The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-06-04

$13 600 DO Cumberland Coal and Iron Co. 81
$4,000 per cent bonds Pacific Mail Steam.
81, coo q the Ohio River Land and Marble Co. 70
5000 per cent bonds State Of Virginia.. JOG
Mr. Hodge, the geologst, and Presden. of the Ulster
Lead Company, has inside the following report OF his
latest examination Of the mine. He says
From my examination of the Ulster mine, made the
present. week. am happy to be able to report the most
sail factory results Of the pIodactiySness o. the mine
furnaces are in working condition. provided with blowing
apparatus of the most thorough construction One fur
only is used and this for two shifts of eight hours
each.
The production is about three pigs per hour of seventy
Actually smeled though think this Or more may be de-
pended upon the men become better accustomed to
the work As fast rs the shelters can be by
nstructipg men, the furnace will be twenty four
hours and the other one be put in blast The actual re-
suits far three thous pounds Of lead per day.
The expenses two thou sand dollars per month OF
which about fifth should be charged to construction
account This account is now about closed and all bills
paid.
From the quantity of already mined, its unusual
purity. the continued productiveness and constant i'm
provement Of the mine, much better results than the
above may be confidently relied upon for long time to
The steam engine blowing cylinders and furnaces
have worked admirably from the start
II is estimated that at this moderate rate Of pro-
duction, the net income would amount to sl1O,O
which would be equal to twenty per cent the total
capital The par value Of the stock is IS per share
The Boston and Providence Railroad Company have de-
cared semi annual dividend Of three per cent the
Bergen Plank Road Company, five per cent
The annual report of the New York and New Haven
Railroad shows that the total earnings Of the company
for the year ending April /, $780, l3 49, The
rent charges $500 32pai Harlem road s67 ITO
CO. leaving with the surplus from last year Of $2S 54
dividend Of Harlem stock and interest charged
cost Of second track S27 Of s42S 173 IS to
pay interest taxes, dividends and other liabilities.
a., No.r IT,, ~
s2s e7e 20 for personal damages the loss extension
lease is 500 98s sO-deductirg which items there is
surplus Of $50 ss5 rs, wherewi,h to the
year. The cost of the road and equipments is
81 col co. not including the expenditures for property
not entirely appropriated to the of the road and
which cost 1854 SS5 3d. making total expenditure Of
s49734s7 H. The capital stock is So oo0 the bonds
amount to 81 000 and sundry loans, accounts, &c
to 1892 4S7 IA. The passenger trains have $685.
miles, freight trains 22s miles gravel and other trains
1872 miles-mskrg total of nearly 500 600 miles. The
whole number Of passengers moved Ia The trains by the
above service is 966,753.
The rece at the Office Of the Assistant Treasurer of
this port to-day, amounted to s131 l76 80; payments
$50 492 3s-balance, $6,777, 467 4S.
The amount Of duties collected at the Custom House.
Phiacel during the first five months Of the present
year. 81 65l 65 against ST. 947 4s for the
of c4 IT, The import trade Of Philadelphia does not
amount to much The whole receipts OF duties for six
months hardly amount to months business at the
Custom House in this city The export trade Of Phia
depbia is Of much greater consequence.
The Boston Journal says that copper shares pressed
for sale at prices, especially the companies
which have multiplied rather faster than buyers Some
Of the older concerns, however, meet with ready sale,
and one two instances quoted ut advance.
COPPER Falls improved Forest declined u; Totec Is
quoted at yesterdays prices; Dana, Winthrop and
shawmu are lower An assessment OF 81 10 per share
been laid the shares OF the Forest Company and
81 cents per share the Dana Company These demands
upon shareholders necessary to the proper working
of the mines, and only made from time to time
the expenses accrue but their effect is temporarily ad
| verse upon the stocks assessed
The importaons OF specie into Boston, during the
month Of May amounted 20 SIT $780, Total since Jan.
st3 75o Exports in May, s465 49, Total since Jan
81 Os7 2eS 03, Of which 81 o79 44e 50 Was in gold
The annexed statement exhibits the business transas
ed at the weigh lock in West Troy, during the month 81
! May, In each Of the past three years.
| NEW YoRK STATE CAsAIs-TRADE AND TONNAGE.
| No. boats Weight Of osrgoes Ave. weight
ls5l...13 $50 13f s54 800 Ill 49,
| Is52..............171s 1913 547 800 1l7,os4
| 1S53..............1,9s2 244,ols,6oo ,22s
Increase in 1853 over 1884, boats 2e7 cargo 5o47o 500
Ibs.-iDcreased average weight "a, las lbs.
Increase In 1853 ever 1861 boats 623 cargo LOG o64 eot
| Ibs.--incrHsed average weight 2o,o67 lbs.
The number Of boats stated above includes al weighed
during tho month Of May in each year. both loaded and
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