Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-01-30


Rose, ]. E. Aver, D. w. Haroon.
UNLocKED.-The bonds of matrimony
existing between Kimsey, male and female,
was ordered unlocked this morning by
Judge Rising. Martha was the moving
party in the premises.
Some Commercial Considerations.
The aggregate commercial tonnage of
the world was estimated at about $780,
900 tons in 1857. This was distributed
as follows: the United States, 5,66l,4l
tons Great Britain, 5,04S,270; France,
TIC, 1870; Italian States, SAG, 02l ; Holland,
456, 462; Spain, 379,42l Prussia, $685.
729; Norway, SOS, 632 !; Austria, 324, AL;
Greece, 264,9S1; Denmark, POS, l09 /;
Mexico and South America, 1878;
Turkey, lS2, 900; Bremen, l6O, 1000; Swed-
en-, l47,S2S; Hamburg, ll9,SS4; Russia,
l05,509. This estimate excludes China,
Japan, and the East generally, where no
definite data are procurable. 1t yielded an
excess of about ten per cent. to the COM
mercial tonnage of the United States over
that of Great Britain, and an excess over
all European nations, excluding Great
Britain, of over one hundred thousand
tons.
American tonnage engaged in foreign
trade in 1889 was III, 1929; in 1900, 6S2,-
ST.; in 1906, l,044.005 in 1907. l,ll6,-
24l; in 1914, only $3.50, and in 1920,
S0l,253 The aggregate of tonnage enter
ing the ports of the United States from
foreign countries in 1921 was S46,624
tons, of which but 81, 526 or sc was for
eign; in 1880 it was l,099,l27, of which
l3l, 900 or 1910 was foreign; in 1910 it
was 2,2S9,309. of which 1888 or 3l.l
was foreign in 1850, 4,34S,639, of which
l,775,623 or 40.S was foreign; in 1858,
6,2Sl, 943, of which 2,277,93 or S6.l was
foreign; in 1857, 7,lS6,3l6, of which
3,46i, 946 or 34.3 was foreign; in 1860,
S,275,l96, of which 2,35S,9 oil or 2S.4 was
foreign; in 1861, 7,24l,47l, of which
2,2l7,554 or 30.6 was foreign; in 1862,
1861, 953. of which 2,245,27S or 800 was
foreign; and in 1868, 1856, 076, of which
2,64O,37S or 1854 was foreign, Some de-
duction has to be made from these figures
as they stand to arrive at the exact ocean
commerce, since our Canadian tonnage
was 2,4S7,373 American and 6S3,4ll for
eign tons in 1862, and 2,307, 233 American
to 743, 1876 foreign in 1868.
These facts are sufficient to show all
that we care now to dwell upon. They
represent a growth of 5,793,956 tons
from l27, 1929 to 1921, 2s5-in the seventy
one years between 1889 and 1860. With
this commerce, our imports in 1925 were
SS3, 500, 1924, and in 1860, 1852, l63, 94l
or more than quadrupled in little over
one quarter of a century. Our exports,
which were S43,671,S94 in 1921, became
SlOl, lS9,OS2 in 1885; Sl13,S95,634 in
1910; Sl50,3l0,604 in 1S47; $l96,6S9,-
us in 1851; S252,047,S06 in 1854;
1886, 9S5,O65 in 1857 /; $373,lSS,274 in
1860; and $305, 1898 in 1868. The
total British tonnage entering ports of the
United States rose from S6,377 tons in
1929; to 6l5,623 in 1871; 760,0S5 in
1916; l,l77,l04 in lS4S 2,l52,S92 in
1856, and 2,096,6l2 in 1868. French
tonnage was l4,40S in 1929, and only
22,3I2 in 1868; but German swelled from
1915 in the earlier to 333,354 in the latter
period.
These commercial statistics are of great
importance at any time, but of the great
est now. The facts of our internal devel-
opments, brought into much prominence
through investigations caused by war and
resulting perturbations, have attracted
grave discussion, and aroused studious in
terest that will not die with the day.
Commerce has Jagged and shrunk away,
because piracies promoted from rivalry
have temporarily broken it up. Our won
derful increase in the brief period of our
national life, which raised our tonnage
from almost nothing when the nation had
established its freedom to superiority over
that of the greatest commercial country,
caused fear as well as jealousy, and any
method was hailed which promised to de-
stroy or cripple it. Much has been done
to that end. Although the ships burned
by the Sumter, the Alabama, the Florida,
the Rappahannock. the Tallahassee and
other pirates, have not been numerous,
they have suffered to place hundreds Of
thousands of tons of shipping under Brit
ish and foreign flags; to break up our
East India commerce and destroy much
that was domestic. the demand for ship
wrights in national yards, and for sailors
in the navy, taken in connection with the
stagnation of mercantile callings, has ag-
9ravated the trouble, and diminished our
commercial tonnage until it can hardly
compare with that of twenty years since.
The navy has grown with most marvel
Gus rapidity, and that is all.
This state of things will not continue
beyond the close of the war, if even so
long. Ship-building is prevented solely
by the impossibility of procuring ship
wriehts. As before stated, they are taken
up by the Government, or have entered
some calling whiS1 just now more lu-
crative. The facts presented show, how
ever, to how great an extent we are COM
mercial and maritime people. They show
that even such strife as 1872 had hardly
any appreciable effect upon our CONNER
cial transactions; that we rallied in day
from the disorders of two years, and then
at once overshot our former goal Just as
the various failures and moneyed disor-
ders of some years have given impulse to
the years that followed. The general
course is markedly forward. In series
of years We always show gain. This IS
to be renewed with new vigor, and every
achievement of arms, bringing peace
nearer, brings nearer the day when this
revival will recommence. We have no
cotton, tobacco, sugar or rice to export
to-day. This is nearly all the loss in oul
material for exchange, and will be rene
died in three years from the defeat of the
rebellion. Grain, coal, iron, lead, lumber
produce, and all the remaining staples
are ready for the hand of commerce. Oh
is an addition made since the war, which
will count maryelously in very brie
time, and command business beyond in
st.nt calculation. California and Oregon
\ III ,v-ow The railway to connect then