a farmer. The establishment is one of the best conducted and best paying in the Zollverein. The annexed figures are taken from the books of the company: Total quantity of beets worked from the 1st of October, 1867, till the 16th of February, 1868, 10,725 tons; average quantity of beets worked per day, 88 tons; number of centrifugal machines employed to extract the juice, 12; number of tons worked with one centrifugal machine each day, 74. The quality of the beets during the whole season is shown by the polarization of the juice, as follows:

The sugar and molasses obtained from the juice during the whole season amounted to 11.84 per cent. Of this yield 2,431,900 pounds of sugar were produced and brought into the market in the following quantities: first product, 6.21 per cent.; second product, 1.72 per cent.; third product, 0.59 per cent.; fourth product, 0.28 per cent. The total expenses for running the works the whole year of 1867-68, and working 10,725 tons of beets, were per ton of beets, $3 31; internal revenue, $3 39; fuel, including factory and horses for workmen, 68 cents; wood and coal for blacksmith, 0.9 cents; coke for limekilns, 2.3 cents; wages, (total,) summer and winter, $1 05.5; bone-black, 5.4 cents; limestone, 4.9 cents; cooperage, 14 cents; paper for lining barrels, 2.1 cents; discount and interest, 16 cents; cartage of sugar, 113 cents; repairs on machinery and building, 55.6 cents; salary, 18.1 cents; gas coal, 0.8 cent; oil, 1.7 cent; commission for selling sugar, 6.8 cents; insurance, 6.1 cents; sinking fund, 2.7 cents; sundries, 46-3 cents; total expenses for one ton of beets, worked, $10 39.

According to the foregoing account the yield of raw sugar was 8.8 per cent., or 176 pounds of sugar to each ton of beets, the 10,725 tons worked yielding 188,760 pounds of sugar. The total receipts for sugar and molasses amounted to $140,678 30. The cost of production was 5.9 cents per pound in gold, making a total of $101,368 40 for the aggregate production of the season, and leaving a net profit of $39,309 90.

The number of workmen employed ranged from 207 to 210, including men, women, and children, being 110 for day and 100 for night work. Wages were paid at the following rates: For carrying beets: 1 man, at 314 cents, and 5 at 30 cents, $1 831; the same for night work. For centrifugal machine: 1 man, at 373 cents; same for night. For topping and trimming beets: 12 girls, at 19 cents, $2 28; same for night. For

internal revenue scale: 1 man, at 35 cents; same for night. For grating beets: 4 boys, at 19 cents, 76 cents; same for night. For pulp wagon: 2 boys, at 21 cents, 42 cents; same for night. For centrifugal machine liquoring: 4 men, at 28 cents, $1 12; same for night. For taking out the pulp: 4 men, at 26 cents, $1 04; same for night. For carrying the pulp away: 2 mén, at 26 cents, 52 cents; same for night. For starting centrifugal machine: 2 boys, at 23 cents, 46 cents; same for night. For juice gutter: 2 boys, at 23 cents, 46 cents; same for night. For first carbonizing juice: 1 man, at 373 cents, 1 at 30 cents, 1 at 28 cents, and 1 at 462 cents, $1 421; same for night. For scum presses: 1 man, at 314 cents, and 2 at 293 cents, 903 cents; same for night. For steam syphon: 1 man, at 28 cents, and 1 at 25 cents, 53 cents; same for night. For second carbonizing juice: 1 man, at 30 cents, 1 at 29 cents, and 1 at 25 cents, 84 cents; same for night. For bone-black filter: 1 man, at 35 cents, and 2 at 25 cents, 86 cents. Same for night. For Roberts's apparatus: 1 man, at 37 cents; same for night. For sugar floors: 1 man, at 42 cents, 1 at 37 cents, 9 at 35 cents, and 1 boy at 25 cents, $4 191; none on at night. For limekiln : 1 man, at 35 cents, and 1 at 30 cents, 65 cents; for night, 1 man, at 35 cents. For lime station : 1 man, at 30 cents, and 1 at 26 cents, 56 cents; same for night. For washing wire cloth: 2 girls, at 22 cents, 44 cents; same for night. For engineers: 1 man, at 37 cents, and 1 at 35 cents, 723 cents; for night, 1 man, at 35 cents, and 1 at 32 cents, 67 cents. For firemen : 1 man at 371⁄2 cents, 2 at 35 cents, and 1 at 28 cents, $1 353; for night, 1 man, at 371⁄2 cents, and 2 at 35 cents, $1 07. For carting coal: 3 men, at 32 cents, 971 cents; same for night. For fermenting bone-black: 1 man, at 371⁄2 cents, 6 at 323 cents, and 3. at 30 cents, $3 221; same for night. For drying bone-black : 1 man, at 323 cents, and 1 boy at 25 cents, 573 cents; same for night. For bone-black furnace: 2 men, at 314 cents, 63 cents; same for night. For gas furnace: 1 man, at 371 cents; same for night. For mechanics, &c.: 1 coppersmith, 47 cents; carpenter, 44 cents; blacksmith, 43 cents; blacksmith, 32 cents; harness-maker, 374 cents; wirecloth-maker, 32 cents; nurse for hospital, 35 cents; housekeeper, 35 cents; porter, 35 cents, $3 403. For yard hands: 1 man, at 41 cents, 3 at 35 cents, 3 at 28 cents, 3 at 25 cents, and 7 boys at 21 cents, 84 52. The beet-sugar works in the province of Saxony and the duchy of Anhalt number as follows:

