The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-29
FINANCIAL ITEMS.

Washington Territory ranks thirteenth
hmong the bullion-produciHg states and ter.
hltories.
The shrinkage in values of stocks during
The last six months has been more than
Sl0000O 600.
The demand tor railroad bonds and tho
pale OF stocks show the reviving interest in
the market.
A rich deposit of silver has Just been dis
covered nine miles from Gansboro, Tenn.
A national bank, about TO be established
at Meridian, will be the second one thus lar
3Opened IN Mississippi.
The land sales OF the Union Pacific rail
4 road for March were 81 ,I26 acres, valued at
&$2S2 5l3. In March, iSS2, it sold % 9iS
#acres, valued at $3.50, 3il.
II Three Thousand depositors in Connecticut
8sayinss banks have not made inquiries
&abOut their money for twenty years past.
4 The dominion exports for March de-
Xclintd 100000 compared with March, 1882.
u The Imports exceed March, 1882, by nearly
81 $500, 100.
"A Four pounds of gold, worth about 81 600,
a were collected from The SCOT adheriug to the
" inner Innings OF the chimney OF the royal
4 mint in Berlin.
A brisk demand has sprung up in Rome,
y Georgia, for the new nickels, and they
readily bring premium of two and half
4 cents
d There is lying in the United States trea-
sury more than 100000 of unclaimed
4money--interest and principal oipublic debt
some of which dates back to 1887.
The amount of paid notes of the Bank of
England reaches the enormous sum Of
t9i 600, 900, or $470,000000. If placed in u
pile 1t would be eight miles high.
The assets of the life and casualty insu.
rance companies of New York amount to
*about $3.50 000,0 eco, and those of fire in
surance companies to aboutl 800 10000.
The assets OF foreign companies doing bust
ness in the state amount to rs much more.
New York, according to the census re-
port, owns $2l0, 26i, $50 Of the registered
bonds of the United States, and Massa-
chusetts $45 l3S, $50.
The directors OF the Bank of Montreal
have declared dividend of 5 per cent. The
amount placed to rest is S25O0), and it is
said that much less disappointment Is
felt that the amount at rest is not brought
+ up TO 100000. whereas it only reaches
So, 10000.
The gold annually taken from the ST.
oerlan mines is estimated to be worth So
10000, The first discovery of the metal
/ IN that country was made ut the beginning
| OF the present century. The average cost
OF an expedition in search of gold is esti-
1uattu Nv % ,UuO.
The list of the Leadville mines shows %
| producing properties, yielding 400 tons of
ore per day. About 5000 men are EN-
ployed in the mines, exclusive of ore-haul.
ers and others receiving indirect employ.
ment. The commercial value Of the aver
age daily output of these mines is over
$4,000
The annual repor OF the Horn Silver
Aiming company, the largest single lead
producer in this country, shows that the
company had prosperous year, having
produced IA ,7S2 tons of ore, running 81,
per cent. OF LEAD and $40 ounces OF silver.
The receipts, notwithstanding the decline
N silver and lead, were $685. Sll.6S, while
the cost OF mining, smelling and refining
was 81 500, go %.
Thegreen three-cent postage.stamp which
goes out in October will have had run OF
thirteen years. 1t succeeded the short.
lved blue design which came after the
seus' Postage stamps began in 1871 with
I'VE cent issue bearing the portrait OF Frank
IN ana ten-cent stamp with Washington's
picture and a second series with five de-
hominaiions-l, 8, s, 10 and u cents-cam
not long aiterward.