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The oasis., 1896-09-05
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 Great preparations are being made for a grand fiesta here on the loth or the month.
 Oscar Rountree has denounced a valuable group Of mines about mile south of town.
 Preparations are being made to cele- brate tile arrival of the new railroad about the middle Of the month
 Senor Feliciano Monteverde was elected presidente of Minas prietaS at last Sunday municipal election, Vice Seilor Jesus Santa Cruz,
 The three mills and r0asters Of the Colorada-C Creston Co. and the two mills of the Amarillas Co. are running night and day to their fullest capacity
 Both of the immense smoke stacks of the roasters were blown to the ground during the terrible wind aud rain storm of last week Thursday night.
 The English gentlemen represent ing the new company will arrive here about the 18th of the month. MT. IIinds will also arrive here about that time or before.
 They have passed the thousand foot level in the Creston mine and find the ledge wider and richer than ever They expect to run the three com partment shaft down until they reach the two thousand foot level, Of possi- bly, deeper.
 Guy Powell, the efficient asSayer in chief at the Prietas mill, was made one of the happiest men in the cm- ploY of the company by the receipt of telegram last Saturday from Los Angeles, Cal, announcing the fact that Mrs. Powell had presented him with a bounncing boy. Every piece of rock that Guy assayed that day had gold in 1t.
 The world can hardly believe the fact that. within the past week, a min ing deal has been made here which places an English syndicate backed by the ROthschilds in possession of q group of mines here, which has in- volyed the paying over of the enorm- ous sum of ten millions dollars in gold, Even our nearest neighbOrs stand agast, for little has ever been heard of Minas Prietas until the past two years.
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ASSETS.
ROAD AND EQUIPMENT.
Cost of rond. including the cost of
the Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mt.
Joy and Lancaster Railroad, repre-
stnted by the guaranteed capital
stock and bonds Of said company
tS1. .SS2, $500
Real Estate.
Equipment. nt........... $40,O73. .221 81
Equipment. covered by
4 per cent. Equipment
Trust Gold Loan, Cir
ard Life Insurance,
Annuity and Trust
Company, trustee:-
Acct Penn.
R.R. Co. 81, ,961, 1886 SO
Acct Penn
CO...... 1910, 900 90
----= 3.571 .0s8 60
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TRIP TO ALASKA.
Prof. McGec and MIR. Willis Take the
Passengers Over the First Stages.

Passengers Over the First Stages.
Metzerott Hall was well filled yesterday
afternoon by a throng who had purchased
from the National Geographic Society
tickets from ST. Paul, Mimi, to Alaska.
Promptly at 4:15 President Gardiner G.
Hubbard Of the society called "all aboard"
and then, with Prof. J. w. MCGEE in
charge the long train pulled out. Conduc-
tor McGee was in charge until the foot
hills of the Rockies were reached, when
Mr.. Bailey Willis of the geological survey
relieved him. taking the party to Mount
and there will remain until Monday next,
wheE Prof. Charles E. Fay of Tufts Col
lege Mass, will take charge of the party
and take them through the glaciers peaks
aad canyons of the Rocky mountains
Prof. MCGEE and Mr.. Willis were unu
sually interesting, and their remarks were
illustrated by means of fnnumerable fine
pictures flashed upon great screen over
the stage. Starting from st. Paul, the
Canadian plains were crossed, Mr.. MCGEE
explaining that the interior plain of North
America survived the ages a lowland.
having once been covered by a vast sheet
of ice, extending from the arctic to the
mouth of the Ohio river, to the foothills of
the Rocky mountains, where two great
ice fields met Twice, perhaps three times,
the ice tide flowed and ebbed, and when
the ice fields the ice being thousands of
feet deep, were swept away, the Canadian
plains were left, and today they form one
Of the great wheat fields of the world.
power which is shaping, the destinies of
nations. Five per cent Of the area Of the
plains Is covered with fresh water lakes,
and the soil is a fine loam The wheat
fields extend for miles, and the average
town consists Of four or five houses, over
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reorganization Of that property, your Company
guaranteed the payment Of these bonds, principal

