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The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-14
GRANTS WORK.

General Grant made quick work with his
railway business in Mexico. His plan of &C
ton was we'll laid, infinitely followed and
carried to a successful completion. He went
down to Mexico about the 7th of May. On
the 18th he held the autograph of Mexico's
President to the contract; on the 18th the
Mexican House of Representatives approved
it, and the Senate did the same thing within
a week afterwards. The whole business was
commenced and finished within three weeks
from the time of his arrival there. The Sc
cret of his success may be found IN the fact
that Grant asked neither land, money nor
bonds of the Mexican Government, as all
other railroad organizations in that country
have. He wanted simply the right of way
for a railroad from the City of Mexico to a
point on the fronties of Guatemala, some 400
miles distant. This is what he has obtained.
Branch roads will also be built from the
main line to important places on either side,
which will carry the entire enterprise over
1000 miles of country.
1t is said the topography of the routes is
good and that the road can be constructed as
cheaply as like roads can be in the western
states. The road will strike the Pacific at
the Gulf of Tehauntepec. From that poit
there is a road in course of construction
across the Isthmus. This line of road will
open up one of the richest sections in North
America; the plateau oyer which it will pass
produces enormous yields of cereals, while
the lowlands are rich in tropical productions.
1t Will also pierce a mineral country second
to zone in wealth. The contract specifies
that the road shall be completed within ten
years and that it shall receive no government
aid. Other lines are contemplated being
built from the City OF Mexico to connect with
others that are now being pushed from the
United States towards the Rio rande. When
finished, as they will be in a few years at the
farthest, a continuous line will be in opera
ton from the city of New York to the Gulf
of ~Tehauntepec. The line will bring the
two countries in closer relations; bind them
in bonds of closer sympathy, and pave the
way for American capital and enterprise to
fully develop the immense resources of Our
southern neighbor.
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If the same Instantaneous conditions
surrounded railroad building now that exist.
ed during the years above mentioned we
might anticipate the same disastrous results
to follow, for like causes produce like effects.
But different conditions existed. Then, the
great bulk of capital employed was borrowed
in Europe, and the payment Of the annual
Interest upon the money created d great drain
upon the earnings of the roads. Immigration
was slack and the balance of foreign trade
was against the country. These facts taken
in connection with those we have noticed ere
ated the great financial disaster of % from
which the country did not really recover un-
til 1879. In hat ycar a new era Ill railroad
building commenced, but under far more IA
vorable conditions. We have resumed specie
payment there has been an unprecedented
demand for our products abroad the balance
of foreign trade is largely in our favor mon
ey is plenty and cheap. Immigrants he the
most desirable character are landing upon our
shores by the thousands each week they have
means TO invest in lands and make them i'm
medlately productive American syndic ties
furnish a large proportion if not all the CAPT
tai employed in railroad enterprises, and the
annual interest is 1"'ained in this country.
The roads are being , .tended to rich and fer
tile but heretofore u ettled portions of the
southwest and great northwest, and the prod
uctc of the miner, the agricultnralist aud the
stock-raiser are transported to less favored Sec
tions. The traffic upon all these extended
lines is immense aud as long as the
demand at the east for western products
continues this traffic will not decrease.
Then again the cost of building roads have
been greatly lessened during the past few
wears. as the following tab e Will shnR:
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years, as the following tab e will show:

The comparative cheapness of railroad ma
terial since 'T3, as shown by the above table,
explains in a measure the great activity now
going on ia these enterprises. The price 0
labor is reasonable ; the country is being
rapidly developed, and with the encourage
ment which every well-wisher of his state or
territory should extend to them there..is no
reason TO apprehend that the lines now in
course of construction will not be pushed to a
rapid and successful completion. Railroad
building like every other legitimate business
is governed by the simple law of supply and
demand, supplies creating the demand for
them. Until they cease we may rest assured
tha't We building of these great arteries of
trade will continue until Montana in connec-
ton with her contiguous territories is grid
ironed with railroads. Let them come. We
are living in the railroad age.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-14

