The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-04-01
herald. !
les: arch 81. 1888,


dues, interest and premium.
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The Industrial uses of aluminium are ex /.
tending every day, owing to the decrease
In its cost and the discoveries made as to
the availability Of the metal for CONNER
cial purposes The clay from which 1t Is
extracted Is found In large quantities In
the Var and lower Alps. The raw material
10 not wanting, but 1t Is only lately that
the manufacture has been made profitable
through the important discoveries Of the
chemist, Moissan. One of the greatest OBJ
stacles to the manufacture OF aluminium
into articles of every day use is the Inn
possibility of welding the metal. This diff
ficulty has not yet been solved. Canteens
with neck holding one and two quarts are
lmade by a process Of feruling without
welding. The price of aluminium has been
reduced from 1000 francs ($198) to 500 francs
tS9650}, then successfully to 300 francs
e57 s0). 80 francs ($9.65), 10 francs ($19a), and
finally francs (57 cents) per kilogram
(42O46pounds). The price will be still lower
when there II more competition,
According to an article in the New
York, Herald, the annual report of
the treasurer of Columbia univer-
sity shows that, with all its realty,
cash, bonds and mortgages, amount-
ing to 900, 1t lost last year $S4 ,o92. or
about $40 for each student. The statement
discloses that in the medical department
1t cost more than double the fees to edu-
cate each student. From this 1t Is learned
that a university, like business man,
must work hard to make ends meet, and all
that comes in is not profit.
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Bradford, England, manufacturers are
reported seeking to retain the American
market, despite the Mckinley bill, by pro-
ducing and exporting to the United States
cotton goods made to appear as II made Of
wool or silk. These goods, which are ex-
csllently made, SO as to defy the scrutiny
Of all but experts, are sold at prices far
below those of the genuine goods. Manu-
facturers are planning to export them in
large quantities. Intelligence of this char
acter would no doubt lead the uninitiated
to believe that something startling was
about to be performed by the Bradford
manufacturers. As q matter Of fact, goods
similar in character to those referred to in
the foregoing have been made. according
to the Dry Goods Record, and are being
manufactured in Massachusetts, daily.
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The production of diamonds in South
Africa in 1897 has been reported to 1.-THE
Mineral Industry as follows:
Ahpe NOiOIlys ,6<v,10o &1,VAt,V7V
Orange Free State..... 100000 100000
Totals ..............3 470.468 R4,424,04O
The output from Cape Colony Is from the
peBeers and Kimberly mines. both be-
longing to the DeBeers company. The to-
tai value of $2l $50 1888 represents practically
the production of the world In 1897 Of dia-
monds used as gems, the quantity found
outside Of South Africa being very small.
The only production Of Brazil at present is
in the form Of the black diamonds used for
drills and other industrial purposes.
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Fifty carloads of rails, to be used In con-
structing the first railroad to the Klondike
gold fields, have been shipped from the
Bay View mills of the Illinois Steel COM
pany. These rails constitute the first con-
signnent forwarded to fill large order
given by the builders of the Klondike line.
Other shipments will be made as fast ~
the steel can be rolled. Mckenzie, Mann
& Co., who have a concession from the
Canadian government permitting them to
build this railroad, are the consignees OF
the rails. The rails weigh forty-five pounds
to the yard.
! That some Germans are beginning to
count the cost of retaliation upon the
United States for its recent tariff enact
ments seems evident from protests which
German wine trade papers are making
can lines. The Deutsche Wien-zeitung
published at Mainz, on the Rhine. In re-
cent article opposing increased import du-
ties, as proposed by the Union OF Agricul-
turists, points out, says Bradstreet's, the
disparity between the volume of German
import trade In American wine and the ex-
port trade In German wine to this country.
According to that authority, the total Ger
man import Of American wines In 1887 was
only 5,zT double hundredWeights, whereas
there was exported from Germany to this
country $1,000 double hundredweights.
These data, as the. Wien-Zeitung very
properly observes, show that the import of
portance to the Germans. and that there
is no reason to jeopardize the export of
German wine to America by. agitation or
law. The Wien-Zeitung takes above stand
common among some American papers that
American wines are necessary to German
wine makers for blending purposes. It
states that the quality OF the German
centage Of alcohol contained in American
wines would mar the quality Of the Ger
man brands.
Senior Roman Oriol, in the "Revista
Minera," estimates the production OF coal
tn Spain as follows in metric It'll tons; 1907
Coal ......................1,8 52.947 1888, 800
Ignite ................... 554ls $500
This shows total increase Of s,oi6 ' tons'
The chief production was from the mines
Of the. Asturtas. which turned out l,168 900
tons Of coal In 1897.
Impsrishabls Terra Gotta
In the new Examinsr building, Third and