reorganization Of that property your Company
and interest.
In pursuance Of a policy which had received the
careful Consideration Of your Board, the London
Joint STOCK Bank Limited. with which your Com
pany has Tor many years maintained intimate blsi-
ness relations; was appointed your financial agent in
London on March 9th. 1895. Through the estab-
lshuent OF this agency the English shareholders
receive their dividends on the same date as the
American shareholders, and at their full equivalent
IN sterling.
The continued unsatisfactory condition Of the
transportation interests Of the country has been
fully recognized not only by ttose having the man.
agement thereof but by the general public. After
careful consideration of the entire subject, an
ganization known the Joint Traffic Association
has been formed In the belief that, through its in
strumentalfty, not only could substantial economies
be enforced In the administration of the Service,
but stability and uniformity Of rates secured to the
public, and the violent fluctuations prevented which
tend alike to disturbance of values and unjust dis
elimination: While sufficient time has not elapsed
to thoroughly test its working yet enough has been
accomplished In the correction Of evils to demon
strate Its value not only to the railroads. but
she public and to Justify the belief that to it,
seme Ike organization the Interstate Commerce
Commission must look for the potent agency 10
enable 1t to enforce the provisions and secure the
the interstate Commerce Act. Mr. David s. Gray
been appointed representative of this Company on
the Board of Managers. which has the active ad.
ministration Of the affairs Of the association.
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g. B. ROBERTS, President.

0 the Board
President
embe
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Your Board have again to record the loss OF one
Of their most valued associates, Mr.. Henry II.
Houston. who died h6 june 2lst, 1895. Mr.. Hous-
tion of your Company covering period Of thirty
years. his invaluable labors in that department, and
his able and conscientious discharge of the duties
of a director of your Company and it's allied
porations, make It especially appropriate that the
sustained by the Company, no less than by those
many years. '.SA
Mr.. c. Stuart Patterson was elected a member Of
the Board to succeed Mr.: Houston thus creating a
vacancy in the authorship of the Trust Fund of
October 9th, 1878, Hhich has been filled by the
selection Of Mr. JchAl B. Gest, one Of your share.
holders.
Mr.. Edmund Smith, formerly vice-presiieut Of
the Company, who had rendered faithful and hon.
orabIe service 10 1t for than fort years.
urtil his resignation Ihne Both, 1885, died on the
31st of July last. His long connection WITH und
devotic1 to the interests Of the Company make it
fitting that this .tSibute should be paid 10 his
memory.
General Solicitor August 1st, 1855 10 I'LL the va
cancy heretofore caused by the D. motion of Hon
james A. Logan. Mr. John G. johnson was M.
pointed Special Solicitor, to take effect February
LIST, 1895.
The General Balance Sheet of the Commny Is
hereto appended.
The Board renew their acknowledgements TO the
officers and employees for the fidelity and efficiency
with which they have discharged their duties dur.
Ing the past year.
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To al

