The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-03
Pie Bonanza at the Centennial.
fFrOm the Alta California;

~ is reported that the bonanza kings, Flood
90 rien, Mackey and Fair. have for some
line had under consideration q plan to ex-
hibit ct the Centennial exhibition, the pro-
duct OF one months yisld of gold and silver
from the Consolidated Virginia and California
mines, which it is expected can be made to
reach $lO, 100000, made up in $500 silver
bricks, weighing $50 tons. and will require
fifteen cars for transportation. It is ate
that the plan will DO carried out if arrange
ments can be made with the Government to
purchase tho bullion. This will be chance
TO get rid of gold and silver bullion for bonds
Of the government, which, with the discount
on silver bullion, would leave q hands Ems
profit to our Comstock lode.
This matter has been talked Of for some
time, and has not taken definite shape. II
the bonanza kings could produce $40, 600, 900
of silver in one month, it would take all the
mills in Nevada to produce the ore, even if
the ore could be raised from the mines. This
il simply impossible, but from day to day in
the course Of two or three months, when the
combined shaft Of the California and Consol-
ida.ed Virginia reaches the 1900 level, and
the Consolidated Virginia mill is rebuilt
bullion to the Carson mint, if purchased
there by the government, and subject to the
government risk of transportation.
We Can do big things in California, raise
big potatoes, squashes and trees, but to talk
of $40, COO 600 OF silver in one month is over
stepping the mark. The whole matter Of
$4,000, 600 in one month, or $4,000 900 in
two months or more, depends upon hhe dis
position of the government to purchase this
bullion for gold or bond, and plade tie same
on exhibition at the Centennial in June or
July. It is q big thing to think Of, but
grander scheme to carry it out and get rid of
that amount of silver bullion. ut par.
California, the American Ophir.
The San Francisco Commercial Herald de.
votes its icsue of January 18Th to q most tx
haustive review of tho trade of California.
The most wonderful feature of this review is
its caption, part of which is as follows:
CALIFORNIA PRODUCTS IN 1875.
Wheat. ;-.;.............. .cen,als ao,Un, wy
Gold and silver. .......... dollars y,0t0,OOO
Lumber ......"..... ...Ieet 5os, Oo,OuO
Wool. pounds 1880, 90
Wine ................g gallons 10000 0
Quicksilver .......... TASKS $1,000
Exports Of gold and silver in nineteen
years, $749, 100000.
mia was only five and twenty years ago, such
. showing is without equal in the history of
the world. With euch result in the present,
probably few persons would be bold enough
to predict the future of the State, owing to
the circumstances of constantly accelerated
growth. These imposing figures have q
bearing on the future Of the entire country as
we'll as of one State, and taken together with
the product of hundred years, viz, the
Centennial Exhibition, to be held
this summer on our Eastern Dor
der, form an all-suffcient answer to the
gloomy anticipations sometimes INDUCED in
as to the subsequent history of the United
States. 1t is true that all sections can not
boast the progress made by California, but it
is equally true that almost everywhere are
immense resources which We have hardly yet
commenced to draw upon. After perusal Of
such figures as those furnished in this review,
the conclusion seems inevitable that the ques-
ton whether this country shall become the
storehouse and the workshop of the world
rests entirely with its people to decide.
Ship Building the Clyde In 1875.
The returns OF vessels built on the Glide
during the past year again show decrease of
tonnage as compared with the previous year.
During 1875, there we're launched fro the
various ship building yards Gncluo ing from
Rutherglen to Greenock) total OF ZIG sssels,
having a gross tonnage of PIG, 416. OF these,
there were N sailing vessels, with sn agg'e-
gate tonnage of S6 83l; 8 paddle steamers,
tonnage, 4 500; 102 screw steamers, tonnage,
III, 102, AMI % smaller vessels, tonnage, 6S4.
As compared with previous year, the returns