The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-01-26

will handle yearly output Of Is, 0O0,-
600 feet OF lumber.
II the much-rumOred story is true
that the Union Pacific is to throw open
all gateways, the Salt Lake Tribune
thinks that the most important ques-
tion to all the prairie lines and Colo
RADIO roads will he whether the Silver
Bow gateway will be opened TO let
the Northern Pacific and Great North
ern into southern Idaho.
Modern Mexico Gays that the result
of the war has improved the general
standing Of Americans in Mexico, and
through the same cause many Span
iards find that they do not receive
quite the same homage from the native
populace that they did before their re-
cent ignominious defeat. These changes
are not marked To the casual observer,
but they exist and will work to the
advantage Of American enterprise and
trade in the Republic.
The issue in London, England, Of
e250, 900 securities will he made first
charge on the first division Of the line
from Skaguay, Alaska, over the White
pass TO Lake Bennett, n. W. T., about
fifty miles. The rate OF interest is sc
per cent, which the contractors guar
antee for two years. The line is now
operated as far as the top of the pass.
Beginning November Is the Southern
Pacific will advance rates on the fol-
lowing articles from California termi-
nails to New Orleans and New York,
via Sunset Gulf route-the basis of cal.
culation being cents per 100 pounds:
Anthony ore, from 80 to 60; manga
nese ore, so to 80; chrome ore, 80 to
60; canned salmon, 40 to co. rags, so
to 90; borax, 80 TO 60; rubber junk,
80 to 80; wine in wood, 10 to 60.
From San Francisco to Yokohama is
1900 miles; from San Francisco to Hon
olulu is POO miles; from Homo lulu to
Sydney, Australia, is $500 miles.
With the exception OF that from the
United States, only very small part
of the trade OF America goes to the Pa
cifc. The imports of this country to
Asia and Oceanioa, according to the
latest figures, were $l19, 900, 900, and
the exports t67 900, 900, making total
of $lS6, 600, 900 Include the entire
trade Of the western continent in the
Pacific, and total imports reach $26l, :
900, 900 and the total exports $212,-
900, 900 Added to the trade of the
older countries, the entire commerce Of
the Pacific is not less than ~, 900, 600, =
600 each year, which means that 81 in
every ~ of the worlds trade now
passes over those waters. OF this enor-
nous traffic Great Britain secures the
lions share, importing $265, 900, 900
and sending out goods to the value of
1886, 900, 900, or a total trade of 5000,
900, 900. The United States stands
next, with a total trade in the Pacific
of $500, 600, 900, or one-third of that of
Great Britain. Germany stands q
close third, with 100000, 900 OF inn
ports and $40, 100000 OF exports
France is fourth on the list, with about
one half the trade of Germany. The
greater part of the remaining trade is
divided among the eastern countries
which border on the Pacific.
W. T, Stead, writing from st. Peters
burg says: Americans are coming to
the front in Russia, which is at the be-
ginning OF new epoch of industrial
development. No one realizes the
great resources Of the immense coun-
try through which the Gar is running
an iron highway, 5000 miles long.
Americans are supplying many of the
rails, American engineers are every
where. One American is superintend-
ing the construction of the new steel
works near st, Petersburg, American
dredgers are to deepen the Volga, the
Dneiper, the Don, and other Russian
rivers. The representatives of an
American pump are laying down 200
miles OF S-inch piping in the Trans
casia region, through which the Roth
childs' oil combination will pump
petroleum by means OF four pumping
stations, all of which will be supplied
with the latest American pumps. The
other day met an American geologst
and engineer who, having quit the post
of City Engineer in great American
city, has been spending the summer
examining the gold mines of Northern
Siberia, and before the day was over
stumbled on another who had been
reporting on copper mines in the Kirg
steppes. The testimony of these
Americans was favorable to the labor
value OF the Siberian workmen. The
Russian is docile quick to learn, and
does quite as good work as the skilled
laborer in the States. As 4 craftsman,
he is a postmaster with his own tool,
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