter’s
share amounts to #11,000,000.
The Manchester Union “calls down”
the Southern papers generally in at
tempting to forecast the effect in the
North of the establishment of a few mills
at the South, appear to lose sight of the
fact that in this country alone the de
mand for goods is steadily increasing. It
may be doubted, in fact, whether the
Southern mills, of which considerable is
said from time to time, produce sufficient
goods, all told, to supply the difference in
the annual increase of population.
Again, the New England mills have invest
ed an immense amount of capital in plants
for the production of classes of gooffs
CARTERSVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, JAN. 27, 1888.
which the Southern mills are not yet at
tempting to manufacture, and they hold
markets which it will be exceedingly dif
ficult for any rival to get away from
them. But there should be no talk of
rivalry. The cotton which is grown in
the United States should be manufac
tured here, but so long as thousands
upon thousands of bales are annually
shipped to England, Belgium and France,
there should be plenty of room for the
South to develop cotton manufacturing
as far as its capital and ability to pro
cure help will admit, without interfering
with the solid and prosperous manufac
tories at the North. As the South be
comes more familiar with the possibili
ties which opened before it at the close of
the war, it will gradually lose the habit
of lookidg at New England every time its
own cotton mills add a few thousand
spindles to their capacity.—Savannah
Times.
NORTH GEORGIA DEVELOP
MENT.
Ohio and Pennsylvania Parties Buying
up Mineral Lands
We copy the following from a commu
nication written by a Roman, which ap
peared in Tuesday’s Constitution:
“Never since your pajsr was started
has it ever contained one single sentence
that afforded more gratification to our
people than does the sweeping promise
that “the Constitution shall let the world
know precisely what we have in North
Georgia in the way of iron ores.”
“When you shall have accomplished
this undertaking, the world will say, with
you, “What a royal empire God made,
when he made Georgia;” and the “storm
centers” will indeed return to this favored
land.
“Already “the straws that note the
coming current of the trade winds” may
be seen on every hand.
“Within the past few weeks, there has
been a number of parties from Ohio and
Pennsylvania in different parts of Floyd
and surrounding counties on the “still
hunt” for select mineral and forest lands
and some splendid properties have passed
into their hands. The writer has con
versed with a number of them, and
wherever he has succeeded in obtaining
their opinions of the resources of this
region, he has almost been amazed at
the picture they have drawn, portraying
our possibilities. These people are not,
in many instances, buying North Geor
gia lands, with the view* of shipping their
outports from our borders. They see
with a prophetic eye, the near approach
of the time w hen these crude materials
must be converted into manufactured
products, at our doors. There seems to
be but one opinion entertained and that
is that at no distant day the south is
destined to become the great manufactur
ing center of this country. There is no
reason why this should not be so. The
quality of our ore, if equaled by any, is
surpassed by none. There is probably
enough ore in Floyd, Bartow, Polk,
Chattooga, and other counties in North
Georgia, to produce sufficient iron and
steel to supply the wants of the entire
country for twenty decades to come‘
while an abundance of coal is near at
hand. Our immense forests contain all
that is needed for the commonest re
quirements and for that affording the
highest polish for decorative work, while
mountains of marble rise up on all sides.
In your language, “what shall we do
about it?” You have said, Rome will
build half a dozen furnaces in less than
that many years. We understood this
prophecy as indicating theduty of Rome,
and it is hoped that she will more than
accomplish the full task assigned her.
Floyd will do her duty and other coun
ties will join in the work, and Atlanta
will invest half a million dollars in the
steel works, suggested by you, and ten
times as much in other kindred indus
tries, so soon as you shall have made
good your laudable pledge to let the
world know precisely wha’t we have in
North Georgia in the way of iron ores.”
The Baldwin locomotive works, in Phil
adelphia, turned out an average of two
complete locomotives a day during the
year just closed. The works employed
3,000 men, who were at work 304 days,
thus making the average time of build
ing a locomotive four hours and forty
minutes. This eclipses the year 1882,
when 503 locomotives, the largest num
ber in any single year up to that time,
were built. In 1831, the year the works
were established by Matthias W. Bald
win, one locomotive was completed, and
since that time there has built a
total of 8,975 engines for railroads in
the United States, Europe, Japan, Cuba,
the Sandwich Islands, Brazil, Mexico and
Central America. The 653 locomotives
built last year placed in a continuous
line would make a train five miles in
length.
