El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-29
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! Industrial and
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Commercial.

A heavy income tax would help cor
troll the trusts.
In Philadelphia, 500 plasterer
d struck for high wagee.=g gSH
Il 1t is estimated that the wheat Gro
will be six million bushels short OF las
years crop. 80
All the match factories have eon
into trust, and prices of matches will
be advanced.
There are two thousand tons of coin
[e6 silver dollars in the sub-treasury 9
Philadelphfa. i6J'fi ri'' ~ :
The Mexican government coins Al
average ofS25, 900, 900 year in silver
gold and copper! -5,is,>s
Kansas has POI, 4s2 sheep and 176, O3
logs, according to the assessors repor
nearly dog for every sheep.
+ One trust doth upon another tread
/ The plum bing compan les have com bin
| ed in trust with a capital OF $35 600,
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Gold production throughout the world
has neared S1,O0O,O 900 a day. and mex,
years yield Is estimated at $500 600
600.
1t is estimated that the census next
in the United States and colonial pos
sessions.
The total ASSESSED valuation of rail.
roads in Kansas for this year is $685.
OPT, 2SO, an increase of 1894 1S9 over the
assessment of 1898, which was sos, 42S,
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9 The biggest piece ofnews this week
is the failure OF the proposed American
steel trust. the most colossal CONNER
cial com binatiOn ever undertaken in
this country. .t9'@i .'-i-'i-z- 8 il
- Last week the payments for gold at
the Denver branch mint reached $780,
254. ID, compared with 1903, 398 So in
the corresponding week last year. The
gain equals 1913, S55 so, or over 80 per
cent BIB -5fHi@77' ;i7AL-t2ijfY j!
d tits said that plaps have been practi-
cally completed for a combination Of
the leading perfumery concerns in
the American Perfumery company of
New Jersey, capitalized at $40, 600 900
or possibly $50, 600, 900. - - -. -
q The industrial commission now en-
gagged in the study of trusts has collect
ed some Interesting testimony which
shows that trusts tend steadily toward
an extortionate increase of prices to
meet the dividend charges of watered
stock. -"7T 1.'i ''''''
The supreme court of Michigan de-
clared in the case of the Diamond
Match company that Industrial COM
binations of the character and purpose
Indicated by the company were unlsw-
full and against public policy and
should be prohibited. 7 --.-' +---
The report of the United States Geo
logical Survey on the production of
stone in this country in 1898 shows q
total valuation OF S3S, 260, 1854, an in
crease of more than 81, 600, 900 over that
Of 1897. There was an increase in the
value of every stone expect mar bic,
" hich fell slightly below the 1897 pro-
iuctiOn. -----
The war tax law requires the Stand
'rd Oil Company to pay 1 per cent on
he gross earnings of the company
,bove $3.50, goo. This suggests that the
ak may serve as a method of holding
hey could be taxed as monopolfes, so
8 to take all above fixed amount as
revenue tax. --..., ....- e.. --.-..J
The population of Cuba in 1894 vas
SO ,696 and the estimated population
f Porto Rico is S13, 937. the Philippine
lands, 10000 and Hawaii, 5117,2SI
ne area of these islands is as follows:
uba, 45, S72 square miles, Porto Rico,j
sos square miles, the Philippines,
Is. 800 square miles, and Hawaii. 6640
Iuare miles. 1903 :+.+ii-'ii--@5
A evidence of the great volume of
1siness our country is doing with Eu-
,pe exists in the fact th at not adollar|
the twenty millions in gold paid . to
pain for her islands left our shores. |
ne entire business was done By way of
accounts and yet there re- |
aims huge balance to the credit of
le United States, in Europe. zr=-f 1...l |,
A contract was closed today by To-
j mi Il man for q seventy-fyeE barreIl
lier flour mill for Hillsboro. The
i'll is to be delivered by July l, and
i'll be ready for nse by August /. Citi- ;.
i'll. The machinery is all to be of the
test improved make. There is much
felt here over it. If... Il
The citizens of Midlothian and VIC
ity met in mass meeting recently and C
ganized joint stock company with q
pital OF $50, 900 to erect a cotton gin
I'd oil mill in Midlothian, said COM
my to be chartered under. the name
the Midlothian cotton oil company
ganized for the purpose of ginning
ton and the manufacture of cotton
ed products.-Fort Worth Telegram. &
The payment of a dividend of one-ffth
! per cent TO the creditors of the T.
on Hall winds up failure which in
lived SO 900 members, scattered
rough more than twenty states
hen a receiver was appointed it was
and that the liabilities ef-the order
re So, loo, 600. Altogether $2,O0O,-sl
} has been collected and paid to credi-
g. leaving a permanent deficit of So, i +
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