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Vol. IV.—No. 16.
Thurber, Texas: Saturday, November 4. 1899.
Whole No. 172.
GENERAL FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NEWS NOTES
Alexander Agassiz of Harvard has spent $75,000 of his pri-
vate means in scientific research, consisting chiefly of deep sea
explorations.
There is a widespread belief in army circles that two men
will have to be named to fill the vacancy occasioned by the re-
tirement of General Shafter.
The Armour Packing Company has gone into the Federal
Court to secure an injunction to restrain the operations of the
Pure Food Commission of Nebraska.
Canada claims to have 30 per cent, more forest area than
either the United States or Russia. If intelligent forestry ideas
prevail in this country the gap will not be allowed to widen.
According to a waiter of seventeen years' experience in a
New York restaurant, his tips have never been less than his sal-
ary of $10 a week. He has just purchased a home for $18,500.
Though the new American torpedo boat "Dahlgren" runs
over thirty knots an hour, her two engines weigh scarcely eighty
tons. But she has 4,500 horse power, and her scred makes 317
revolutions a minute.
The Seattle "Post-Intelligencer" authorizes the statement
that the story sent out from Spokane that it has been sold to
Mark Hanna and Henry Payne has no foundation whatever, nor
has it been sold to anybody else.
The yacht experts who demonstrated (on paper) that the
scientific construction of the "Shamrock" made her a certain ;
winner, barring accidents, have crawled into their holes and
pulled their theories after them.
A recommendation by the Denver Humane Society that wo-
men should ride astride is not received with favor by the New :
York riding masters, one of whom asserts that women are safer
and more comfortable in side saddles.
A dispatch from Goliad, Kansas, says of the former great
cattle plunger, Gillette: "It was telegraphed to day from Chih-
uohua, Mexico, that the gentleman is very sick with smallpox.
The serious sickness o.f his wife from the same malady is also
announced."
Great Salt Lake is said to be drying up as a result of the
use for irrigation of the water of four rivers that feed it. A
gradual net loss from evaporation has been going on for thirty
years, and as the irrigating drain increases the remnant of an
ocean imprisoned on the mountain, 4,200 feet above the sea,
dwindles away perceptibly.
The American bridge is flinging its majestic spans and arches
across the rivers of many lands—Egypt, Siberia, Japan, China,
Peru and others—and a group of twenty-six skilled American
builders have just departed for Rangood, British India, where an
American company has one of its constructions in progress.
The banking house of D. A. Sayre & Co., at Lexington, Ky.,
founded in 1820, made an assignment October 27. Its president,
E. D. Sayre, Sr., died a week prior. His sons, J. Will and E. D.
Sayre, Jr., owned $15,000 stock each. The deposits reached
$145,000. The bank was established by the late David A. Sayre,
a Scotchman, an itinerant silversmith, who could scarcely read,
and could only write his name.
Here is a plain, hard, irresistible argument for cotton mills,
taken from the statement of facts given to the world by the In-
dustrial Convention: If half the cotton raised in Texas were
manufactured at home the revenue derived from it—estimating
the crop at 3,000,000 bales, each weighing 500 pounds—would be
$262,500,000. If to this be added the price of the manufactured
staple, the total amount would exceed $300,000,000.
A report comes from Duluth, Minnesota, that the Spruce
Mining Company has filed articles with a capital stock of $1,000,-
000 to open and operate the Eveleth Townsite mine, which was
discovered under the village of Eveleth, and from over the top
of which the removal of the village has just been completed.
The mine is a very rich one, and of good size. It will be a ship-
per next year, and has a minimum output of $15,000 tons agreed
on, with as much more as the operators can put out.
A letter received at Asheville, North Carolina, by the wife
of Band Master Coe of the Twenty-ninth Infantry, says that
when the transport carrying the regiment to Manila arrived at
Honolulu one of the employes of the ship became very ill, but
refused to take medicine or have the attendance of a physician.
Colonel Hardin ordered a surgeon to attend the case, and it was
discovered that the patient was a woman in male attire, going to
the Philippines to represent an American newspaper. She re-
fused to disclose her name or the paper she represented.
One of the leading fruit shippers of California, who is in Los
Angeles, says that never in the history of the dried fruit and
raisin industries have crops at the beginning of the season been
so closely sold up as they are now. The raisin shipments, he
says, are now between forty-five and fifty-five cars a day. These
go to the Eastern distributing centers. This is remarkable, as it
is only raisins, and does not include dried fruits or tinned goods.
Up to this time this season there have been shipped to the East
from points north of Techachapi, of California green fruits, over
6,588 carloads.
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McAdams, Walter B. Texas Mining and Trade Journal, Volume 4, Number 16, Saturday, November 4, 1899, newspaper, November 4, 1899; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200530/m1/1/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.