That Albany dispatch of the Sth instant,
announcing that President Garfield advises
the Administrator Republican legislators to
return Conkling and Plat to the United
States Senate, has a decidedly fisly smell and
taste. 1t appears the letter is not for general
circulation, but for the consideration of a
select few. Garfield has lost his cunning if
he voluntarily places a weapon in the hands
of Conkling to he nsed for the destruction of
the halfbreeGs. The President is not "a senti-
mental fool. He is HOT ST. ready to forgive
the man OF wi,otn lie recently sad she would
look him in tie eye if he c4nl2 Into bis roam
and give him hi, boz when he went OUT
All the talk about d harinonioiis AdDlinistra-
tion with Cohkling and Pratt in Ll. United
States Senate, is nonsense. pure and simple.
That letter is Il lit,l+ device of some wag OF
scheIuer to lirkl" Tn. ears OF !,c. sta(warts.
The fight between the far IONS will 20 ON.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-14

John Sherman has been giving the Ohio
boys heroic doses of tatfy. Between them he
ndwiches some prominent truths, hut
much more nonsense. He was right when
he said that The present gubernatorial cleo
tion wonld be no child's play. With the
stalwarts prodding the party in the rear and
the d,mocrats making. their irrisistable
charge in the front, Foster will have a rough
rad TO travel, so rough indeed That the chances
arr that he will be 'too Late In view of the
history of the Republican party with its ,nul-
titudinous rings and sboss~s," Sherman's
declaration that the party would not tole-
rate ''bosses" and if such appeared they
should make their will beforehand, must have
caused a broad slui!e Of inaedulity to dls.nrt
the conntenances Of the Buckeyes pres-nt
Sherman has b~losSoinad oUl intoa inst class
dema2Ogua.
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Senator Conkling.
From the Lincoln Journal.

lie was not a coward, nor a time server.
lie never crooked the pregnant hinges of hi.
Knees to any transient surprising Of the peo-
ple' making a blind grab after the impractical
ole. He never made. any money out of his
politics, nor coined his personal influence.
which was once, at least of some value. No
corporation eyer had a mortgage on him from
the days of the Credit Mobllier down to the
present date. He never had to explain a let
ter nor apologize for the sin er circumstan-
ces OF the environment of any of his public or
private acts. He never turned his back TO the
cyclone Of imitation. He was not the vici;,n
to the sentimenta!ity that abandoned the
freedmen, white men and ''clrpet bayrers ~ of
the South b, the tender mercies of the Con.
federate Brigadiers. He was never a visiting
statesman. He never kicked General Grant,
nor belied any other soldier who did his duty
tor the Union in the civil war. He never
made anv ado over his own honesty, nor set
himself Up as IA professional reformer. He
defended his friends, aud his friends have al
ways been respectable enough to bear defense,
put he has wasted no eulogy. in defending
himself, always leaving his acts to speak for
him.
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CARL SEIZURE.
He will Become the Editor
New York Evening Pos
Sure Enough.

Gath's special to Cincinnati EnouI
A prominent man in both finance ]
islation said to me in the cars: 81 J
have been guessing at Carl Seizures J
ton in New York. First, you have \
down to be editor of the EUening Pod
to be employed in a railroad or other
by Henry Willard and fraternity. I'M
two close guesses," said this gentlemJ
cause l happen to know what he is ID
do. He is to become the editor of IN
ing Post, as you originally related, N
lard and Horace White are going to N
leading interest in tho Post and put
there to edit it,"
"Well," said I, 81 knew they were|
his patrons, but could not quite undl
what they could put him except in
road"
, a.. at is not a railroad directly" eyI
my Informant, "but it is a newspapet
Bryant g. Goodwin interest in, the 4
Post is to be sold ; the proprietors off
per do not agree; the Henderson
owns the building and some
stock. Henderson's son-in-law, an
strapper, Ii Sperry, edits the Cd
and the Bryant interest conf
doth stand upon its head and howl
atopsis, because tie moral sentiments
ducats are neither up to its poetical d
ton. The interests of Miss Bryant al,
Gsodwin are to be purchased by
White 4 Co., and they, having large M
concerns, and both being experience
~ndlists, have hit upon Schurz as a pro-
itOr. The same interest was offered d
Nofdhoff, and perhaps others, but ID
clined TO buy, although the purchase
was no great sum-"
HAS not the paper a large business.
"No; it contains a great deal of at
ing, for which it gets = small rate, and
lates not over ten to twelve Thousand
If the good times keep up four or five
and the Jews department of the Post i
original, and replaces its plethora of cd
it might get good advertising rates, vi
cannot do while Benefits Telegram j
every day in giving the news. 1t mus
a circulation corresponding with its at
ing rates. Now, Schurz had to do
thing, aud this opportunity offered.
not wait to take his family to St. Lou
he is pretty old at fifty to undertake TO
old heavy paper like that into prosper
will be hard labor. The Henderson il
OWNS the Post building"
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Old Sayings.

