The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-11-15
inches. The result is considered entirely
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IONA SILVER DISTRICT.


Wonderful results are expected from
the development Of the silver district OF
Arizona. This territory Is said TO III
clude the richest silver mines OF Mexico;
One mine in the Aztec district Is asserted
to have produced $50, $4,000. The Paci'
de railroad Is now being pushed into the
interior of Arizona under the direction OF
., p. Huntington, and will soon be with
In thirty miles OF the Aztec mines. A
company has been organized for the de-
yelopment of this district, through the
influence ofGov. Stafford, of Arizona, and
Col. Boyle. It Is called the Aztec anu
Inca Mining Company, and is SAID to own
several valuable mines.
El IOWA HOGS.
In statistics concerning the ll1r crop,
Iowa is represented by repor', from
twenty-seven places, twenty showing an
increase in number, tour decrease, ana
three about the same as last year, Inc
general average OF percentage OF supply
being nearly 10 per cent. The market
viii generally be somewhat later than
last, and in many sections steadily
through the season, some mostly latc,
running into the spring. AS to the
weight, eight report heavier, two lighter,
seventeen about the same as last year.
Loss from disease, more at four, lcss at
sixteen. about the same at two, none at
fvc.
THE DOLLAR OF THE FATHERS.
The silver dollar under the law of IL
792 weighed ZIG grains s02 40 fine, and
parts IN same proposition. Weight OF
$1,000, SGG 2.3Ounces. In january, 1887,
the law was changed so that the silver
do liar weighed 4I2i grains 900 fine, and
pa rts In same proportion. Weight OF 81
600 $50 u.s. ounces. This is the dollar
which was dropped from our coinage in
1873, because it had been practically out
OF circulation for twenty years or more,
and is the dollar which ii Is now prOpos-
ed to adopt, both as to weight and
fineness. In March, 1858, law was
passed which did not touch the silver dol
lar itself, but reduced the weight of the
half dollar and smaller silver to proper
tlonate parts OF 3S4 grains 900 fine to the
dollar, ST. 900 of these coins weighed 800
ounces. The law Of Feb. II, 1873, estab-
lished the weight of the hall dollar, quar-
ter. dimes and half dimes at 3Sj.S grains
300 fine; $1,000 of these coins weight
S033 ounces. These are the coins now
issued, and are in general circulation.
They are legal tender to the amount OF
b Ia any one payment. The trade dol
lar was authorized in 1873, to weigh APO
grains 900 fine, and this is legal tender
to the amount of SIS only in any one pay
ment; $1,000 Of these coins weigh $40
ounces.
SHORT NOTES.
Work on the Utah Northern railroad |
is progressing. The paper mills at Rich
mOnd, Ind. make and burn their own
gas. Saw mills in the northern part OF |
Wisconsin run night and day. There is
q man in Florida who adverlises for the |
purchase OF twenty millions Of oranges.
The government has ordered nineteen
Calling guns from the mandatory at
Hartford. Sixty thousand pounds of
dried fruit have been shipped this season
from Whitesburg, Tenn. A mandatory |
of butter tubs In Crawford county, Pa,
turns out two hundred tubs day. The |
stock of rye whisky in Philadelphia is es.
timatod at &c. 1000 bushels, and its value Is |
about $i,0O0,0O0. Davenport lumber |
dealers report that their sales for October
were larger and better than in any one
month for several years before. One firm
in COmanche county, Texas, has en-
gagged 2O,C. buffalo hides from hunters
camped on the headquarters OF the Col
orado. 1t is said II per cent. of the |
farms in Indiana are cultivated by their
owners, 90 per cent are farmed on shares.
and per cent. are rented. The bullion
product of the principal mines on the
Pacific coast during the nine months
ending September 80, 1876, was $50, O23,>
700-nearly halt of 1t gold. In the cOun-
try round about Bloomfield, Ind, hog
cholera has prevailed to such an extent
that in many instances farmers have lost
their entire droves of fat, valuable hogs.
Two farmers near Maquoke>a. Iowa, are
doing profitable business In raising
roots and herbs containing medicinal
properties aud shipping them to manu>
lecturers Of drugs. Fort Worth, Texas,
is talking about narrow guage railroad
to the northwest, tapping the copper
mines In Archer county, Texas, at the
three forks of the Wichita river.
THE IRON INTEREST.
A gentleman extensively engaged in
the iron manufacture in the Lehigh val>
Icy, writing November 8, to friend in
Springfield, Illinois, gives gloomy ac-
count business tire. When it Is remem,
bered that the Lehigh valley has usually
yielded about one.seventh OF the entire
iron product of the whole country, the
facts become very significant. The writer
says:
slow bright and promising everything
must be II reports are true from Chicago
| and the balance of the west. An abunu-
ant crop fills the granaries of the farmer,
and the high price per bushel moves
the crops, and every one Is blessed.
A gentleman from the west, in conversa-
ton, remarked that the business men
west had never done better since 1873
than during the last three months. We
hope it is true and wait for the returns of
the moving crops TO reach us, AMI give
the sleeping and painful wheels of the
manufacturer push onward. Coal is
offered us from So to So per ton; pig iron
zig to $40 per ton; merchant iron $40 to
500 per ton and no buyers. Labor Is paid
from 50 cents, 80 cents to 81 per day.
Mechanics $3.50 to l.75 per day, and 1t is
safe to say any one can 20 to any OF our
towns of 10000 inhabitants
and in half day employ 1000 men,
and 900 Of the men will not ask what
wages you will pay. Many of our large
establishments are covering themselves
with mortgages, while others have
yielded and will 70 under the hammer to
the creditor willing to pay the best fig,
ure above his own claim. Benner, In bis
prophecies; says there will be an advance
in grain, iron and pork In 1873. Grain
advances ahead of time. and maybe pork
and iron will grow all the stronger. But
If 1t does not advance in 1878 it will In q
future year. Iron will continue ore OF
the ehiei products and as safe as any.
have full confidence in the face OF the
present dsrk clouds. We will yet make
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