CAPITAL STOCK
., amount t OF capital stock outstanding at the
Sose "t the year was $129. .3O1 $50 an increase of
tSSoo due to the conversion of that amount of the
scrip .iiv declared in May, 1893
Stit kIfIES OF OTHER C0RPOR ATOMS
Tie entire cost of the securities of other cornorn
fiors now held by your Company is Sis 035 Mi5 AZ
uhe direct revenue received therefrom was 81 AKA
gsIl the decrease as compared with 1894 Letn1
que TO the generally reduced income from inypsf
ments Notwithstanding this these SECURITIES cont
tinlcd TO produce nearly four par cent upon their
cost afsi more than provided for the interest on
0AR-TRJTSTS
No further Issues of these securities were made
0'ring the year, and series thereof ma II,rcI
l. The total number of cars provided under the
Car-trust system Is 81, ,9g7 ~ "
qotal amOiint Of certificates issued
LOO
Amount redeemed. Observation-Disclosures. 25 ll2thN On
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topped with grain elevators. One signifl-
caht Iact was roticed-that the great
MEeat neids are less abundant on the north
sue OF the boundary between this country
Wv W Salaua The, streams of the Red River
saHey OF the North run but little below the
pahks, ana because Of the continued hori-
zontal1ty of the4ar1di the route is a very
monotonous onea;i. u
,isnag speaking Of the. wisdom of nature. Prof
came came INTO existence the buffalo came, and
.in .nefe Is no record like theirs for reproduc-
tlon OF their kind. sd sudden and extensive
was II. The buffalo lived unmolested until
ehe inulan came, and then the Indian
1 1ouho the animal his very life. Then fol-
lowed the white mah. and as the buffalo
gave way to the red man. so the latter
sase way to the white brother. No sadder
picture is there, thought Prof McGee
Ihan the passins;'away of the buffalo. IN,
1ess II pe That of the passing away Of the
~ ~ahulah. BUT all twas for the best. and in
P Place OF the buffalo, herds of which are
e,hs pfeservedbfi1ere and there In this
e5 eou,itiy ana Cahada,Hthe boundless wheat
T rsius VI canada remain, and through them
80 Iaiaua a1 IS last becoming a great power in
tne world of nations.
Mr.. Willis, when Prof. McGee ret,ra7
IooA. n the party over the mountains, across
Iuset sound, to Mount Rainier, across the
,,,a 1ase"ug m mountains, and grand journey it
nae. ne scenery was about the finest to
e oe ,H seel anywhere, the snOw-capped peaks
~ e Nount Tacoma, Liberty Cap, the endless
Io.ests ana the stretches of water forming
p!etures which, as. delightfully."- explained
oy M w HIS, Won the admiration of all
WHO looked upon them. So it was that the
end OF the first days Journey came ali too
soon. 0 ga 'oo
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Dc,luct amount of inter-
est on funded debt
accrued to January 1.
ls:+1. hut not yet ma
rured. less amount due
from investments on
saline date.
Amount charged of in
reduction OF value OF
seVirlIies and settle
nent of sundry nc
counts
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Treasurer
Can Cs OF
NV"
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The massacre Of thirteen Armenian fami-
iles IS reported frorl the district of Moosh,
ana nve Armenians are said to have been
Killed at hirchehir in the Ansora district.
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'Grateful-COmfortinp.
EppS's Cocoa.

BREAKFAST SUPPER
by thorough Knowledge OF the natural I,v,
Ht!eh g!vern tie operations of digestion and uutri
tfcsrand ~ careful application of the fine prop.
for our breakfast and supper dclicately Favored
bssxersgc which may save us many heavy doctors
tiliS u 10 BY the tpdicieus Of such articles Of
diet ttat constitution may be gradually built up
urti sfTcnE lcugh 10 resist every tendency dis
ense. Hundreds Of subtle maladies are floating
around ls ready to attack wherever there is weak
point. We may escape many q fatal shaft ~
keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood ard
q properly Dourished frnme.''-Civif Service Ga.
1ette. Msoe simply with boiling water or milk
Bold only In half-pound tins, BY grocers, labeled
JAMES EPPs Co. Ltd, homeopathic chemsra
London. England.
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Balaree Of certificates outstanding L
December S1st, 1895. ....... IS $50 600 dD ! a