A greedy nan God hates. A great
soonest hit. A hasty man never wan
A honey tongue, a heart OF gall. A
man is an angry man. A great shlI
have deep water. A great reputatl
great charge. A guilty conscience lie
accuseI. A happy heart makes a hal
age. A handful Of trade is a hanC
gold. A jest driven too far brings hon
A handsome man and a fool NAY "
same cap. A great mans foolish sayi'
for wise ones. A handsaw is a goo
but not to shave with. A joke neverg
enemy, but often loses a friend. A
evening may follow a sorrowful morn
great man and a great river are {
neighb0rs. A handful of sense is '
bushel of learning. A great man
trample OH a worm, nor speak to
peror.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-14

The San Francisco Bank offers for subscrip-
ton in the London market fo00, 900 of six
per cent. first mortgage bonds of the Oregon
& California railroad at par-the remainder
of the issue of f1,200,OO0, the res, of which
has already been subscribed.
The ringleader of the anti Jewish riots at
kfetf las been sentenced to three and ii half
years penal servitude and the loss OF his
civil rights. Three of his most active accom-
piices have been senteucedt TO eighteen months
and twelve others TO short terms OF imprison-
iEent.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-14

This may be properly called the railway
age. Without stopping to inquire into the
causes that have produced it, the fact that
the American railway system is undergoing a
remarkable development, is too plainly ap-
parent to question. While the great mass of
the people in every country hail with pleas
ure the advent of the means of a more rapid
transit, with all its accompanying stimulants
to the various trades and industries in which
thew are engaged, there are those whose
tongues are turned to evil prophesying and
can only see in the increased activity and
hustle in the various departments of trade
the forerunner of a great monetary panic,
business depression and the consequent tinan-
cial ruin of thousa IDS. These chronic croak-
ers base their %prophesies upon the assumption
that the same causes which led to the sweep
ing panic of 1878 are at work now and will
sooner or later result in the same ~financia
disasters that overlook the country in the fall
of the year above named.
1t will be remembered that during the one
or two years previous to Is railway building
was carried on to a large extent. a railroad
craze seemed to have seized the people, and
nearly every one who had u surplus of capt.
tai on land eagerly invested it in railroad
shares. In 1871 over 5000 miles of track
were laid an increase of 1900 miles over
any preceding or subsequent year. As the
result proved, The country was not prepared
Tor the immense drain that was then made
upon its resources. 1t could not stand the
GENERALIZATION of its capital in one industry,
nor did the traffic of the country justify the
advance made in railway lines. There was
not business enough in the country to sup
port them, besides the cost of constructing
railroads was much greater than it is at the
present time. A glance at the following
table will show this. For the years follow
ing the close of the war up to the panic Of
70 the cost of iron and steel rails per ton was
as follows:
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Sleigh Bells-fiow Made

