Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-01-01
cIearIng-House BusInes.-

NEW YORK, December 29.-Tbe to-murTow's Public will have an aru. cle showing that the Clearing House Exchanges, al New York, fir the past year were not only larger thtn ever before, but much larger than those of London or any city in the " rid.
 The Public says, there l. one nod erat, sized room in New York Tn which the payments made during the past year have greatly exceedrd the entire amount received and Jhe entire amount expended by the United States Government from Its first establish ment down tO this time. The aggre- gate receipts of the United State, Treasury on all accounts, Oans in cluded, have been SIS. 510, SIS. .647. The aggregate payments, including all redemption or notes and bonds. have been SIS, 334, Sj4, 202, but the amount paid in the Clearing House by ex- changes alone, since January l, 1880. is $3S, GA, 240, 57S, and the balances paid during the same time amount to S1, ,561, 200, 900.
 The largest transactions ever known before in a single year were those of 1869, when a thlrd of the exchanges probably was due to speculation in gold, the exchanges then were S31.- 407, O2S, 9S7 ard the balances SEQ 3lS,3OS. For the first time that re- cord has been exceeded. The largest transactions ever made in any year through the London Clearing House were e6,0l3, 299,000 in the year 1S74-5. equal to about $50, 066, 405 ,OO0, hence the payments made Tn 1880 in the room where MT. Camp has charge are the largest ever made during any year in any establishment on earth The exchanges in all other cities in this country during the year will not be far from $l2, 265, GOO, ,00O, or less than one
 hird those at New York.
 Valuable Indians.
 WASHINGTON, December 20.-Two separate conferences were held to-day at the interior department, before Secretary Schurz, between the Cheye enne River and Lower Brule Sioux delegations and represenlatives of the Chicago, and Northwestern and Chi csgo, Milwaukee and S. Paul rail- roads, in regard to obtaining the right of way for continuation of the two lines of railway through the Sioux reservation. In the forenoon the con ference was held with the Cheyenne River delegation, and Four Bears at the outset renewed his proposal of yesterday by asking S7, O0O,0 for the necessary lands.
 Secretary Schurz stated that the railroad company offered 10 pay near ly five dollars ner acre for the neces- Sary lands, which he said was nearly four times as much as the government for wild lands. He endeav- pred tO point out the advantages which would result from having railroad built through their reservation, Ow- ing tO the fact that il would bring their crops nearer tO market, and thus enhance the value of their land a q joining the railroad. If they wanted tO be civilized the railroads were great civilizing agencies.
 Battling Reb then wanted to know they could or could not get he price asked, when Secretary Schurz informed them that they could not, and he thought the Indians did not know how much seven million dollars was or they would not be SO foolish as to ask such price.
 Rattling Reb concluded his talk by that |" We must talk il over ,low," and added that he would go home and talk with his people.
 That Does Settle It.
 ST. LOUIS, December 30.-Major J. L. MahOn, of the Indian Department has arrived from the Colorado Rive Indian Agency en route to W,sh, ngton. He says there is no doubt lbOut the death of Fictorio, the Apache chief. Major Mahon saw the amous warriors wife at San Carlos, lad she was in mourning and had cut ,f her hair-a sure sIgn that her hus-