The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-01-29
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.


Saturday ssSaS 1861 1897 i iss 1857 1857 1857
IMPORTS
The foreign commerce Of the port for the woek
as foows:-General merchandise imports, including
dry goods $5,64l, a3l; produce EXPORTS $6375 lS6,
and specie EXPORTS $2l2 $685. Tho total imports since
January /, this year. were s23.Oy2 ,492. against
s27 $40 for the corresponding period in 1876 and
s25, s3s 1877 In 1875 The total exports OF produce
were s23, S13,502, against $685. 41 in 1876 and
SIG IA 402 in 1875 The total exports of specie
s97S 21 against 81 In 1876 and So 204 313 in
1875
The transactions in these securities continue to BIO
large and the prices Hrm There evident increase
In the number Of buyers OF small lots showing that
the fever for investment in governments s spreading
among private individuals well the large tnstitu
tons. The principal advance in 1865, and tho
heaviest dealings in 1S67s and 1ves The
100000 Eve per cents sold TO pay Geneva awards
brought s3l9,67 in gold, which sold Thursday.
RAILROAD BONDS.
In railroad bonds thoro has been business and
prices rule stronger; there are some exccp-
tions to this, however, and tho ST. Pauls and Lehigh
and Wilkcsbarre tho most notable Prices of SOW
era we'll known bonds have advanced quite sharply,
and with continued good investment demand 1t may
be expected that there will DO further advance.
STATE BONDS.
In the main these firm but dev eloped special
activity There is lair demand for Louisianas aud
Missourls and South Carolina consos continue strong
at 55H plan is now under consideration by promi-
nent gentlemen having tor its object compromise be-
tween the several deautng Southern States and their
creditors, whereby tho former may be restored to
paying basis and relieved OF their present financial
troubles. The advances OF tho North Carolina bond
holders who went to that State recently, however,
al
erous spirit.
MINING NEWS
The gross product Of the California mine for tho
year 1875 was l3,4O0, S41 49, Tho number Of dvi-
dends paid were eight-the first declared May s,
1S76-al Of 50 per share or ST. $50 900 each month.
The total amount Of dividends paid, So $40 600 The
company have taken out during the year los, sOOA
tons of ore or this amount 127,54O 3-5 tons have
been reduced leaving In the house 26O 800 TONS
valued $4,000 Tho value in gold OF the orc
duccd $6;4ss, $40 So, and of silver 912 200 81
The average yield Of the worked was sos OF per
ton
The Marposa tunnel is in 2,571 feet The heading is
in hard quartz and greensboro. The repairs the
Ophir Mills nearly completed and ready to start to
work the
THE HEAVY DEPRECIATION
in the Bonanza we'll as the lower shares of Nevada
which seems to have reached it's in the middle
number OF San Francisco operators, carrying down
some we'll known houses and numbercss small specu.
ators ''wh0so names never heard" by the public
The nvarable result OF material decline the ruin
OF nearly all outsiders who buy
gins, though II enriches the pro fesslonal bears
The subject much comment here, and
of a character not altogether complimentary
to the Bonanza kings, who believed to
have proflted by the Decline II they did not actually
contribute toward It, Happily, people have
almost Invariably paid for thor purchases of these
shares and affected by tho ato violent nuctua-
tons. So far as the Bonanza mines concerned
can gather nothing from mining calculated to
change tho views already expressed in regard them
The yield Of the Consolidated Virginia is much les.
scned, though the for the dminution secm to
be temporary and not at all indicative Of scarcity
of ore In place.
SOUTHERN MINES.
In Georgia work is continued a moderate scale in
both the placer and the quartz mines, and in North
Carolina mining aud milling progressing in the two
or three mines that familiar to the public, though
the prospecting that begun in the autumn
has been Interrupted by the unwontcdly snowy and
cold weather The opening of spring. which Is Of
much earlier there than here Is anxously looked
by the managers Of these Mines and especially of
those Virginia. where the hydraulic apparatus of tho
Bertha Company is ready for action with the first
thaw mine adjoining this, known as tho Edith, has
been thoroughly prospected as hydraulic mine, and
is to equipped by the Bertha Company It's
pcnsc and work within sixty days. II the earn
ngs OF these mines prove DO large their owners
confidently expect new impetus will DO given to
precious metal mining in a region lying within twelve
hours travel OF our city.
WORK IN COLORADO
has been retarded by the extraordinary depth OF tho
and the consequent impossibIlity of travel
between the mines and the homes OF the operatives
According to the public accounts, confirmed in many
instances by private correspondence, work in all
departments Of mining Is making satisfactory progress
especially in the running OF adits and tunnels The
Bureigh Tunnel Company boring through the very
backbone of the Rocky Mountains and find good at
depth from tho topmost point greater than has been
attained by any other mine In this country We
should be glad to be able furp definite informa.
ton as TO actual produc OF the great tunnel mines
DOMESTIC MARKETS..
GALVESTON, Jan. %. 1877
ON uuiet middling. 12l.c. middline pood