Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-02-28
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one OF the Oldest banks Is that Of
the Netherlands, which is quoted az wv
per cent and upwards. The French BANK
shares are worth as high as 500 and the
German Government bank shares sell
at lG5. Then there Is the Java bank,
which does q large trade In the East
Indies. paying between Z and per
cent. a Netherlands Bank ana Credit
Association for South Africa, the Am.
sterdam bank. the Rotterdam bank ana
a number OF others
EAST INDIA MINING STOCKS.
within the past few years quite a
deal OF speculation has been done VI
mining shares of The Dutch coiohial
companies. which ore exploiting nun 5
Of gold. coal and tim The companies
operate In BorneO Sumatra Bankn, the
Celebcs and in Dutch Guiana on ihe
north coast OF South America SO lar
the gold mines Of the East Indies have
not amounted 10 very much, nut me
shares of Guiana companies are quoted
al 200 and more and appear 20 be do
ing well. The tin mines OF the Island
of Banka are very profitable one I'm
company has recently doubled its dlN-
bends. and the Billion mines are turn
ing out even more than IN the past
The Dutch steamship companies are
making money. The Holland American
line pays good dividends The great
company that has the monopoly OF ihe
trade of the Malay archipelago Is pros
perous and there are a number ol oth-
er companies which ray from TO IA
per cent right along
MONEY IN DIAMONDS.
The Dutch are making fortunes out
of diamonds. They buy them IN the
rough and cut and polish them for the
markets They have been doing TINS
for generations and have made Amslel-
dam the chief diamond cutting ana pol-
fishing place Of the world. The work Is
mostly done by Portuguese Jews, VINO
have been engaged in IL from father TO
son for hundreds OF years Iheie are
1900 such men here who do nothing
else and they are the most skilled OF
their kind IN the world. They work tol
the capitalists at regular wages, some
In little shops ana others In factories.
There are In all about 90 factories ~
the clty. with zoo or 500 polishing stones
in which the men work day In and day
out upon diamonds for export.
About }2O00Q,OOO worth OF rough
stones are bought every year and when
polished are sent TO all parts OF the
world. Within the last few years Of
good times in the United States some Of
the best stones have come to us ana we
are now taking about 5000, 600 worth
every year We have now the green
Hope diamond, for which Pierpont
Morgan Is said to have offered a quar-
ter Of a million dollars, and several
other large stones are now being cut
which may 20 into the hands Of Amerl-
can milli0nalres.
IN A BIG DIAMOND FACTORY.
In company with Mr.. Frank p, Hin,
our American consul. | was shown over
one of the largest and richest OF the
Dutch diamond works this afternoon,
II was that OF Mr.. Roster, on Hwanen-
burger STRAIT, the factory that cut the
KohinOOr for Queen Victoria, the one
I'm which the Grand Mogul was shaped
and the one where the orion diamond
was polished up for the car Of Russia.
II Is, I venture the most important
diamond cutting mill Of the world.
And still il Is anything but imposing.
II is dirty three-st0ry brick building
IN the Jewish quarter Of Amsterdam
situated on a narrow street and looking
more Ike a tenement house than a mill
which grlnds ornaments for millionaires
and their helresses The hall which we
entered was narrow and the wooden