The amount expended upon the Main Line and
4ranches. and charged to capital account during
fhe year. was $6O7. .S5s 95. the expenditure being
Sptire1y for additional freight and real estate
jour property having, as already stated, been
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Capital stock.
Funded debit
General mortgage bonds. 8 per et.,
due 1910. ....................
Consolidated mort. bonds.
6 per Ct, due 1906. .S27, $50, ,020 90
Consolidated mort. bonds,
5 per Ct. due 191v... 1905, 900 90
Consolidated mort bonds,
per ct, due 1913. 5000. 900 90
Consolidated mort bonds,
31a per Ct, due 1915. 4.S50, 900 90
Navy Yard mort. bonds. per ct,
due 1901. ....... .............i
Collateral trust loan. 41a per CT.
due 1913. ...........
Equipment trust loan. per Ct, due
p, W. & B. K. r. Co. stock trust
certificates, per ct. due 1921. 80.
First mort. real estate bonds, per
ct, due 1923. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Mortgages and ground-rents payable.
Guaranteed securities under lease
Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mt. Joy
and Lancaster X. Il.
Capital stock. ................
First mortgage four per ct. bonds
Appraised value Of securities not dis
posed Of, received with the lease Of
United New Jersey Railroad and
Canal Company
CURRENT LIABILITIES.
Pay rolls and vouchers. s..............
Net traffic, balances due other roads
Due controlled companies, other than
traffic balances. ..................
Due Allegheny Valley Railway Com
pany amount on deposit for re-
demption of Its 7.3 per cent. bonds
March 1st, 1896.
Due employees Saving Fund. ........
Due Relief Fund. current aud surplus
NJ mee9un.s i 80. -, ''''''''..'.'''''
Interest accrued on Pennsylvania
Railroad Company bonds. ..........
Interest on bonds matured and un-
Dividends uncollected by shareholders
Miscellaneous liabilities.
SINKING FUNDS.
Sinking fund consolidated mortgage
bonds, contributions to December
3lst. 1895.
Fund for purchase Of securities guar
anteed by the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company. under Trust created
October 9th, 1873. .................
Pennsylvania Company, payments for
leased equipment under Pennsylva-
mia Railroad Company per cent.
equipment trust gold loan .......
Trustees sinking fund consolitla ted
mortgage, Pennsylvania Railroad
company OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Balance to credit of profit and loss. E.
Iotal. l..................
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Balance credit of profit and loss
December 81, 1895. 500, 500, Ago SO

The preceding statements show that after having
provided for all the fixed liabilities Of your Com
pany. and sxpendng 81 100000 in improving
46s IS out Of which were declared dividends Of i've
per cent leaving 81, 16s. ASS ss be carried the
end freight traffic for the past few years continued
during 1895 1t would appear that under any reason-
able conditions your property will make fair returns
to its shareholders
IT had not previously been the custom in stating
your accounts at the end Of the year to charge up
the amount Of accrued interest on bonds and other
following. or to take credit for the amount of in
come that matured upon securities held by Jour
deemed it proper that both these amounts should
b. taken into accounts for the year. II will.
Sst and loss the sum Of 1 III qso being tho 10
diherenee between these two amounts in addition
some of the securities held by your Company, and
T. sro aaa Of ss Of ss
50 to sISk1Sg Is SEsdt ffSbs e That account
gage II the Company, 1924 80 were set apart on
Striking Dd for the Of the
Ing bonds secured by that mortgage. None Of the
." SSd BE- to maa % uef Tss
Ticst- and the amount placed to the credit of
orsss There are In securities es and .n
cash n the fund for the redemption Of these bonds
aemItion Of the Trust Certificates issued for the
BgIhsss Of the shares of the capital stock Of the
fhIladtlphia. wilmington and Baltimore Railroad
company were not able to purchase any Of these
p purchased and cancelled to Dec ember 31st, 1895,
y therefore, $2,29S,OOO. leaving outstanding ST.
The trustees Of the sinking fund for the re-
Qempilon Of the four snd One-half DER cent Col
eteral Trust Loan were able to obtain any of
hese securities during the year at the limit liked
IN the agreement. The amount Of this loan ont
1tanding December S1st. 1895. is 50, 600 600
] nder the provisions Of the four per cent Equip
m mt Trrst Gold Loan there was paid to the
tiusiee turing 1895. for the sinking fund. the sum
OF Si36 iOp. The trustee unable to obtain any
Of the bonds at the price fixed in the lease and I'm
yccor'lance with the terms thereof the whole
4nount has been invested In additional Equipment
FUNDED DEBT
The amount Of funded debt. including mortgages
S real estate and ground rents at the close OF the
Year $S7 1888, 910 72. being an increase Of 81
eO2. 1874. i3- accounted for as follows
Consolidated mortgage 3h per cent
sterling bonds issued, 81 GOO GOO
equivalent to. o......-.............. s4,s5O,OOO 90
Increase in mortgages and ground
rents ....................... 52,e74 %
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-05-15

