The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-04-20
FINANCIAL ITEMS.


| The net profits Of the Bank of England are es-
lmated at Sk5O0 day
The territory 0fDakota Is now frce from debt
and the treasury contains s33,501.
The weekly statement of the Bank of France
shows decrease in specie of I75, go francs gold
sld 3 rs OOj silver
. The treasury DEPARTING last week purchased
$4,000 ounces of fine silver for the Philadelphia
and San Francisco minis
Anew clearinghouse has been opened in
Sscnmento. 1t will be called the California
State Bank. The capital stock is $500 O0u of
which 100000 has been paid in
| The secretary of the treasury has decided that
hoop iron, cut to lengths. punched and splayed
10 hI barrels, is dutinble as hoop iron
Denver dispatch states that nearly 81, coo 600
IN drafts and money have been stolen from the
nails In Colorado since December.
San Antonio is speaking of increasing her
debt TO 5000. The taxable property is about
Ib0OO0O and the tax necessary to nay the in.
srest on the increased ,ebt and pay running
expenses would be 81 on the hundred dollars.
| The Financial Chronicle reports the gross
earnings of fOrty-seven railroad Is in this coun.
by for March ut $40 862, $50, against els $50 Isl
brlhc same month last year The earnings
from January | 10 March 81 We're s5i, lgg,6ig,
isanst 81 g69, 5iS in 1881, the net increase be.
ing 81 $50, ll.
The Daily Stock Report, OF New York, says
twenty-five mines are now classed as dividend
paying, aud within less than eighteen months
uesv thlllCs HNNc nulu SlJJJi,OyD Ill ulNlutHuS,
whore than IL per cent. on the market value
Of all the mining stocks of the country"
The leading LoudOn bankers have agreed that
alter July next the acceptors or drawers of
tommercm bills shall be allowed TO discount
Ihem not as at present at the posted rate of the
Bank Of England, but at IL per cent above the
advertised tate paid on deposits by the leading
Joint stock banks Of London
In the United states senate, Mr.. MaXey re.
ported lay0rably II bill renewing the appropria.
Ton Of March, 1877, TO pay southern mail con.
rselots. bill was passed to pay the claims Of
lS;<oyal citizens, aggregating seglliS. for
bankruptcies taken for the use Of the army
during the war of the rebellion
The Alder gulch, In Montana, has been stead.
" producing placer gold for twenty years, and
now worked out ns high as water, can be
tirried on Its sides. The amount Of gold taken
eul Is estimated at over s3O,00000l. More than
dozen gold.bearing quartz claims are now
being worked ut the head of the gulch
Leadville smelters are now all crowded with
oss and all running 10 their full capacity. II "
estimated that there Is now ON hand at the DIFF
isrent smelters In that town over 700 NJ tons of
cn. The bullion shipment for the first three
rOnihs of the year, ending April lSt is the
hANlcst ever made In the same length OF time,
,nounling 10 Si,0iS6lS an excess IN the amount
yst the corresponding period IN 1851 of $3.50 7sS.
The house banking and currency c0mnittee
" getting ready tn report Il hill providing for
De suspension Of the coinage Of silver dollars
lnd the issuance of silver certificates. They are
bow only awaiting official announcement Of the
adeinitc postponcment of the Paris monetary
oniercnce, which adjourned last fall to meet To-
otrOw Congressman Dingley, of Maine,
hartman of the subcommittee TO which was re-.
sired the silver question, has prepared report
mich will doubtless be adopted by the full ON.
liee recommending the action above indi.
iled
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