The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-03-08
THE BUSINESS WORLD


giNANvfAL.
TON Of pnfa gold will make something over
e0O2 rs .,.,..
The hnal resumption OF specie payments Ia
Italy IA flxed for April n, next 49,.
ol9 $50, aud for 1851 ss,soO,Oo, and that OF 1852
The Mexican government expenditures for
the hscal year are estimated AZ s2LOJowO ana
the revenues At s35, 900, 0t0.
Seats In the New York stock exchange bring
$4,000. and there is prospect that II new stock
exchange will be formed.
Al the Philadelphia mint 6,265, li0 pieces were
coined during February, their total value being
There were in 1889. 677, i22 depositors in Mas;
sachusetts savings banks, and the average oil
Nc public debt decreased during February
sa6S0.61s The cash in the treasury Is s3OS'2O5''
Tbe internal revenue receipts at Peoria dur
irgFebru AIRY were si,0sH. 09SSO The exports
for shipment for the month were l62,2D gallons
Honorable D N. speer. treasurer Of Georgia,
has sold sl60 coo United States bonds for Geor-
gia and placed the proceeds exceeding $4,000,
10 bank TO reduce the debt of the sta'e.
Dividends paid in January by mines amounted
TO s76S $50, as follows; At New York, siss0yO; at
San Francisco. s2J7, $50; at Boston, 100000. at
Philadelphia, slO0 600; ct Salt Lake, so0,Ooo; at
Leadville, $1,000
new company has been organic ID in London to
work the famous Emma mine, which is now
said to promise we'll The articles of association
have been filed with the secretary OF the terri
tory. The capital is f700.000 in f10 shares.
The amount of deposits and cash balances IN
the joint-stock banks of ireland in June, isSI'
was go, 667, COO an increase OF more than 2Uup'-
900 over the previous year.
No bank In China has failed since the law
was devised providing that on banks sus-
pending payment the heads OF the president,
cashier, and directors shall be cut OH ana
added 10 the assets
Ihe coinage executed ut the United States
mint in Philadelphia during February aggre-
gated 265 44D pieces valued at 81 100, 800. This
was composed of 40 double eagles, 40 eagles, 40
h8lf-eagles, 40 s3 gold pieces, 40 quarter-eagles
1,2f0 gold dollsrs 100000 silver dollars tiV, wv
dimes. 2,22i00l scent pieces, ana 263oOoO
The Financial Chronicle publishes an estimate
OF the worlds production of gold, compiled from
froa which we take the following for the last
Australia. 6 e.4 900 $500 E 5.gisSoo
Russia h Sis.ss.. S'SisSoS 5'SsSSC5 $4,000
0 fTie esoH = 100000 2,7s1OOO 2,7llo0o
Total. &c 2l,771O0O 6 2l,26tOOO c .2l,9 $4,000
Equal to. =. sl0S $4,000 Gill; 2S0C0o slO996500O
mathematician furnishes the following S sta1 Is
weight in gold would be 9 2S2 tons; in silver
10000 tons; lis transportation in gold would re-
quire 26 ships OF 80 tons each l25ol horse
each carrying half ton, and forming procss-.
sion Of 20 miles in length. or ISL 100 soldiers each
carrying 50 pounds; in sovereigus, plled one
upon another, they would be 70miles In height
laying them side by side, and touching each
other, they would form chain OF gold lu4S
miles in length, or nearly twice the circumfer-
ence of the moon; the same amount in FL notes
sewed together. would carpet turnpike road !, Az
feet broad and 0i0 miles long, or from Land $
End To John OGroars and hallway pack
again"
lne Leadville Chronicles representative has
lust returned from an extensive trip on the Pa
cifc coast and reports the inhabitants OF that
sectien as in wild craze over the reported gold
discoveries in Alaska He says that capitalists
are organizing parties to go there They expect
TO leave 8 IN Francisco about the 1st OF May.
This will enable them to go up the Ukon river,
near which the acrs are fSsr 10 az saw 0e
land, and then took boat TO the states This
party pronounced the the diggings the mostre-
markaole ever seen He claimed that men were
down through deep snow 10 get at the ground.
A recent number of the san Francisco Evening
Post says: There will, during the coming sum
mer. be greater immigration TO Alaska than
there was to California in 1913. A low estimate
would allow 10000 men from California and Ne
vada alone. who will go to these new diggings
esp alists now forming. It has been determined
Oa nd in five stamp mills of 15o stamps each
lei evident that tue parties interested have
big opinion the country"
d temperance of the new nickel 5-cent coin
"a iyenient and handsome-bas suggested the
du ton. what is nickel? In l75i Constadt an
no csa 5ns he the nsme
OF iickel. IL was In combination with arsenic,
and the alloy Of nickel and arsenic which he
obtained was white, brittle and very hard and
Some seventy years after this discovery pure
nickel was obtained by analysis Of German sill
lvcr Pure niekel tarIlIS ESddaiy IN the ar
Niek Eli tropse Which, Of equal parts Of