A dozen iron furnaces in Caitersville
would not be too many for our abundant
supply of ores.
Gol in our Old Fields
Considering health better than wealth.
Then must we consider Taylor’s Chero
kee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein
better than gold, for it will cure coughs,
cold and croup.
ARP STARTS A BOOM.
What the People of North Geor
gia are Doing.
The Treasures Bidden in the Earth —Bar-
tow County’s Prosperity—A Wel
come to Strangess.
L&st summer 1 overheard two men
talking as they were digging away in the
mines, and one said: “Jim, they say
thar is a big bum up at Rome.”
“What’s that?” said .Tim.
“Why hit’s a kind of thing wliar one
feller gits something for nothing and
another feller gits nothing for some
tiling.”
“Why that’s a faro bank or a lottery,
ain’t it?” said Jim.
“No it ain't. I tell you its a bum —a
kind of a tradin’ business what swells
and shrinks and the sweller and shrinker
stays down in a cellar and works the
machine. They trade in stock.”
“Horses and mules?’ said Jim. “No,
hit’s all on paper and nobody can see
what he is buyiu’. You put your money
in and wait for a swell. If it comes you
are all right, but if a shrink conies you
are busted, and you feel so shamed that
you don’t say anything about it, and it
never gets into the papers—nothing but
the swells gits in the papers.”
Well, the booms have about subsided
in Rome and Birmingham and Decatur,
and those thriving cities have settled
down to business. When a man buys
real estate there now he means business
and that is honest and healthy. A slow
and sure growth is the best. That is just
what we want here in Cartersville and the
signs are good. There is not a house
to rent and many are wanted right now.
But we are building and will soon have
some manufactures here that ,will en
liven the town. It is the prettiest town
of its size now in the state, except Mari
etta, and does more business than any.
There is one dry goods house here that
sells* more goods than any retail house
in Rome, and one hardware house that
does more business than and hardware
house in Rome, and one wagon and
carriage factory that makes more vehi
cles aid sells more than any ri the
and a man told me he sold twenty
thousand dollars’ worth of family gro
ceries last year and never lost but two
dollars and forty-five cents. We ship
manganese across the ocean and to Car
negie, in Pennsylvania. We ship yellow
ochre to New York and iron ore to Ten
nessee. The fact is we have enough min
erals here to keep 5,000 hands busy for
a hundred years. I see that a Tallapoosa
boomer says in an interview that he
found more ore at Tallapoosa than he did
at Cartersville. Well, i am not going to
slander Tallapoosa. That New York
Herald man told enough lies on her to
do for awhile, but there is more iron ore
in one hill in Bartow than there is within
twenty miles of Tallapoosa’. Bartow is
the great reserve, the mineral storehouse,
and it is the granary, too. We make
more grain than any county in the State,
more in quantity and more to the acre.
Our taxpayers return their lands at a
Higher rate per acre than any county in
the State. We have more rivers and
creeks and bridges and mills than any
county. We have most everything that
anybody wants. Why, I saw four men
from Rome over here yesterday with
their dogs and guns, came over here
to find game. Our doctors play back
gammon half their time, and the sexton
is so poor he can’t go to a circus. Neither
epidemics nor contagions can live here,
for it is a rdund, rolling-country, with
drainage in every valley and rich valleys
between all the hills. There are seven
streams and five springs and a creek
upon my little farm of 200 acres. A
traveler can stop and water his horses
every two or three miles, if he wants to.
We have a street railroad that splits the
town in the middle, and runs fiom
Rogers to Stegalls and from Stegalls to
Rogers, with ten trains a day—not a
horse car line, nor a dummy, but a sure
enough steam line, with a palace car
attachment. We can go anywhere we
wish to as cheap as we can stay at home
and do it in less time. We have the best
weekly paper in the state excepting those
that are better than it is and I don’t
know where they are. If any friendly
man away up among the blizzards wants
to come south either for good health or
morals, let him send a dollar to the
Coukant-American and lie can learn all
about old Bartow and Cartersville.
Atlanta Capital: “The Georgia evan
gelist is once more in the field of Chris
tian work. His labors are now .being
carried on in the wicked city of the West,
Kansas City. The kindness and devo
tion that Mr. Jones displayed to his wife
in her recent illness at her home in Car
tersville endeared him to every wife, sis
ter and mother in the United States, and
they believe more earnestly in the great
work he is accomplishing than ever be
fore.”
