Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-04-04

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Las Cruces is making an effort TO
incorporate. The college town needs
municipal government.
sandoval county begins its existence
under favorable circumstances, with
an excellent set OF county officers.
One OF the Missouri editors has
$1,000 bill in his possession, and the
whole state press look upon him with
suspicion.
The Citizen has n large circulation
in Silver City, Deming and In other
towns of the extreme southern New
Mexico. more than 100 subscribers
alone in Silver City and Deming.
II you want to know how well The
citizen clrculates in the towns outside
OF Albuquerque ask Postmaster Hop
kins To him we pay monthly postage.
This is positive pointer TO adver-
tisers.
The Citizen city circulation and its
advertising patronage is perfectly sat.
sfactory from n business point of
view. The few who quit, when labor
ing under Authorizations, are coming
back into the fold.
William Allen White, the Kansas
editor and literary man, has just re.
turned from a trip east and observes
plaintively that "a dollar begins TO
shrink after you leave home. The
thing that looks like So bill in En-.
poria is only postage stamp in Chi
ago and fly speck I'm New York"
When the war revenue taxes were
| repealed experts of the treasury and
In congress estimated that IL would re-
duce the annual revenues by at least
S15.000,0 600. Now, eight months after
the repeal. IL Is found the revenues
have only fallen OFF SIS 900 uJo as com.
pared with the corresponding period
Of last year
Tables presenting the imports and
exports of the principal countries
show that the United States was in
1902 the largest exporter OF domestic
merchandise, while in 1870 her exports
were exceeded by three countries
France, Germany and the United King
dom. In favorable balance of trade"
or excess of exports over imports, the
United States also holds first rank
among the nations. her excess of ex-
ports being not only greater than that
of any other country, hut actually
more in 1901, than the total excess OF
exports over imports of all other coun-
tries whose exports exceeded imports
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scription price to CO cents per month
to subscribers served 10y carriers. and
to So per year by mail. This makes
this paper the cheapest In this terri.
tory.
There are seventy-nine life insur.
ance companies in the United States.
and they possess aggregate assets of
2, 100 million dollars. Ninety per cent
of this vast wealth is controlled by
seventeen companies, and haif of 1t by
three companies. The jumbos among
the life insurance companies are the
Mutual of New York, with 3s2 millions
of assets; the Equitable of New York.
with 300 millions. and the New York
Life. with 1922 millions.
While the Chinese exclusion act
works inconvenience to the Chinese
at times. II is not an unmixed evil to
all. For instance the Chinaman living
down in Mexico who has made his lit
tie stake and wants to return to his
native land, in order to save steamer
fare just steps across the line, is COB
bled up by an inspector. taken before
the proper tribunal, is ordered deport-
ed and Is taken In charge by the
United States marshal taken to San
Francisco, and ticket purchased to
China for him, all at the expense Of
the government This is an oppor-
tunity which the exclusion affords
which is appreciated by the Cinnamon
who are in position to take advan-
| tage Of II.
According to the reports OF the gov
| eminent bureau of statistics the az.
gregate price OF necessary articles Of
daily consumption has increased from
72,455 in July, 1897, to 160.356 on Jan.
uary /, 1903. The figures are obtained
by fixed system Of compilation based
on the New York quotations of a great
variety of articles OF food. clothing
and household supplies. and are con.
sidered a trustworthy index OF the rel
alive cost of living from time to time.
According to this the cost OF living
has increased nearly 40 per cent since
| 1897, which was the lowest point
reached since 1888. On the other hand
the present cost is but little more than
it was In 1888, when the index figures
were 99.902.
Tables furnished by the treasury
bureau of statistics show that the
total International commerce of the
world now aggregates about 81 bill.
lions of dollars, OF which about 10 bill.
lions is exports and IL billions i'm
ports. The fact that ali exports event
ually become imports and that all i'm
ports must have been originally ex-
ports suggests that the value Of the
worlds imports should not materially
differ from the figures Of exports, but
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