1t has, no doubt, been a mystery Il
how the iron ball inside Of sleigh b
there, and is said to have taken cons
thought on the part of the discovere!
the idea struck him. In making sleig
the iron bail Is put inside a sand core,
shape Of the inside of the bell. Then
is male .lust the shape OF the outside 0
This sand core, with the jinglet in
ps ced in the mould of the ontside,
melted metal is poured in, which fills
space between the core and mould.
metal burns the core so that it all
shaken out, leaving the ball within Il
Ball valves, swivel joints, and many O
ticles are cast in the same manner.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-14

AT a meeting Oi the Auti- Slave Trade So
ciety in Madrid recently a resolution
was passed demanding the abolition Of capt.
tai punishment and the immediate liberation
of ali the slaves in the Antilles.
Nearly all the cattle by the Allan line
steamer PhUniciad, which arrived at Glasgow
OH the 3lst ult. from Boston, were found to
be affected with foot and-mouth disease. The
slaughtered carcasses will be boiled down.
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DE LESSEPS' WORK.

Though but little has been heard lat ely
about the Panama canal scheme, the project
has not been allowed to rest by those inter-
ested in it,. The ''little old man, De Les
seps, has not been idle. He is working away
at his pet enterpris', but working very quiet
ly. Very recently the company which be
represents purchased, under certain condi-
tions, the Panama railroad. The possession
of this railway is a very important factor in
the realization of the canal scheme. Under
the concessions held by the railroad company
from the United States of Colombia, it was
impossible to build the canal without first OBJ
tanning the consent of that company. This
obstacle is removed by De Lesseps in obtain
ing control of the railroad, and furthermore
its cooperation is assured in the construction
of the canal. The annual earnings of the
be taken as a fair index of tie immense
amount of traffic that passes over it. During
the year 1880 its gross receipts amounted to
s ,277,674. Its total expenses for the same
time, including subsidy and interest on bonds,
were only 81, 75,4l5, leaving for clear earn
ings the sum of 81, 1902 ,25s. For a roai less
than fifty miles in length this is good show
ing. De Lesseps appears to be in earnest in
the prosecution of the enterprise he has TAX
en- in hand and is working at it Systematically
and with an eye looking to its early compile
ton,
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The Ger.nan lie!chs'as has adjourned for a
week.
Slight shocks If earthquake at Mount We
s!iViuS have ben followed by II sIrung erup-
hon. Broad aud active Streams OF lava are
fo"ing down the north east side.
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The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-14

MIR. Gladstone loves to sit down To work
immediately after breakfast, and to toll IN to
within an hour of dinner time, when he Will
take perhaps IA hasty gallop OH horseback or a
quick walk. About | or 2 O'Clock in the
Afternoon he takes Il biscuit and a couple of
glasses OF sherrs-as hp once informed a tee
total dep"tati"n 10 its dismay, she found it
gave HIM renewed Strength" Next to HON.
rr' Dante r Mr.. 'fladstonr'S ~favorite author.
He is fond of Scott, and Macaulay. he AID, hts
cured him of his extreme Church and state
views.
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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-08-16

There Is little elBo doing now In the dry
goods line then completing preparations for
the fall trade. The New York Commercial
Balletln of the 10th Inst, says.
The trade In dry goods has progressed favor
ABLY the past week, though tho demand was
somewhat Irregular, owing 10 intervals of OPP.
prthsiVely warm weather which. mi titated
against the distribution OF tall aud win ter fab
nc. There was a continued large movement
In APPLE, cotton and wooden goods, shirts
ana drawers, ETC., on account OF former orders,
and very fair business la prints, glnghams
dreasB goods, shawls, skirts, etc, was re-
ported by manufacturers agents, represent
Ing the mJst desira lie makes. There has
bean no disposition TO anticipate future wants
to any great extent, but on the contrary buy
era have conducted their operations with a
good deal ofcautlOn, which augurs well for "A
sound, wholesome fall trade. Tho Job trade
was unfavorably Influenced by the warm
weather that prevailed during PORTION of
the week, butsymptoms of Improvement we've
apparent, and 9 iSlT business Ia STABLE and
department goodS was done with retailers
from Texas and other remote points in the
south and west The reduction OF freight to
70 the west has rendered buyers from th at sec
tion anxious to obi AIN deliveries ON accoLn mt Of
back orders as fast as possible, In order 10
mako shipments at the resent low rates ,
but no IN tterial Increase OF busnesa has "a
yet resulted nom the reduced freigetg, Values
nave been steadily maintained on all kinda of
manufactured goods, and stocks In first hands
are exceptionally light for this stage OF The
season.
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building nsn.arial.

