, 1876-11-25
The West Drawing on the Legal"
Tender Reserves Of New
York.
New York Exchange Flat, Discounts
Moderate.~. .Clearings So, 500, 600.
The rrolnco Markets Irrcgnlar...Corn
and Barley Weak.
Provisions md Wheat Stronger Early, but
Close Tame,
The Carrying Of Produce This Winter.


FINANCIAL.
The moycmcnt:of currency Is The only thing
about tho nnncia situation that can be called act
,yo. Tho orders from the Interior were ltbcrnl
and 40 before came almost entirely from tho hog
a,.t.cts Tho bnnks OF this city have been COM
pel1cd, IN order to meet tho drain. 10 draw on theif
reserves In New York, and ehpments have been re-
ee,vcd from there In tho last two days a. will be APP
nnront in tho New York bank statement for tho
week..
Tho demand Tor dscount la moderate. Packers
arc Increasing the offerings Of their paper, md
there IL some uthtr additional supply In connec'
Won with the hog movement aud there 10 not muen
Of II after all The supply Of mercantile, 'nann'
featuring, snd miscellaneous paper Is abons the
Same % It was. The banks have m abuhahnce OF
losuhblc funds to moot ali these demands.
Rates OF discount were sdb1o per cent TO regular
customers. Special rntce nro made In special cases
to nrse-cass Independent borrowers. On Tho street,
rates arc per cont and upwards With little doing.
New York exchange was Dat, at BocDS1.oo per
81, 600 discount.
The elcarngs vera 81, COO, GOO.
FORGED RAILROAD BoEDs+
Nj. Morris, Chairman Of the Law Committee,
announced TO tho New York Stock Bonrsl, Wednes.
day morning, TINT forged bonds OF the Chicago,
Milwaukee u st. Paul second mortgage, 7 3-l0,
Prairie Du Chen Division. had been plaecd upon
tho market. Tho body Of tho bond appears 10 10
genuine, the signatures being fosgcF1cs and look
freshly vrltton, They purport 10 have been issncd
thirteen years ago. The party who brought them
into Wall street, as we'll ~ tho one from whom 10
. originally received them, have been arrested.
ROCK BLAND DIVIDENDS.
The Ch tcago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
compsny have decided TO nay roasterly Instead of
scmt. aupu 81 dividends. The drat OF tho quarterly
dividends will be uaynblo Feb. l, 1877.
THE OTHER SIDE.
The 6aN Flnnciseo UulitfIn prints chapter in
the history OF slycr mining that ought to he read
side BY I'D With the glowing ssor'cs Of the bonnn.
"a mines, .Donanzas Hrc scarce, eveM In silver
mines and ,vcsing capital III hunting for them ss
prccsr;ous Lp siueet. There is a group Of mines
.bout silver oty, in Idaho Territory, where hunt.
lnu for tseesura has been an expensive 1uxurJ 20
faT. There II htst dozen mines In lhls list, md
more OF less wort has been donc on ull Of them,
with variable resn lu. not one. however, has been
ahlc to gut along ithout material aid from stock
holders. Some Of these mines havo bccn before
the uube for do1o1 years or more. At present
they rcprcsent nominal capital Of s5a oo0, 600,
but tho only money aid by tho original corpo-
rators las been In the form Of assessments. Tic
ua,ncs Of tho mincs arc Empire. Golden Chariot,
Ida Fillmore, Illinois Cen tras+ Mnhogahy Paupes,
Too.man, Silver Cord, south Chariot South
Mountain Consolidated, War Eagle, md
Red Jackrt. The Incorporated capital Ia
s53, 300 UcD, Of which ST. J0f, zoo has been paid up
Ia nosc.tn,entr. Tie t;oldon Chariot has paid thr
tctu d,yiaent.e. aN.punsng to $500, 600. the Inst
one bcn3 dlst,1.cd Oct "a, 1879; the Ida Elln,oEe
Las pald s!. dividends Of $J0, 600, but mono since
Feb. &, 1870; tho Mahogany paid ono dividend or
slI 700 q, the 5th OF August, 1H72 bnt 1inmca,-
ascIy col,.d It )ack In iii assessment. These are
tho nnly mine. in tho group that havC paid divi-
Acnd. and tic occonnt brtwcen the cnttre list and
Huahtr. Ameant:
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