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Show OF INTEREST TO ALL- Only citizens who can read and write are allowed to vote in Bolivia. A contract has been Jet for the construction construc-tion of an irrigating canal in the Santa Cruz valley, Arizona, to cost $1,200,000. Siberia is soon to have a railroad from the Ural mountains to the sea of Japan, a distance dis-tance of 4785 miles, costing $133,825,000. Recently at Amador, Cal., a block of marble mar-ble weighing one hundred tons was quarried and cut up into columns for a new theater. A sugar fifteen times sweeter than cane sugar, and twenty times sweeter than beet sutjar, has been extracted from cotton seed nnal by a German chemist. The Glenwood, Col., R-ptbHcm says: Six hundred men employed on the railroad up from Carbondale to the marble beds are making times irood up the river. In two or three weeks from now Glenwood Springs wii! itegin to reap some of the benefits. The Brazilian Steamship company now runs fourteen steamers a month to Brazilian ports, instead of three as formerly. This is substantially an increase of from 15,000 tons of freight monthly to 70,000 tons. And the trade is still growing. The .Northwestern Land and Coal company of Boston has purchased 50,000 acres of oil lauds in Natrona county. The company has $-3,000,000 capital and expects to expend $100,(KH) in the development of their Wyoming Wyom-ing property withiu the next year or two. |