The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1895-06-01
Various Topics.

various TOptcS.
A new telephone company, the
Southern Standard, has been organized
to operate in Tennessee, Kentucky
and the Carolinas. The capital stock
is "a, 100000.
The May returns of the department
of agriculture show an increase in
wheat of 1.5 points from the April
average, being 82. 9, against 81.4 last
month and 81. 4 in May, 1894.
Secretary Mo, ton says that during
the fiscal year 1894 he United States
sold i'll foreign markets 1869. 2O4, 937
orth of American products, of which
The farmers of the United States fur
nasA1S5d the value of 1923, 1868, ,O38.
Engineering and Mining Journal:
The mineral production of Ontario for
1894 shows comparatively little change
one way or another, from that of the
preceding two years, with the excep-
tion of petroleum, in which slight
decrease is noted, from /, ,045, 900 bar
rels in 1893 to 997, ,A96 barrels in
1894.
Rane-McNaley Bankers Monthly,
Chicago: New York banks report
that they are now receiving consid-
cradle amount of gold from tht ir colln-
try correspondents. The inflow f
the White metal has been steadily in
cteasing lately. A leading bank pres
ident i'll New York, speaking Of the
matter, is quoted as saying: "Our
country correspondents are finding it
necessary to increase their balances
here are shipping gold for that pur-
pose. During the recent gold excite
ment these banks hoarded all the gold
they could carry, and in some cases
more han they could handle. don't
\ known how general this eastward
movement of gold is, but to my mind
it indicates lite better business con-
dition; ali opening up of industry all
over the country"
Railway Review, Chicago: Accord
ing to the London Times the first year
of the Manchester ship canal does not
appear to have been remarkably sue
cessful. The present revenue is far
from being adequate to meet even
maintenance charges and working ex-
penses. and is not much more than
sufficient to pay interest on the first
So, 900, 900 corporation loan, and the
t8, ,O0O,0 of the ordinary and pre-
ference stock. The fact is-to put the
matter as nearly in nutshell as pos
sible-that tho promoters of the en-
terprise originally thought that they
had only to make ship canal; they, or
their successors, have found that in or
der TO make the canal of any real SER
H vice they have got to create a port
also.
Bradstreet's New York: The stu
alton in the bituminous coal trade has
been summed up as follows: "The
difficulties are entirely in the Pitts
burg district, where part of the mines
are working on the basis of 69c. and
part at 60c. per ton. The Ohio dis
trlct always pays &c per ton less in
wages than fittsburg, owing to the
different sized screens used in the two
districts. The Ohio district cannot
settle it's rate of wages until the Pitts
burg district, as whole, decides eth
4 er upon the 60 or 69c. basis. AS soon
a. this is done the Ohio operators will
resume work"
The American Section of the Theo-
sophical Society, in annual convention
at Boston, recently voted to sever it's
competitions with the International So
clety and assert it's independence; w.
y Judge, the general secretary, was
feiecCeo president for life, with power
10 appoint his successor.