Show TELEGRAPHIC FIGURES Tile New Years Showing isr o Good One Chicago 1Areview of the business of Chicago during the year just closed shows it to hare beer of unprecedented magnitude Manufacturing has increased largely and trade has been brisk in all lu branches nearly every house having more orders than it could fill promptly Denver 1 Denver papers this morning morn-ing publish reviews of business minintr etc in the state for the year 1879 the most prosperous year of Coloradys hi try The showing is decidedly healthy The number of filures in Colorado together to-gether with the amount of liabilities for the half year ending December 31st as compared with the same period of ISiS shows a highly satisfactory result In ISiS for the six months ending December Decem-ber 31st we find the total lumber I filures in tho state was 32 with liabilities liabili-ties of 215917 while for the same period of list year the total number of failures was twentyfour with liabilities of only 145500 During the psl six months some 1500 new dealers have opened up different branches of trade in various portions of the slate and tho fact that the failures not only in number but in amount of liabilities have to very materially mate-rially decreased show the stte of Colorado Colo-rado to be in a healthy financial condition condi-tion Tho business summary for Denver for 1879 shows an increase in trade and manufactures man-ufactures of fully onethird over the pro ceding year There have been no assignments assign-ments in the city during the year and the compromises do not reach 15 000 Transactions in real estate have been something wonderful tho consideration being 2777000 andover 400 brick I and I stono building estimated in value at 2200000 have been erected extending the proportions of the city in all directions direc-tions Many fine business blocks were put up and one hotel at a cost of 500 000 besides others costing less but still creditable buildings The cattle shipments from the state number 107824 the income to the state being 2500000 The wool product was 7000000 pounds wheat 2225000 bushels and oafs in proportion The garden production was large and some Iruit was rais during theyear The Western Union Telegraph Company Com-pany extended its lines 823 mile E cords show 231 births inDenver and fortyfour persons sentenced to the penitentiary peni-tentiary The greatest progress was in mines the production by counties being as follows Like 11477016 Gilpin 2008055 Clear Creek 1912410 Boulder SSOO 000 Custer 720000 Park 8434749 Gunnison 30JOCO Summit 295717 Chaffee 71240 San Juan Country 483500 total 19110862 In 1878 it was 982074gl2 showing an increase in one year of 929011888 Lake County shows the enormous increase of 8759 66599 Clear Creek and Park Counties are the only cnes which do not show ftH increase While speaking of the I Leadville yield it may be state that the total ores treated by smelters for the year 1879 is 110483 tons realizing 10504106 or a value in puro silver and metallic lead of 95 per ton It should be observed ob-served that the gold product of the Harrison Har-rison Smelter amounting to 12940 has not been included in the above table but but which being added in gives us a total product from 110483 tons of ore a commercial com-mercial value of 10517046 Tho 21349 tons of bullion has therefore an average i value per ton of S492C2M New York 2 In this city in 1879 460 failures were reported with total Ii abilities a-bilities of 16360033 In 187S there were 917 failures with liabilities amounting amount-ing to 64000000 in round numbers with assets of 18000000 a larger amount than for any other year since the panic of 1873 |