REPORT UPON THE AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES OF ALASKA.

SIR: Alaska may be divided agriculturally into three districts, each differing from the others in its climate, vegetation, and physical charac teristics.

The first and most northern district, which I have termed the Youkon Territory, is bounded on the south by the Alaskan Mountains, on the east by the British boundary line, and on the north and west by the Arctic Ocean and Behring Sea.

The second or middle district, which might be called the Aleutian district, includes that part of the peninsula of Aliaska, and all the islands, west of the one hundred and fifty-fifth degree of longitude.

The third or southernmost, which may be named the Sitkan district, includes all of our possessions on the mainland and islands south and east of the peninsula of Alaska.

THE YOUKON TERRITORY.

Surface. The character of the country in the vicinity of the Youkon River varies from rolling and somewhat rocky hills, generally low, that is, from five hundred to fifteen hundred feet, and easy of ascent, to broad and marshy plains, extending for miles on either side of the river near the mouth. There are, of course, no roads except an occasional trail, hardly noticeable except to a voyageur. The Youkon and its tributaries form the great highway of the country. This stream-the Missouri, as the Mackenzie is the Mississippi, of the northwest-is navigable in our territory throughout for vessels drawing not over four feet of water, and for many hundred miles for boats needing much more than that. The smaller rivers are not so deep, but many of them may be navigable for considerable distances. There are no high mountains, properly so called.

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Soil. The underlying rocks in great part are azoic, being conglomcrate, syenite and quartzite. The south shore of Norton Sound, and portions of the Kaviak Peninsula, are basalt and lava. Trachytic rocks are found at several points on the Youkon. There are, on the northeast shores of Norton Sound, abundance of sandstones, and clay beds containing lignite. Sandstone is abundant also on the Youkon, alternating with azoic rocks. The superincumbent scil differs in different places. In some localities it is clayey, and in such situations quite frequently covered with sphagnum, which always impoverishes the soil iimmediately below it. In others it is light and sandy, and over a large extent of country it is the richest alluvial, composed of very fine sand, mud, and vegetable matter, brought down by the river, and forming deposits of indefinite depth.

In some localities fresh-water marl is found in abundance, and is used for mortar or plaster, to whiten the walls of log-houses.

The soil is usually frozen at a depth of three or four feet in ordinary situations. In colder ones, it remains icy to within eighteen inches of the surface. This layer of frozen soil is six or eight feet thick;