BHICK--At the kilns to 80
SToNK-At the Dallas quarrias 80 ner cubic
foot. II for foundation, 1T for wall, and 20 10
dressed front.
LuMBRH-Natlve rough pine 80 per thousand;
Dressed on one side, S22 sos Flooring, tongu-
cd and grooved, S95 Dressed Notwithstanding,
Sis; Three-eighth tOngued and grooVed ceiling
els to $40.
5uINGLEs--CYpresf, 90 pen thousandi Native
pine, sap, So; do heat, 81 90,
LATus--8S 90 at 81 per thouesnd.
CKNEET.-- Rosandale, u bOi IOuiHVilleI
81 90; Portland, SO 90.
PLASTER v PARIs-Per barrol, u alta 90,
itAIR-Pe pound. 7kc.
CEMENT PruEs. Inch, % cents; tnoh, Az
ceuta; inch ceiling joint, 81; 9 inch cap, 500;
7 inch ceiling joint, 81 10; inch cap do, 600.
DRAIN PIPES Inch, l6c per loot; dhcn
| zoe; inch, a75So; inch, 400; inch, 800.
MIXED PAINTs-Ready for uae and oil colorl
| 81 s5 per gallon. All the te ted and standard
mAkea are on sale 10y Dallas dealers.
LIME-CooPered,. 2per nbl., bulk, 81 80.
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Lest year England imported 3,7li 40
| eggs.
About "A 900 boxes Of cheese were exported
| from New York last week.
1t Is anticipated that the yield Of peaches in
the Hudson river dstrics viii be unusually
prolific.
Peaches will be scarce, says the Baltimore
Trade, but pears and plums Will be plentiful.
1t is expected that foreign countries Will
send 60l O0,0u0 oranges thus year. Florida
Will supply about 90, O0O,O eco.
Grasshoppers are destroying the oat crop in
all pariB Of Berks county, Pennsylvania.
The outlook in Nebraska for corn and small
grain waB never 30 promising, and farmers are
happy.
The drouth in the southern and western parts
of Kentucky threatens TO cut short the lobac-
co crop very seriously,
Tine quality Of the wool raised In California
ana Oregon this ear 10 reported 20 per cent
better Than last year.
over one hundred thousand tons ofhBy has
been shipped from the Province OF Quebec to
.he United stateas since Sci TEMPER last
Sioux City, Iowa, is becoming one Of the
great centers OF tic northwest. One firm In
that city handled 700, 900 bushels Z. wheat dug
ing the past yea,
During the mon Of July Al, 100 ral.e cattle
were sold at chicago making tn dS!ly average
receipts 1G9 head. This month thcIe will Ds
q big increase over tat number.
Potatoes have ruled rather firmer during the
la few days. The first growth have been
nearly all consumed, and the offerings show
decrease,
The total exports of grain from New Orleans
since September lat foot up 10, lO3, $50 bushels,
against 10, Oj, 1856 last year, an increase OF co.
l5i, or l54 per cent.
California fruits are now coming In quite
freely, Prices have declined somewhat, and q
good assortment with q Reasonable rate is
giving dealers u good order trade.
The quantity of grain passing through the
Erie canal This season, reducing flour 10
wheat, has been only li,2l6,2S5 bushels, against
80 831, lis bushels to the same date last season
IL Is a good time to ship such descriptions of
feathers as are used In bedding. Dealers are
preparing for their fall trade, and The d.
maud IL good.
The wheat crop eaet of Cascade mountains,
Oregon, viii oe nearly 100000 tons. The sur
plus for export will be from 30 to 40 per cent
greater than last years.