The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-31

easo n SON soufces during the current fiscal
lfoA a. ~, sc,1unt OF the effects of the
yes, svsnrs law, at SsOJWO,OO. Follow
new statement OF sources aud amounts
,,s.scompared with last year;
ISIS. 1852.
.,.t,y,s ......... ta2lO00OO1 y22O, AZ. coo
ron isieTrsl revenue lS,5O9000 l46,Ag7.ooj
From iS miscel lAueous - ,oo ooo ssmso,,
s9ures ....''-''''''' $500 --,---.-- 80
~...,s ...... SlO5.C 10000 siOS, 525 0OO
I'm, ms il appears that the revenue.
aLi;VeI and expected, this year is 81 SOC, 600
ssycsss Of that OF last year. This is in
- M a reduction OF taxes which, it is
sPi;~.sted will reduce receipts about Sl5'-
'ss s,i,si from the Sd of March TO the end OF
NJ ffscal wear. Ii must not be inferred,
t"wsver. that the surplus applicable
~ he payment Of the debt will be
w.slsrce this year as it was last year. The
Computations Tor last year amounted TO
ga az 9S3, while for the current year they
ssmonpt to $2l9 600, $50, or upward of &c.
M O0O more. This, it is true, Is partly Off
set nv a decrease in the interest charge and
he he exercise Of discretion in expanding
ne snms appropriated Tor various purposes,
sgpecially rivers and harbors. Still, the
total expenditure will be considerably
,reater than it was last year, and the sur
Sins will certainly be S30,0OO,000, and per
hans 100000. less. These facts, to-
',sther with the fact that the treasury de
SSsrtment must proceed with caution be-
areuse the effects of the new revenue law
csnnot be accurately estimated, should be
tasen into the account in considering the
probability OF any further call for bonds
HIS wear. As to the probable surplus next
wear, under the new tariff schedules, it
would be idle to speculate.
THE Financial Chronicle says, as affecting
in some measure the future value OF silver,
We have the announcement lately that the
silver demonstration bill i'll Holland has
received the approval OF the council of state.
II is consequently being pushed now in the
lower house OF the Dutch parliament as
government measure. The reserve of coin
and bullion held by the Netherlands bank
Il about GS,0000C0, of which Ei47 900 ism
gold and II ,SOi 000in silver. The circula-
lion is about Gl5,0O0,000. Their total adj
yanCes are about IS 100000, of which about
t5,6OOO00, are on bills and G3,0O0,000 on
loans, The deposits are almost nominal.
A bank so circumstanced is naturally pecu-
liarly sensitive 10 demands for bullion, and
this probably assists to account for the
measures referred to above. The bill takes
power to sell about f2,l00,000 of silver by
gradual instruments
As an instance of the price of mines as
they were offered In London for sale, and
the revenue they have produced their own
ers, the Indicator mentions the following:
The Standard Consolidated mining properly
was offered for 100000 for two years. The
new owners have cleared $3625, 600 and have
properly was offered and hawked for several
months and could find no buyers at $780,
600; the owners returned to New York and
sold it for that sum- The purchasers have
already divided $1,599,000. The Evening
Star mining property was offered for $500
900; its owners returned to New York and
placed it at $4,000. Now the property
has Melted its new owners $1,3O0000. The
Northern Belle mining property was offered
for 100000, its home value, but found no
buyers. The owners found buyers in New
York and sold it for 100000, and the new
owners have realized the sum of 50, 237 600.
The Bodle mining property was offered at
9iJJ,OOO; the owners returned to America
and sold 1t at $45Q0O0. Ii has already
yielded net profit of $1,350,0O0.
The New York Chronicle fire-tables show
that, during the last eight years, fire has
destroyed in the United States property to
the value of 1898, Al coo, and in Canada,
NST059O. The grand total of the two is
SUI, 226,S9, which, averaged through the
eight years gives an annual fire loss in the
Two countries, of $S4,02S,374 Our share of
this yearly tax-mostly, as an analysis of
the originating fire causes shows, levied by
carelessness and crime-is $74 ,1S0,95l, while
that Of Canada is 50, ,423. The total of
insurance payments in the period named
IN both countries, is 1858, S6,427, of which
$j-S, bl, All was disbursed in the United
States, and S3i ,S00,0H in Canada. The ay-
erage annual insurance payment thus ap-
pears TO have been, in the United States,
SIl OZ26D, or something over 50 per cent.
o. the loss, and in Canada, 81 1862, $50, or a
ittle more than Al per cent. of the loss
lihese figures do not include multitude OF
ires' me loss on each of which was less
than $l00
The fiscal year of the government of
TTahaaa ends, like our own, on June 80
Inc estimated expenditure of the year
commencing July LIST, next, has been pub
llShed. 1t is S45,5i ,l45-a sum which our
tobacco tax would about pay. The do
mInon of Canada is Just about our size
"Aeh we declared independence,
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