The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-05-11
FINANCIAL ITEMS .


II is styted that Mr. Vanderbilts holding OF
poyernrAent bonds amounts to s65, OOOOOO, when.
at the present market value, represent soo'o'V'
W ort4 one cars of base bullion were shipped
from Salt Lake during the week ending April
I'D amounting TO 47, ga lbs, all OF whlch went
q r,ining works in the east
rtI.a TCTtg- Statist says it Is estimated that
nm az. r.ut more than SIS 600 600 worth OF
fYnita5 .,ts t.s government bonds held in Europe.
me exrag, IF exports of merchandise for the
twelve mont ended March 3lst was $50 SS2 lio;
eYoass al fr1 ports of gold and silver coin and
buj,ilu for tfe twelve months ended March Slst
n q 'so1Toughs, of Oneida Castle, New York,
while DIGGING in his garden near the bank o.
pDgId,, cook found one of the original copper
gent bearing the motto mind Your own Bust
ness coined in New Haven in 1857. The cent
Is valuable, as but few were coined. 80
From lg, discovery of gold in California until
the present time, mining has paid Is per cent
on the money invested. -,,
4 marine engaged in foreign commerce are com
puted at three hundred million dollars annually.
This is not paid in money, but IN merchandise,
which so much helps to swell the imports over
the cxports of England. The net excess OF nm
ports last year was two hundred ana twenty
million dollars, after having deducted three
hundred and seventy-fve million dollars for
freight insurance and commissions.
secretary Roger has received report from
Mr. Wnlam Sherer, of the b.treasury at New
York on the result of an examination OF the sll-
yer profit fund account of the several minis
from which ii appears the total amount placed
10 the credit of the silver profit fund during the
fiscal years 1879 1880 1881, was luu5l. 1876 81, OF
which amount 9,776,O2O "a has been deposited in
1t having been frequently asserted recently
that the banks were giving up circulation on
government as on account of their high price
In fha market a cashier OF an eastern Dank
tool pains to inquire into the matter At the
treasury department. and from him the follow
ing statement made In response to his inquiries
was obtained: per cent bonds held against
circulation January !, lSS2, 9l,92i 600 March l.
1882, 9374l, 100; April. 1882, 9S3l5,9lG April IL
1882 %. SOB, $50 showing steady increase III the
There is supposed to be in existence $4,000
in surveyors scrip, falsely represented TO have
been issued at Santa Fe by an assistant treas
urer of the United States. John ID. Cameron
of Sioux Falls, Dakota, has been arrested
for conn elton with the fraud and taken to fank-
ton.
The Public tersely says: None Of the trunk
roads will be worth purchasing until: /; Good
crops are beyond doubt 2. The practical work
ing of the new combination has been proved
n The failure of any new opposition line TO the
one whose securities you have in mind has been
demonstrated. To put the matter practically, II
we have full crops, and IL the New YORK, Chi
cago & St Louis entirely fails TO complete It's
line and If the pool hangs together and works
we'll Lake Shore may be purchase in the
nsiSaaSSS e RG} Of pG atcrest in invest
ment securities df'i1Ic has been the extraordin
ary advance in government securities of long
dates. the per GEMS, OF l9O' nave SOU up W
l2l 10 and there seems to be as yet no limit TO
their possible advance, for the chief demand
has so far come from the savings banks, insur-
ance and trust companies, and other parties
holding money 10 invest in tiducary capacity;
and the national banks, which must have bonds
or relnquish their circulation, have yet TO come
In as large buyers.
Ihe importations Of specie and bullion at New
York during the week ending April - were
SSH O2 consisting OF &C. " in gold and $50 $50
In silver as against a total Of $3.50 1893 for the
week ending A. I'll 30 last year. The importa-
tons since the LIST Of Jonuary and since the LIST
of August compare as follows with the move.
ment during the corresponding period last
wear.