Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-08
SENT TWICE ACROSS OCEAN.
Whisky Is Seasoned bY the Voyages II
 Takes While In Bond.

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 Takes While In Bond.
 Large shipments of whisky 1n bond from American to European ports are constantly being made. It is not de signed for foreign consumption but vii shortly be returned here and placed or sale at the best bars in the country. Several thousand barrels are now awaiting shipment at our seaports. While some of the whisky will be sent by Baltimore owners, the most of il will be from Cincinnati and other western cities. After being kept in European warehouses for six months or year the greater part will then be brought back to this country for saie. The whisky to be sent out is of the 1891 and 1892 distil1ation, which must be taken out of the bonded warehouses because the eigh-year limit has expir ed. Whisky may be stored in bonded warehouse eight years without being subject to the international revenue of S1.l0 a gallon. At the expiration ot eight years 1t must be takek out. Rath. CT than pay the tax and lose the use ef the money until the sale of the goods. some owners prefer to ship their sur, plus stock to the other side and store them there until needed, claiming that the cost of freight both ways and stor. age in Europe will be less than the cost of meeting internal revenue re- auirements at a time when there is no demand for the goods The tax is only required to be paid when whisky Is put on the market for consumption. so that goods shipped to Europe in bond are not taxed. They are brought back as required by the demands of the market here. Goods remaining in this country out of bond are supposed to be on the market. This method is pur- sued by dealers and distillers who overload themselves. The output in 1892 was heavier than the demand, and 1t is part of the surplus which is now going to Europe to await the time when it must be brought back to be placed Oh the market.
 WHERE GOLD GROWS.
 rlesb Deposits of the Precious Metaa
 Every Year.
 There are localities where golu may be said to grow every year. or, in other words, where fresh deposits of the precious metal are to be fcund annu- ally, says Answers. One such dis trict is in the Edmonton country, in the Canadian northwest where, after the spring floods from the same banks and benches" of the Saskatchewan river, there are taken every year con- siderable quantities of gold by few diggers, who make their living cut a1 the business. But the most eonspieu- ous and interesting case Of this sort is to be seen near Ichang, in the pro- vince of Hupeh, in China For many centuries past each year gold has been washed from the banks of coarse gray el on both sides of the River Han, and in the midst of the auriferous district there is an ancient town called Uiku- tien, which means "Gold Diggers' Inn" It's inhabitants subjivide the gold bearing ground among themselves an- nually, stalking out their claims with partitions. They pay no royalty and appear to earn no more than a bare subsistence, but this may be doubted, as John Chinaman is an adept at Hay in' low and sayin' noffin'." The an nual river floods bring down millions of tons of mud and sand. which is charged with gold, both fine" and in flakes, is deposited to depth of six fnnh o- or more, ay fha banks nf oravaI It is in the winter that the gold Is washed, and it is said that seven men work about twenty tons of the "pay dirt" in day
 rcyrse Eats It's Owners Money. Saeob ". Whitehead. a storekeeper