The following is a special from Carters-
ville to the Constitution: “So much are
our jeople pleased with the recent letters
of Mr. Brown and Bill Arp to the Consti
tution that they will be copied in the
Courant this week and five hundred extra
copies scattered abroad. The Courant,
by the way, we consider the liveliest*and
best weekly in North Georjjia, if not in
the State.”
Capt. John Posted returned last
Wednesday night from New York, where
he has been for the past two weeks in
the interest of the East & West railroad.
The ladies’ bazaar on the 13th and
14th of February will be a grand affair.
Let everyone attend.
Our lumber men are doing a good bus
iness.
Death of a Little Child.
Robert, the three year old son of Mr.
and Mrs. T. A. Foote, formerly of this
place, but notv Atlanta, died in the latter
city Thursday, and was brought here by
the parents for burial. The bereaved
parents have the sympathy of all in their
sad affliction.
SAVE YOUR MOM EY.
Take Care of Your Dime* and the Dollar*
Will Take Car** of Themselvep,
One of the most popular crazes of the
day is to lay aside every piece of money
under the amount of a quarter that
comes in one’s possession and let them
accumulate. For instance, a man starts
out some bright morning with anew sil
ver dollar in his pocket. The first thing
that he will probably buy is a cigar, and
he planks down his wheel and receives in
change a half-dollar, a quarter and two
dimes. The latter he puts away for safe
keeping, and the next thing he invests in
is a copy of the Courant-American, if he
is not a subscriber. He hands out his
fifty-cents piece and receives twenty-five
eents and two more dimes or four five
cent pieces in change. Before night has
come he has probably squandered a few
more cents and his remaining quarters
were used in paying for his purchases and
in adding to his saving fund. This he
keeps up regularly and in a month’s time
he will probably have a regular boot
black’s fortune in nickels and dimes.
This craze is said to be .very fascina
ting to those who try it, and we will add
that it has the merit of possessing more
common sense than any craze that has
taken hold of the people during our few
years of observation. It teaches a mah
to take care of his nickels and dimes. As
a rule, the Southern people are entirely
too careless with their small change.
They have little regard for their quarters
and dimes, and to the pennies they are
almost strangers.
After a man has practiced the scheme
spoken of for a little while and his small
money has grown into dollars, he uatu
rallly looks around for some place in
which to hoard his wealth and to keep it
growing. This brings up more talk and
the question of a savings bank is nq*v up-
If ail the money thus saved is handed in
to a savings bank the accumulations in
a few months will be surprising. To
leave the subject of the new craze entirely
alone, we copy the following from a re
cent issue of the Baltimore News to show
how these saving institutions work:
An officer of a leading savings bank
said: “It is only difficult to induce peo
ple to make a start in saving money.
When they do this they are almost in
variably surprised at what they can lay
by for a rainy day, and that too, with
out theleast inconvenience to themselves.
I call to mind the case of a man who
began to deposit #1 a week in our bank
about three years ago. Nearly every
Monda.y, when he left his money, he ac
companied'‘the deposit with the remark,
‘I do not expect to keep it up, but I wih
do the best lean.’ At the. end of the
first year he had saved #52. This so
pleased him that he increased his weekly
deposits to #2, and he now brings #3
here each Monday.
Another man came here last week and
left a deposit of 25 cents, accompanying
it with the remark that, as his little son
liad already begun to talk about what
he wanted Kriss Kringle to bring next
Christmas, he made up his mind to de
posit an amount equal to 5 cents a day.
If this deposit is kept up, he will, by next
Christmas, have saved a sum sufficient
to realize the little fellow’s wildest hopes.
But the first deposit served to awaken
in the father to save, and on
Saturday he made a deposit of #l.
There is no estimating the amount of
suffering from poverty which has been
prevented by savings banks to those
who are dependent upon wage-work for
the necessaries of life.” *
The Cedartown Advertiser has the fSt
lowing: “Mr. Hugh Young, who has
been engaged with J. Scbeuer & Bro at
this place for the last four months, on
Tuesday returned to Cartersville, where
he will again ‘reside. During his short
stay here he has won the solid friendship
of numbers of our people by his genial
manners and splendid demeanor, and
many are the regrets that his stay in the
community has so suddenly terminated.’
The East Cartersville Institute is now
in the most flourishing condition ever
experienced in its history.