and messengers. The printing OF the
certificates of appointment for this army
of officers. together with their badges
and tickets of admission, will cost &c.,
600. The tickets will be deliberately en-
graved, containing among other devices
a picture Of the log house near ST. Louis
where General Grant lived when he used
to haul wood 10 the city. A total of
10000 tickets will be required for the
five days of the convention. There will
be fifteen for each of the 5000 seats in
the hall. and only one of these Will be
good for admission at a certain specified
time. For the five days session each
holder will be furnished with fifteen
tickets. AS there will be a ticket for
each session, three each day, the sorting
and arranging of them will be no small
work, and the task of distributing them
an onerous one There will be 4lS press
seats at the ST. Louis convention, nearly
twice as many as there were at Mime
apolis, and the disposition of these will
also be one of the difficult diplomatic
duties devolved on Colonel Byrnes. If
it shall be said after the convention that
it was the best ordered and best man.
aged one ever held the Colonel will be
able to die happy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-05-15

The verdict In the Scott Jackson case
will be generally approved. The COM
mon moral sense Of the people looks
more to main ends than to technicali-
ties and while there may be question
in this case whether the defendants
guilt was clearly proven beyond rea-
sonable doubt. there can be none that he
was morally and directly responsible for
the death OF the girl whose tragic fate
has excited such universal sympathy and
Indignation The verdict is substantial
justice, and will tend to increase popu-
lar respect for trial by jury. 1t is TO be
hoped it may Withstand the efforts which
Jackson's counsel will still make to de-
feat the ends Of justice, and that he may
receive the punishment he undoubtedly
deserves. The lesson OF the tragedy is
one which thousands of young men Of
the Jackson type, whose vicious careers
have not yet eliminated in open crime,
should lay to heart.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-05-15

dent Monroe's message Of 1924. Recent
events have familiarized the people with
1T. and 1t is universally approved as good
American doctrine. But President Mon
roe made another declaration not so well
remembered. In his inaugural message
March 4. 1917, he said:
Possessing, a.; we do. all the raw ma
terial, the fruit OF our own soil and industry.
we ought not TO depend. in the degree We
nave done, on supplies from other countries.
While we are thus dependent the sudden
event CT war, unsought and unexpected. can
not fail TO plunge us in the most serious
difficulties. IL is important. too, that the
capital which nourishes our manufactures
should be domestic, as its influence In that
case, instead Of exhausting as 1t may do
tageousiy on agriculture and every other
branch of industry. Equally important is 1t
TO provide at home a market for our raw
IL will enhance the price and protect the
cultlyator against the casualties incident to
foreign markets.
This in its way Is quite as patriotic
and as good American doctrine as the
declaration against European interview
ton in American affairs. 1t shows what
Democracy was before it became the
enemy of American industries and the
champion of European pauper labor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-05-15
1t is said an effort will be made at the

1t Is said an effort will be made at the
opening OF the Chicago convention to
break 1.-The unit rule" Usually the COM
ton that the rules OF the previous con-
vention be adopted. and the adoption of
this report carries with it that of the
unit rule. The rule itself dates from the
first Democratic national convention ever
held, that OF 1882, and owes its origin
to Andrew Jackson. He had already
been renominated by several State
Legislatures. and there was no doubt of
his nomination by the convention soon
to assemble at Baltimore. He wanted
Martin Van Buren, for second place. but
John C.. Calhoun had strong support. In
order to head off Calhoun Jackson pro-
cured the adoption of two rules One
was that two-thirds of the whole num-
Der of votes in convention shall be neces-
sary to constitute choice" and the
other required the delegates from each
Stale to confide to one OF their number
the duty OF casting the vote of the dele
cation, the same TO be cast as a unit
The result of the rule is to smother in
dividual preferences and gag minorities-
An attempt was made to break II in the
Democratic national convention of 1860
In the interest Of Stephen A. Douglas,
and again in 1884 by the opposition TO
Cleveland. but without success. In Re-
publican conventions every delegate
votes as an individual. and a majority
vote is sufficient TO nominate On the
whole. that seems to be the fairer plan.
AS there will be a bitter fight i'm the next
Democratic convention between the
sound-money and free-silver factions it
Is probable that whichever faction has a
majority will try TO have the unit rule
abolished. This will probably bring on a
test fight for the control of the commit
tee on rules.