51.50 Per Annum—sc. a Copy.
TWO GALA DAYS.
To be Had In Crlersvllle eu the 13tliaiil
14th of February
There’s to be two gala days iu Carters
ville next month.
The ladies of the city, with their char
acteristic energy and enterprise, are ar
ranging for a St. Valentine’s bazaar on
the 13th and 14th of February. They
havfc entered heartily into the work and
it is needless to say our people will be
given an opportunity to have a general
good time.
They will have valentines for sale and
a postoffice through which the missives
of the little gods will be sent and received
will occupy a space in the building and
will be presided over by one of Carters
ville's most charming young ladies.
Lovers of archery will be given an op
portunity to amuse themselves and test
their skill. A supper fit for fairies and
gods will be served, and there will be no
excuse for any one in Oartersville to go
hungry while the doors of this enterprise
are open. Booths, in charge of bevi**s of
fair girls, will contain many beautiful
things that will tempt the eye, the appe
tite and the pocket book. The hall will
be beautifully decorated with floral bow
ers and flowers, and bonbons will be dis
pensed. The crowning feature of the
affair will be the beautiful doll to be
voted to the most popular young miss.
This will take place at W. C. Edwards’
stand, at the corner of Erwin and West
Main streets, and will be for the benefit
of the Ascension (Episcopal) church. The
enterprise in itself is worthy of the great
est success, and as it has so good an ob
ject in view, the ladies should be enthusi
astically sustained by the entire popula
tion of Oartersville.
The ladies of this city are at all times
alive to every good work, in which they
are always foremost. They deserve all
the blessings and praise that can be be
stowed upon them.
i
A Woman’s Discovery.
“Another wonderful discovery has been
made and that too by a lady in this coun
ty Disease fastened its clutches upon
her and for seven years she withstood its
severest tests, but her vital organs were
undermined and death seemed imminent.
For three months she coughed incessantly
and could not sleep. She bought of us a
bottle of Dr. King’s New 7 Discovery for
> Consumption and w 7 as so much relieved
on taking the first dose that she slept all
night and with one bottle has been mirac
ulously cured Her name is Mrs Luther
Lutz.” Thus write VV. C. Hamrick &
Cos., ot Shelby, N. C.—Get a free trial
bottle at Wikle’s Drug Store. 2
A Noble Work.
It is gratifying to note the interest
manifested of late by the Atlanta Con
stitution in the development of the re
sources of North Georgia. It can do the
State no greater service than to throw
its powerful influence in this direction.
Georgia has been the foremost State in
the South in the manufacture of cotton,
and there is no reason, with the proper
encouragement, why she should not be
the leading iron and steel producing
State; at least, stand abreast with Ala
bama and Tennessee. With the single
exception of coal, she surpasses either
these states, in the quality and quantity
of her ores and other material essential
to the manufacture of iron, and her ad
vantages in these more than discounts
the slight disadvantage in coal, for this
can be laid down right at the furnace at
as low rates of freight as at Birmingham
or Chattanooga.
There is no influence that can do so
mucn for Georgia in developing and
building lip her iro interest as the l ’on
stitution. Already this great journal has
done a noble work in advertising the-
State’s resources and making it the • em
pire State of the South.” Whenever it
turns its efforts in any direction, it be
comes a mighty engine, and its influence
is soon felt. It can, and we believe,
means to do much towards building up
the iron interest of this section.
A correspondent writing from Russia
says that in the dinning-room of one of
the large cafes of Moscow there is a pool
of fresh water iu which fish of various
kinds and sizes swim about. Any patron
of the restaurant who may wish a course
of fish for his dinner goes to the pool,
picks out the particular fish which strikes
his fancy, and in a jiffy the waiter lias
captured it with a dip net and sent it
out to the chef.
In Kansas City last Sunday afternoon
Rev. Sam Jones spoke “to men otdy,’*
the audience numbering (*,OOO. A col
lection amounting to thirty-five hundred
dollars was taken up for Mr. Jones’ per
sonal benefit.
The United States is the largest con
suming country of raisins in the world,
and the annual consumption is about
2,000,000 boxes of about twenty
pounds each, which at an average of #2
a box shows an expenditure of $4,000,-
000 per annum for one article in the
dried fruit line. The amount referred to
represents say, 1,000,000 boxes Valencia,
950,000 boxes California, 200,000 boxes
Malaga and 100,000 boxes Smyrna,